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Closing the Deck

18th November 2018 by Gabriel

Ester’s deck is made of 16mm mahogany. We’ve measured what was left of the original deck and looked at marks on the remaining components that give us an indication of the original thickness and copied that. This is quite thin for 50’ deck and does not offer a great deal of rigidity. For this reason, the deck beams are placed every 250mm and are supported by the diagonal bracing (fakverk) previously written about. Many thanks to Leif Wikberg for the gallery below. The boards used for …

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