fixing a mirror dinghy

I used some oak that I had in the shed to make a new section of gunwhale for the bow. This is now glued into place with West system resin.

New gunwale detail

When the resin went off I drilled and screw fixed the gunwales for additional strength

screwing the gunwales

Be careful when buying brass screws, these are scarce now and most of the screws that you see in the hardware stores are yellow metal and will corrode in salt water. I went to a chandler to get proper brass screws, and I never throw out brass fittings or screws!.

 

Mirror dinghy restoration

the trailer seemed to be in good condition but there were some issues!

a bit of work to be done here

After much browsing I have discovered a Mirror dinghy for sale on a good quality trailer. The trailer is a Brownlowe trailer (an Irish manufacturer who makes excellent trailers using indespention parts. I put a bid on the lot and agreed a sale. As you can see from the photographs the boat requires restoration, in fact the boat was even worse than the photographs would indicate. any comments from others with similar projects are welcome