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[quote=catmodding]Hi,

Remember the wooden red Tornado I was planning to restore ?
Well, due to circumstances it didn't make it. 
So, all that was left was mast,boards, rudders, boom, beam and sails.

To my surprise a very nice guy ,who knows my sailmaker, called me 
and told he had found a neglected T in a ditch and he found the 
owner. He needed a mast and other hardware . 
So we went together to pick the cat up. And split the merchandise.
Thank You Misha !
We towed it out of the ditch with my volvo  :-D

It was supposed to be a balsa-wood / epoxy cat.
It came with beams and a good trampoline but in sorry 
state, because it had been in the water for years.

[img]http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-ORNVDUVV.jpg[/img]

With help from a club member we started sanding .

[img]http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-RFNPRX4N.jpg[/img]

To find a rotten fore-deck in the port hull. The other hull is sound.

[img]http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-NJC63L3C.jpg[/img]

So, we took it out. To discover its an epoxy T, with a balsa/ epoxy 
deck.

[img]http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-UMVTEOCX.jpg[/img]

We kept the upper-deck as a template.

[img]http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-GV86V4KB.jpg[/img]

And started rebuilding.

[img]http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-8XAOWKY4.jpg[/img]

Hope to have the deck finished in 4 days, after that its paint.
Fingers crossed for a indian summer. Wanna sail this T asap !

Sold the P18-2 yesterday to have some resources rigging the T.

While sanding, we didn't find a vin-number or brand-name,
only it has sailspar beams and mast, so we decided its a "russian" Tornado
 witch had a wealthy owner and rigged it in Britain  :-)

André<em>Edited by catmodding on Sep 07, 2014 - 11:59 PM.</em> [/quote]

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