Progress on PRIVATEER's Restoration

Work is progressing on PRIVATEER – it took months, but I finally converted PRIVATEER's basic hatch into a traditional butterfly hatch with a lot of thought and my own design principles, modeled in some ways after Mary Rose (Herreshoff) but making allowances for the original hatch and available materials. This was the most complex boat project I have ever done. And this was just a hatch! I now think that RETROFITTING and CONVERTING is a lot harder than building from scratch or original plans or specs!