Coronet1885

America's Most Historic Yacht

Progress through October and November 2011

| November 26, 2011

You may recall seeing the large mortises and tenons used to join the rudder post and keel, here they are now assembled. You can see the diagonal scarf joint that connects this last section of keel to the longer sections forward of it. The frames and deck beams at the bow of the boat have […]

Progress through September 2011

| November 22, 2011

If you’d dropped by IYRS over the summer, you would have gotten a taste of what it will eventually be like while on Coronet. Many of the interior cabinetry and bulkheads were mocked up on the shop floor to give a full-scale sense of the boat’s living quarters. Coronet has been completely lofted and laid […]