Wooden boats dry out, it needs to sit in salt water (not fresh) for the planks to swell and tighten the seams. Open boats like this have a certain amount of water coming in, that's what God made bailers for🙂 Used to have to do this with the whalers at the Navy boat shed at Cass Bay in Lyttelton. Trailer seems like a bit of a lash up, maybe get some more rollers and fabricate some adjustable brackets so you can tune it to suit. While you are doing this, do not put the boat directly on the ground, get enough old tyres and set them up so the boat is evenly supported flat and level- cover so it's not in direct sunlight and open to the weather, but you don't want to seal it up either (carport would be fairly perfect). The cracks through planks can be glued with epoxy glues, but don't try and seal seams with epoxy glues/fillers. The upright post you were asking about, is the stem post.
Thank you so much for the advice. this Is very close to what i was thinking as well. Ok so seams need to be flexible but cracks in the timber can be apoxied.
Wooden boats dry out, it needs to sit in salt water (not fresh) for the planks to swell and tighten the seams. Open boats like this have a certain amount of water coming in, that's what God made bailers for🙂 Used to have to do this with the whalers at the Navy boat shed at Cass Bay in Lyttelton.
Trailer seems like a bit of a lash up, maybe get some more rollers and fabricate some adjustable brackets so you can tune it to suit. While you are doing this, do not put the boat directly on the ground, get enough old tyres and set them up so the boat is evenly supported flat and level- cover so it's not in direct sunlight and open to the weather, but you don't want to seal it up either (carport would be fairly perfect).
The cracks through planks can be glued with epoxy glues, but don't try and seal seams with epoxy glues/fillers. The upright post you were asking about, is the stem post.
Thank you so much for the advice. this Is very close to what i was thinking as well. Ok so seams need to be flexible but cracks in the timber can be apoxied.
@@braydeny Yes that's right
when did you buy it? in the US or NZ?
This is in lyttelton Aotearoa. I was in America untill recently, San Francisco actually.