By far the most doubtful area of Jado's hull was the stem. When she had been wrecked some ten years ago the stem had been split and some lower planking badly damaged. Peter Murton had removed the stem, repaired it and re-installed it. Fair enough, but what is absurd is that the whole forefoot was in such poor condition that it should have been replaced. Too bad, Peter had welded it in place with two generous beads of epoxy down each side, and countless brass screws, also epoxied in for a good measure. Herbert at Classic Boats NZ had some ideas on how to correct this eyesore, so I made my booking and delivered her to his workshop in rural Kumeu on October 8th. These photos, taken a couple of days later, show the cracked and worm-eaten pohutakawa gripe, and lower planks bogged up with sawdust and epoxy. More brass screws are evident in the last photo, securing one of Peter's laminated floors.
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