I had found what appeared to the mast and sails in the clubhouse but much of the deck fittings were missing. I had to make the mast slide, rudder and I made and fitted out a Braine gear for self steering. Luckily the mast only needed to be re rigged with new cord and it was ready to sail.
It was then free sailed for several years like this, luckily my work was around 5 minutes walk from our pond many lunchbreaks were spent sailing during the summer months.
With use it did develop a leak between the hull bottom and lead keel and this eventually developed into s bit of rotten wood. The bow block had also became softened and weak. It was decided to splice in some new wood to the bow and replace the hull bottom. After removing the keel which is held in place by 3 bolts the hull bottom could be removed. The bottom needed the removal of the two lower planks to allow access to the joins between the frames and the bottom. This did give some problems as the planks had been fitted to the frames with steel screws, some of which had rusted and proved very difficult to remove from the wood. (This can be seen, especially on the lighter planks, as a black staining around the screw.)
Once the bottom was removed it was used as a pattern to cut it's replacement out of some vintage mahogany i had been given. (bench top from an old library.) This was around 1/2inch thicker than the original giving a slight increase in keel depth. The bow was repaired with another piece of the same mahogany. The keel and lower hull was then covered with glass fibre then painted to stop any water from getting into the joint
Jim