Joe Loughborough runs the LMI yard (Loughborough Marine Interests) in Newport, Rhode Island, where he keeps his 1918 59 (18m) Lawley cruiser Carina which serves as the family boat for a week’s holiday. She’s a beautiful old lady but her keel was getting old.
So if was garboards off, and out with the old before fashioning in a new stem and around 2/3rds of her keel seen below, to keep the old girl going. Sounds like Joe was putting off this work… though Carina has been getting overhauled every year as part of a 10 year restoration. “It’s a project I kinda knew I had to do… but it goes well!” Looks like Carina will be back next season!
Before this work LMI had just finished Santana, the yacht once sailed by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.