Letters

Raising the bar again

egarding your generous acknowledgement of the level of effort expended in restoring to her original 1914, as-built condition, we thought you may smile in confirmation of your statement “the bar could go no higher… but there’s still some headroom”. Yes, the boathook casting on was laser scanned, a 3-D model developed, pattern printed, and the investment casting produced. While the result was gorgeous, it was too perfect. Because of the investment approach, the bore of the casting was smoothly finished, not rough like a sand casting would produce.