We lived in the Brisbane Bayside suburb of Manly at the time, which shares its name with a suburb of Sydney, so the "Miss Manly" moniker seemed to fit and the irony isn't lost on the dear little thing either. I never did get the signs done.

The boat is faithful dimensionally to the original plans, but the construction methodology has a distinctly modern approach.
 

The hull was constructed over a 50 x 30 WRC keelson with the keel hardware throug-bolted. Bulkheads were then installed as permanent moulds on each station, with with 2mm thick Western Red Cedar planking glued in strip-plank style.

The keel is Stainless Steel rather than brass with a "tee" welded across the top, which slides in an aluminium sail track section, and in accordance with the original scheme, a 7kg lead bulb is bolted on the bottom.

Running rigging, tracks and tiller adjustments are now taken care of by cord contraptions rather than brass fittings, in a modern simplification of the original.

Sails are in lightweight cotton Japara of similar weight to the originals, with panels cut to our own best guess.

This is the moderate rig as featured in the measured drawings, I was tempted to build a light air (ten foot) rig, but already it stands a good 6 inches taller than our ceiling, and I had to build a recess to fit it in!

The rig is hanging loose in the pictures, as I don't bother tying it off for display, and even though it hasn't been in the water for a couple of years, I hang onto the dream of going sailing soon, and don't want to be held up having to untie all those bits.

Total cost: almost nothing. Everything except the fabric for the sails was scrounged in the true spirit of scratch model building, although the welding and polishing of the stainless steel did cost the equivalent of a large bottle of rum!.