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001 - The Fleet My next venture with Vanguard Models starts today with the arrival of the Nisha Brixham 'Mumble-Bee' kit. The plan for this build is for a test piece so I can work on improving some of my techniques in readiness for the Indy build, especially the planking and painting aspects. I think this build will fill the time nicely before the eagerly waited release of the Indy, hopefully late Feb early March. The existing fishing fleet (Eyrcina and Saucy jack) are both excited about a new arrival to the shipyard. The bigger ships in the fleet also showed a passing interest, Speedy not included as she was only a part build. The Alert The Duchess Sphinx The fleet in unison
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001 - Starting Point As I have some free time between painting and sanding my Erycina hull I thought I would have a look at the Saucy Jack. This looks to be a nice small and relatively simply project to build. As with all my previous Vanguard Model projects I get a warm feeling when inspecting the kit box and its contents. Once again everything appears to be of a very high quality (materials, build manual, plan sheets, etc.). I do not expect to make much progress with this build in the short term as I will be mainly working on the Erycina. The temporary stand was a very simple item to construct. I did opt to remove the laser char from the visible edges even though there is no need to do so. I then released a few parts from the MDF sheets and did a dry fit assembly. Everything slotted together very well, without any issues. This dry fit will have to be disassembled so I can fair the bulkheads and the planking edge patterns to the guidelines provided. Once the hull is fully assembled and before I start the planking phase the hull will require a final fairing process.
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Just joined the forum as I feel that after practising virtual ship building for decades things appear to be maturing. I did start with real modelling as computers where not available when I was young though. I guess I was quite an early adopter with drawing ships (1:1) in 3D back in the late eighties. Initially starting with AutoCAD (when Bézier Curve algorithms where introduced) then switching to 3D modeling applications (for their Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces) & then back to CAD (when NURBS and better meshing algorithms where introduced). In recent years, NURBS based CAD applications have also started to implement Subdivision modelling algorithms so you can do both the accurate & artistic stuff in one application. Since I was early I got the opportunity to explore many of the various application options that drawing in 3D offers over the past decades. Re-engineering, design visualisation, simulation, construction, 3D printing, etc, etc. However, just like in the real world, the construction of watercraft much depends on building materials / toolset restrictions & the same applies to digitally drawing watercraft in 3D. These days I am getting the feeling that the toolsets most CAD application offer have become extensive enough to pretty much derive the many different possible end products from one accurate 3D drawing dataset. Since I have an operational background in commercial shipping (Merchant Mariner) & the pressure on the shipping industry to reduce it's carbon footprint is growing, I recently have been researching the period where the shipping industry changed from wind to fossil fuel energy. Obviously, during this period wind powered design lost it's monopoly and was forced to improve it's efficiency while fossil fuel powered design was still suffering from not being very efficient leading to interesting design solutions. I attached some visualisations of a reconstruction in 3D based on blueprints by a shipyard in the Basque Country dating back to 1919. It's a 24.5 meter long fishing vessel fitted with a 50 ihp steam engine that takes up around a third of the space below deck while still carrying some sail. The drawings are from a large collection gathered over 3 generations by a Basque ship building family and going through this collection it once again becomes quite apparent that copying was rife in the ship building industry in previous centuries. The design is clearly based on British Steam Trawlers from that period and it turned out that the elegant looking very long stern overhang didn't work out that well on the Spanish Atlantic Coast. Entering port often required getting over a river bar with sometimes large breaking surf, leading to a few of these elegant stern sections completely breaking off. Visualised is a solid version of the 3D dataset that for example allows for low & high polygon export to 3D modeling applications like Blender for texture mapping, visualisation, animation & STL export for 3D printing applications. Obviously, perfect 2D plans are also easily derived from this 3D dataset. Still busy trying to find more photographic material for the details because there's little detail in the blueprints & since photography was still limited a hundred years ago some creative effort might be required.
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I began this project in 2017 and it's been progressing very slowly! I found some of the pictures I took along the way. Here I was completing the hull. The "sloup coquiller" was a typical Oyster Boat of the area of Brest in the Department of Finisterre in Brittany, being used for catching shell-fish. The model is based on pictures from 1912 onward.
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Just started a new boat project. After seeing a photo of a small Brazzera with two lateen masts on Veniceboats.com (http://www.veniceboats.com/brazzera.htm), I had to build one! I have not yet found much historical information about Brazerras rigged this way, but there are several plans for single masted boats available. My model will be fictional, based on the type. A ten meter boat was chosen based on the only photo I could find, from Veniceboats.com. The length of the boat was determined and scaled off the people in the photo, and a comparison to photos of a single masted, 9-meter Croatian boat, "Our Lady of the Sea". The "Our Lady of the Sea" is a modern replica of an 18th century boat. I place the photo of my model in the late 19th century, and plan to make it in Italian ownership (maybe a sponge fishing boat?)... Any info or feedback on Brazzeras, especially those rigged with two lateen masts, would be greatly appreciated!
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The Catalan boat is a small lateen-rigged vessel used throughout the Mediterranean in various forms. This model is suppose to represent a typical 9-meter boat from the late 1800s. Photos, plans, and drawings of surviving and modern-day boats are being studied. Also, I was inspired by MSW member Javier Baron's construction methods for his fabulous models, and thought they would work well for this attempt. The false keel, which doubles as a construction frame and handle. Bulkheads will be attached at one small point at each station. Plywood bulkheads attached and braced with balsa blocks. Planking has begun with basswood. Since this is an open boat, the bulkheads are temporary. They are only needed for the planking process. The edges of the bulkheads were rubbed with beeswax to prevent glue (super glue) from adhering to the planks during planking. The planks are just glued to each other (and often my fingers). I used a bandsaw to cut away unwanted parts of the false keel. The bottom has been cut and sanded flush with the planking. The stern and stem posts will be cut away later, and all replaced with new parts. Feeling confident the super-glued planking will hold, I gently started removing the bulkheads after violently breaking the balsa spacers... The "cleaning"continues. Note the balsa "deadwood" at the ends of the boat. Unlike the bulkheads, the planks were glued to the deadwood. I noticed that balsa wood smokes when super glue hits it. That can't be good! All clean. Reminds me of a corn taco.... Seems very fragile! Sanded the interior a little and stained it. Now adding ribs made from heavy card stock (doubled, stained, and cut into strips). Keelson added... "Real" bulkheads and a floor added... The step plate for the mast is added... Benches added (stained basswood). Beginning the decking. Deck planks are being edged with black construction paper. Also a cardboard template was made with the proper sheer to use as a base for the deck construction. The decks on these boats have a lot of camber, hence the three formers. Deck planking started in the middle. The middle two planks will guide alignment, but will be cut later to make the opening in the deck. Viola! Shaped to fit... The underside... Pretty good fit... You will notice new stern and stem posts were added, as was the keel. These boats had extra keel-like structures called "escues" on either side of the keel, and parallel to it. The escues helped to balance and support the boats when the crew ran them up on the beach, to sell their catch. Installed a pulley for the mast... Since the hull of the boat will be painted, I thought I better prime it to ensure I sanded out all the blemishes. Adding the upper planking and wales. Next, on to the rail trim and false frame ribs...
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I present a new model, although it is true that with its already advanced construction process. As I made the hull using my usual technique, which I have shown on the forum several times, there is no photo of this part of the process. It should also be noted that the masts are only presented and are not final, neither because of their length nor because of the inclination with which they appear. And now, by way of introduction, a brief historical overview of this type of boat. Until the end of the 19th century, in the region of Port-Louis, in Brittany, coastal fishing for roe sardines practiced in good weather was supplemented by winter trawling of other larger species. This task was carried out with solid open boats, of about 10 m. in length and 2.80 m. wide, with a draft of 0.70 m. The winter sea conditions are harsh in these waters, which makes it very difficult to work in the open air on these open boats, which is why, in 1882, a boss from Lorient took the initiative to equip his boat with a temporary deck, which is armed against winter and disassembled in good weather. In turn, as coastal fishing became more and more scarce, fishermen went deeper and deeper into the open sea, and soon these removable deck boats began to be used for trawling in rougher waters, for which they did not present the adequate nautical characteristics. For this reason, in a short time the deck boats evolved, with a permanent deck, but they were made with the same shapes as the large open boats, retaining their main U-shaped section, but providing them with a planking above and solidly decked, fitted with a windlass and higher masts, so all the weight was added at the top and had to be balanced with ballast. But the maintenance of the main U-shaped section prevented placing this ballast (essential in a trawler) sufficiently low. In addition, the righting moment of a hull of this U-section has a high initial stability which decreases very quickly with pronounced angles of inclination, which makes these ships very sensitive high waves and sea blows. These decked boats, with an elegant appearance, showed that their nautical qualities were not adequate for the conditions of navigation on the high seas. Between 1891 and 1900, eleven of them were shipwrecked, resulting in the stoppage of their production and their replacement by small dundées, which prove to be much safer.
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The hull is finished. To get the shape of the hull, I used templates placed upside down on my building jig. The hull is made up of three layers of 1 mm plywood; 1st. layer is set in an angle of 45 degrees toward the bow - 2nd. layer is also set in an angle of 45 degrees toward the stern. Finally the 3rd layer is positioned horizontal. The inside of the hull has been covered with fiberglass to ensure it´s waterproof, and painted white (I admit; it dosn´t look that pretty at this stage).
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Hi Guys, This is a first for me in that I have taken on the task of restoring a Harwich Bawley. The boat must be getting on for 20 - 30yrs + and it is not in the best of conditions. A Harwich Bawley is a shrimp fishing boat built around the turn of the century, they were built in and around the Harwich area hence the name, this particular boat was built by Cann's of Harwich who are the same builders of my Thames Barge Edme. It is approximately 38ft long excluding the bowsprit with a beam of 14ft, there was a boiler in the hold which was used for cooking the shrimp so they where able to go to market directly from catching. The shrimp were caught by means of a beam trawl. The Maritime Museum was contacted by a guy in Enfield nr London who was offering the boat for free and so off we went and picked it up. When I got the boat home I found the sails were just falling apart, you only had to look at them and a tear appeared, also most of the rigging just parted mid run with the slightest of touches so a lot of the work was going to be the top half. I have a few pictures. The Sails, as you can see they are in a dreadful condition Some other parts of the rigging A little more There are more but they will have to wait for now. I'll post more very soon. Be Good mobbsie
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