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Thanks Brad. If it wasn't for the plank ends I probably could have lived with the transom as is, but it was bothering me too much, so I decided to bite the bullet and replace it.

 

I used alcohol to loosen the white glue and acetone to loosen the superglue in the few spots that I used it. I was able to gently pry the top planks off the transom, then used an X-Acto knife to get under the remaining planks. For the stern piece, I used an X-Acto chisel to pry the transom loose after loosening the glue with alcohol. The transom then popped out with no damage to the planks.

 

Here is the old transom with the wording showing through:

 

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Here is the outside of the old transom as the alcohol was doing its work:

 

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Some pictures during the removal process:

 

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Success:

 

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I scraped and sanded the insides of the plank ends to remove the old glue, then used the old transom as a pattern on some basswood sheet. I used a thicker piece of wood for the new transom so that I could get all the plank ends close to the edge. After I glue them down, I will sand the whole transom thinner to the correct thickness, which will also sand the ends of the planks to be flush with the outside of the transom. After sanding the transom to fit, I glued it to the stern piece and the bottom two planks on each side, forcing the plank up to the transom with clamps and scrape wood pieces. I adjusted the angle of the transom to be more perpendicular to the keel, so the plank ends fit better on both sides. I will let this dry overnight, then I will glue the rest of the plank ends to the new transom.

 

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I am quite pleased that I was able to perform this exchange without much trouble and I feel much better now.

 

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The new transom looks good.  Sometimes we just have to bite the bullet and correct what we don't like.  Nice job.

 

Bob

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Thanks Bob and Keith.

 

Bob, your Malabar is beautiful and Keith I just love the Dark Side version of the Swift.

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hi tom,

    looks good and nice fix on the transom. I had the same problem with my launch. I fixed it by not removing the transom. sorry I did not catch up with your log until now.

Thank You all...

 

Mario

 

 

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Thanks Cap'n. Your build log is what inspired me to build the launch. I especially like all the details you added.

 

Brad, your Launch is great.That is pretty much the way I'd like mine to come out. Thanks for the pictures.

 

No pictures today. Glued more of the planking to the new transom and clamped to dry. I have glued it back in roughly thirds, so I still have the top planks to glue on.

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And the new transom is finished. All the plank ends are now flush with the transom. I scribed some plank lines into the outside of it. The stain bled through a bit, but the outside of the hull still needs to be sanded, primed and painted.

 

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Here is the inside after staining. I ended up staining the whole inside to get everything to match, sort of.

 

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On to the sheer clamp.

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Thanks Brad.

 

More progress to show. I soaked and bent the strips for the sheer clamps and glued them in. I used some nippers to cut the frames flush with the clamps, so only had to do a little sanding to finish them.

 

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I also made a thin paste of wood filler and smeared it onto the outside of the hull, to hopefully seal the areas between the planks so that when I spray the outside of the hull the paint won't bleed into the inside. I gave this a good sanding but I may sand it a little more before priming it. I also filled some gaps on the keel and stem pieces.

 

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And here are the sheer clamps stained to match the inside of the hull.

 

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The thwart risers will be added next.

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I have been able to work on this a bit more now that the admiral is back teaching for the school year.

 

Here is the thwart risers after soaking, bent in place and clamped to dry. I used some heat on the fronts of them to get them to bend easier, and used strips of scrap wood to get the right spacing from the sheer clamps. I have also shaped the winch supports and glued them in since this picture was taken. Now I have to trim these risers to fit around the supports.

 

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I received an airbrush for my birthday in April and had not used it except to practice with it until now. I was worried that the spray would be pushed through any slight gaps between the planks, so I figured this was the best time to try it out and see what would happen. I mixed up some diluted primer, about 50% paint and 50% airbrush medium, and gave the hull about 5 coats of the primer. It took me a few times to get everything right, but then the paint flowed nicely. The mixture was very thin so it took that many coats to get complete coverage, plus there were areas that needed to be sanded and repainted from the initial attempts. Overall, I am very pleased with the result and there was no primer that made it to the inside of the hull, which I am also very happy about. This picture is after three coats of primer.

 

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I decided, like others on this forum, that I did not like the thwarts with the holes in them, so I decided to remake them. I reached into my box of spare basswood sheets and could not find any that were close to the thickness of the other thwarts. I could have used a thicker piece and sanded it down, but then I thought to look at the left overs from other sheets that came with this kit, and sure enough there was one that had enough extra on it to make the three thwarts that I needed.

 

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After cutting out the new ones, I had to add the notches for the fore and main masts in two of them. Last year, I bought a few end mill bits to use in my drill press but this was the first opportunity I had to try it. I had bought an XY table for the drill press because I could not for the life of me drill multiple holes in a straight line, like for pin rails, so the XY table makes that a breeze now.  I chucked a 1/4 inch end mill bit into my poor man's (more like middle class man's, that XY table was not cheap :) ) mill, and put the thwart in the vise on the XY table, then slowly fed the wood into the side of the bit. It worked very nicely to get a preliminary cut out.

 

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To finish the notch, I used the old thwart as a template and clamped the old and new thwarts together in a vise, then used a round file to get the new notch to the same size as the old one.

 

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And here are the old and new thwarts.

 

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That's all for now. Thanks for watching.

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Looking good, Tom.  Not much more to go.

 

Bob

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Hi Tom

Thank you so much for your comments and help on my Endeavour build

The strange thing is it was a toss up between the Endeavour and the Bounty launch for me

The Endeavour won as the OcCre Bounty launch hadn't been released and the only other version I could find was the Model Shipways which does not seem to be available over here  :mellow: 

The only was for me to have got it was through eBay with a very large carriage fee  :( 

 

I would really interest me if you could comment on the OcCre kit on their site http://www.occre.com/index.php?option=com_productos&task=showProduct&idproducto=150

 

There seems to be many versions of the launch when I look at photos and most of them seem to lack the foremast and sails that the OcCre kit has  :huh: 

Could you please have a look at the kit and let me know what you think

 

Thanks a lot Tom

 

Keep it up  :10_1_10: 

Mick

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You're welcome, Mick. I am always glad to help, especially because I have learned so much on this and other ship modeling sites. I haven't been building very long, so it is nice to be able to provide some help back. What's is funny is that the Endeavour is on my short list of ships to build in the future, maybe my first scratch build. The reason I picked the Bounty Launch as my current build is that my wife asked me to build something smaller that would fit on our mantle, and I like the look of the Model Expo kit.

 

As far as the OcCre kit, to me it looks like a completely different boat, mostly because of the bow sprit, I guess. I haven't done very much research on the launch, but I did follow along with other build logs, especially Cap'n Rat Fink on this site. He built his Model Expo kit with original plans and worked off Capt. Blye's journal during the voyage. I believe he talks about whether or not the launch had a bow sprit but I don't remember the details. A few other things I noticed about the OcCre kit is the they do include thwart knees, but they look too big to me, as does the winch and winch supports. They do seem to get the main mast in a more forward position, which is one of the modes that Cap'n also made.The other consideration is the scale, as the OcCre kit is a good bit smaller than the ME kit. The ME kit includes material to make sails, so you can have sails on either kit. I have built an OcCre kit before and I liked it, but in this case my preference would be to stick with the Model Expo kit and bash it the way Cap'n Rat Fink did, which is my intention - no bow grate, no holes in the thwarts for belaying pins, add thwart knees, etc. I suppose you could bash the OcCre kit the same way if you like, but that is up to you. As for availability, I am surprised that ME kits are hard to get in the UK. Maybe if you contact them directly they can work out some arrangement for you to get their kit.

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Thank you so much Tom

It is weird about the bowsprit isn't it??

When I look at google images a few of the models have one, some only have one square sail

There are a lot of differences

Is there a definite plan at all????

I have to admit I am maybe a little less worried about historical accuracy than others, but obviously an extra bowsprit is a bit major  :huh: 

I am waiting for the Historic ship model book which I hope will help me a bit

 

Yes I am quite surprised that I can't find the model over here, in fact the make itself seems very thin on the ground so maybe they are not exported much

I suppose I could contact them as I get my OcCre kits directly from them but I expect I would have to pay well over the odds as the shipping would be fairly high whereas the shipping within the EU is not to bad so that with the discount OcCre give me I get a good deal

 

You never know thought, by the time I finish the Endeavour something else may have caught my eye  B) 

Thanks again Tom

 

Keep it up  :10_1_10: 

Mick

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Some more progress to show, as well as bit of a problem. First the progress. With the thwart risers glued in, I added the mast steps and the first couple of floor boards.

 

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No real problems there, except getting the mast steps to lie flat and stay glued in. I finally resorted to medium CA to hold them down. There was some lateral bending needed for the two outer floor boards near the fore mast step, but I used CA to hold them and with the clamps on the frames to hold the bend, I held down the boards tight to the fames while the CA dried.

 

Now for the problem. I decided to test fit all the thwarts, as I had to fit the fore thwart to get the fore mast step in the right position. That thwart fit fine, but all of the others were too short side to side. Here's why:

 

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The plans show the maximum width at the rail to be about 13.8 cm, so the actual edge to edge dimension, which is not shown on the plans is actually a little less. As built, however, I measure almost 14 cm at the edge, so somehow the middle of the boat has become wider after taking it off the building jig. The measurement of the jig is the same as the plans, so that wasn't the problem.

 

So, I took stock in what thwarts I had and was able to get all but two using what came with the kit by cutting down longer ones to use for shorter ones. To replace the other two, I cut out two strips from thicker basswood sheet that I had and thinned them down using first s disk sander than hand sanding. I have left these longer than needed for now and will cut them to fit when I install them. That solved the thwart problem, but I am for seeing a problem with the supplied rails not being wide enough to cover the edges, so I may end up having to make new rails too. We will see.

 

No progress tonight as the Patriots are playing the Jets. I have to see if Tom Brady can connect better with his new young receivers than he did on Sunday. Go Pats!

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Hi Tom

I have been scouring the Internet to find any info on the launch

There is very little is there???

You no doubt have seen these

How accurate can they be????

 

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I think they show the OcCre version to be wrong

Good luck with yours Tom

It is certainly coming on nicely

 

Mick

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Mike, I have seen those plans and the picture before, probably on a build log on this site. The ME kit seems to be close to those plans except for the differences that others have pointed out.

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Another instalment in the continuing saga of building this little boat. Previously, I had added the center three floor boards. I added the rest of them without too much problem, except that I had to use medium CA to get these to stay tight to the frames where the hull curves up toward the bow. Keeping the CA off the planking was a bit of a challenge, especially along the outer floor boards, where any glue spots would not be hidden by the next boards. Well, I managed to get them all down with only a couple of glue spots, which I cleaned up with some debonder and acetone. When I finished, I realized that there was a problem with the three center boards just behind the fore mast step. These did not end on a frame, so the ends were too far down; in fact they were glued to the planks. When compared to the outer floor boards, this looked awful. Maybe you can see it in these pictures:

 

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So, I decided to fix this. I figured if I could get the fore mast cap off, I might be able to pry the ends of the floor broads up enough to get a piece of framing underneath them, to raise them to the height of the other boards.If the mast step wouldn't come off, I would stop and live with it as they were. I used a bit of acetone on a Q-tip to get under the mast step, and carefully pried the step off. There was room to get a small screwdriver under it and twist, which did the trick without any damage to the step. Once it was off, I used the small screwdriver to get under the boards and was able to get two of them up no problem. The third was more stubborn, and it kind of cracked, but the crack was on the underside, and the top of the board held together (I was lucky!). I was able to get a small piece of framing under the ends of the boards and reglue everything back down.

 

I used a wood strip to wedge under the plank as I added the frame piece, both of which you can see in this picture:

 

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All the boards back glued down:

 

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Then it was just a matter of regluing the fore mast step down after a bit of clean up to it. When everything dried, I gave it a good sanding in preparation for staining to match the rest of the interior:

 

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If you compare the last picture with the third one, you can see the difference. I feel much better now, but it would have been nice to realize this was a problem before all the floor boards were installed.

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Nice catch.  Good fix.

 

Bob

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Thanks Robert, Bob, and Pawel. Your comments are greatly appreciated.

 

I have really enjoyed the process sequences that I have seen on other build logs, as I have learned a lot from them. I thought that I would share my process for shaping the oars. it's not very innovative but maybe someone starting out may learn something. I was a little unsure how I was going to do this when I started on them myself. Plus I was in the mood to take some pictures the other night.

 

I first started on the oar shafts and handles. I worked on these while I was away from the workshop last weekend, so I don't have before pictures of the oars, but they were basically squared off oar shaped laser cut pieces. I used the small plane first to roughly shape the handles and to make the shafts eight sided from square. I then used the sanding block to round them out, but at this point they were still a little elliptical.

 

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Back in the workshop, I then worked on the blades and lower shafts. Here you can see what I started with and the first finished blade:

 

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I first used the disk sander to remove much of the excess blade on both sides, holding the oar at an angle so that the blade was thinner at the end:

 

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I then used the belt sander to thin out the areas between the blade and the shaft:

 

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These sanders can take off a lot of material in a hurry, so I had to be very careful not to take off too much. In fact, I left quite a bit still on:

 

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These still have a ways to go but they are getting there. More in the next post.

 

 

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The continued oar shaping process.

 

The next step was to sand the blades down with the sanding block to get nice even blades on each side.

 

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You can see the blade at this stage:

 

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Now it was time for the lathe. I put the oar into the lathe with the blade out and sanded the area between the blade and the shaft to get it round. I also rounded the area of the shaft sticking out of the lathe chuck at this stage

 

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I have the small Proxxon lathe which works great for these small round objects, like masts and yards. One nice feature it has is that the piece to be worked can extend out the back of the motor housing, which worked out great for these because I could turn the oar around and stick the handle and top of the shaft out from the chuck, then round these areas with sand paper:

 

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The final step was to round the corners of the blade slightly. So here is the almost finished product. I will probably gives these another sanding with fine sandpaper just before staining them.

 

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I hope this process description was useful.

 

 

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Nice work Tom

I was going to make the oars for the launch on the Endeavour like that

However I found that the shape was probably totally different when someone sent me this link  https://sites.google.com/site/shipwrightsfaq/smf-qoars

 

As my launch was fitted with Tholes to hold the oars they have to be that shape

A lot more difficult to make as you would see in pages 2 and 3 of my build  :o

I cannot see how your oars will be held as there wasn't even any idea on that drawing

What you have made look really good

I wish I had equipment like that  :(

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Mike, I see how this type of oar wouldn't work with a single thole pin to sit on. This model has two thole pins that the oar sits between, so I can use this shape. Your oars do look good, and I can see the shape more clearly than from the plans.

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Mike, I see how this type of oar wouldn't work with a single thole pin to sit on. This model has two thole pins that the oar sits between, so I can use this shape. Your oars do look good, and I can see the shape more clearly than from the plans.

That answers everything Tom

Two totally different types of launch with different rowing systems

I have great fun building mine with a sanding block  :piratetongueor4: 

I do wish I had your tools

But in a bedroom................................... :huh: 

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I do feel lucky to have a workshop. We finished part of the basement in the house when the kids were small for all their big toys. They are both away at college now, so I was able to take over one of the rooms for a workshop (and I am starting to creep into the other room, but so far the admiral hasn't noticed B) ).  I was able to buy the tools I have slowly over the last five years, but that is it for now (did I mention I have two kids in college?  :( ) I would like to eventually get a Byrnes saw and thickness sander but that will have to wait. I still seem to do a lot of work by hand, and I really enjoy it, but when I do need the power tools, it is nice to have them.

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