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JJ, that looks just gorgeous! Did you mask off the AYC squares to paint the black ones? What were those tiles in reality, were they wooden inlays like in my living room, or were they black and white stone tiles? I know that stone was also used below hot coal ovens or heaters onboard so not to burn the wood or start a fire, but I guess this was wood in realitity?

Hello Dave, Are you allright? It's so long you posted any updates? Very inspiring, clean and precise sawing! I'm building using Chuck's laser cut material, but I feel like building a second Winnie using my saws and files as well now. Keep safe and healthy, Frank.

I hope I can even reach your level of building Bob, very beautiful indeed!

Hi Tom. Good to see your lovely and tidy workplace again and a new start on the solid Winnie hull. I'm still astonished how you can make those beautiful lines from such an abstract piece of cubic art you start off with, true mastership if you ask me! Frank.

Thanks Chuck, and it works and smells great too, I’m starting to love that Alaskan wood.

Welcome Jan! Nice to see a fellow countryman here building HMS Winchelsea too! I’v just started as well and will be following your build closely. Hopefully we can learn from each other and avoid nasty mistakes together. There are many skilled artists here: very, very experienced builders who are willing to help you along. I wish you good luck with your build, Frank.

A small update, was able to do some work this weekend, progressing slowly...if you notice an error please say so, so I can correct early, thanks!

Beautiful build and following with great interest Mike!

Very, very, good to hear that Tom! Back problems are terrible, I can tell as I have some damage in my lower back on the left side. It sometimes takes me out for days or weeks! We'll be checking regurarly for your progress, as I think your work is very beautiful and methodically. Keep on going Tom!

Hi Tom, Thanks for your advice on the glues, I will order them where necessary and try to use them as you advize. Yes, there are lots of steps ahead for me, but wasn't there also, I believe a Greek Philosopher who claimed you can never cross a river: because you first cross the first half, than there is the second half, which again in its turn can be divided in two halfs of which you first have to cross the first half, and so on, thus in theory, one can never cross a river, as there's always another second half to cross. Ofcourse I'm sure that with the right boat or bridge I will cross a river in no time, so as being an engineer (who now works in IT) I don't take those philosophers too seriously... Then there's the persisting problem of long delivery times of tools and materials as till the end of March we are still in Covid lockdown and have a night clock, which means everyone must be indoors before 21:00u (€95 fine if you're not and get caught). Furthermore, I have to divide my sparse free time off in building and studying for my second certification on TOGAF, The Open Group Architecture Framework, TOGAF Part II Certified. So I'm afraid I will not be building any faster than this the coming weeks and months, but I will get there hopefully in the end. I hope your back problems are all over now Tom and that your making a fresh start on a POF Winnie as well now? Or will you (also) proceed on the solid hull one? I would find the latter very, very interesting to follow! Thanks, Frank.

Thanks YankeeD and Tom! Okay, what glue do you prefer then? I’m just trying to follow Chuck’s instructions to the letter so when I read to use Titebond in the laser char, I don’t take risks, though I have other glues on my shelf, including a bottle from Kolderstok... Thanks Tom, no I won’t rush, the rabbet strip is on the keel now and drying for two days already, here some pictures of my slow progress, but that’s a good thing I understand ☺️. Frank.

Your build is really coming to life and looking good Matt. Also your report is a pleasure to read and follow. I’m very busy working as well with long days and wish I could spend more time in my attic building, so I recognize the feeling I guess you sometimes must have as well. Keep up your good work! Frank.

Hi Tom, my build has just started as well. I hope you are fully recovered soon and that our builds of POF Winnie models can go alongside, as I'm sure I can learn a lot of you and your years of experience!

Scuppers, in Dutch almost the same as in German: ‘spuigaten’, that is the ‘holes’ along which surplus or superfluous water on the deck(s) can flow back in to the sea. In Dutch we also can get things ‘of our chest’ by ‘spuien’, that is ‘get rid of’ thoughts that bother us. Not to mention all the thousand expressions we have with ‘wind’ in it!

Now that means a lot me Chuck, thank you!

Thanks Edward and Vladimir! I finally am able to get started now. My first two bottles of Titebond came in last week and despite the lockdown here in Holland I also finally managed to lay my hand on a thick multiplex plank of 30x90cm (11.81”x35,43”). So here also my first picture of the stem and knee and extension following Chuck’s instructions on the first pages of chapter one. No tweaking the joints in between removing any char it says, but it seems the laser does not always cut exactly square in a 90 degrees angle as I would like it to, as on one side some joints are very tight while the same one on the other side seem just a very little bit more open. But so far I’m very pleased how the first step turned out. Next step will be tapering the head knee and glueing the gammon knee and extension piece on (not glued yet on the last knee picture, only test fitting: I have to remove some more laser char first now I can still easily reach it).

You’re making progress fine Matt, and the roofs and all the rest as well look very, very good to my eye. You’re about finished when I will be able to get my workboard.... I only freed the laser cut parts of the false keel and frames thusfar...can’t start without a workbord ofcourse.

Yeah, it smells awesome Matt, Thanks!

Hi Marc, Almost a year since your last post, I hope you're okay and healthy in this pandemic? Frank.

Tadaa, yes here it is finally, after crossing the atlantic! Happy as can be!

Yes Tom, everything here in Holland is closed till at least the 8th of February. Luckily this week I received chuck's big beautiful box with yellow cedar for all three chapters in one, I'm happy as can be! I have to find me a building board now, maybe even online when all the hardware stores keep closed. I really hope you can keep modeling and that your back cures soon, as I'm following and reading your Winnie build log meticulously as well to learn from your mastership. I find it a real pitty you will / cannot not continue on your solid hull Winnie project. Frank.

Wow Tom, that's real artisanal and beautiful work! You're a true old master! I'm very much enjoying your build story and your extensive explanation.

Wow, what a sharp build real beauty and though I haven't even started myself, there's so much to learn from you Mike!

Hello Ron, Thanks, this build group feels like a local model club with all the warm welcomes! Yes, I'm stil looking for a decent build board, which at the moment is difficult to obtain in person with a total lockdown in Holland, without any stores open. I don't want to order that online as I want to inspect it in person to be 100% flat, not twisted etcetera... That's a good tip which I'll keep in mind, hopefully I can get such a pre-made laminated shelf. The cigar boxes here are very ugly nowadays, with ugly dirty pictures of black lungs, people with perforated necks from esophagus cancer. So I only smoke one expensive cigar a month, which is sold in still a nice tube and don't buy any cigar boxes anymore... So less bad for my health as well. Thanks, Frank.

Hello Tom, Ofcourse I'd like to get started right away, but don't worry I'll take my time, maybe I won't even be doing a plank a day, but only a plank a week, Not untill it's perfectly spilled and bent... I won't glue it on until 'm 100% satisfied over its form and position...maybe there wil be more planks in the bin than on my ship eventually... But planking is not until chapter 2, so I even have time ordering the yellow cedar planks in the material list for chapter 2. I read Chuck's instructions and they're very clear. I even confiscated my wife' travel iron already. The soldering iron plank bender gets too hot sometimes indeed. Yes, you're all more than welcome to take look at what I will be 'baking' and scan my work with your hawk's eyes...the more remarks made, the more I will learn. I'm still reading all the build logs so far and following them: yes I just hope I can avoid mistakes others made, but I'm sure I will able enough to make new ones, ones no one has made before :-). I'm already enjoying it, reading all comments so far here and in other build logs and I'm sure I will enjoy every minute of the build once I'll get started! Thanks! Frank.