Cuda1949

Can't help with with the hades-like top temperature but a cheapish fix for the lower end is to use electric underfloor heating. It doesn't have to be permanently installed, it can be laid on insulation and covered with cheap engineered flooring. Set it to kick in at 7 or 8 degrees (or whatever) and if the rest of the shed is insulated you can avoid the worst of the problems arising from freezing glues etc. as well as keeping the workshop usable.
If you don't aim to keep the place toasty warm, just usable, it works. 

John,
 
My garage is also my “dirty” workshop. To overcome some of the weather-related issues, as well as to make it a more pleasant environment to work, I put insulation on the inside of the garage door as well as in the roof over the garage, and added a split system reverse cycle air conditioner. I also had an epoxy floor laid and installed a bunch of “daylight” LED panels to replace the somewhat inadequate fluros. It’s now a really nice workshop…….that I still have to share with two cars.

Hi
I am in Delaware Lower Slower Sussex County West Fenwick. Welcome aboard
 
Al

Hi
I am in Delaware Lower Slower Sussex County West Fenwick. Welcome aboard
 
Al

Hi
I am in Delaware Lower Slower Sussex County West Fenwick. Welcome aboard
 
Al

John, Absolutely fantastic as always. Glad to see you posting your work here. Seems I lost contact with you over the years. 
 
Al

Welcome aboard from a former Philly Citizen now relocated to West Fenwick Island DE

Welcome aboard from a former Philly Citizen now relocated to West Fenwick Island DE

Thanks to everyone for your warm welcome and condolences.  I miss my dad so much, having been a finishing carpenter he knew about how to handle wood, what you can and cant expect from it and how to make it do what you want.  I dont have either the experience or the innate ability so I need to read alot and look at what others have done.    Here are three little boats I completed Please dont look too closely!
 
Mary

Welcome aboard from a former Philly Citizen now relocated to West Fenwick Island DE

Welcome aboard from a former Philly Citizen now relocated to West Fenwick Island DE

Welcome aboard from a former Philly Citizen now relocated to West Fenwick Island DE

Post 11
 
Complete planking
 
As most of us have learned the hard way there is no simple answer to hold that last few rows of planks in place.  I have learned to simply improvise as I go.
75     here I took a block and passed the string through the hull and clamped it to a bulkhead on the other side.  A little wedge and all is good.  
76    here we are done for the lower section.  
77     There were several areas that I thought to fill before sanding thus confirming my limited ability.  Now I need to get those bulwark planks in place and not glue them to the bulkheads. I could have waited I suppose but I believe this is the right time to complete them.
78    I cut away the top corner of each  bulkhead and then used scrap and clamps top act as temporary stanchions.  
79     I learned before that it is handy to get a prime coat on to better see what I am dealing with at this stage and not wait .  Before the paint that I razor cut along any joints that I filled as I hope to get enough joints showing through the paint to see the planking.  
80     here the top bulwark plank is in place, sanded and primed. Now to do the other side and add a second coat of primer
81to 83     

sanded and primed.   Now comes a few days of going over and adding a little filler where needed, sanding and trying to get a better grade before marking the waterline and painting the bottom. I also need to add many little cuts to show the ends of the planks after a sanding and before final painting.   Next up I am working in parallel to get all the spars ready
 
All for now

Post 5
 
Update on resizing and building the stern.
 
I realized that to properly build the stern I needed to extend the building board. One advantage of this large scale and the stability of the bulkheads is that I saw no movement when I released the aft keel end post.   I simply inserted a scrap piece of pine the same thickness and reset the end post.  
33    here we are extending the building board. The pattern for dead wood and sternpost is laid in.  a note is that after looking at the Ada Cliff photos, I decided that the transom was clearly closer to 8 feet than the 6-foot dimension on the older Bath drawings.   
34    here I used the aluminum box to hold all straight as I screwed the end post back into the building board and the small plywood square splice block.  
Now I can go ahead and build up the stern.  Since this is a bulkhead model, I can shape a block that is so much easier than the frame building I just did on Ernestina.   I will save that joyous exercise for another build.
 
35    in this view, I have taken some scrap pieces of Alaskan yellow cedar that I am using to rebuild my front porch. It is beautiful wood to work with and I plan to keep all the useful scraps for the model shop.  
36    now I added in a transom station and dry fit the parts.  
37    here is the glue up to the transom station.  
38    I have added a 1/16th piece of sacrificial plywood to act as the template for the future transom planning.   I also need to fair things to fit the planking.  
Now for the bow stem I simply added in some scrap balsa to help provide a better shape and give more surface to glue the curving planks.   I have done this in pine on previous builds and thought this choice might be easier.  We’ll see.
 
 
39    here are the blocks with rough fairing underway.   Not too much sanding.   I then need to carve the bow stem for the rabbit need to receive the planks. the "Bearding line" I think  
All for now
 

Post 4
 
Yes, I am really going to stretch the model to achieve the new length.  
 
I start off with a few images of Ada Cliff.
 
24   here from the internet is reportedly an image of her sailing toward us.  It came from a website of a railway modeler who started off to build a model of her.  The string seems to disappear, so I have no idea if a model is out there.    
25    this famous image is all around the town here in Boothbay. I have a high resolution from the Boothbay Region Historical Society that will allow some blow up investigations.  This photo shows the three masted Schooner Lillian Wooddruff being launched in East Boothbay in 1899. She is proudly perched in the yard of what most recently was the Lobster Dock Restaurant.   As mentioned earlier, the hand me down nature of the design aspect of these schooners [ shipwright to ship wright] leads us to consider looking at these photos and merging the results.  There are features that change but the main elements are consistent.   Mr Cliff was mayor of Somerville MA and had a house full of co-investors.   One of the reasons I like Ada Cliff so much is the story that she was used for the design of what became four each four masted schooners that followed her in the boom years. There is another view from the land side in an earlier posting.  
26   here is another image of her sailing away. I will be going back to the historical society and will find I am sure more relevant information.  
Now to grow 7 feet longer
 
I chose to use the same method the investors used when the deigned the first 4 masted schooner as Ada was finishing up.  I will cut in the middle, add 7 feet [1.75 inches] and move the stern aft.
 
27   shows the placement of the “cut”.  
28    here we have the magic of Cad allowing a revised layout of the building board.  I simply moved all the stations aft and added in a mid-bulkhead to fill the void.  
29      here I have removed all the stations. A little damage occurred, but I have no worries as they all made it.  
30    here the first half of the revised lay out is pasted in place.  
31    here we see the building board all ready. A little tight on the transom , more study needed there.  
32     here the stations are reset ready for spacers and re gluing.  
Next up we need to finish the re bracing and regluing to get back to where we were before learning about the BOOK.
 
cheers

Rigging Update......
Finally completed most of the rigging of the yards for all three masts.
The Spanker Boom and Gaff have been built for months, just waiting to be put into service.
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!
Once all rigging is complete, I will wrap her up with her flags (not yet created).

I Christen thee Caribbean Breeze. 

These are of my making. The kit’s cloth was printed with a similar process as the deck veneer. It was missing in some areas and blotchy in others. I can send you my original if you feel you are missing the full experience.  
 
Thanks for the offer, so sorry I did not see the response until today.  I prefer my ships without sails, I am a rigging kind of guy. LOL. Yours turned out really great hope to see your next ship.

Welcome from Lower Slower Delaware
 
Alan

Welcome from Lower Slower Delaware
 
Alan

Other Morgan distinctions that I wanted to try and feature were the 2 white stars and gold eagle on the transom.  I gave up on the “Charles W Morgan      New Bedford” lettering.  It was going to be way to small, but I hoped I could pull off the stars and eagle.
   
For the stars, I used powerpoint and made 2 of the smallest stars the program would allow me to draw and placed them on a black background 7/16” apart.  Then I printed it out, cut the strip, and affixed to the transom with white glue.

For the eagle, I used some gold foil off more chocolate (those fake gold coins they put at the checkout counters so kids will grab them and throw them in the cart when parents aren’t looking).  I cut it into a tiny shape somewhat resembling a flying eagle, and glued it on.  The further away, the better it (and everything else) looks!
 
Lastly, I coppered the lower half of the hull with tape and added some rope hanks to the inside of the bulwarks. Now it’s on to the yards, gaff, and boom and completing the masts.

Based on the pictures I’ve seen of the Morgan, it looks like there is a little quarter deck on the bow.  Not sure what it’s called but I added one.

Wecome to MSW, DrK.   Do give some thought to opening a build log for your model even though the build is underway.  Drop a few photos (if you have them) and some text to bring us up to date.   Logs are a great way to get help and also meet other builders.

Welcome aboard from a former Philadelphian (NE) now in lower slower Delaware. Keep the faith it does get easier the longer you stay with it.
 
Go Eagles
 
Al

Welcome aboard from a former Philadelphian (NE) now in lower slower Delaware. Keep the faith it does get easier the longer you stay with it.
 
Go Eagles
 
Al