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Now everything is sanded and polished ... now I need to plank the hull for a second time ... but first I need to finish some of the images on the draft ... here are the new photos :

Hi all ... Thanasis, thanks to reply... this Trajta is leudo (fishing cargo)... this sort of Trajta was only on the Croatian island of Korcula and nowhere else ... there are present similarity names ... ( and maybe I'm wrong ? fact is that all of these fishermen sailed around and passed on the tradition ... ) ... In the end, you'll see how it looks... I'm interested in whether there are any similarities with the Greek trata ... Please follow this and let me know ... Dgbot...How we made the reconstruction ? A few years ago I stumbled on an interesting old preserved text of a fishing net called Trajta ... among other things , there was a detailed description of the boat Trajta ( 11.7 m long on the deck ) ... I got interested in it ... I was contacted modelling experts in Croatia , they were presented to me the old script , something like a draft , so I had all the necessary things : ship lines and a detailed description of the vessel ... later I talked about this topic with a man (expert on on this topic) from Hvar ( Croatian island ) and I was quite sure I can do the reconstruction ... throughout the work process I contacted these people respecting their instructions ... Trajta have stopped to build in the 19th century, when it began to install the drive motors ... She was built only on the island of Korcula and nowhere else ... a year ago I heard that a builder of small boats on the island of Korcula wants to build a prototype of Trajta so derive it from oblivion , I do not know in what stage of implementation of the plan is it ... maggsl_01 ...... But, anyway, I finished the reconstruction of the model and designed a kit which is on sale since last year ... Now that I no longer have objections to the reconstruction, I am finishing the build log that will be in the kit box in the future ...

This is the first thing to do ... to paste all the elements of the keel and stems on each other ... it is needed to use a flat surface, such as glass ...

hello everyone, I would like to start something that has seen only a few men so far ... it is a historical reconstruction of the Croatian ship ... detailed description follows: 1:20 ...Cargo is a wooden boat firmly rooted among the fishermen of the adriatic coast, widespread throughout the Mediterranean. On the east coast of the Adriatic Sea she' s known also under the names legut and levut, and then as leuto and liuto in Italy, laudus, laud Katalan in Spain, leudo Ligure on the Ligurian Sea, and even in the XIV century the boat lignetum was built in Dubrovnik. The name come from the italian word legno, which means wood. On the island of Korcula she' s called trata, trakta or trajta, and for her exist also the names barka, lađa, vlahinja, boat or gajeta. She' s the biggest adriatic boat, which reaches a lenght of up to 20 meters, whose capacity is up to 10 tons. The similarities in design and use with gajeta are such, that it is often difficult to distinguish them. In Croatia she' s first mentioned in the writings of Trogir 1617 and by now she has developed into a few basic shapes, among which the most distinctive are the cargos of Korcula, Betina and Zadar. The cargo bases her navigation more on sail than on oars, for this reason has a mast on which outstreched the lateen sail. Trajta is undoubtedly a cargo boat of Korculan construction, but she has also something of the gajeta' s structural characteristics. Her name comes from the name of the fishing nets, dragged by such boats. In fact this is a kind of seine net which in Korcula, Smokvica, Lumbarda and Pelješca are called trajta, meaning tow, drag. It comes directly from the latin word tracta, which is feminine passive past particple of the verb trahere (drag). In the same way is called the group of people which fishes with this type of net. Trajta, the fishing boat, is mentioned for the first time as trakta in 1734 on Mljetu and in 1742 in Ston. Trajta today, unfortunately, is no longer used. This is a model on which the keel and all the elements of the sides and deck are made of solid walnut wood. The sail is embroidered on the cloth. Structural elements are laser cut.

Nigel, right... in the main we use walnut, rarely goes lime, mahogany and oak really rare, only occasional positions ...

Thanks everyone for the compliments ... Nigel, no, It is not oak, it is lime, the idea was to make the construction which is as easy to assemble and plank ... lime is soft and easy to cut and form, whole hull is to be painted later, so that, from that point of view, the type of wood is not important. .. I thought the construction with dowels was my innovation, but if someone does the same, it means that this mode is not bad ... ...What am I trying to show here are the constructive characteristics of the hull --- ship lines, contours ... how is this hull easy to plank and shape, this should tell someone else, not me ...

Now she should be polished and prepared for the second planking ...

Max, ... there is a problem... You should plank the deck first, but to do this You should remove the bulkhead's tops that should form the freeboard... so it needs to do the planking first... I think You should do this: 1.) planking the hull 2.) cutting the bulkhead's tops 3.) planking the deck 4.) doing the doors, windows, planking the wall of the cabin...

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Hi Max ... Would You try something on this model? Would You try to plank the hull in a single planking technique?... then you'll see how these will turn out ... then plank the hull the second time ...

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Hi Max ... I will follow this build ... I'm interested in the problems that You will come across ...

Thanks Max, it demands a lot of work ... Here are some more pics of the hull...

...and a few more pictures to " feel " the curves of the stern and bow ...

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hello everyone ... reading this topic , I felt a very strongly need to answer it... for a decade I am working out projects and kit designs ... Certainty, I can say that kits, as well as all other technical goods , obsolete ... The laser technology is rapidly progressing , and also as the programs ( softer ) in which projects are designed ... It is very important the way in which a particular kit is designed : some dedicated kits are made ​​for beginners ( easy to build ) , some of them are made for the experts ( not easy to build ) ... some of them are kits of simplified models , so do not look very realistic , others are highly detailed replicas of the originals ... Third in turn , produced to have an artistic flair ... And all of those kinds of kits can be , as in the practice is the case , offered by a single manufacturer ... With that I think nothing should be taken literally , each kit has its price and it is dedicated made ​​for a specific type of customer ... When I do my work, then I am primarily worried about the precision of the laser cut and design, and take care a lot that the elements can not move during bonding , there must be be enormous precision between the draft , laser cut and sample that a kit builder creates ... Do always refer to the date of the start of production of each sort of kit , if trying to compare the quality of it ... this is my personal view ...

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Thanks John, ...first I had to check the construction, it is very precise indeed... I am finishing the draft, because of this it seems to progress very slowly ... after the second coating thera are some interesting phases coming ...

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Hello everyone ... here's reconstruction, it is progressing slowly ... Here are a few photos of setting the first coat of strips :

Hello Everyone ... ...SkerryAmp what could I say with a few words ? Here it is: our brand is " MarisStella.hr ," we want to show to the world the forgotten vessels of the Adriatic Sea , ... first we make a detailed research of the vessel , then we make a detailed plan (draft) of the vessel , then we compile the build instructions ... then we create mounting kit of the vessel ... and in the end we produce kits ... so You see , these are all original products , no copyright infringements , no pirating , etc. ... ... by the way it would be good to point out : except Santa Maria and Trabaccolo , the world of the kits had not seen one of these vessels so far ... these are completely new on the market ... We are new on the market and we really would like to be included in your project ... do You agree ? Sincerely yours, MarisStella.hr

Hello Cristiano, I feel that this will be an enormous help ... I just buy those two books in Italian, and I think it will not be a problem to buy even one in German ... I think it will take a few weeks to get them ... I'll let You know anyway ... thank you very much once again, we'll be in touch If You do not mind ...