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  1. Siggi52
    Thank you Ian and Chuck. Chuck, the nails/rivets are pencil marks 😇
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    Thank you Keith
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    Hello, thank you John and all others for your likes. The mast step is ready and installed. Now my fingertips have to regenerate for some time 😉 And here with the deck beams installed. As the next thing to do, I think to instal the other deck beams.
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    Hello, today I found some time to work at the shipyard and build the mast step. There are some knees left to build, but tomorrow is also a day. And here he is fitted in. There is a little gab to the left, but the knees will cover it later. Only the outer deck beams are fast at the moment. I needed a high fore the mast fish, who will follow next. With the beams I made a short cut with there ends. You would't see that later.
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    Hello John and Richard, thank you. Richard, because I could't build the ship like the Vikings, I build the planks over a plug and take the frames also from that plug, as seen in one picture. And yes, I had to fit the planks to the frames because they sorted themself into a comfortable way and did't stay in the way they where build at the plug. But it was not soo much I had to correct.
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    Hello, the last two day I was pretty busy at the shipyard. UPs, and where is the ship? 😄 All the frames are installed. The next days I think, I must concentrate my work more onto my house and garden. During that time, the ship could settle before I install the bitis (deck beams)
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    Hello, and many, many thanks for your comments and likes Last week we had here an outstanding wether with much sunshine, so I was't very often at the shipyard. But today it rained, and there was really action at the shipyard. I build and installed the first frames. First I would cut the undercut of the frames like those at the originals, but that was too dangerous for my fingers and the frame itself. So I decided to file it insted. The form of the frames I took from my plug Glueing them in was the next challenge. Because, the hull was a little out of shape and I must work with a little brutality and big clamps 😉 For the next frames I took a third pair of clamps and all went well.
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    Hello Richard, the planks are glued together. I used white watersolvent wood glue. So I could make later easier corrections. What I had to due more often. The clinker nails are only pencil marks.
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    Thank you Chris, I hope that you are right. At noon I was't so sure. 😏
  10. Siggi52
    Hello, and thank you for all the likes. The two bulkheads at the bow and stern cost me a lot of nerves. You have nothing to lean on. It's all free floating. But now it's done. Here the one at the bow. And here the one at the stern. This one was a lot more complicated, because it has to hold also the rudder. When I dryfitted them, they fit all perfect. But when you get a little glue on them, nothing fits. 😐 So all out and try again. The lower parts you would't see later, so I'm here a little more generous with the seat. And here the carpenters from the Tiger have a look what I'm doing so all the day
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    Hello, there is not so much happend here. I draw the nails also from the inside of the hull and glued the cleats in, for those frames you may see later. They are 0,6 by 0,8 mm and 3.5 mm long
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    Thank you John
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    Thank you Keith
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    Hello, the gun wales are ready. Also the Tingl and the two Rongs at the stem and stern. That was't an easy job, but now it's done. These battens with slits are carved to the gun wales. For the middle part of the gun wales they where later nailed under these, between the frames. At the SB side, behind the rudder, they where omitted. They where used to fasten the shields, or the tent.
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    Hello, and thank you for your comments and likes. Today I build the middle parts of the gun wales and installed them. The fore and aft parts are more complicated. So I hope they follow over the weekend.
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    Thank you Keith, I think so. But first I must be ready, and that will take some more time.
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    Hello, and thank you for all the likes, and yes I'm guilty. I was't at the shipyard last week. We had here the finest spring weather, with sunshine and temperatures up to 24°C in the sun! 😊 But yesterday the weather changed, and I finished planking with the last two strakes. They are at least only 0,4 mm thick! So as next I will install the gun-wale. I started with this project last November and planking mid January. At the next picture you see the rocked keel. I reality the keel was in the middle 30 cm lower then at his outer ends.
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    Hello, thank you for all the likes and comments. For today only a short update. I finished the collecting planks for the starbord side. This pice, with the rudder support, was a little tricky. So I build it twice and nead now a medical plaster for my left index finger! But it is't soo bad. And here it is installed
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    Hello and many thanks for your likes and comments the next two strakes are ready. Now there are only two others left. The uper plank here is the rodrarhufr plank. In this plank later come the holes for the oars. She is a little thicker, 0,65mm. And here you see also the thick fingers, who build this all 😁
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    Hello, last week we had here a lot of sunshine, so I was't realy often at the shipyard. But at least I managed to finished two other strakes. Only 4 left Now it starts to look more like a ship then a raft.
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    Hello, and many, many thanks for your comments and likes Today I finished the Meginhufr. All other planks for now are 0,5mm thick ( 25mm ),the meginhufr is 0,8mm thick (40mm in real) And for cure over night, a corset. That is a bicycle tires and a sandbag
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    Hello, and many thanks for your comments and likes Life was against working at the shipyard most of the week, but now I have all collecting planks ready. I started also with planking the meginhufr. I hope to finish the strake tomorrow. Here are some of the parts, who did't it ☹️
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    Hello, and thank you for all the likes and nice comments today I finshed the first of 4 collecting planks. I don't know how they where corectly named.
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    Thank you
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    Hello, thank you Keith, and all others thank you for your likes. Yesterday I finised the planking of the "floor". The next plank is the Meginhufr, a strong plank like the wales. When the most planks have a thickness of 0,5mm, this one is 0,8mm thick. From now on, it goes upwarts. In this case downwards! The next four planks have a collecting piece (?) to the stems. That would be the next challenge. But now the pictures from the last two strakes.

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