Siggi52
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Hello, thank you for your kind comments and the many likes. And yes Ian, I'm constantly busy repairing errors. I also don't photograph the mistakes. And if I do and seeing it, I'm immediately taking them out and delet the picture. 😚 -
Hello, Today I've finished the deck so far. Everything is smooth and sheer. I left the knees at the back end a little longer, you never know.
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Thank you Keith and Scrubby. Keith, if the paint becomes too thick, it is necessary to dilute it. Maybe he misunderstood that.
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Hello, today I started with planking. Last week I had cut the planks and yesterday I made the plan. So that I was able to make great progress today.
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Hello, after such a long time the waiting has an end. I worked for some time a little at the shipyard, but without really results. But now it should rain for the next days, so I'm the whole day at the shipyard. First a picture of the last stand I had a discusion with the shipwright, and we decidet first to plank the pop deck. Here the waterways and the inner planking of the outer walls are ready. The carpenters had made also the paneling for the underside of the balkony. I would think that the whole cabin had this paneling, but you would't see it, so I leave it.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the nice comments and likes.
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Hello, yesterday I set the model into the now finished show case, and thereby is the building process complete. The last picture shows the model where it stands during the building process, and that should be for the first time it's place.
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Hello Keith, Tiger is since 3-4 weeks again in my shop in the basement to acclimatize. So when I have nothing else to do, I will start there again.
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Many, many thanks for your kind comments and the many likes Slowly I realize that the ship has finished and the tension is decreasing. Also the tension in my neck, from rigging. Here the summer is back, today it should be 34°C, and I will enjoy it lazy in my garden. 😄 Have a nice day, Siggi
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Hello, now the pictures of the finished Gokstad ship. Enjoy it.
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And thank you, thank you Keith
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Thank you, Ian
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Hello and thank you for all the likes, today I finished the ship mostly. The rigging is complet and only the oars and some smaler things must be fastened. Some pictures with the last sun for today. More tomorrow
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Hello, the sail is set. But at least not completly rigged. The upper parrel rope, I think, I must also make in 0,4 mm Ø rope like the lower rope. But that is something for tommorow.
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Hello, the summer is back 😀 We will see how long it last and we have here 19°C again. Today I finished the sail and the next days I hope it will be at the ship. The front side and the back side
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Just let it. Find it out yourself.
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Hello Harvey, thank you for that tip. It works well.
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Hello Harvey, a nice model you build there. I have one question, how did you attached the boldrope to your sails. I'm trying at the moment to build the sail for my Gokstad ship, and tryed to sew the boldrope to my Silkspan sail. It did't work ☹️ Did you glue it on and with what?
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Hello Dick, if you wont to know more about these ships, you should get it. It's worth the money. I got my copy for 40€ + 13€ taxes and shipping. Ones again to your „the sail should be as wide as the ship is long, 23,4 m“. Imagine, the ship is 5,2 m broad, than the sail would stand to both sides 9m over the board. How would you handle such a sail? And close-hauled sailing would't be possible. Ms Bischoff looked for the points where the sail was attached to the ship, close-hauled. And that was the width of the sail. Just simple.
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Hello Dick, one sourse you did't mention, the sagas. And Ms Bishoff worked up all the sources you mention and came to the result I have showed. After Ian wrote his coment, I re-read the chapter about the sail. Did you have her Book? It is very interesting to read and she used every source available. ISBN 0901-778X and 978-87-85180-77-3. I got my copy through Amazon from California. I'm sorry, but my english is't so good to make here scientific discoursions and I'm not an expert for Viking ships. You may be right that the sails they build today look more like modern sails, but she also has arguments for the shape of the sails she build and why the sails were not as wide as the ship is long at the picture stones and coins. have a nice day
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Hello Ian, the only representations of Viking ships are available on the Gotland stones as far as I know. And they are not very detailed. Also they found only some fragments of densely woven wool fabric with rope of lime bast. So the sails are not very much documented, at least in the sagas. Im my case, I'm using what Vibeke Bischoff has reserched with her experimental archaelogy.
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Hello, just a short sign of life, but no great progress. I'm bussy with the sail. My first try with silkspan did't work for me. The bolt rope tears out when I tried to sew it on. So for tomorrow plan B, linnen. So should it look And that is the the first try. Did't look bad, but did't work 😐 At least the color is't so red, it's more a red-brown
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Thank you, Keith
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