Siggi52
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Hello, today I finished the anchor. At the Gokstad ship they found only a rust trace of an anchor from 1,1 m length, and an anchor stock of 2.75 m length. At the Oseberg ship they found an anchor of 1 m length, and two anchor stocks. One of 1,5 m and the other of 2,7 m length. The anchor fits to the smaler stock. May be, they though that the dead in heaven did't need the large anchor. So I build the smaler typ of anchor. Material are pieces brass wire of 0,8 and 1 mm, hammered flat and to form and for the rings 0,4 and 0,5 mm wire.
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Thank you, Johnny and have fun with it
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Hello and thanks for your nice comments a d likes Today I cleared the deck from rope ends, at least from the shrouts. The next thing to build is the sail. I ordered Silkspan, and it should arrive here someone next week.
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Hello, John, today it is to be 27°C here and sunshine, but next week again it is only 22°C and rain. And it's a nice boot you have build. Did you have Viking genes? Today I finished the standing rigg. And I know now exactly, why I don't like rigging. These stuborne and nasty twines, who go always the directin you don't want ☹️ It was realy loud yesterday in the basement! But the result is great, I think. Now the ship looks fuller, more compact. Enjoy the pictures. The strongest rope is the forestay with 0,7 mm Ø, the shrouts and forestay have 6,5 mm Ø
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Hello, and thank you for your likes today I build the gangplank. So that the Vikings could leave and enter the ship in a hurry, to plunder! Also new is the mast, the fifth now and I hope the last one. This one is at least the most correct. It's hard to get there informations, because not all parts of the masts, also from the Oseberg ship, survived. But I found at YouTube an interesting video with both ships: Råseilseminaret 2013 - vikingskipene Saga Oseberg og Gaia, and that answes my questions. And I started with rigging. First the toggle and blocks for the stays and shrouds.
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Hello and thank you for your comments and likes because here is no summer anymore, (last week we had 36°C, now 16-20°C) I'm busy at the shipyard. After I found new pictures of the Gokstad ship, I had to change somethings. That means to tear off again. These rails are also on starboard, and Dammann wrote, there where none! The helmsman got also a backrest. Today I build the suporters for the beitiass. That was a nightmare, but now it's done. I'm ready with the ship so far and the rigging can begin.
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Hello, the oars are on board and the stand is ready.
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Hello, it is done! All 32 oars are ready. Only 6 pairs, the shortest, have the same lengs. From 5,30 m up to 5,85 m have all other pairs a different lengs. The longest pairs are for the stem and stern, there the oaremen sit at the highest places.
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I hope so, John
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Hello, today I started building the oars. First I saw them 4X3 mm and then turned the handle at the lathe. The secnd step is, grinding the rest till nothing is left 😏 , see the one below Then I saw out the outlines and shape the rest with files and sandpaper. Now only 31 are left.
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Hello shipman, I think, you better discus this with the archeologists, scientist and reenactors with 1:1 replicas of viking ships. A tiller that goes down, is not really ergonomic in this case. I'm happy with this strait tiller.
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Hello and thank you for your comments and likes, to show the high of the tiller in relation to the helmsman I made a picture with one of my carpenters. He is 1,70 m large, and the tiller is at 80 cm from the floor. And shipman, even at the original ship they have a strait tiller replica.
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Hello Shipman, I think that the original tiller was centuries ago strait, and not curved as now. Otherwise the helmsman must have worked directly at the floor. It was made from ash. So as it is now at my model, the helmsman could work from his seachest, in a sitting position.
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Hello, because I was not really happy with the tiller, I build today a new one. At that picture you see on top the drawing Dammann did, with a too short plug. The black thing in the middle is the original tiller, or what is left of it, and my calculations for 1:10. Below that in 1:50 and the new tiller. And here is he installed. I think it looks much better
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Thank you, Marc and John for your kind words and all others for your likes
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Hello and thanks for your comments and likes today I build the tiller for the rudder. After turning most of the handle, I had to glue it to a peace of wood. My fingers are too thick to hold it. It's 21 mm long, and the handle after the head has 1 mm Ø. I carved mostly with my small V cutter and my carving knife. Using also small files. And that is the result This is a little faking, because the tiller is too short to go through the slot 😐 But you would't see it 😇 And now in action, but not fast
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Hello, after I build the last days toggles in all variations, I build today the rudder. Tomorrow I will start then with the tiller.
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Hello Richard, yes it's 5 mm acrylic. Painted from below as if waves are running there.
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Hello, today I build the two blocks, a one and a two sheave, for the halyard and two of the shroud pins. The thicker part of them is still a little green, so the rest has to wait a little longer.
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Thank you, Constant
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Thank you Mike, the look at the mast step, is mostly hidden by the mast fish. The flat part of it, belonged to the mast fish. It is in reality one pice of wood, 1 X 5 m oak! So also without decking, you would't see much more of it.
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Thank you very much for your kind comments and likes.
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Hello JJ, Tiger has vacation till the Gogstad ship is ready. I don't thought that it takes so long to build this little ship. But now I have to bring it to an end, otherwise I have two unready ships here 😏
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Hello, just to give you a sign of life, I'm currently building blocks and cleats. Today, new yarn has finally arrived, so the rope production will soon also begin.
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Hello, and thank you for your comments and likes today I started with an experiment to create the shroud pins. With some branches from my boxtree. Let's see what's going to be. The arrow shows one of the Gokstad ship in the scale, it is 13mm long!
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