mikegerber

Hi Brian

Congratulations! That is well deserved!

All the best,

Mike

Hi Bob

I'm in!   

All the best,

Mike

Your Sloop looks simply fantastic, Brian! ...

I agree with Patrick. The wealth of detail is already immense - very well done, Nils! - looking forward too each new log.

All the best,

Mike

Hi Jond

I like your Racing Sloop - that hull  looks very good - looking forward to any new log!

Best regards,

Mike

It is a great pleasure to know you back on pilot's workshop! - all the more as this workshop is so very inspiring concerning my own work - thanks Michael!

All the best,

Mike

Patrick, Nils – thank you guys! ...

... and thanks everyone who visiting and tracking this workshop. Always greatly appreciated!

Below you will find the next intermediate stage after sanding.

All the best,
Mike

... looks strange!   

@Dimitris, @Marc

Thank you very much your faithful and cherished companion!

@Captain Al

Thanks for your visit and welcome on board. Thank you also for such a nice feedback - very much appreciated!

I also think that Baba 20 and Pacific Seacraft 25 are both interesting modern CA-adaptations - they both were unknown to me, but I've done instantly some researches on the Internet.

What is so fascinating to me about double ender? Of course, the legendary seaworthiness, what is a highly design integral fact of this boats but also their prototypical appearance - it seems as they were drawn by children - a kind of Noah's Ark.

It would be a pleasure to see a scratch build of one of your mentioned boats ...   

All the best,

Mike

Wow! There is really something going on on your Deck - greatly done, Dimitris!

All the best,

Mike

Hi Mark

Now, one can already see the ingenious design - absolut beautiful lines, love it! ...

... and you are doing a superb job with the planking!

All the best,
Mike

... first I have yet milled the longitudinal joints.

To this, I have modified a protective cap and abused it as a milling attachment   . The milling guide is temporarily fixed with double faced adhesive tape ...

... and finally the first nails!

All the best,

Mike

Hi Hartmut, Patrick, Lawrence

and all other visitors.

Thanks for visiting the shipyard and all your great feedbacks with such estimated comments!

Currently the activity in the shipyard is heavily slowed down - the duties of everyday life are so many ...

Anyway I could start with nailing the deck. My work was first to research the legalities of the specific manner of nailing. Finally I could derive a consistent pattern with the help of pictures of the "Colin Archer" (RS1) - "Stavanger's" nails are hard to locate on the nearly black deck.

Til soon,
Mike

Your build comes along superb! ...

... concerning the Kitchen, that sounds great, Paul! - I'm already hungry ...   

Hi everyone ...

@Michael

Thank you for your constructive feedback. It forces me to reconsider certain things.

Of course you're right about your concerns of wooden grain structure. Gluing of similar segments to get a uniform blank would be the correct solution.

This seems to me somewhat disturbing, because by professional reasons I have very internalized static and dynamic properties of wood and usually these properties are always present to me. In this case, I have considered the subject too little from this point of view.

It is well aware that there is no such a simple ring in the original, but there are individual wedges. Since I've provided to cover the mast bed with canvas, I looked at this item only as a model technical substructure - hence such a ring as one piece. After all, he is from oak, so I've to check if it holds enough under stress or not ...

... Michael, you see, there are discussions going on.   

@Jan-Willem

Thank you for a such great testimony and appreciation.

Yes, you probably noticed that correctly, this worksop has accumulated a veritable machine park - I'm myself sometimes something between amazed and scared  - but someway it commits to stay at work.   

... thanks all of you for feedback, comments and likes. Always greatly appreciated!

Best regards,

Mike

Hello everyone

... below, a short visit on a sideshow - making of the mast bed - at this time still raw, will later try to cover it with snow ...

... hmm, sorry! - I mean covering with canvas. 

Best regards,

Mike

Hi Dimitris

looks really great, this deck! ...

... I have to excuse me, if I capture your build log at this point - it was last august in holiday, Brittany (France) - and yes, of course, you were in my mind as I stumbled in on this picture ... 

All the best,

Mike

Hi Druxey, Hi Jond

Thanks for visiting this shipyard and welcome aboard! Your great appreciation means a lot to me - thanks again!

All the best and til soon,

Mike

Hi Brian

Your log shows a very impressive work! - Very well done!

All the best,

Mike

Dimitris, Patrick, Michael, Jan-Willem ...

... What can I say? - I am very touched by your appreciation! - thanks all of you ...

... and also all of you "backstage", by pressing the "button" on the last few logs! (Carl, Greg, Nils, Mark, Paul, Mark Taylor, Matija, Cap'n'Bob, Sailor-Greg, Brian, Daniel, Igor, ... you have to forgive the incompleteness of this list).

Best regards,

Mike

This way, I'm sending you my best wishes for a good and rapid recovery - get well soon, dear Patrick!

... and I will hope, that Christmas holds definitely something else for you - for example, wood instead of stone - thus, it serves much more for building ships!   

All the best,

Mike

Hi all,

Patrick, Carl, Sir Blue Henry – thanks!

@Carl

Don't worry, I claim no copyright – you don't know what I already have "stolen" on MSW! - but ssssht, don't tell!   

Today I had a highly famous visitor! It was CA's inspection ...   

... the old man was on the shipyard. He watched carefully every detail and at this he looked somewhat grimly - in the end he had but a little smile – “ Carry on!“, his comment ...

... “Yes Sir!“   

Til soon,

Mike

Hi Patrick

Like the second to last - superb perspective!

Best regards,

Mike

... thank you, Patrick!   

Hi Mark

Important decisions need time, but your Ranger looks absolut great so far!

All the best,

Mike