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I am ready to go on a ride in her already. Looks great, Patrick! I love the 3D perspective pics you took of your model.

So last night I glued one of the forward frames, and am hoping to get to glue on another frame to the stern. Royal Yacht Mary is starting to slowly come together. Will be posting more pictures soon. 

Brian

Hello Laurence, and welcome to my  blog. Thank you for the kind words and the cool picture. I am using the Mamoli plans as I am sure you have seen in my posted pics and notes, but their plans have several major errors, which is one reason I am building mine from scratch. Good luck to you on your build and I will have to make a visit to your boat yard to see your progress.

Brian

Looks good, Bob! Glad to see the ship yard keeping busy. Miss you and keep up the great building

Brian

Progress from the ol' boatyard. The first of the hull frames is officially in place. Today glued in the deadwood and first of the stern templates. The boat builders are reported to have celebrated with a little white wine, despite how late the yacht is in building progress. But we will keep a secret about this from His Majesty the king for now. Inserts wicked grin of delight.

Peace out!

Brian

The same as the bow thrusters but in the stern area of the keel.

Your yacht model is looking very good so far, Patrick. The only thing I would say is that in real life a yacht of that size would also have a side thrust system in the stern like the bow. Keep up your great work, I am looking forward to more.

Well my followers, I am sorry that I have been gone for so long. Doing all the fun "adult" stuff and with some screwy hours and setbacks. Getting back on the horse again, and slowly making progress on Mary.

Had to rebuild half the keel, got that done and also painted now.

Mostly have been making frames for the ribs of the hull. In the enclosed photo you will see a nearly completed stern plate that will be mounted to the keel after I re-install the deadwood.

Pulling up a late chair myself. Your work building model ships is amazing and I like to follow your blogs. Nice job using the polystyrene to make the hull of your model, that stuff is fun to work with. Would love to see a larger scale model made of her  as well as Symphony.  Been getting back into my own ship model after taking off much more time than I desired to.

Pulling up a late chair, a beautifully made model. Nice job on the whole ship, as Royal Caroline is a popular model it seems to build.

Beautiful work, Patrick! Your tender looks incredibly realistic. You should set up your model in a case where the tender is tied up alongside Symphony and looks like floating in the water.

I have never personally seen sanders like those ones you are using, look like would be really helpful. Model looks great, can't wait to see how rest of her will turn out.

Can I make a suggestion too? Will she be showing her steering wheel(s) in the stern cockpit? Keep up the amazing work on this model, very impressive

Cog, in the days of the old wooden sailing ships you would be right. However, these days yachts like Symphony and the big motor yachts can have small fireplaces like this in the cabin. Unlike most house fireplaces, the yacht ones burn oil or propane or maybe some diesel fuel, and are more for decoration purposes. Yes, they can produce can produce heat to the occupants when nearby, but the wood burning fireplaces produce more and better heat.

Looks very good so far, sir. I especially admire your building board and the track devise. How did you make that, if I may ask? Would like to do something similar for my model of Yacht Mary.

Now the fun part has actually started. Model is looking great. What material are you using for your interior walls?

Dennis, your Titanic model is looking great. Here in San Diego, I know a guy who made a Titanic model and substituted all the plastic decking with real wood as well as installed a lighting system. From what I saw, it looked really cool, especially when the light were turned off and only the model got lit up.

Brian

Hello Marc. Am pulling up a chair to follow this progress even if a little late. Keep up the great modeling!

I really enjoyed also reading your construction of Yacht Mary, as currently am working on that same model. Have those same two books about Utrecht from Seawatch Publishing, and I find them very useful. Seems that Mamoli made mistakes with bow of Mary after reading those Seawatch books and doing own research about the Dutch statenjachts. Mary should have had a bow same to the Utrecht. 

Brian

Thank you gentlemen for your kind comments. Here are the pictures as requested, Tarbrush. I felt so close to finally being able to have the stern transom installed when realized the mistake. But as they say, better to catch early than to catch too late. Before I glued the deadwood in the other day, a piece of the tip broke off, which thankfully in ways goes well with the stern installation, but still need a tiny piece that broke off that you might see in the pics.

All those fun other adult activities like working and school are heavily limiting my modeling abilities. Yesterday I glued the deadwood to the keel only to discover afterwards that I have made my keel too long where the sternpost attaches. Half of the keel got damaged anyways while trying to thin the width down to the proper scale size. So now I get to re-make half of the keel and will have to gently pry off the deadwood and the sternpost and place in the proper location. Can provide pics if you want.

Hi Piet, your smack is looking great! When I was making the trail boards on my model, I cut out the boards to the proper size then pencil drew on the scrolls they show on the blueprints included with the kit. When the drawings came out satisfactory enough, I took my dremel to make a hole in one small place in the carvings, like the middle or something. Then found a loose wire blade for a Craftsman scroll saw and manually cut out the details. For my first time trying that I think it turned out decent. Once the details had been properly cut, I painted the pieces black and used a heat bender to help give the pieces their proper curvature.  Hope this helps you.

Brian

I finally have the ability to post pics on here. This is a photo of my lobster smack that I took last March, rigging was still a work in progress. This ship model I modified after a smack at my local Maritime Museum here in San Diego.

Looks great, sir. Just out of curiosity, where did you get the hinge pieces for your rudder? I want to try making my second model of this boat with a working rudder.

Piet and Russ, thanks for the information and the pics. I did the same thing on my Lobster Smack putting the "lockers" under the cockpit seats. Didn't think that a little boat like this would have bunks considering usually did short hauls, but interesting to learn about the cooking being done on deck. This model is coming along very nicely. Keep it up.

So as promised I am posting some pictures for you all to see of my progress. Using the examples of Bernard Frolich, I attempted to make the same posts he shows in his book The Art of Ship Modeling, and they were literally a royal pain to screw down onto the building board. Also enclosed is a close up of the dead-board under construction, and the stern plates with the first of the sections for the false cannon ports.