Krelis

In difficult and complex cases I often find the solution in place with waking up which has convinced me that sleeping hours should be billable. Anyways, plenty of distraction these days to ventilate the brain, to drain it even..

My old mens message Nenad: trash the game, go to that river nearby, have a smoke, catch a fish!

Thanks for all the enlightenment! I also found this picture showing wadding on top of the ball... with comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzleloader) "On most naval cannons, one piece of wadding was used to hold the powder in place and served the purpose of creating a better seal around the shot. Another was used to act as a plug to stop the shot rolling out because of the swaying of the ship".

Dan, stupid question, would that cannon ball not roll out of that front loading barrel if pointed down, giving Blackbeard an enormous headache? Bear in mind, I am not much of an artillerist..

aha, thanks!

Makes me wonder why the shipyard did not install a forward portside gallow in the first place.. was the extra line to give the trawl a wider spread, or maybe for a more easy retrieval of the trawl?

Just kidding of course, I only admire Kees' speed of construction where he does not even bother to take the price tag off his base material, typifies Kees as a very practical boat builder, and a true artist maybe?

ok, 11.95, sold

We waren met een goed aantal Nederlandsche schepen, maar geen van de schippers durfde van wal steken, want binnenkort krioelde het letterlijk van Duinkerkers. Net een zwerm wespen! Maar onze ouwe krabde zich eens achter het oor, en zei: “jongens, 't najaar is op handen en dan wou ik liefst eens thuis bij moeder de vrouw zijn; in November slachten ze 't varken en dat vetprijzen maak ik graag mee. En jelui?” - “Nou schipper”, zeiden we, “als ze 't bij ons niet doen, doen ze 't bij de buren, en we houden ook van beuling en een plak versch-gekookte lever op ons brood.” Ja, Paddeltje, we smakten met onze lippen, net als jij nou doet. En toen zei de schipper: “vooruit, daar gaat ie.” En we gingen er van door, dat al de andere schippers d'r kersepit er over schudden. Maar d'n ouwe van ons zei toen, dat we de vaten met oude bedorven Iersche boter eens voor den dag moesten halen. “Steekt er je knuisten maar eens in, maats”, zei hij. We dachten al, dat is een raar geval; maar wat doe-je als je matroos bent, hè. Opzitten en pootjes geven. Nu dan, we moesten 't dek en 't want en vooral de railings goed insmeren, en we kregen er schik in, want we begrepen wat er gebeuren moest. Daar zwermde al zoo'n kaper op ons aan. Wij hadden onze schoenen uitgetrokken; als 't ons niet bevolen was, hadden we 't uit ons eigen gedaan, want je kon op dek niet anders dan op je kousen vooruit komen. En kun-je nu begrijpen, wat er toen gebeurd is, Paddeltje?’ Paddeltje grijnsde. ‘De Duinkerkers enterden, en gleden toen zeker uit?’ ‘Precies, m'n jongen; of ze glijbaantje speelden! En wij voor den dag, dat begrijp-je, en we tikten ze met de enterbijl op den neus, dat ze nog gauwer terugsprongen, dan ze aan boord gewipt waren.’ Paddeltje schudde van den lach. Fragment from the Book "Paddeltje" describing skipper Michiel A. De Ruyters action against the Dunkerk Pirates, where he had his decks and outside of the hull plastered with old Irish butter, to keep the Dunkirkians from boarding. Lange Meeuwis (colleague of Paddeltje) states (orange) :"we had taken of our shoes, If we had not been ordered to do so, we would have done so ourselves, on deck you could only move forward on socks".

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For my next build I was considering the 17th Century Statenjacht according to Willem van Beuge's instructions. I have had his book on my shelf for a decade, went through it many times. What I like about his instructions are his classic modelling techniques. What they lack is clarity. Have been looking on the internet for a set of his original drawings, still looking..

I am sure by now everyone is sitting on edge of chair for first start up, perhaps make it a live event with the "Live stream" app, beer and crisps ready, see if it runs?

Amazed to learn that in Russia Hr. Ms. Java is even known! Will follow

Nice country side kind of a place Nenad, bet the air is full with the smell of peet, and every now and there is the clang of a distant church bell

Even better pictures of that particular model,wow.. http://sailmodel.ho.ua/ketch/pages/sp026.htm

* adding "draaitafel" to wish list*

I am sure captain Slocum would have appreciated your nail file, great idea by the way

In fact hanging models from a ceiling is an old Dutch protestant trick to lure people into looking upwards, to the heavens I guess, so called "Church Models"

Definitely a challenge, I found a Dolphin 3.0 by the way in Domanoff's "Swedish Privateer" (http://shipworkshop.com/models/swedish-privateer). Great looking model and good inspiration.

Long time since my last post, had a stay in The Netherlands, and bought myself some walnut and some of the Corel Green Stuff, to replace the green planks in the kit. Must say, present day Corel green planks are much better quality then the ones I found with the kit, less neon like green, much smoother finish. Also find the new wood much less prone to splintering and breaking than the 30 year old wood that is included in the kit. Makes you wonder about shelf life. Its not only the woods, over the decades some of the "gold" ornaments have become seriously corroded. Had a bit of an issue bringing the wood to Curacao, the 0.5 mm strips and 5 mm sticks were a bit too long to fit in my bag, so I bundled them together with rubber bands to take as hand baggage..The resulting "stick" worried the check in lady, she thought it looked like a weapon and thought it might not pass security, however, at the gate the security guy did not blink an eye. I have a history with air port authorities, but the stress moment passed. Anyways, I used the new wood to replace the green planking I had already glued to the model, demolished the inner bulwarks for which I had invented home made walnut (see previous post), lowered the bull warks, sanded them to right whith again and plastered them with real walnut. I then made a walnut caprail instead of using the "flexible beach" included in the kit, here is the grainy result. Making the cap rail took me a lot of time, 2x 5 walnut is not what you call flexible, I had to assemble the 2x5's in 2x10's and make bow pieces from these while for the really tight bends I fell back on laminating 0.5 mm walnut strips With the cap rail in place I now have to confront the bow and stern design, the Corel drawings leave room for improvement Corel bow design instructions for the stern, the windows in the metal ornament are way to big. Please note Corels depiction of the rudder hinges, the rudder would fall straight to the bottom of the ocean. To solve my bow problem I start with lowering the bowsprit height to make it fit under the cap rail.. The situation at the stern, the kits instruction are simple: just glue on the metal ornament..

This blog does me no good, makes me feel like a cave man but...incredibly joyful to follow

On the internet I found this picture of Igor, boat in hand, very elegant boat in bottle

If you want to understand Witsens description of 17th century shipbuilding you should not read Witsen but: A.J. Hoving, G.A. de Weerdt, G.J.D. Wildeman, Nicolaes Witsens Scheeps-bouw-konst open gesteltIf I remember correctly it took them like 10 years to decipher Witsen, and they read Dutch.

you are doing it again Kees, cant wait for the final product

Nevertheless, in the bilges also the Charles M Morgan requires drop planks..