KeithAug

She is one of those ships where the longer you look the more detail you see. Excellent restoration work John.

On 12/14/2023 at 11:12 PM, Louie da fly said:

my fault. I should have consulted with my wife before I cut,

Always a good policy. But the most dangerous thing to do is consult her and then ignore the advice. You could always get her to remake the sails.

I like the deck planking colour. I am jealous of your timber stock.

The winch came out very well. I am surprised how rough some of the Bluejacket castings were.

Happy to see her back in development. I look forward to the next post.

Good choice Roel - not too many pipes!

Mark - yes that is what I mean but old hacksaw blades are just as good. I use old blades and make sure that I have ruined the edge by rubbing on a stone. I then grind the shape into the edge opposite the blade.

i continue to be enthralled Roel. Love the decoration on your workshop wall.

Not such a wonky donkey after all. Excellent work Keith.

An interesting project Ian. I think I will tag along.

On 10/14/2024 at 10:22 AM, Mark Pearse said:

The sponsons are now shaped. Below is the method I use

Mark. I might have tried creating a shaper by grinding the required shape into an old craft blade, however your method works rather well.

Lovely little dory Richard. 

18 hours ago, Rick310 said:

I believe you use sawdust and white glue to repair defects.  Does varnish work better?

Rick. I have used CA plus sanding dust in the past. I don't use white glue if the hull is going to be varnished because it leaves a blemish. White glue plus sanding dust is fine if the hull is being painted. Having tried it, I prefer dust plus varnish to dust plus CA.

Druxey, Tom, Rick, Richard, John - thank you all for your feedback.

2 minutes ago, TBlack said:

hopefully you’re at peace with the result.

Sort of OK Tom. We will see as more coats go on.

32 minutes ago, druxey said:

Hopefully they have now completely disappeared.

Yes, they are now history. 🙂

Pat, Glen, Keith, Tom, Druxey, Rick - thank you all.

On 10/9/2024 at 2:31 AM, TBlack said:

Planking imperfections?

Tom - I will demonstrate.

I did a fairly close inspection of the hull and identified a few minor imperfections. You may need to blow up the images to see them.

What I tend to find is that the fine sand dust beds down in the gaps between planks, making identification of defects quite difficult.

To reveal the imperfections I wipe the surface of the hull with white spirit. This lifts out the dust and reveals any problem areas.

Defects like these then appear.

Having identified the defects I marked the positions with masking tape.

With all the defects identified I filled them with a mixture of sanding dust and varnish (as suggested in an earlier contribution to the build - thank you).

The repaired defect were then sanded back with 240 grit wet and dry paper and the whole hull was given a buff over with wire wool.

Then the hull was given its first coat of soft sheen wipe on polyurethane.

I can only do one coat a day and I guess I am going to need a lot of coats. The next few posts will be as interesting as watching paint dry!

On 9/29/2024 at 6:09 PM, Valeriy V said:

I am completely unfamiliar with this type of book and even more so I do not know how they are published and what is needed for this.

I agree Valeriy. Stick to what you know and like.

Good progress Ras. I like your repurposing.

On 10/1/2024 at 4:00 AM, mbp521 said:

So I did the next best thing, we invested in a 3D printer. 

Brian, certainly a valid method, but how easy is it to create the programmes you need for the parts you are printing.

Richard, great job - the internal framing detail is beautiful to behold.

Mark, the panels look excellent, particularly given your reliance on basic hand tools.

Thank you all for all your concerns re the crew and other stuff. I suspect we are not on an improving trend. Maybe we need to recruit a few younger members.

In preparation for the great inversion event I decided to sort out the building cradle. To save the planet I recycled the cradle from Germainia.

Fortunately Cangarda has a greater girth so the frames plus packing allowance were bigger than the existing support frame cut outs.

A quick jig saw job and the cradle was ready.

I quite like the next shot, it shows off Cangarda's beautiful bow a treat.

I also cut the last bit of keel and test fitted it.

Then it was time to glue the skeg in place. In the next shot the skeg is in place and aligned by eye with the woodworkers square behind it. The 2 part epoxy providing ample time to do the fine alignment adjustments. The over long rudder shaft facilitates better alignment.

With the Skeg in place the final piece of keel could be attached. The tape is to prevent spread of the PVA glue.

Elastic band clamping of the keel prevented movement while the glue dried.

Finally I tidied up the slot to the rear of the skeg.

Next I need to sort out the planking imperfections before applying the varnish.

On 10/5/2024 at 4:34 AM, Retired guy said:

I remember back in the day in England in our house close to Poole Dorset we had fire places to heat all the rooms,

In Yorkshire we had a fire place in every room but we could only afford to ignite one. I remember spending many a happy hour pushing the ice round the inside of my bedroom window in winter. 

I can hear you all now "Window! Window! you were lucky to have windows, we only had oil soaked rags covering the holes in our walls. Oil soaked rags! Oil soaked rags! You were lucky we sealed the openings in our walls with ................................. etc, etc.

Great progress on the wonky donkey Keith. Excellent brushwork.

Thank you Valeriy, Jerome, Tom and Andy. Very sad that Cangarda s heading for Turkey. I hope she isn't abused. 

My river cruise was somewhat eventful as senility seems to be taking its toll on the older members of the crew (I am the youngest). One member of the crew seemed to have forgotten how to steer and rammed the lock walls on numerous occasions, he also couldn't quite get the hang of the decompression switch and time and again used the horn as a substitute (much the annoyance of other river users). The eldest crew member seemed to have lost all sense of rope work and as consequence committed such  offences as throwing the whole rope (including the free end at the mooring cleat. Even when he did successfully lassoe the cleat he didn't seem to understand the concept of tying off the line. It all had the feeling of an Ealing comedy. At least we managed to entertain the massed ranks of lock watchers enjoying the late summer sunshine.

Since my return some 2 weeks ago Ann and I have been involved in supporting members of the extended family with their life challenges. As a consequence the workshop has suffered some neglect. I did get some time in the worksop today so I should be able to post an update later in the week. In the meantime I will do a bit of catching up with your various builds.

Eberhard - Wonderful and the black and white shot of the gun looks almost real. I think if it was a little more grainy and a bit out of focus everyone would mistake it for the real thing.