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That is one huge model - great job on the planking.

Well, have gotten a little further on the ol' girl. Still working on the deck furnishings - have installed the handlines on the walkway for the starboard paddle wheel housing, working on the same for the port. Still need to finish the wheel house and install it aft and install the ladders from the deckhouse to the paddle wheel housings. Have completed the main boom and installed onto the main mast, now working on shaping the gaff and carving the jaws. Next up is assembling the gaff, fitting it out with blocks and the getting both installed on the main mast. No pictures for this update, but I promise to get some up soon!

Here is one clove hitch done. I can make 5,000 copies on the copier if that will help....... Good luck - that promises to be a time consuming task!!!

I have scads of syringes (about the only benefit from having a hemophiliac for a grandbaby), and can run down to the corner pharmacy or big box store to buy more. Needles, on the other hand, are almost impossible to come by around here. For the needles, you need the prescription - throwback to the old injectable illicit substances days. Refuse to re-use the sharps out of an infusion set. I used to have 2 or 3 of the old screw-on needles (12 bore if I am not mistaken) in my first aid kit for removing splinters.

Depends what season - here is a photo of a slightly older vessel heading out early in the season to set traps. To see what could be a sister vessel to the Denny-Zen, see http://bellaremyphotography.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/20120725-img_0443.jpg

Will give this one to Barnacle Bill to choose the next ship since he had the right name! Here is what is likely a final view of the USNS Mizar in 2005 enroute to the scrap yard in Portsmouth Virginia

I think Bill got it with his edited post - USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11)

Nice work, as always! Typing doesn't appear to be too badly impaired by the keyboard (although we only see the final output, not the growling revisions Dinged and scratched liner ought to work out fine on a working boat - thanks for the update!

Excellent job on the gratings, Sjors. She is looking mighty fine! Look forward now to the le Mirage! Have a great weekend!

Geesh...he takes one day off from posting and his ship becomes a smorgasbord of food and beverage!

Wow, Popeye - each of your updates is amazing! I know you have to shovel snow on occasion, but do you sleep?

Those came out very nice, Sarah. Good job! I guess i really need to crack down and carve out some time to actually do some building and rigging so I can try to stay at least even with you (after all, I have been working on the HL for 10 days shy of a year at this point...guess i am a danged slacker!!!)

The mutterings seem to be true...http://www.greatlakessteamshipsociety.org/ The Great Lakes Steamship Society is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the 1904-vintage Great Lakes steamship J.B. Ford. In a career that lasted over a century, this grand old lady of the Lakes carried the goods that fed the industrial might of our nation, hauled the raw materials that helped to win two world wars, and survived some of the Great Lakes’ worst storms, including the infamous “White Hurricane” of 1913.

For the Goodle versions, Click the "cog" to the top right when you open the document online - there is a drop down menu with download pdf as one of the options.

Well, durn. Is it bigger than a breadbox? Wish I could remember that site you had mentioned on the old game.... Mutter...mumble...old laker...freighter....mumble...

Any chance this is the Neptune - built in 1901 by American Ship Building Co. at Lorain, OH?

I'm guessing it's an older laker.....

Buck - That is some really nice work on those teensie bits! I hear you about the bright LED flashlight - I keep a headband one on the bench since i spend so much time searching the floor for the rascally bits and pieces...

Dang - I must be getting old...I used to use LORAN!!!!!

Although there is inconclusive evidence (I just made it up) that there were spinnakers on ancient galleys as well!!!

Sarah - thanks for the Bratwurst! Sjors - thanks - we enjoyed the Pizza!!!

Congratulations, SIR! Since Lt. Commander Sjors has seniority, is it not correct that he hosts the "wetting down"?

I was actually thinking research vessel - that is one heck of a large "A" frame - submersible launching maybe?

So, you are new to wooden ship building and are wondering where to start to learn the terminology, methodology and all that sort of stuff. Don’t feel bad – it is intimidating at times and can seem like a foreign language! Figuring out where to start to try and understand the ins and outs is a challenge. There are, to be sure, many exceptional books that describe the process of building a model. Some, more than others, relate the process back to the days of old when a shipwright worked as much from intuition and experience as from formal plans and blueprints. To understand how the shipwrights of old built a wooden ship is an interesting (and sometimes confusing) journey. The brief list of references provided below are not intended to cover the total breadth of shipbuilding, but rather to allow you to sample the flavors and textures over a period of about 120 years. There are, to be sure, older references, and there are newer ones, but these will place you in the heart of the most heavily modeled time periods. The following list of downloadable resources is far from complete – in fact, it is only a beginning. There are so many more! It is also, and for this I apologize up front, nearly exclusively in the English language. You see, I don’t read nor speak anything other than English and some teenagerisms (and a smattering of baby talk), so I really couldn’t say whether a French or Dutch document was describing building a boat or baking a cake, so to avoid leading you too far astray I have steered away from those resources. I do have a few which, if you speak the language, I will gladly share. So – in no particular order, and for your reading pleasure, here is what I would consider to be the Introduction to Shipbuilding 101 list of readings (all are no longer protected by copyright). David Steel - The shipwright's vade-mecum (1805) http://archive.org/details/shipwrightsvade00steegoog John Fincham - An introductory outline of the practice of ship-building (1825) http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009723747 John W. Griffiths - Treatise on marine and naval architecture; or, Theory and practice blended in ship building (1854) http://archive.org/details/treatiseonmarin00grifgoog ----- The ship-builder's manual: and nautical referee (1856) http://books.google.com/books?id=el9JAAAAYAAJ ------ The Progressive Ship Builder, Volume 1 (1875) http://books.google.com/books?id=IoJIAAAAYAAJ ------ The progressive ship builder, Volume 2 (1876) http://books.google.com/books?id=CIJIAAAAYAAJ Richard Montgomery Van Gaasbeek - A practical course in wooden boat and ship building (1919) http://books.google.com/books?id=MvsOAAAAYAAJ Charles G. Davis - The building of a wooden ship (1918) http://books.google.com/books?id=Zu4OAAAAYAAJ

As many of you may be aware, the Mystic Seaport Museum is in the midst of a restoration of the Whaling bark Charles W. Morgan. Plans are firming up to re-launch the Morgan on July 21, 2013. The restoration is moving along at a brisk pace. The Shipwirghts Blog currently has a number of photo's showing the hull planking and beginning of copper plate installation. While there are some decidedly modern tools being used, it gives a good idea of the challenge of planking a vessel of this size!