gregory-boyington

Bending wood is quite difficult? Not really. the only thing you need is water - and a soldering iron. First, the frames are soaked into water for approximately half an hour. It is important, that the wood is not absolutely wet but good moistened. After removing the frame from the water, it is laid on the plug and carefully bend with a temperatured soldering iron. Guess that not the tip for soldering is used for the job, you need a special tip to do the job. In this case you can see the tip, made from aluminium. This material absorbs heat from the iron but is hot enough to evaporate the water within the wood without burning it.

Keel, stem and sternpost were also made.

Work has just started. First, a plug was made to bend the frames. Thes are made of floors and overlapping futtocks. Normally I relinquish to make frames from several parts and make them in one pice because this detail is almost completely covered with the inner floor planking and not visible on the model. But because of the fact that this vessel doesn´t have any floor planking, this detail is clearly visible on the model, I have to show this and so the frames are made of three parts.

The Lanveoc boat is a typical proponent of the "little navy" of the French Ancien Regime. It was heavily used as a ferry or transport vessel in the Brest area during several centuries. This little vessel has only one mast and one square sail. The monograph and plans from Ancre declare the vessel as follows: "The little navy in the XVII and XVIIIth centuries Relics of the Middle Ages with five plates at 1:36 scale and one plate at 1:40 scale Including all plans of the timber works This monograph presents the "little navy" in France during the Ancien Régime. We owe this knowledge to a modest little craft, called the Bateau de Lanvéoc, which devoted itself to ferry traffic in the broad roadstead of Brest. The monograph of this small ferry boat also represents the full extent of its activities in the harbor, illustrated by Pierre Ozanne's drawings done in the last decade of the XVIIIth century which we have collected for you in this volume. Thanks to the builders' manuscripts by B. Ollivier and especially Morineau, the shape of the hull is known and P.-A.-L. Forfait's tables establish its rigging rules. With this knowledge of the "primitive formula" for the ship - a single mast and square sail - we are able to describe the progressive evolution of the ship into the Breton two-master. In turn this allows us to understand the value of the Album of 1679 (also called the Jouve Album) which is devoted to the little navy of the Atlantic seaboard from Bayonne to Nantes. We offer the most significant information from this album which is preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale (the French National Library). Lastly, samples of medieval iconography are proof that it is possible to undertake a study of the ships of that period based on the information garnered on the Lanvéoc ferry, an exceptional relic that survived from the Middle Ages into the first half of the XIXth century in the harbor of Brest." The scale of the project is 1/72, for several reasons. First, it´s my preferred scale, many other of my modeling projects are made in this scale. Second, a wide range of modelling stuff is avaiable in this scale, especially figures. Third, most of the plans fröm Ancre are made in 1/36 scale, which is exactly double of 1/72, so the only thing to do is to reduce the original size to 50 percent. Well, that´s enough history. Let´s go back to the shop. (Tom Lauria)

Seems that the problem is that FedEx works with Third Parties. The Package arrived Cologne at 30th November and was handled to a "trusted partner", whatever that mean. Then nothing happened anymore so I think the package is lost.

Hi folks This year I used the Black Friday for ordering two books from Seawatch Books. They were shipped immediately - but never delivered until today! Shipping address was in Germany and the shipment was done via FedEx. It took four days to bring the package to Germany. FedEx send me an invoice for toll and taxes which was immediately payed by me. The last entry of the Tracking path was that the package was given to a third party for delivery - then the track is lost! I wrote several emails to Seawatch Books AND to FedEx but both(!) never answered. So, the question is, am I the only one person who happened to it or are there other customers with similar probems? And why doesn´t Seawatch Books and FedEx answer on my requests? Can anybody help?