Drazen
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... the happy thing is that I have few very serious coaches helping me with this built to whom I am very geratful. Some of them are friends and even very good friends of mine: Mile Bijelić – a very good friend from Zagreb/Croatia. Mile won Gold on the World championship twice: 1998. (am not sure exactly about the year) with the Royal Caroline, 1749 and 2013 with his HMS Royal Prince 1670 Ab Hoving – a very dear guy whom I extremely appreciate and see as the most relevant source for the knowledge in Dutch ship building. Artitec (www.artitec.nl) – I have got some very important information from Herbert Thomasen and am very grateful for this Some other not less important people, from Netherlands providing me with different information and sources Our Russian colleagues Alexandr Dobrenko and Dr. Mike and their video about ship building – a lot of excellent techniques which I post here as I make progress. And also thanks to Jan (MSW name: “amateur”) who follows my progress and provides a lot of fundamental information. Dražen- 487 replies
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Here we go… My model of the Zeven Provincien does have following dimensions: Overall length: 135.6 cm Length of the waterline: 102.6 cm Length of the keel: 89,3 cm Hull width: 28.2 cm Overall width: 57,8 cm I had started the project in February 2011, collecting some sources for the project for few months before this date: Plans, books, etc. Why I decided to go with this model... There have been also several other French and English ships as options, also the Swedish Vasa. Vasa would be much easier concerning the information we have about this ship, but Vasa has a bad karma in my opinion. 7P at the opposite was a ship serving for many years with great success and thus contributing significantly to the Dutch history. I had been working for 13 years for a Dutch company (Philips) - who knows – maybe this had also contributed towards my decision to build this ship. ... and indeed, the main issue for me, and the main time consuming hurdle is – searching for the relevant historic information. Often, I do not have distinct 100% information which says: “Do so” or “It has been made like that”, but need to collect different sources and make my own decision. Dražen
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I will do a more informative restore, but will take my time for that. Please, be patient. I am just in the mid of building the decks together from hundreds of small pieces I made in past months and would like to finish this job to make me feel better .. Dražen ... and I hope we learned from this hard disc-disaster and will have a good backup in the future.
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Ahoy there! Since all the information has been lost, first I want to ask you if I shall post the project in progress till now (I am working now already for two years on it). I could post the photos as I have saved ithen and add some very short comments. ?? Dražen
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