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Ilhan Gokcay
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For the bulkheads I’ve used 6 mm birch plywood. For the keel I’ve planned to use 5 mm. As I couldn’t find 5 mm I glued thinner plates flat (2x2mm + 1x1mm) to get a 5 mm ply. The result is a very strong 9 layer sheet. As the my bulkheads are thicker than the plan suggests I cut the cutouts wider and I omitted every second bulkhead. I planned to have double planking, the first one being 2mm lime and the second 0.5mm pear. This is again thicker than the plan suggests so I marked and cut the bulkheads 1mm inside as drawn. I noticed the error at the bulkheads a little bit late. At this point to fix this I glued strip material to the edges of the bulkheads. I will level them later and try to have a smooth run of the planks and a reasonable hull shape. To clear off the extentions of the bulkheads above the deck level easily I will try a different method. I cut off completely the portion above the deck level and screwed these back. So after planking it will be easy to remove these and put the pear wood stanchions.
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Scale is 1/50
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Matthew is explorer John Cabot’s ship on which he sailed to Newfoundland in 1497. The drawings are from http://www.modelshipbuilder.com/. These drawings are based on the replica built in Bonavista. The website for his project is http://www.matthewlegacy.com. There is another replica which has been built in Bristol http://www.matthew.co.uk/ designed by Colin Mudie. During the build I will also make use of the articles at Model Boats magazine about building a model of the replica in Bristol as additional information. Some more info can be found at the following sites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cabot http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/cabot.html http://www.townofbonavista.com/ Before starting with the log I have to say something about the plans. Unfortunately after starting with the build it came out that the drawings are very poor. Even the lines diagram is not correct. (The body plan does not match with the waterlines) So I tried to fix these errors during building. I do recommend not to use this plan for any build or otherwise to be cautious and to control every single item on the plan and correct if necessary.
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I will repost my build log for Matthew which I fortunately saved to my computer with text.
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Hi Klaus, thank you very much. I was also following your build of Mayflower. Are you going to repost the photos. May I ask you, in which German forum is your build log ? Ilhan
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