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Hi jollyroger, no I'm sorry I did not get any further info I just went ahead and started building, then unfortunately real life intervened and I had to stop for awhile like many other I guess I got as far as the planking so its sitting on top of my bookcase at the moment. As summer is just round the corner I guess it will be next Autumn before I start doing it again I think the best advice I can give (and I'm a total novice) is experiment with all the pieces ! PS Yes I do believe you need to cut the planking

@ Figuerre Thanks for the reply as an ex IT person I thought that might be the answer so it's nice to have it confirmed

Hi Everyone, like the OP, I'm a novice building the Jolly Boat of HMS Bounty and while I don't have a concrete problem there is something in the instructions that puzzles me and I'm hoping one of the experts here can clarify something for me. As an ex IT person I have a habit before I start anything of studying the instructions (manual) carefully to ensure I have everything to hand so to speak and have an idea of what I'm going to need to do. My problem? well in the parts listing, in each section you have 7 different languages, I speak three of them and can get by in another two, the columns in the listing are :- Ref, Description, Quantity, Size, Material, the languages are Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch The problem? well in Ref 15 the first four languages have under Quantity 4 pieces whereas the final three languages have quantity 1, in Ref 16 the first four have quantity 2 whereas the last three have quantity 1, in Ref 17 the first four quantity 6, the last three quantity 1, in Ref 19 first four quantity 2 pieces the last three quantity 1. I was going to stop at Ref 19 but further reading shows discrepancies Ref 61 where the situation ifs reversed i.e the first 4 languages have quantity 1 whereas the last 3 have quantity 2, in Ref 69 we come back to first four having quantity 4 and the last three have quantity 2 and so it goes, suffice to say apart from the above mentioned Ref's with discrepancies the same situation is found in Ref's 70, 72,79, 80,81,82,83,85,86,88,89. For the life of me I cannot imagine why Italian, Portuguese and Dutch have either less pieces or more pieces in different sections I also noted that the Material for these languages is frequently Manzonia, the others are African Walnut. I'd really appreciate it if someone could please cast any light on this issue, even if it is to tell me I'm over analysing the situation :-) My apologies if the custom on this site is to always start new threads rather than bumping old ones