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HI Steven, Thanks for the compliment. Your plan is what I have been thinking about since I got the plans and the book. One problem, it will be a huge display, something like 4x4x4 feet and I don't have the room for that. Need to donate it as soon as it is completed. (I am getting ahead of myself) Marcus- 325 replies
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I've been reading several PhD dissertations from universities of Groningen and Leiden about the history of fluits and also the many wrecks that have been explored. In everyone of the papers they talk about a vessel called a 'hekboot'. Are there any plans available of this ship? Marcus
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Completed the sanding of the hull to its required shape and glued in the stem post, keel and stern piece. From the above pictures on can see the extreme curves of both the stern and the bow. Should be a fun project planking them. Rough cut the top of the railings. The next step is to figure out where the wales are going to be. This is very important. Once wales are installed the rest of the planking is easy. Marcus
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I find this conversation between Jaager and Ab Hoving very interesting. Learning some new things. Thank you! Marcus
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Different question. Book: The Ships of Abel Tasman. Pg 33, pen painting from vd Velde de Elder. How can you tell a 600 ton yacht from the rest? Marcus
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Thanks for the advice. All my hulls look like this one or worse and as you said, "the planking will hide it". Marcus
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Ab, Thanks for answering my questions. Conventional would be how the Brits or Spanish etc. did it. Marcus
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Thanks for all the well wishes. I am completely healed. Still need to take it easy. Not carrying 60lbs of goods, yet. Been sanding the outside of the hull which is now 90% complete. The stern will probably be the most difficult part. In the last month I have been looking at pictures of Fluits. In books and the Net. Staring at the curvature of the stern. I need to be able to visualize it in my head. Temporarily attached the stem, keel and stern to the ship. I need a decent fit before I permanently glue the pieces in place. Marcus
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Questions When the Dutch build ships for the French, did they do this in France or the Dutch republic? Did the Dutch use the shell-first method or conventional method? Was the Vasa built shell-first? Marcus
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Ab, Thanks for the lines of the 1680 Warship. All ships I built are from readily available wood. I get all my wood for free from the local woodworkers club I joined a couple of years ago. Predominantly walnut, cherry, poplar, linden and maple. I have been studying the plans of the pleasure jacht. Once you sent me the final plans of that ship I will attempt to build it shell first. When needing a break from building the Zeehaen, I will built the pleasure jacht. Marcus
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Ab, Interesting story about the warships that you and Wilma worked on. So besides finding the contract in the archives you also found the information of how the ship was built and what went wrong. Kind of like a diary. If Wilma found a spec. contract in the Amsterdam archives, I wonder what other contracts the archives have. Do you build your ships from reading specification contracts? All those archives with all the contracts, gives you lots of choices of what to build. You don't happen to have plans from that Warship that you are talking about? I like how you make your cannons from card. Something for me to try. Making the barrels from card would be easier than from either wood or brass. Marcus
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Ab, I've downloaded the elevation plan and the body plan from this thread. You mentioned that the length of the jacht is 27 cm at a scale of 1:44. I am going to play around with other scales and see what is most pleasing to the eye. Will attempt to build a plank on frame model. Marcus
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Doc said that if I had waited until the next day, I would have died. Marcus
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Last Saturday I felt like I had an upset stomach and then spiked a temp of 103. Went to the ER. After all the tests came back the CT Scan showed an enlarged, encapsulated, appendix which had ruptured as well. Got operated on it. Was in the hospital for 5 days. Now home and recuperating. Marcus
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Kortes, Beautifully executed, superb attention to details. You have done a great job on this ship Marcus
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Ab, In the above post you have picture of a ship, would this be a Cat? I like how you add pictures of Ships to all your posts. They seem to be of the same genre as the pictures in the 17th century Dutch merchant ships. Marcus
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Mark, Sad news. My wife's father also got Early Onset Dimentia but without the paranoia. He lived with us for a while until we couldn't take care of him. Regards Marcus
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😁 I love it. Marcus
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For your first scratch the Heemskerck would be difficult. Built 2 smaller vessels and then the Heemskerck is doable. Marcus
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Ab, Thanks for the encouragement on building the yacht. When I need a break from working on the Fluit, the Zeehaen, I work on understanding contracts. What is the name of the 60 gun man-of-War you are building? Marcus
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Ab, It is good you are showing the plans from the Speel jacht (Pleasure Yacht). The learning curve in reading the contract from Witsen (and your latest book) has been steep. I will take the information you have on this thread and compare it to my notes of building the jacht. I have made many mistakes just by understanding the length, width and height of the ship. I will master this exercise,......... eventually.
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Entered the Boyer in the woodcraft and arts category at the local fair and got 1st place, Sweepstakes and Best of Show Marcus
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Been a while since I've worked on the Fluit with the great weather and my edible garden in full production which is in a need of my attention. Furthermore, in the last 4 weeks I have manned the woodworkers booth on 2 occasions. I entered my Boyer and the Windmill in the woodcraft catagory and won 1st place for the Windmill in the mixed woodcraft catagory and 1st place, Sweepstakes and Best of Show in the all woodcraft catagory. I glued balsa wood in between the bulkheads and started to shape the outside of the hull with very coarse sandpaper. Marcus
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Thanks for all the likes and comments. It has been an interesting week, with some big mistakes on the bow. Made several horizontal and vertical templates to fit around the bow and nothing would line up. Then it dawned on me after a couple of days that the bow was 38mm too long. I had added an extra bulkhead to the ship. So I sawed it off, balsa cuts easy, and a bit of sanding it was ready for the little piece of the bow. Resawed a new bulkhead # 95 and glued it to the balsa spacer. Now it will dry. Marcus
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