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Installed more wales on the hull. There are 5 wales on each side.

Three wales equally spaced. 

2 wales equally spaced. 

Stern

Bow

Wales:

There will be 3 strips of 2mm thick glued on top of each other. Each wale will be 6mm thick and the wood is walnut. 

The rest of the ship: 

1st planking layer is basswood and second layer is cherry. What I like about cherry is that it darkens over time. 

Last month at the woodworkers club meeting I was given lots of walnut and cherry planks so that is the wood to be uses for planking. Furthermore, someone gave me a slab of basswood (12"x 12" x 2").  This wood I will use for the carvings. 

Marcus 

Jan, 

Beautiful build. The rigging is excellent. Love the ship with all its colors and following Ketting over Corel is a smart move.

Looking forward to your progress on the PW. 

Marcus 

Wale installation.

So that the wale would follow the curve of the Fluit, I created 1cm long blocks with a hole in it. The hole is for a push pin.

I line up a block to where the bottom edge of the walnut plank is to be. All blocks are push pinned Into a bulkhead. 

Then I get 2 pieces of 2mm thick by 6mm wide by 50cm long walnut planks (soaked for several days in water) and slowly bend and push against the block each of the plank along the curve of the Fluit. The planks overlap and somewhere I lay them on top of each other and cut several notches so they will lay tightly together. 

This is the most challenging part of building the Fluit. Once that is done, the rest of the planking will be easy to install. 

Marcus 

Guesstimated where the lower wale will be installed and marked it with narrow tape. The 3 lower wales are 6mm wide and 6mm apart from each other. The 2 upper wales are 10mm apart from each other. 

Lower wales green, pink and blue tape. Upper wales purple and brown tape. 

Next exercise is to completely soak several pieces of walnut and bend them according to the flow of the tape and use as many pins needed until the wood is dry.  Once the wood is dry, remove tape and glue the wale in place. 

Marcus 

On 10/9/2019 at 6:22 PM, Louie da fly said:

How did I miss this build? I once played with the idea of doing a diorama of Tasman's ships anchored off Tasmania, but too many other projects to get past the idea stage.

 

Beautiful job, Marcus.

 

Steven

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 

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 

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 

I find this conversation between Jaager and Ab Hoving very interesting. Learning some new things. 

Thank you! 

Marcus 

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 

18 hours ago, Ab Hoving said:

Your hull looks horrible :-)). Don't worry though, the planking will hide it all.

Thanks for the advice. All my hulls look like this one or worse and as you said, "the planking will hide it". 

Marcus 

Ab, 

Thanks for answering my questions. Conventional would be how the Brits or Spanish etc. did it. 

Marcus 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

9 hours ago, amateur said:

Oops.....

Good luck you were on it in time.

take care!

 

Jan

Doc said that if I had waited until the next day, I would have died. 

Marcus 

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 

Kortes, 

Beautifully executed, superb attention to details. You have done a great job on this ship

Marcus 

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 

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 

On 8/15/2019 at 3:45 PM, Ab Hoving said:

One of the Dutch-built French ships was captured, brought to Holland, repaired and... sold to France, even for a higher price than the first sale.

😁 I love it. 

Marcus 

2 hours ago, Heinrich der Seefahrer said:

My plans of HEEMSKRECK is too much for a simple start. So thank you very much.

For your first scratch the Heemskerck would be difficult. Built 2 smaller vessels and then the Heemskerck is doable. 

Marcus 

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 

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.