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I haven't raised them at all! The cat is about a year old and the dog is only four months old. they either are sleeping, getting into everything, or rough housing with each other all over the house. We are just here to feed then as far as they are concerned.

Thanks Orlin On this model painting is a requirement rather than an option as there is so little known about the Providence that almost 50% of the authenticity that makes her THE "Providence" is the colors. Thankfully I won't have to copper the hull. One researcher suggested that the reason she was so fast was that she had a copper bottom but I pretty much discounted it as there is virtually no supporting evidence. Works for me John. Mosquito's bite A LOT more people than Grizzlies do! Besides we don't have Grizzlies here in the PNW. At least none that anyone has found. But then they can't find the Sasquatch either. There won't be a second planking below the wales. Above the wales is a plywood piece that will have to wait until the deck is planked, and it will be planked both inside and out.

I know what you mean Sam. The first time I took my wife back packing there really was very little in the way of "Ultra light" gear. After I packed up the gear I needed for the two of us for two days my pack weighed over 70 pounds! While I was much younger than I am now I had not carried that kind of weight since I was in basic training in the Army! I made it but my legs were shot, and my shoulders were almost raw. A mosquito could have landed on the pack and I would have collapsed from the extra weight. I took the pack off and for the next hour I felt like I was walking on the moon! With the gear I have now days I can do the same thing and my pack is not even 30 pounds at the trail head! I will try and get time to try out the iron as an edge plank bender, possibly Sunday, I'm booked up tomorrow with an event, followed by a bunch of honey-do's. Monday at the latest.

No I think I have to take all the credit for that. I am fully in charge of the "Mistakes made while you wait" department.

I suspect that timberheads would be more, "Save the tree" types anyway. I do have a question though as my needing to build timberheads is still ahead of me at some point. Why did you make the pieces in two parts instead of one full piece of head and post?

I think that was what happened to mine but I can't remember for sure either.

I think my cat is feeding parts, (In my case sticks) to the dog for him to chew! I keep finding small pieces on the floor with teeth marks in them that had been on the table the day before.

Hi Mark I have used that method in stuff where I wanted to create a radius for a cabin wall or stuff like that. Works pretty well on plastic also. My tighter bends in the wood strips, were not the edge bending needed at the bow, but were at the stern, where the wood needed to bend very quickly to meet the counter. On those bends I used an old pencil style 25W soldering iron and the bends were very easy to achieve. The only problem was that I had to move the iron fast or it would scorch the wood. This happened a couple of times anyway but some scraping with a thin blade took it off. I tried the iron on the last couple of planks that needed edge bending on the bow but it twas too hard to control. I may have been able to use a hair curler like some people say they use, or possibly the Model Expo plank bender with the larger head but I don't own either so I finally chose the alternative method saving that particular battle for later. Later, after switching to the alternative planking method, I though about a small portable steam iron I own and that it may make a very effective edge bending tool. It's of course flat, produces steam, and the heat is adjustable. I may just give it a try on an extra plank just for future reference.

Not to my knowledge, but I'm not an entomologist. We do have our fair share of crawly, bittie, itchy, stingy critters so there is a possibility that one of them is red.

Probably not much different than it would have been in most of the eastern seaboard ship yards back then except the entire labor force was made up of crew instead of local labor, and the lumber would have been green. Ship building seemed like mush more of a cottage industry back then. But it is possible that small ship building has not changed all that much in over 200 years. We have a small shipyard about a mile from my house on the river that builds large harbor tugs in about the 100' range that is really not much larger than the boats they build.

I did not know that. We have them here as well of course and when I have friends from out of state like my friend who used to live in the LA area of California where it is hot and dry, they almost always say the Mosquitoes are voracious! They hardly bother me at all. Maybe they just like an imported diet! I do remember going camping a few months after we first got my older grandson. He was then about six months old and the Mosquitoes ate him alive! they seemed to get him everywhere except under his diaper. We ended up calling that camping trip off after one day also, but he still had the blisters for several days. Made us feel like lousy parents! For years we sprayed and wiped every inch of his body and clothes with bug stuff several times a day anytime we went camping. He is 15 now and they pretty much leave him alone these days.

I suspect that that was at least part of the problem. The kit planking was 1.5 mm by 5 mm. I also think Chuck uses a higher grade of lumber than the stuff in this kit. I was still able to do it until the bend became too extreme. I can't help but wonder if I had managed the taper of the planks differently if I could have carried it through all of the way.

As they say Mark, "The camera doesn't lie." But it is also true that it could have been worse and what I have so far is if nothing else functional. We will really see over the next couple of months. Thanks

Thank you everyone for the encouragement. Hopefully it is a work in progress and like the ugly duckling will emerge someday as a graceful, (Well kind of) small ship. I had forgotten about the No-See-Em bugs Jack. I hear that they just drive people mad, animals too!

Why make beds? When I go to bed I mess it up. When I get up I leave the bedroom and usually do not return until it is dark and time to mess it up again! The dog or cat may go in there sometime during the day when it is not being used but they could care less as well. Bed making is for when you change the sheets.

Nicely done Dowmer I wish my building skills could even come close to yours. One thing you may have forgotten in your original description though is that sometimes the trading ships carried their smaller boats as lumber in the hold, not assembling them until they reached the PNW. Again great build and a worthy addition to your collection, (Or what will someday be your collection).

How do you hold your breath while cursing? Great looking progress Denis. She is really starting to fill out.

That was my reaction when I bought my first kit and the thought has stuck in my mind ever since. Just my weird way at looking at the world I suppose. Glad it brought a smile though.

Well here it is! I will preface this with a few comments. My intention was to try and duplicate the method of planking used by so many people here on the forum to create so many beautiful hulls. I have done planking of sorts, years ago in my pre-internet scratch building RC days, but never in the way that it is explained here on MSW. From the beginning of this build it has always been and still is my intent to paint the hull, both as an attempt at realism and because I intended to just single plank using kit wood. But I wanted to learn the procedure at least. So that brings me to the Providence planking. Now that it is all done I am of mixed opinion. If I was to do it all over again, (And I may still do so) I am almost sure some of it would come out better as I would probably stress out less about technique and pay more attention to fit and finish. Some of the techniques expounded on this forum worked in some areas, at least partly, but not in others. As an example Chucks method of edge bending worked at first, but halfway down the hull I could not get enough bend in the planks to lay in place without cracking the wood even after getting a hotter heat gun instead of the hairdryer I had been using. I do not know if it is the wood I was using, the method, or the shape of the hull but I finally had to give up and go another route. I suppose this will have to be considered as a failure but in my defense I present the following picture: If you look closely you can see that the planks on the lower part of the hull, instead of extending all of the way to the bow, come up and meet the upper planks. (That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it). So here are my feeble results. I also took a little time to see how the cut water, keel and other walnut pieces from the kit were going to fit and if they could even be used. So far it is looking promising. So that is about it for now. Next I will probably spend the next few days sanding things smooth and even, and shaping a little at the bow and stern and seeing where I need to use wood filler, but like I said before, at least it is fully covered and now is capable of floating for a proper Viking funeral if that becomes the next step.

I must admit I agree with you on Florida Sam. Although I have never been there, (So I suppose I should not be so quick to judge) I have heard that it is hot, muggy and that the state bird is the Mosquito! I have lived in the PNW so long that anything above 70F is a heat wave and anyone who lives in this area for any time will tel you that Heat + humity = DEATH!!!! I never have heard that one before Richard but I love it! Whoever said it would be right at home around here lately. It is almost as if we have a ground fog every day except it is smoke! OK, it's time to quit stalling and post some pictures. be back soon.

CA is for CyanoAcrylate glue, otherwise commonly known as Super Glue.

They look more than close from this end of the pictures!

Back a little early. Mostly wife and kid issues. Wife god so cold today that she could not have fun, even next to a fairly large campfire. Plus the kids did not want to try and do another night alone, so packed it up and came home early. So ended our first night out alone in about 15 years. We will try again in a couple of years or so when the kids are a little older yet. Might make it a nice warm hotel as well. John, when I said LA I meant Los Angeles Not Louisiana. In fact I have never been in Louisiana so can't say if I would like it or not. I have been to LA, in fact lived there for a couple of years as a child. To ma the air has always had something wrong with it. I told a friend of mine years ago when were were camping on a moonless night that even the stars looked yellow to me. He was so used to it that he thought I was nuts. Many days are much the same. The air almost has a texture to it! This year is a MAJOR exception for us here in the PNW. Normally when our skies are overcast it is a white overcast made of clouds. The air between the clouds and the ground is clear unless it is foggy. When the sky's are clear they are blue! At night the stars are white, or red, or blue, not a dirty yellow color. See above Sam. As far as laws and people goes, we are pretty much the same here as you are. I did the drive to San Diego once and agree I was astounded that it was a continuous strip of people and cars. But then we are getting that way on the I-5 corridor as well. About 100 miles of almost unending traffic and people. But I can still go east or west, (Need a boat to go west) just ten or fifteen miles and not see a person for two straight days or more. Might see Sasquatch or two though. A good friend of mine just retired from the Westminster PD not long ago. He was halfway to Idaho before his retirement party was over!

Your resume is certainly growing by leaps and bounds Patrick. Impressive work.

Micro spiders trying to mess up your fine work. Only 15 more to go so you should be done in about a week?