seafarermiami
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Well I had to make some drawing too. In order to form the frames and the curvature of the decks. The lower deck serves as a base to make the further building. next is the tweendeck. It is the deck on which the guns are placed.
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Thanks Arjan68 The pictures and drawing I am using for reference are from this site under scratch built research. Also whatever I found in internet. I am not trying to make any copy of them because I red somewhere that there are no plans of fluyt existing thou the vessel was widely used. Probably those small ships were trade mark of the ships wrights at the time the plans were in their heads and the decorations were as per owner demand. But I love the pictures on the sterns and can imagine how the owner was choosing the picture according to the name at some old dutch master painter workshop.
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Preparing for the first sea trails. I coated it in heavy two components varnish the same I use for the big boat. For my satisfaction it was floating without any list. This means that the hull is proportional and evenly dugout. After added the "ballast stones" in this case lead shot to keep it stable in heavy storms. The ballast increases the metacentric height of the ship and this is what make the ship stable. The new waterline will be on the edge of the freeboard because there will be the lower deck of the ship.
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Extended stern post. After that I glued strips of ply to imitate the timber of which the keell is made. Carved the bow figurine. The lion is carved out from the handle of a cheap brush.
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I went to work again 4 months at sea and had to find something to kill the time. Back in the building again I had the idea to build one of those round sterns fleute or fluyte seen the name in different spelling. And I had the hull of the boat of my Mayflower which was damaged and then striped from guns, boats and other deck items and sank as an artificial reef near the dock of my boat. The internet at sea is very slow so I almost did the ship but I have the pictures from the very beginning. The interesting future in this build will be that it will be able to float and it will be cruising proudly in my sons fish tank. So this I had at hand first the hull. It is a dugout but the keel was too tick and I had to file it to appropriate size. No plans whatsoever only a few pictures from this and other sites. I had to extend the bow and the stern posts in order to build the upper decks. the original line of the board will be the lower deck of the ship.
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For me this a container for storing coiled line, such as a logline or depth sounder. Something that needed to be in proper order to be used immediately. We sometime use buckets but is far better when we have a cutout oil barrel bottom. the coils are coming off without any kinks. The cover is just sailors invention to serve as a seat or to be stored without messing. up the line. If it was a hatchcoaming there will be some reinforcement on deck around it. and proper latches.
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