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Mirabell61

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  1. status the stb. half of the base deck (without planking) is now on, clear to be seen is the curvature of the deck in two dimensions.... The 0,8 mm ply has been cut out acc. to the card template. The little rectangular gaps at the outside edge will be filled out with little ply plates, prior to planking Nils
  2. Eberhard, thanks for your suggestion, but unfortunately I have zero machining capabilities (no milling !). The portholes were sold as brass material, and after scratching off some chips from the rear side, it still looks like brass cast. Nils
  3. Hello Pete and Geert, in fact these are from Ebay bought ones.... When ordering them from a picture and the description, they looked like something real special, as openable glassed, and cast ones, and like Geert I found them atractive. After reception I was a bit disappointed though, due to the not so good quality and appearance. There I`m with Pete and I thank you Pete for the open opinion and comment on them. (do`nt worry, I love honest comments) I trust that the porthole would have been made by investment castings. The positive is, that I could purchase only the 3 of them as needed. There wo`nt be portholes on the port side of the cabin, as there will be an outcut for viewing inside it. Because I`m myself not very happy with them I will probably replace them by turned brass ones, with flange, glassed, and drilled rivet holes in the flange. Have a nice relaxing Sunday..... Nils
  4. Status : I shortened the side deck supports and fitted the inner cockpit liner. Some days ago I found these openable porthole from brass castings, they will suit the cabin walls above deck... Nils I`m using beechwood flexible strip 8 x 1,5 mm for this job, it easily follows the bending curve, without breaking even narrow bends are no problem, large diam. 15 mm, lid with glassing 12 mm 3 part brass casting porthole here the modified laundry pegs come handy again cockpit space now increased
  5. Very nice build Peta, I love those natural warm wooden tones, and in contrast the black color giving in the shown places. Nils
  6. Congratulations to your masterly built clipper Ed, Its been such a pleasure to watch this build-log project from begin on, wunderbar indeed ! Nils
  7. Hello fellow builders, Thanks for all comments, and thanks to all the "likes" Am now starting with the Zeesboot deck, resp. with the cardboard template for the 0,8 mm deck, and all the small outcuts at the deck side, and with the cabin.... I intend to plank the deck with 1mm thick oak stripes... Nils card template for the ply deck... removeable slide for the cabin aft wall hatch, when the companionway-cover is pushed towards the cabin front, (inside view) brass frame and slide
  8. Keith, the deck on your "Germania" looks excellant, nice klean planking and corresponding deck margin planks.... Nils
  9. Pete, you mentioned that you understand German, here is an interesting document for your evaluation phase, if you wish.... for Zeesboot rating.... https://www.braune-segel.de/pdf/klassenvorschriften.pdf Nils
  10. Good morning Pete, all that you see on the 3 forstanding pics is only for the plug function and will be removed after clinker planking. Keel and posts are made from pear wood, pls. refer to my post #37 the keel, the bow- and sternpost are screwed down on the plug, and not glued, as they will be permanently glued to the pear keel and the pear clinker-plank ends. The individual clinker planks are also horizontaly glued together. In my case some of the glue spillt on to the plug. The intension was to easy remove the plug completely from the shell, just by loostening the mini screws of keel anf the two posts. The plug was sitting too tight, due to spillt and cured glue, so it unfortunately had to be cut out of the shell carefully in some places ( being a "one way plug"). This could have been avoided by putting some transparent tape on the outer bulkhead contours of the plug, before planking. Nils
  11. Good morning Pete, thanks for your compliment to the scetches. Most times whilst I do them there come ideas for further impovement.... A pitty your book got damaged, but trust it will still be of great help for you. I`ve just done the two masts for mine yesterday, shaved them frome sqare to octogonal and then rounded an tapered a bit. The 3/4 mizzen can be layed flat The harnesses for the deadeyes are done and blackened, and I still have some Morope for shrouds and laceings.. It would be better, if the deck is started now Nils mizzen layed down main mast from 8 mm square, mizzen from 6 mm square
  12. Good work B.E. I knew youre going to master it , great looking ! In the meantime ( my Zeesboot) I drilled 0,6 mm holes for the horizontal plank connections, widened them to 1 mm, and glued (carefully knocked in) the points of bamboo toothpicks into the holes with low viscos CA wetting. After trimming and flush sanding it now looks as if all thes connectors have been plugged off with wooden plugs Nils
  13. Hello Geert, congrats, I know its an exiting moment, when the shell is removed from the mold, now you certainly will be starting with the framework..... Nils
  14. Fastening points for mainmast deadeyes : two shrouds at both sides are spaned with laced diam. 7 mm deadeye tackles near to the deck. The fastening points are made from 3 x 0,6 mm brass flatt (chem. blackened) with a loop for the screw that goes through the looped endes of the deadeye harness..... Nils Handscetch (not scaled ! )
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