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    Thank you very much for your words Alvaro, in Sept. this year it will be 60 years since that great P-Liner foundered, I was 9 years old and I also remember from the news and radio reports it was quite touching to follow...., only 6 young lads survived in broken down lifeboat wrecks after several days Nils
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    Thank you Rob, it is understood, nice comment ! I`ll do my best Nils
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    Hi Ed, thanks so much for that nice compliment, yes, the boats are quite a tough sequence to do, and also to get them rigged afterwards Nils
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    Hi Rob, you find me a bit iritated with the term "doll-em up"... (pls. give me a hint...) do you perhaps mean to put rowlocks on ? In German the term for rowlocks on a rowboat is " Ruder-dollen" Nils
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    Hi B.E. beautiful lines of the pinnace, it will surely be a pleasure in planking.... The stiffening out of the bulkheads for fairing, a nice idea ! Nils
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    Many thanks Denis and Greg, for your nice comments, much appreciated.. Denis, they`re missing floor planking, hoisting points and seatings, as well as the lifelines, paint coating and shipsname at the bow Greg, maybe (for the open boats) I`ll ty to make some oars and a rudder for putting them loose on the seatings Nils
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    Lovely looking sail Igor ! Nils
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    Hi John, I took up your suggestion for fastening the lifelines (drilled a small hole 0,6 mm and pulled the lifline rope in with a very thin brass loop and clipped it off at the inside bulwark rail) it will look more elegant now, thanks for your nice tip, much appreciated Nils
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    excellent build Mike, a beautiful cutter !! Nils
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    Thanks very much John, learnt something new again, much appreciated, "lifelines" such an easy word......, also the function of the grab lines makes sense, when trying to righten my sailing dinghi once, standing on the keel I nearly broke the wooden swing centerplate by sidewise hanging my weight to it`s full length standing up, wish I had grab lines there... For these small resin boats I give it a go for a trial on a scrap part with the lifelines and the seine floats attached, quite a weary process, but I trust the optic will be worth the effort afterwards. For the closed boats the canvas cover may be partialy hiding some of the lifelines Nils
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    A beautiful built coach Danny, you managed to build it in a remarkable short time, excellent performance ! Nils
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    Thank you much Kees, Carl and John, for your nice words... Kees, in the beginning it was a little strange to work with silicone and resin, but now have addopted this procedure in my repertoir.... Carl, I presume that the foldable boats will be single production and then stacked, might be easyier to produce John, thanks for catching up, you`re always wellcome... As I already learnt a lot of english terms from you already, please may I ask, if the halfmoon like handle ropes (for people in the water) around the boats are called "grab ropes", or if they have a special term ? Nils
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    Excellent built model, awesome work RMC, Nils
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    Very nice gun cruiser Tozbekler, so many fine details, it looks great... Congrats to the completion, a beautiful build... Nils
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    Beautiful built schooner Mel, nice color giving, well done ! Nils
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    thank you very much Gerhard and Carl, a little bit of experience could be gained with the use of silicon and resin for the fist time, so if boats should be required again, there could be some optimizing of the process. There are still tripple stacked foldable boats (last in the row on both ship sides), but I have to do a master boat set first.... Nils
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    Update : here, the first one of the raw open boats. I think I`ll place one or two open boats later on each side of the ship...., most of the others will be closed and canvas covered boats Nils This is the same silicon mold as for the closed boats, but here additionaly a plug is inserted and fixed in position, before the resin is carefully poured in.... The result out of the silicone mold... and after pulling the plug out the two halves are glued together and the decking cover is milled out with a Dremel seatings a bit broader and thicker, capacity, when full occupied 26 persons
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    Doris, thank you very much for your nice compliment, for looking in and your interest for this build, much appreciated... Nils
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    Thanks very much Denis, for your kind comment, much appreciated... Nils
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    My thanks go to Rob and Bill, and all fellow members who gave their kind input, suggestions and comments for boats making... recently Also thanks to all the "likes"... Rob, good idea with the vibrating palm sander, I must try that, and save in mind..., I was already thinking of what I possibly could use exactly for that purpose... Bill, the additional plug still requires some corrections, but I think in general it should work as intended. After glueing the halves together I will remove the center area of the halfmoon like top cover until only the rail on the sheer remains standing. Here in the white sample there is no inner bulwark support, whilst the translucent sample was made from the modified plug with 8 slots to resemble the ribs... Nils halves ready for fairing sanding the to be matching glue surfaces here 5 completed boats The upper sample with reinforcement ribs the additional plug for hanging / fixing into the silicon mold now that it works, the other side of the plug will also get outcuts
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    Hi Bill, Thanks for looking in.. I also thought that the work time was far too fast (laying at 2 minutes only), at mix 1:1, so I declined the catalyst share step by step, and now have a work time of 1/4 hour, but the resin will take appr. 3 hours to cure out. Ventilation.... the molds all have their open side to the top and vented over the top surface. When using the additional plug, there might be some small horizontal, but slightly tapered surfaces that could trap some air. I`ll check tomorrow morning, as the resin is still curing.... Nils
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    Yeah Rob, its amazing what a little more seperating wax can do in the critical areas.... Meantime I faired 10 halves and glued these together,......result : perfect fit on 5 boats, I`m very pleased. I do`nt know yet if the open boat will come out the mold properly, as I`m working there with an additional plug for the interior..... Nils Nils
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    Hello Gerhard, so far so good thanks Gerhard, I`m just trying to cast a open boat, to see if it works... Nils
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    Hi Martin, thanks for catching up, and for your nice words to the harbor tour pics... I`m glad you liked them Nils
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    Hello Doris, I was missing your posts over the last months and hope you may find time again to share your brilliant work with your MSW fellow members. I am with Druxey and Michael with my compliments and gladly look forward to your progress with this new project. Es ist wunderbar ! Nils

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