Mirabell61

thank you very much Rick and Michel,
 
Nils

thanks Michel,
 
I`ve started with the long deck house today with 16 positions for portholes on each side
 
Nils

 

 

 
 

Hi Keith,
 
right keith, I have a whole bunch of the clamps in that size and they look weard, I have built many ships with them already ....
The portholes will be of pushed-in rounded face brass tube-rivets. The size and "glassing" will be a number smaller that the other side hull ones
 
Nils

Hi Keith,
 
right keith, I have a whole bunch of the clamps in that size and they look weard, I have built many ships with them already ....
The portholes will be of pushed-in rounded face brass tube-rivets. The size and "glassing" will be a number smaller that the other side hull ones
 
Nils

Hi Keith,
 
right keith, I have a whole bunch of the clamps in that size and they look weard, I have built many ships with them already ....
The portholes will be of pushed-in rounded face brass tube-rivets. The size and "glassing" will be a number smaller that the other side hull ones
 
Nils

Post 17
The Journey resumes.
 
My Medway Longboat has been quietly maturing on the stocks for the past year whilst I have been building Indefatigable.
 
Time to get back on the job, eh Gromit.

4646

4648
With a year away from the build I need to re-acquaint myself with the current stage before I begin, and a re-read of Chuck’s  log and other excellent group builds is where I start.
 
B.E.
13/05/2024

Those clamps look like they have seen a lot of service Nils. I will be interested to see how you finish the potholes.

Potholes are never finished Keith - they just get deeper!  (sorry)
 
Looking good, Nils.
 
John

thanks Michel,
 
I`ve started with the long deck house today with 16 positions for portholes on each side
 
Nils

 

 

 
 

Hello Ralf,
 
welcome to MSW and I wish you a pleassant stay with our comunity
Greetings from Glinde (Schleswig-Holstein)
 
Nils

thank you very much Rick and Michel,
 
Nils

thanks Michel,
 
I`ve started with the long deck house today with 16 positions for portholes on each side
 
Nils

 

 

 
 

thanks Michel,
 
I`ve started with the long deck house today with 16 positions for portholes on each side
 
Nils

 

 

 
 

Hello Ralf,
 
welcome to MSW and I wish you a pleassant stay with our comunity
Greetings from Glinde (Schleswig-Holstein)
 
Nils

Thank you Druxey, John, Pat and Nils for your supportive comments and thanks, as ever, to all of you who have left likes or just paid a visit.
 
And so on with the planking.
 
I started off by drawing a series of parallel lines on the hull. These act as a guide for judging the symmetry of planking on both sides of the hull.


The previous two builds consumed a whole leaf of my antique mahogany table so I dug out the second leaf from the back of the garage. I calculate that this second leaf plus the centre section will amply suffice for the remainder of my modelling career.

I cut it into 3" inch planks on my full size table saw before moving on to the Byrnes saw to cut it down further to .700" x .220" strips. I chose .220" as the nominal width of the planks because .250" seemed a little wide and .200" seemed a little narrow - very scientific!

I then cut a supply of planks sufficient to get a good start. I decided to make the planks nominally 1/16" thick (thin enough to bend easily while thick enough to give me a reasonable sanding margin). I ripped them over thickness and sanded them to thickness using my improvised drum sander.



My worry about hull sanding allowance made me stay cautiously a little above the 0.625" target plank thickness.

 
The table isn't wide enough to allow continuous planking runs so each rise takes 2 planks per side.
I am gluing the planks with waterproof PVA glue on both the back side and on the edges. The planks are pinned in place with cork notice board pins. These are "nailed" into pre drilled holes in the frames - quite a laborious task.
The first plank above (or is that below?) the previously installed plywood strake is parallel. I plan to install a number of parallel planks and then start shaping planks as I progress. Using my usual "suck it and see" approach.



I have managed to get the first 2 runs completed on both sides - 8 planks in total.

Obviously I have to give the glue time to dry before removing the pins so this makes the process a 2 planks per side per day job. At least I have plenty of time for tea breaks.
 
That's all for now folks.
 
 

beautiful jobstart on the planking Keith,
I like thr lines of your yacht
nicely done
 
Nils

thank you very much Rick and Michel,
 
Nils

thanks Michel,
 
I`ve started with the long deck house today with 16 positions for portholes on each side
 
Nils

 

 

 
 

thanks Michel,
 
I`ve started with the long deck house today with 16 positions for portholes on each side
 
Nils

 

 

 
 

Elbe is close in spelling to Elba - the first island where Napoleon was sent.  The associated palindrome is:  Able was I ere I saw Elba.

thank you very much Rick and Michel,
 
Nils

thanks Michel,
 
I`ve started with the long deck house today with 16 positions for portholes on each side
 
Nils

 

 

 
 

thank you very much Rick and Michel,
 
Nils

Hi Gary,
and thanks for your words, Yes , it was tricky with the rub rail underneath, I thought self adhesive stickers or cut out decals would be OK, but all wrong, finaly I made the letters from white painted and self adhesive thin aluminium foil, and that sticks to the hull contours like hell. I made the lettering a bit larger than the plan shows, (like the ship has in reality ), in fact its nearly from the top bulwark grab rail down to 10 mm over the waterline (on the model)
 
Nils

 

Very nice!!!
Rick