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Now I start planking the lower deck.

At port side I will leave a part of the lower deck uncovered to give inside view into the hold. I make a paper template of the planned opening. Afterward I reconverted the opening a bit with the closest side parallel with the deck beams. Like it is shown now, the opening would continue below the aft bulkhead.

The lower deck with the original opening.

The deck planks were nailed with iron nails. To imitate those I will use brass tree nails. Drilling the nail holes with a hand drill.

In each hole I impact a brass rod with a drip of super glue and pinch it off just above the deck.

Then I file the surface flat.

Where I couldn't reach with the file, I used the Dremel. Bad idea: right of the chain box you see the marks of it. I hope to remove them as much as possible by sanding.

The equipment store is divided in storages for the trawl warp and the rope fenders by removable baffles. To hold the baffles I place profile slats.

With the baffles in place:

 
Merry Christmas to you all!

 
 
 

Welcome on board Moab!
Here is the progress of last week:
 
 
Part 11: Forward Bulkhead
The cross section includes 2 bulkheads. The forward bulkhead stretches from the upper deck to the keelson. The aft bulkhead from the upper deck to the lower deck. Between the two bulkheads are equipment stores and the anchor chain box. Behind the aft bulkhead is the fish hold and an icebox. The bulkheads were built of pitch pine planks.

I start with the forward bulkhead. In this bulkhead there are three openings. They are approx one meter high and give access to the forecastle. It does require a certain amount of agility to crawl through, so I believe they are more intended to pass material through it than as passageway for the crew. In rough weather when the for hatch is difficult to reach, they are a good alternative to reach the forecastle below deck.

I start to lay the oak profile slats which will support the bulkhead. Laying the deck beam 'E' right above the bulkhead position enables me to determine the bulkheads top. The profile slats have to follow the hull curve. I plunge them during 5 to 10 minutes in boiling water; like this it is much easier to bend them without cracking them.

The forward profile slats.

I continue laying a second layer of slats to support the other side of the bulkhead with an interval equal to the thickness of the bulkhead planks.

Starting to place the bulkhead planks. On the real vessels the planks fit in each other with tooth and groove. My planks are only 1.5 mm thick; I don't have sufficient joinery skills to make teeth and grooves in it so I will glue them against each other. I lay a lath over the wales and attach a triangle to it to make sure that my first plank is standing vertical.

After that it is just a matter of sawing and gluing plank after plank

The port side of the bulkhead is raised. The port passage is left open. The topside of the passage is placed. The horizontal plank is only temporally, it indicates the upper side of the opening. The small wooden bar at the bottom of the opening  is a spacer.

Continuing the planking to the starboard side.

To fill up the open spaces below the passages, I attach again a temporal horizontal guide.

When the glue is dry the planks which stick out above the deck beam are sanded equal.

The bulkhead seen from forward

Seen from aft.

The bulkhead is finished on both sides with an oak profile slat on the top. As the slope of the bow is weak here, the slats do not need to be plunged in boiling water.

Seven frames in place. Still seven to go.

 
G.L.

Completed projects:

HMS Triton cross section - FINISHED - Scale 1:24

 
Current projects:

Oostends schipje (Ostend shrimper) - scale 1:20

Cross section Fishing Smack - Scale 1/20, POF, approx. 1920

All 14 frames are finished.

Here you see the most forward frame (the smallest) together with the most afterward (the biggest).

 
G.L.

Completed projects:


HMS Triton cross section - FINISHED - Scale 1:24  Current projects:

Oostends schipje (Ostend shrimper) - scale 1:20

Cross section Fishing Smack - Scale 1/20, POF, approx. 1920

Making frame after frame.

The frame production goes on. Still 7 to go.

 
G.L.

Completed projects:

HMS Triton cross section - FINISHED - Scale 1:24
Current projects:

Oostends schipje (Ostend shrimper) - scale 1:20

Cross section Fishing Smack - Scale 1/20, POF, approx. 1920

Thank you very much Geert,
slowly its getting there where I wanted it....
 
Nils
 

a beautiful pic in my opinion, borrowed it from the web...
A Zeesenboot  ploughing the Bodden waters on Port bow, red sails, sunshine, a motivated crew, a moderate breeze, and a nice bow wake
 

 
 

 
 

Thank you very much Geert,
slowly its getting there where I wanted it....
 
Nils
 

a beautiful pic in my opinion, borrowed it from the web...
A Zeesenboot  ploughing the Bodden waters on Port bow, red sails, sunshine, a motivated crew, a moderate breeze, and a nice bow wake
 

 
 

 
 

Thank you very much Geert,
slowly its getting there where I wanted it....
 
Nils
 

a beautiful pic in my opinion, borrowed it from the web...
A Zeesenboot  ploughing the Bodden waters on Port bow, red sails, sunshine, a motivated crew, a moderate breeze, and a nice bow wake
 

 
 

 
 

So another month passes by, and my 'Chuck' serving machine has arrived along with some rigging goodies. I now have a bow sprite and a main mask (only placed in position). I have now served my first ever ropes and cracking on with the other spars

Thank you very much Geert,
slowly its getting there where I wanted it....
 
Nils
 

a beautiful pic in my opinion, borrowed it from the web...
A Zeesenboot  ploughing the Bodden waters on Port bow, red sails, sunshine, a motivated crew, a moderate breeze, and a nice bow wake
 

 
 

 
 

Ribs are all in place, triangle reinforcements bow and stern glued in, and now working on the inner sheerboards.....
 
Nils

 
 

 
 

 
 

I built the standplate from several wood formates and stained them in Cherry, but yet without a silk varnish coating and also the two pedestals again produced and shortend from old candle holders. Internal M4 spindles with nuts and washers hold the model safely through the keel ("backbone")
The hight of the pedestals allows the centerboard to be swung down 90°
 
I`m intending to build in a dummy tucker motor (1 cylinder glow head diesel), but except for my preliminary hand scetch, I`m still looking for a suitable marine engine I can adopt dimensions from. Does anybody have an idea where to find that information ?
 
Nils

 
 

 
 

Welcome to the build Jason,
glad to have you on board, and many thanks for looking in and catching up.
Little Caspar is doing so well, one can see the improvement and also the growth from week to week (yesterday 10 weeks, since birth). He is still "leaking" a bit, but also that will be soon overcome...
 
Nils
 

Getting further on with the ribs...
shaping, saw-cutting, a bit fairing to fit, glueing, I get about 4 per day placed.
The lead weight I still had, it was orignaly intended as an internal weight block for a schooner some years ago.
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Thank you very much Geert,
slowly its getting there where I wanted it....
 
Nils
 

a beautiful pic in my opinion, borrowed it from the web...
A Zeesenboot  ploughing the Bodden waters on Port bow, red sails, sunshine, a motivated crew, a moderate breeze, and a nice bow wake
 

 
 

 
 

I finished the felucca. As I did not do it at the beginning, when I started this topic, I will put a brief introduction to introduce the model.   
The term felucca groups a diversity of small boats present throughout several centuries in the Mediterranean, which possessed sometimes quite different characteristics. The model reproduces a felucca from the Ligurian area of the mid-eighteenth century, based in the department of Porto Mauricio, in the Republic of Genoa, in the year 1759.   
The deck of this felucca presents a strong sheer, with a pronounced cantilever aft, which was called "a cadrega", which could be literally translated as "in saddle". In the main, this type of boat rigged with a latin sail can be considered as a derivative of the xebec, with its own peculiarities that responded to the navigation requirements of a ship of smaller dimensions than that one, and born at the beginning of the XVIII century precisely to be able to elude the attacks of the Berber pirate xebecs.   
The felucca was used both for fishing and for cabotage, changing its rigging as it was dedicated to one or the other purpose. To fish, he built a shorter and stronger yard, able to provide power and resistance to prevent the ship from turning under the wind due to a too long and difficult maneuvering surface. For the cabotage and the navigation with favorable time it prepared some finer yards that could carry larger sails that gave it more speed and allowed the transport of lighter loads.   
The model shows the pavilion of the Serenissima Republic of Genoa (a red cross on a white background) and the pennant of the Vicariate of Porto Mauricio, with four towers on a red background.

Thank you very much Geert,
slowly its getting there where I wanted it....
 
Nils
 

a beautiful pic in my opinion, borrowed it from the web...
A Zeesenboot  ploughing the Bodden waters on Port bow, red sails, sunshine, a motivated crew, a moderate breeze, and a nice bow wake
 

 
 

 
 

Thank you very much Geert,
slowly its getting there where I wanted it....
 
Nils
 

a beautiful pic in my opinion, borrowed it from the web...
A Zeesenboot  ploughing the Bodden waters on Port bow, red sails, sunshine, a motivated crew, a moderate breeze, and a nice bow wake
 

 
 

 
 

Ribs are all in place, triangle reinforcements bow and stern glued in, and now working on the inner sheerboards.....
 
Nils

 
 

 
 

 
 

I built the standplate from several wood formates and stained them in Cherry, but yet without a silk varnish coating and also the two pedestals again produced and shortend from old candle holders. Internal M4 spindles with nuts and washers hold the model safely through the keel ("backbone")
The hight of the pedestals allows the centerboard to be swung down 90°
 
I`m intending to build in a dummy tucker motor (1 cylinder glow head diesel), but except for my preliminary hand scetch, I`m still looking for a suitable marine engine I can adopt dimensions from. Does anybody have an idea where to find that information ?
 
Nils

 
 

 
 

Welcome to the build Jason,
glad to have you on board, and many thanks for looking in and catching up.
Little Caspar is doing so well, one can see the improvement and also the growth from week to week (yesterday 10 weeks, since birth). He is still "leaking" a bit, but also that will be soon overcome...
 
Nils
 

Getting further on with the ribs...
shaping, saw-cutting, a bit fairing to fit, glueing, I get about 4 per day placed.
The lead weight I still had, it was orignaly intended as an internal weight block for a schooner some years ago.
 
Nils
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Hi freinds,
many thanks for the "likes"....
further on with the ribs of the front section, on the stb. side I will need to add half a plank to get the hight acc. to the port side planking
 
Nils

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Thank you Martin,
I`ve been working on the front bulkhead  its seperating the cabin area from the compartment ( as a locker for anchor chain, ropes and other things that need to be stowed out of the way )
 
Nils

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 

An improvement for taking off inner lapstrake contours of the hullplanking......
 
Yesterday had a vist by a freind and fellow MSW member, we meet now and then to exchange thoughts on our builds and general building techniqes...
Many thanks to Siggi52 and appreciations, for introducing his contour gauge that he lent to me, to try it out, and that will make the production of the interior hull ribs with improved contour quality, vs. my humble methode shown here earlier
I tried it out today and am very pleased with the results. It also saves time.
 
Nils