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Papa

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  • Birthday 04/22/1943

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  • Location
    Ashburn, Virginia
  • Interests
    Modeling of all types. Mainly ships, but also
    plastic aircraft.

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  1. The belaying key labels on my Gjoa sail plan are all in English except for one pin labeled ørefiken. I assume this is Norwegian as Gjoa was a Norwegian ship. Can someone translate this for me? Google translate isn’t helpful. It says it means cuff or slap on the face. thanks
  2. Excellent work as always John. Sometimes I wonder what the point is of planking a hull that is smoothed to look like a solid hull and then painted. Seems like one has gone to a lot of hard work that is then hidden from view. Ron
  3. David, you say you are in the Boston area. I grew up in Saugus, MA and lived on Robinson st.    Small world

  4. The hatch was not too difficult other than cutting accurate miters on 1/16 x 1/16 strip wood. That cabin was a problem. The kit provided a solid block of wood that matched the overall dimensions but I struggled with the window frames. Eventually I decided to make them from cards stock and I was lucky enough to have some brass rings in my parts box that were a good fit for the portholes.
  5. I purchased the kit on eBay quite a few years ago. I am not sure if this pins were original or not. They may be too nice for the period of the kit.
  6. The deck furnishings are coming along. I didn’t have a wood thin enough to bend for the roofs of the WCs and the companion way, so I made them out of card stock. Now that it is posted I see a gap between the wall and roof on the starboard WC. Have to fix that.
  7. I have installed the anchor windlass, the rudder, and constructed a skylight. The latter was tricky because of its small size
  8. Gjoa was built in 1872; This log was mistakenly place in the 1801 to 1850 section rather than 1851 to 1900. How do I fix that?
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