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It's time to put the dust away. Ten years ago I started with great enthusiasm the build of the small cutter. But to be honest I was not able to reconstruct the framing of the cutter. So I stopped after some time and paused the project. In October of 2022 I started a new try. I lerned a lot and made a complete rework of my reconstruction. The first two pictures are showing a 3D-model which I used to check my lines. As written in the old posts I was not happy with the frame design in Goodwins AotS Book. In my opinion, it does not fit into the time in which the cutter was built. There are several DoF plans of small ships of this era in the NMM. What almost all of them have in common is that the double frames were dissolved. A space was also left between the first futtock and the floortimber. However, the "double frames" were still connected by chocks. The picture shows my reconstruction. I have it a little bit simplified, because I w like to plank the hull, so the shifted top timbers will not be visible. Many many thanks to @Chuck who gave me the inspiration for the simplification. Since February last year I am working on the model. All parallel frames have been built in the meantime. I am now busy with a second version of the backbone. The build is more or less a test to learn working with my CNC. In November I have started working on my sloop Fly again. The plan is to build and test the building methods on Alert and use this than for my ship sloop.

It's looking really good, Mike

Don't forget to check the buttock lines. If the waterlines are looking al right the buttock lines can make some problems.

@allanyed I refer to Kirsch "Galleon - Great ships of the Armada Era". In German the title is "Die Galeonen"

I do not know the English version, but the German version is in my opinion one of the best books about this theme.

Really interesting project. I know the book and used it many years ago during my build of the Revell kit. I wish you a lot of fun during your journey and will follow with great interest. Are you sure that you have enough meet on the upper parts of your frames? It seems that they are to thin for the necessary curves.

In my opinion the framing design changed in 1775 - 1776. You will find similiary changes also in other classes, for example the Swan class sloops. I think that Portland has the conventional framing pattern with double and single frames. For Bristol I don't know but had the same thoughts as you.

I own a copy of the plan. It has the numer ZAZ1719

Have a lot of fun during the workshop. I hope you will share thr result also with us.

Welcome to ModelShipWorld from the really western part of the Ruhrgebiet.

Congratulation for reaching this milestone. Your planking is looking incredible.

It's looking really fantastic, Chuck.

I will follow your log with great interest.

Hello Chuck, on the last pictures it seems that the planks and the wales have the same thickness. Do you put a second layer on the wales or have I missunderstood something in your description? I love how accurate you do the planking job.

Really wonderful pogress, Mike

Congratulations for finishing this beautyful model and for reaching the awards. I only know the Le Rochefort and the Hayling Hoy, which David Antscherl has reconstructed as other examples of harbour vessels.

Congratulation for finishing this wonderful section model.It made a lot of fun to follow your build log

Definitly not. But to learn from Chuck and some other producers can help to make it possible or much easier to build the ship you like to have.

Congratulations for reaching this very impressive milestone.

Your model is a dream. A model of one of of the most famous ships in her original (as far as we know today) appearance.

Congrats for reaching this milestone during your design and build proces. I like the innovative ideas you share with us and your hull is looking amazing.

Hi Tim, this was my first try. I used the Design and not the As-Built drawings. I was not really happy with the result and could not solve the points I did not like. Last year I started with a new reconsrtuction following the as-built drawings of Rattlesnake. In this I have solved the problems of my old design. If you find the old design helpful, feel free to use it.

Hi Tim, I finished my reconstruction of the as-built and a possible frame design in January. I know that there is the AotS of the Alert but I was not happy with the reconstruction given by Goodwin. Now I am busy with preparing my build. If you have later questions please let me know.

This is a brilliant idea for building the cant frames.

If you want to build Alert or Rattlesnake "As designed" the drawing is fine. Be aware that there some differences between the design drawing you can buy at the NMM and the copy in the Danish archive. In my opion it is a result of the manual work. If you want to build her as-built, you have to buy the as built drawing from the RMG.