Tobias

Hi Steve, I have never seen such a beautiful Victory, very impressive indeed. What I particularly like is the rendering of the transom before the conversion. Great project, great result and fantastic craftsmanship.

Hi all, not much news from La Palme, scratch, scratch............ scratch. I'm getting closer to finishing the inside of the hull. I made some sanding blocks at the beginning and worked with them, but in my eyes this is not purposeful. It's best to work with the drawing plates - the result is great and, above all, precise.
 

First of all I would like to thank you for your comments and likes. On Sunday evening I couldn't quite finish the fuselage because a situation arose that I didn't have in the test run, everything fitted perfectly.        

I had to let everything sink in and looked for a solution today. What went wrong, from frame 47 onwards a mistake crept in that I hadn't noticed, the right angle was no longer right and at frames 51-52 it was too late. I had to edit the last two keys.

It is not optimal but I had no other choice and I am not very happy with this solution. Well, what can I say.

Jan you make me blush, thank you for the compliment, however it is also my first build.

Jan this is fantastic work, really beautiful woodwork.

Hello everyone and a good evening to you all.

All the keys and fillers are in place. In the next few days I will try again on the bug, that would be the 3rd attempt, let's see if it works this time.
 

Hello Anderas, great thing about the planking plan. Starting with the deck area, I built most of the parts based on the monograph and no longer used the parts included in the kit.

Matiz, that's one of the most beautiful works I've seen, greetings to Pisa

Hello and a nice evening together. Another 17 frames have found their place. Now I have 6 to the rear and 9 to the front.

Hi Chris, in answer to your question, yes the vice will fit the MF70 but you won't have much room to move upwards.

Very nice Chris wonderful work

I wish everyone a nice good evening. Slowly but surely I am approaching the stern.

Good evening everyone, the first frames are glued to the keel with filler pieces and the keys.  It was a queasy feeling doing this.

Hello friends thanks for all comments and likes much appreciated.
All frames are ready.  

Now all I have to do is black out all the bolts and then they can be set up clean, but it takes a good shipyard to do that.  I decided to redo the build plate.  There were several reasons why I had to do this.  

1. My first construction was made out of old panels, which isn't too bad on the whole.  But it arched very slightly.  The top plate was new (multiplex beech) so very stable and it will be recycled.  

2. Only 6 threaded rods M6 a bit too small for my taste.  

3. Most importantly, the center line from bow to stern from the bottom plate to the top plate was offset and so I had a 3mm warp.  

So now to the new shipyard: Substructure is a 15mm multiplex board 1250x850 mm with aluminum C-slot profiles.  

The whole thing was placed on an aluminum profile frame that has 20x20 mm and 8 M8 bolts. 
 

I wanted to share some more information with you.  

With the last bolt I installed a total of 16m of square wire in 52 frames, which is about 30cm per frame per side of a frame between 34 and 48 bolts, I installed a total of 3878 bolts.

 Have a good time.

They look really good when they are lying there. 😉

Good morning Daniel, I've been following your construction of the Chebeck for a long time now and I'm really impressed by your great work.

I have a lot of respect for your work, I think Le Requin is one of the most beautiful ships.  I recently bought the monograph and one day I will try to build it.

Hello Ricci masterful as always

Really very impressive work, great construction diary.

Thank you all for your comments and likes.

Another small step, nothing special.

The first feeble attempts at carving.

As mentioned in the Arsenal great and clean job Chris.

Hello everyone, I'm back with some news.  
As I said, I needed a little break from the endless nailing.  However, I was not idle and continued to build the little house (tree house) of the grandchildren and we went on a few trips.  

Now back to the shipyard: The first plan is 90% complete.  

The wrong keel (please correct me if that's the wrong term) was on yesterday's agenda, it's split in two and staggered.  Conclusion I have to redo why, I didn't check the copies I made against the plan like I usually do.  I.e. it is about 3% too big, does not help.  

Today I dedicated myself to the mast bearings and the bow clamps.  

Another 7 frames are marked and ready for drilling.

Thank you for looking.

Hallo Greg wirklich tolle Arbeit und ich war so beeindruckt von deinem Bautagebuch, dass ich mir die Bücher gekauft habe, aber es wird wohl noch etwas dauern, da ich gerade erst mit La Palme angefangen habe.
Gruß Tobias

Just a small update.  Start with the small dinghy
 

Small update, it's halftime.  So far I've installed 1,868 bolts, now I need a change.  Preparations for the small dinghy.
 

Hello everyone, Day 4-9:

18 frames are done.  

In the last few days I've only made a frame every now and then in the evening.  The weather is just too nice to work in the workshop.  Be patient and thank you for stopping by and your likes and comments.