Paul Le Wol

Hi Gary,thank you very much. Good to hear from you.

Bob, congratulations on completing your Golden Hind! She is exceptional.

Jacques, that is a fine looking sail.

Hi John, thank you very much!

Hi Yves, thank you very much! Hi Keith, thank you so much!

Thank you Jacques, I agree. It didn’t seem to have much going on. If there’s any more changes though, they’d better not involve scuppers 😀

Hi Everyone, hope you are all well. Thank you for the Comments and Likes. I had a bit of a setback last week. This is part of a photo that Phil @Dr PR posted in his SS Wapama 1915 Steam Schooner thread. I had not noticed in other photos or drawings how prominent the planks just above the guard at the stern were. The drawings show that the bulwark planks are 3 3/4" thick and the hull planking is 4 1/2" thick. Adding this detail would mean that these planks would have to extend down to the guards all the way to the bow. The guards would hide the fact that 1/32" planks were added. Well that's the hope anyway. Starting at the stern, three strakes were added. Two @ !/32"x1/8" and one @ 1/32"x5/64". The scuppers had to be filed into the new veneer planks. I decided to remove the guards port and starboard because they drifted down a bit at the bow. Gluing the new guards back on under the new planking went a lot easier. The new planks were feathered into the hull planks at the bow before they get to the metal anchor protection plates While this was going on the chafing planks were attached to the main rails. I just happened to have a rigid cardboard shipping tube that was the right size to hold it at the curved part. The main deckhouse was glued together and placed on a jig in order to complete the doors and siding. This is what she looks like today. Next will be the hawse pipes and portlights. Hope to see you then.

Chris, congratulations on finishing this splendid model!

Hi Keith, in the 2nd video that you posted in Post 17, it shows a chain driven boat. It doesn't look as heavy duty as the one you are modeling. Maybe the drive depends on the towing capacity.

Bought these clamps from ama zon last week. They were 33CAD for 8 of them. The jaws have soft pads and they open to about 15mm. I like them for jobs where you need uniform pressure applied as opposed to spring clamps that may skew the parts.

John, she looks happy with all of the attention and doesn’t care how long it takes. Beautiful work!

A mighty fine looking completion Glen. Congratulations!

Chris, congratulations on completing your Alert. Wonderful job and looking forward to your Cheerful build.

A perfect ending Glen 👍

Thank you for the reply Phil. I think I will experiment with some different colors and try to get something close.

Hi John, thank you very much! Hi Phil, thank you for expressing your thoughts and feelings. You must have great memories of Wapama. Thinking back, would you say that the color of the decks in your photos is close to the original?

Thank you Jacques, I appreciate your input very much.

Hi Glen, thanks very much for your support!

Gentlemen, thank you very much for your comments! The hull planking and the siding are AYC. I’ve found that a coat of clear shellac followed by painting turns out pretty nicely on the cedar. The biggest issue I think would be having glue blotches after applying a coat of WOP. And I have already bought the paint for it😀

Thank you Keith. Its funny you say that because whenever I look at it I think the same thing

Hey Everyone, Hope you are all well. Thank you very much for your Comments and Likes. The main deck house is close to completion. The house sits on top of the side stringer which sits on top of the main stringer so these stringers are being faked by using built-up planks. the main stringer is 3/32" thick and the side stringer is 1/16" thick. The siding is 1/32" thick. The window frames were made and put in place when the siding reached the bottom of the rough openings. Once the siding reached the top of the windows the section of wall that extends out to the pillars had to be added. A length of 1/8 x 1/8" was clamped in place to get the proper sheer for this extension. Some sanding was done to get the window frames flush with the siding. The sliding doors and some of the siding was was applied to the forward end of the house because it is easier to do it now. Then everything is dry fitted The stanchions that support the boat deck were made from 3/32" x 3/32" cherry. They needed to have 1/32" removed from the lower end where they overlap the side stringer. A 1/8" thick clear plastic 6 inch ruler was used to help file the wood to the proper thickness. You can file on these rulers all day and they just keep hanging in there. These stanchions will be pinned in place and then removed before the house is permanently mounted. This is her now. Next I think the main deck house will be glued together, sanded, painted and mounted so that the stringers can be installed.

Glen, I agree that they are both beautiful, but I like the way that the black (?) of the Zen garden goes with the blue water..

Yves, she is looking great! I like that you decide what looks best to you and go with that. Nice

Phil, congratulations on completing your Albatros. Beautifully done!

Glen, congratulations on bringing this Constitution back to 100%. You and Hollye have done an outstanding job.