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  1. HIPEXEC
    Beautiful work!
  2. HIPEXEC
    Shipyard's closed! My Admiral has given me orders to cease operations and concentrate on taking her on a cruise to Ireland. We pick up our ship in Amsterdam where I shall report to Admiral Sjors ( remember when Sjors was promoted to Admiral when MSW did such things) for a tour of The Amsterdam Maritime Museum before boarding our ship. See you all in 19 days.
  3. HIPEXEC
    I must say, Sjors, you are very detailed oriented and have held me to a very high standard every time you saw something that caught your eye with my ships. See you and Anja in a few days.
  4. HIPEXEC
    I was watching a show on TV about Viet Nam this afternoon at the gym, at they showed your monstrous 175MM gun in action! Wow
  5. HIPEXEC
    Now you are moving at "warp" speed! Looking good, Frank
  6. HIPEXEC
    I'm amazed that I just spent about 30 minutes measuring and cutting and sanding a short stub of a plank just to get it to fit just so, and when this model is finished and rigged....no one, including me, will ever turn the ship upside down to check that planking. What a crazy lot we are.
  7. HIPEXEC
    Another Dutch connection is....I graduated from Hofstra University where I met my wife. Hoftsra was founded by a Dutchman. I belonged to a fraternity whose motto was "Recht Door Zee" .
  8. HIPEXEC
    Also, I was the president and CEO of a company called "Goss & DeLeeuw" . DeLeeuw was a famous Dutch engineer in the 1920's who partnered with MR Goss
  9. HIPEXEC
    I managed to straighten it out with much difficulty. The next plank went much better.
  10. HIPEXEC
    It will be great!
  11. HIPEXEC
    Oh, no! Guiness is the main reason for going!
  12. HIPEXEC
    I must have hit the "all caps " button. Wasn't looking
  13. HIPEXEC
    I'll be shutting down my shipyard in three days so me and my Admiral can fly to Amsterdam and pick up our cruise ship taking us to Ireland. We'll be gone 18 days. Most of you know Sjors and Anja from our great MSW website. Well, I'm very happy to say that Sjors and Anja will drive up to Amsterdam from Rotterdam and we'll be getting together for coffee and a short walk to the Maritime Museum. I met Sjors on MSW over four years ago, so we will finally get to meet face to face. How great is that?
  14. HIPEXEC
    Working on the taper planking. Anybody got a tip how to easily taper the plank so that I get a smooth edge on the non-butting edge so the next plank will match up? No matter how straight I cut the taper and sand it, it still has some waviness.
  15. HIPEXEC
    WELL...LOOK AT IT THIS WAY....NOBODY SAID SHIP BUILDING WAS EASY, SO LOOK AT IT LIKE A BIG PROBLEM SOLVING PUZZLE. I THINK THE PLANS ARE MINIMAL AND THERE IS NEED FOR A LOT MORE CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS IN MUCH CLEARER DETAIL THAN THE BOOK THEY GIVE YOU. The verbal instructions are very detailed but I fog over if I have to read too much. I've BEEN "WINGING IT" WITH MY KIT FOR QUITE A WHILE. SOME OF THE REASONS ARE MY OWN DOING SINCE I AM BUILDING "THE ARGUS" USING "THE SYREN AS A BASE. Good luck!
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    Enjoy!
  17. HIPEXEC
    Wow! Great progress.
  18. HIPEXEC
    Go get 'em tiger!
  19. HIPEXEC
    I've just planned for tapering the veneer planks. It looks like a minimum of tapering will be needed to fit all the planks at this stage.
  20. HIPEXEC
    Glued on a few more courses of veneer planks.
  21. HIPEXEC
    First veneer plank starboard side keel.
  22. HIPEXEC
    While I'm trying to figure out what to do with the inner gunwals, I built the first sweep port cover. Tiny little thing.
  23. HIPEXEC
    I'm not happy with the look of the gunwals inside. The gunports and sweep ports look okay (not great) on the outside, but "ugh" on the inside. I'll play with them for a while until they seem good to my eye. The sweep ports get lids and hinges on the outside, but are open on the inside. Maybe after a coat of varnish they'll look better. The instructions call for painting them on the inside which hides a lot of imperfections.
  24. HIPEXEC
    Here's a picture of sample of the size of the staggered planks. The instructions call for the first plank to be one even long pre-soaked plank in order for the rest of the hull to have a good reference point
  25. HIPEXEC
    Brian Not that first plank. I will also glue on one plank at the keel full size, then start counting and measuring scaling and tapering. Scaling will actually make the planking easier. Thanks,

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