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Bryan Woods

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  • Birthday 05/11/1961

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  1. Fill that with energy drink and you will start a new trend:-) I’d buy one just for the whirlpool.
  2. Everything looks great Bob! One day I’ll understand all the nautical terms 🙂 Don’t you wish you could have built like that when you were around 12 years old! I wouldn’t have even thought about those G I Joes 🙂 I can feel your fun.
  3. I’ve filled and sanded the hull, and glued the wales on. They maybe lower than they should be. I removed them once, and just stayed with the second time. Now the painting. Which I have the lesser faith in myself to do a good job. My goal is to just do better than the last one:-) Here’s where she stands.
  4. Great to have you back in action Bob! I could detect your sprits gladly grow from the first of this post to the end.
  5. I finished the planking this morning. I feel like I’ve learned a little more, even though it may not show. I did better on the port side with sizing the width of the planks. But my tapers at the bow were irregular and didn’t make the bend around the bow smooth. On the starboard side I tapered more and longer. That seemed to lay a little flatter when bent around the bow. But I didn’t keep a watch on the width of the planks which I had to add more stealers which look like wedges. Here’s the port side starboard bow stern and the bottom Now to sander down and fill in those low spots. This part of the build is the most relaxing part, I think. I just have to make sure I don’t sand through the planks:-)
  6. She’s looking good Palmerit! Look at the Pram log by Modeller_masa. He shows how he did it.
  7. The planking on the port side only has a few more planks. The gap ranges from 10mm to 9mm in the center. My planks are 4mm. I think I’m going to start by trying to cut the next plank down to 3mm and see where that brings me. I’m sure I haven’t planked this the way others may have, but trying to read and understand the different tutorials of planking. I just can’t keep my mind focused long enough on it 😕
  8. Thanks Jacques. This boat is going to be displayed in a neighboring town’s pet shop that’s owned by my friend Kirt. He only sales one brand of food so that’s what I filled the boat with. I plan on trying to carve as many pets as possible for Captain Kirt’s crew 🙂 I really enjoy a build more when I get to personalize it for a specific home. Thanks for asking about it:-) The entire time I was making the 100 feed bags I was thinking I maybe the last to see them:-) Here’s a few more shots.
  9. I’ve spent the last 2 weeks making the cargo, which mostly will be covered up by the lifeboat. But for the few curious ones that will peek through the crack. It will cause them to ask. What’s that? 😁 I’ve started the planking and it’s been going on smoothly. Hopefully nothing unexpected will crop up. The flat bottom seems to make the planking look simpler. The stern and bow are both about 3 planks wider than the middle. I’ve got an uneducated plan in place, hopefully I’ll learn. I’m planning on painting the hull so I foresee no problems that can’t be covered:-)
  10. The deck slipped right on with no problems. After fairing the hull I softened the bulwarks and clamped them to the hull to let them dry. on the stern I cut a groove so I had a stop for the plank. At the bow, I may cut the excess off when I glue it. While I was setting thinking about which end to start gluing. I started looking at the rigging. The drawing is all there is, and it looks like spaghetti hanging on a fork to me 🙂 If anyone has any helpful tips on that subject, please speak up 🙂 Just in case here’s the rest of it:-) After all that filled my brain, I wasn’t feeling like a gluing session, so I carved a scale figure. First was a pekingese. She’s a little bigger than scale. That was as small as I could go 🙂 Then Captain Kirt. I plan on getting started back in the morning. Here’s Captain Kurt and Macy. You can see them better in this one.
  11. Reading through the other build log on this sight, they laid black thread between the planks. It really defines the planks. I was excited to get it going. In fact, I don’t think I did all the other non- boat related things yesterday I was supposed to:-) I think it was well worth it. That said, I find if it takes me days to get done, what could have been done in hours. I don’t spend as much time finding my mistakes.
  12. I learned to focus beveling those tiny planks, making that turn to the bottom:-) You’are doing a great job ! Almost off that strongback!
  13. Frames all glued, mast step installed. I did a bit of painting in areas that I would probably make a mess of, later in the build.
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