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JacquesCousteau

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  1.    JacquesCousteau reacted to a post in a topic: Herzogin Cecilie 1902 by Jim Lad - Four Masted Barque
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  12. JacquesCousteau
    Since my earlier post, I received an email with all three judges comments in a single document. Thank you to the judges, your comments were very informative!
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  14. JacquesCousteau
    Very nice work!
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  19. JacquesCousteau
    Thanks!
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  21. JacquesCousteau
    I was curious about ordering the HMS Triton project, but I don't see it in the NRG store anymore. The url still exists, but directs to the new capstan project. Is the NRG no longer selling the Triton project plans? Here's the url: https://thenrgstore.org/collections/plans-and-projects/products/hms-triton-plan-access-msw-copy
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  25. JacquesCousteau
    Very nice work!
  26. JacquesCousteau
    Great start!
  27. JacquesCousteau
    Great job on the model, and that coffee table is very cool!
  28. JacquesCousteau
    Thanks all! Just to be clear, we got married a while ago (legal paperwork a few years ago, ceremony and celebration this past summer), our honeymoon was just delayed quite a bit.
  29. JacquesCousteau
    Great work, it turned out beautifully!
  30. JacquesCousteau
    Are there any plans to send the judges' comment sheets to participants?
  31. JacquesCousteau
    Not a very exciting update. I was able to get a bit more fairing in today, and I think the hull is almost there. I think one more session focused on the starboard stern, and one last session for final fairing, should get me there. While I'm happy with how the bow has turned out, I'm still not totally sure on the stern cant frames. I keep snapping battens trying to check. On the other hand, an already-bent bit of scrap seems to fit fairly well, and the plans do seem to show quite a curve there, so I think I'll just have to pre-bend the planking there. In any case, it may be a while before I post updates. We'll be traveling for our honeymoon soon, then visiting family for Christmas. It may be January before I can finish fairing and finally start planking. In the meantime, I'll leave things off with the photo below, which I thought nicely showed the curve of the hull. (It's funny that it automatically adds that it's AI-generated in the corner of the photo. To disclose: I used an editing tool to erase something from my desk at the top of the photo, not to generate the model.)
  32. JacquesCousteau
    Very impressive work!
  33. JacquesCousteau
    Very nice work, the bilge pump is a great detail to include! (And one that I might steal for my own build, with due credit in the build log of course). I had been wondering about the pump myself but didn't see anything about it in any of my sources, but using the Friendship Sloop plans instead to find it is a great idea. I notice that the Friendship Sloop seems to have the pump a bit further back in the cockpit. Looking around in photos, though, I noticed a detail I had previously missed. In the photo below of the centerboard sloop Charity, which was built in the 1970s reconstructed from Chapelle's plans, there seems to be something protruding from the floor planking--a hole with something sticking out of it?--just off the bulkhead to the port side of the centerboard case (which, unlike on the model, projects a bit into the cockpit). I would guess that that's the space for the pump, although I don't know if they went for a more modern type in the reconstruction. In any case, it's right where you added your pump. Source: Penobscot Marine Museum digitized photo collection.
  34. JacquesCousteau
    Congratulations on finishing your first first planking! If those are 1/16-inch planks, I wouldn't be too concerned about sanding through them. You may want to put some wood filler over the low parts first, though--just a thin layer, you can always add more later but it's a pain to sand through if there's too much.
  35. JacquesCousteau
    Nice start! How big is the model? It looks like it's around 10 inches long? The large number of closely-spaced bulkheads is nice, too often you see so few widely-spaced ones that planking can be a challenge.

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