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SaltyScot

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  1. 9 hours ago, Herbert Heger said:
    Hello Mark, you've created a beautiful model of the Endeouver with all its many little details. Congratulations, I take my hat off to your achievement. Your construction report is helping me with my Endeouver, which is currently under construction. Thank you. Greetings from St. Leon, Germany.

    Danke schön, Herbert. She has pride of place here in our home. I look forward to building my next one :) 

     

  2. On 8/12/2025 at 5:24 PM, RVB said:

    Hi Mark 

    I got interested in sailing when I attended the Univ of Maryland dental school in Baltimore. After graduating I used to race an Olympic 470 #984. As I aged in life I sailed and owned a Hunter and later a Catalina. I miss sailing.

    By the way look at MeCray. His other prints are just as beautiful and impressive. Too bad he passed in 2017.

    Sincerely, RVB ( RICK)

     

     

     

     

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    We have recently acquired a 26' Hunter and we love being out in her! Sailing has moved to the top of my all time favorite things to do (I love being on or in the water anyway, always have). MeCray is a point of discussion in our household at the moment.......

  3. 14 hours ago, Dr PR said:

    I nibbed the deck planks on my topsail schooner build, and I am currently nibbing the planks on my minesweeper build:

     

    I had actually looked at this, Phil because I have that particular build bookmarked for reference purposes. Very nice work indeed. I shall attempt to get it done as well as you have. My procrastination is me gearing myself up to do it :) 

  4. 10 hours ago, RVB said:

    Hi Mark

    I noticed in your log introduction you mentioned Endeavour’s Americas Cup Race against Rainbow ( cup defender ). One of my addictions is collecting Nautical Art especially Americas Cup. Have you ever seen prints by John MeCray. He is a world famous Americas Cup artist. His paintings bring life to the subject. If you get a chance you might want to look him up and his paintings. His studio was in Jamestown Rhode Island. I met him in the 70’s when he had just finished painting Rainbow .That’s when I started collecting his art.  As I mentioned look him up and enjoy! Here’s his artist proof.

     

    Now THAT is an impressive image. We have recently acquired a sailboat, obviously nothing like these J class beauties but it is soooo much fun being out on her. Our house is right at the mouth of the Potomac river where it empties out into the Chesapeake Bay so we have plenty of water to play with. Because of our location, my interior designer wife has given our house a nice nautical theme. I think one of these pictures would look very nice in our living room. Thank you so much for sharing!

     

    As a side note, I have a feeling that a lot of my future models (if not all of them!) will be yachts. After having built this one I am kinda hooked :) I just love the way they look.

  5. Hi folks. The summer is drawing to a close but the weather has been soooooo perfect these past two weeks it seemed a crime to be indoors. We have been busying ourselves with activities on and around the Chesapeake Bay (sailing, fishing etc.) and have loved every minute of it!

     

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    But, I did manage to devote my attention back to the Lynx recently and wanted to post a quick update. I made a small jig so that I could cut all the deck planks to the same length. My little mini chop saw took care of the job in short order:

     

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    I cut the planks a little longer than the required 80mm and let them hang out of both ends of the jig. After cutting the one side I simply reversed the pnks, butted them flat up against the outside edge using a flat piece of wood and cut the other ends. They are all nice and equal.

     

    Next up was the masts. The cross and trestle trees are a simple affair on this ship and there is no top on them according to the plans. If necessary, I can add one if needed. As I mentioned earlier on in the build log, I remade the mast caps out of maple but scrapped them and decided to go with walnut. The plywood kit supplied ones were awful. I have not added the cheeks yet on either mast and the rake angles are not final, the masts are just sitting in place for now so that I could see how she looks. 

     

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    All this has been my excuse for not yet tackling the intricate and, from what I have read, rather frustrating job of nibbing the deck planks. I cannot put that off any longer however because I need to get on with the rest of the ship once it is done. That will be my next task (or perhaps I will prep the yards and boom....??) We will see.

     

     

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