captainbob

Robbyn,
 
I agree with the rest.  It doesn't matter what others think, If it doesn't feel right to you, do it over. 
 
Bob

Robbyn,
 
I agree with the rest.  It doesn't matter what others think, If it doesn't feel right to you, do it over. 
 
Bob

So I made a profile drawing, at 11.25", and held it up alongside the smaller, at 7.5", and said,  "Which one do you want?"
She picked the smaller one.  Don't you just love 'em?
 
Bob

Thanks Mark,
 
Making repetitive parts reminds me of a story.
 
A man driving down a country road sees some handmade furniture in front of a house.  He liked the look of one of the chairs and asks the price.  The craftsman said $35.00.  The man thinking the chair would make nice dining room chairs orders a set of eight.  The craftsman says “That will be $2000.00.”  The man complains and asks why so much.  The craftsman says . . . “The first one was fun”.
 
So now two more buckets.
 
Bob

So I made a profile drawing, at 11.25", and held it up alongside the smaller, at 7.5", and said,  "Which one do you want?"
She picked the smaller one.  Don't you just love 'em?
 
Bob

Well I was starting to work on the lines and the admiral, looking over my shoulder, said, "Seven and a half inches?  That's kind of small.  Can't you make it a little bigger?"  So I'm changing the scale from 1:48 to 1:32, that will make it 11.25 inches.  Now to start over.  Glad I hadn't cut wood yet.
 
Bob

Hi, Anja,
 
You're very welcome here on the darkside.  But come on up to the front row.  You don't need to sit in the cheap seats.
 
Bob

I want to thank you all for your patience, but I decided I hadn't finished the dory build and unlike some I can't do two at a time.
 
Go see the dory at:
 
http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/1067-grand-banks-dory-by-capnbob-132/page-5#entry57310
 
Bob

I’m sure most of us have had that feeling, the build is complete but it just doesn’t feel right.  Well that’s what happened to me with the dory.  I decided I wasn’t finished with the dory build.  I had placed fishing items in the dory but it just didn’t feel complete.  I tried to start the little yawl, which is my next build, but I kept coming back to the dory.
 
Finally I decided to make it into a diorama.  To place the dory in the ocean, at home, as it were, where it spent most of its time.  Many fishermen used trawl lines but this fellow is fishing with a hand line.  I just seemed right.
 
I got a lot of help from several of you here at MSW.  But I especially want to thank Dan for taking me through it step by step.
 
        Dan, this one’s for you.
 

 

 

 
Bob
 
Now maybe I can build the yawl for the admiral.
 
 

]It’s amazing what you learn when you build a boat the way they were actually built.  I had always wondered why lap strake.  It seems like a difficult way to build a boat.  But then I decided to build a dory and guess what, they were lap strake built.  The building taught me why. 
 
The planks of a dory were only 5/8” thick, and the only way to get enough surface area between planks and provide a good seal is to put matching angles on planks so that instead of 5/8” surface you end up with about 1½”. 
 
 Here is the dory hull, still a long way to go. 
 
Bob
 

 

If you had not pointed out the things you don't like everyone would be saying, " Wow, what a nice boat."
 
Bob

This is my setup.
 

 
The board on top is fastened with T-nuts. It allows me to screw the part down or to screw a clamp board anywhere I want instead of just the T-slots.  Also if I’m drilling a series of holes or making a slot all the way through I don’t have to worry about damaging the cross slide.
 
The other picture shows the mounting to the Dremel stand.  The holes in the Proxxon do not line up with the stand base.
 

 
Bob
 
 

Adam, That's a GREAT OFFER, take him up on that one, He does excellent work, and his fee is very reasonable... 2 cans of spinach!!!
You can't beat that  

just a paragraph of how detailed and cool the build looked and that they would be passing the pictures around to their different depts.  it's good that I wasn't expecting anything from it.  kind of how I got to know Tom@ Billing USA........I had gotten the Nordkap and I was asking about the fittings kit for it.  I got this huge e-mail of how he was concerned about me building a kit that was so old {over 20 years},  as my first kit.  I even got to meet him in person last summer.........I built the Susan A for him,  and he and his wife came by to pick it up.   they are such wonderful folk....hope to see them again.
 
still,  it's nice to get a positive responce from the folks who make these kits 

Happy Birthday   
 
Bob

Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday. 
Two Happy days, Take one at a time and make them last.
 
Bob

Michael,
 
Your abilities shine brightly.  Not just your ability to make all these small parts that a real boat has, but also the ability to figure out how to make them. 
 
My Cap is off to you.  In which case I’m just Bob

Wayne, that's what she said too.  But she's not from the south.
 
Harvey,  I'm wanting to build a schooner also one of these days.  Always too many boats and not enough time.
 
Børge,  Pull up a chair.  I'm drawing plans now and should be making sawdust soon.
 
Bob

It's an interesting problem. To me it looks like a short piece of pipe or half pipe across the top, but instead of fore and aft it is placed crosswise.
 
I found another picture of the port side and that item is not there.  Also the stairs that was along side the pilot house is moved to the open area behind the pilot house. As with so many other river steamboats it looks like  it was changed from time to time.
 
Bob
 

Wayne, that's what she said too.  But she's not from the south.
 
Harvey,  I'm wanting to build a schooner also one of these days.  Always too many boats and not enough time.
 
Børge,  Pull up a chair.  I'm drawing plans now and should be making sawdust soon.
 
Bob

Thought I was looking at a full sized block until I saw it with your thumb.
Wonderful craftsmanship.
 
Bob

Beautiful, simply beautiful.
 
Bob

Thanks to everyone who has been watching this build.  I sorry it’s been so long since the last entry.  I’m going to call this one done for now.  I hope to do something else and use this dory then but for now this is it.
 
The gear shown is: a Line bucket, a bait bucket, a lunch bucket, oars, a club, a bailing scoop, a cutting board and knife, on the thwart and a coil of rope. There is a divider about in the middle of the boat. The fisherman is in the bow with all the gear and he loads the fish into the other end.  You will notice there is no sail.  Use of a sail was up to the fisherman.  The way I heard it stated is. The schooner is the dormitory and kitchen but the dory is the fisherman’s home, (he in it about 12 hours a day) and he modifies it to his liking.
 
Here are the pictures for now. 
 

 

 

 
 
The admiral saw a picture of a sweet little gaff rigged yawl and said “That would be a nice model”,  and what the admiral wants. . .
 
Bob
 
 

Thanks to everyone who has been watching this build.  I sorry it’s been so long since the last entry.  I’m going to call this one done for now.  I hope to do something else and use this dory then but for now this is it.
 
The gear shown is: a Line bucket, a bait bucket, a lunch bucket, oars, a club, a bailing scoop, a cutting board and knife, on the thwart and a coil of rope. There is a divider about in the middle of the boat. The fisherman is in the bow with all the gear and he loads the fish into the other end.  You will notice there is no sail.  Use of a sail was up to the fisherman.  The way I heard it stated is. The schooner is the dormitory and kitchen but the dory is the fisherman’s home, (he in it about 12 hours a day) and he modifies it to his liking.
 
Here are the pictures for now. 
 

 

 

 
 
The admiral saw a picture of a sweet little gaff rigged yawl and said “That would be a nice model”,  and what the admiral wants. . .
 
Bob
 
 

Hi all,
 
Years ago I read "Sailing Alone Around the World" by Joshua Slocum, and in January 2012 I decided that I would build his boat, the "SPRAY", in 1/48 scale POF with bent framing. The way Slocum built it.  I started asking questions on this forum, and I want to thank all those who answerd with help.  The information on this forum is invaluable.
 
Then the research began.  In the first chapter of his book, Slocum said he was given an old "fishing smack".  So I looked for fishing smacks of 1800.  About when his was built.  Someone suggested the "Emma C Berry" for framing, so I hunted for information on that boat.  I also gathered as many plan drawings of the "Spray" as I could find.  About five.
 
Now it was time to check and redraw the plans.  The first thing I discovered was that ALL the plans had errors.  Things like, the shear and section views would agree and the shear and the plan views would agree, but the width of the plan was no where near the same as the width of the sections.  Of the drawings I had, the drawing from the appendix in the book was the closest.  So I traced that into an old copy of AutoCad and worked out the errors.
 
Checking the fishing smacks plans had shown a frame spacing of from 15" to 22" I chose 18" for framing the Spray.  I drew a section at each frame.  I offset a line .031" inside to subtract the 1.5" planking Slocum used.  The frames will be 3" X 5" so again I offset another line .062 inside the planking for the frames.  This gave me the section lines for the plug I will carve to shape the frames.
 
I am going to plank only half the deck and deck houses so I can show the insides, taken from the sketches in Slocum's book. (See below)
 
Bob