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Today's accomplishment was coating all of the wood with linseed oil - there is more surface area than you would expect!

This will need to dry / cure for quite awhile. While that is happening, I plan to turn my attention to engine work.

The drill-press actually looks very well-made and if I didn't have my antique miniature watchmakers drill-press, I would consider it. However, one should check, whether someone offers a version for ER11 collets, rather than the bulky and likely unprecise drill-chuck.
 
As to the tablesaw (and similar machines on offer), one should perhaps consider them as 'kits in an advanced stage of manufacture'. It may be cheaper to buy such kit and modify it to one's needs, than to buy the individual components. With a bit of effort, these machines can be turned into useful tools.
 

In 'normal' rigging practice, one would paired shrouds, but this is 'artisanal' practice and may also be determined by the available lengths of material.
 

In 'normal' rigging practice, one would paired shrouds, but this is 'artisanal' practice and may also be determined by the available lengths of material.
 

Again thank you so much to everyone that is watching this build come together!
 
The nacelles and hydrofoils are now permanently connected:

 

In 'normal' rigging practice, one would paired shrouds, but this is 'artisanal' practice and may also be determined by the available lengths of material.
 

In 'normal' rigging practice, one would paired shrouds, but this is 'artisanal' practice and may also be determined by the available lengths of material.
 

Something like that happened to me once: it was dark in the centre of Copenhagen and I reversed my 2CV into an empty slot of a car-park, when my progress was abruptly stopped. I looked into the rear and wing mirrors and couldn't see anything offending, either were there any walls or bollards. I got out of the car and bumped into a huge black candelabre - just couldn't see the thing in the dark.
 

The drill-press actually looks very well-made and if I didn't have my antique miniature watchmakers drill-press, I would consider it. However, one should check, whether someone offers a version for ER11 collets, rather than the bulky and likely unprecise drill-chuck.
 
As to the tablesaw (and similar machines on offer), one should perhaps consider them as 'kits in an advanced stage of manufacture'. It may be cheaper to buy such kit and modify it to one's needs, than to buy the individual components. With a bit of effort, these machines can be turned into useful tools.
 

Thanks, all! I appreciate the kind words and helpful suggestions. I do think I'll hold off on further weathering the hull until later, if at all.
 
I've started work on the bobstay, which I'll be making as just a hooked metal rod. I'm using this as a chance to try out painting metal parts. I wasn't able to find an etching primer at a reasonable cost/quantity, but I did find a spray primer, intended for painting wargaming miniatures. The salesman said it would work on metal, and comments on reddit agreed, so I figured I would give it a shot. I made the bobstay hook out of thin brass rod, cleaned it with dish soap, alcohol, and vinegar (separately), and then suspended it from a loop of my thinnest fly-tying thread for priming. I was quite happy with how the primer turned out--it adhered very well in a very thin coat. Subsequent coats of acrylic went on quite well, and it seems like the primer will work great for the other parts.

 
The real challenge is getting a good metal color. I wasn't happy with a flat black, so I tried more of a dark gray. I then dry brushed a bit of rust color, and used a soft pencil to try to give it a slight metallic sheen. As can be seen below, on its own it doesn't look too bad, but I think it suffers in comparison with the blackened turnbuckles, which look much more metallic. (I should note that my phone camera is making everything look a bit lighter against the black desktop background than it looks in real life.)

 
I'm not sure whether I should try to add more pencil highlights, or if I should invest in a more metallic paint. Comparing the above with the Vairo photos below, it may make the most sense to simply paint the turnbuckles, too, and add a bit more dry-brushed rust to everything, as nothing looks particularly shiny.

 

Source: https://www.carlosvairo.com/galeria-puerto-montt-lanchas-chilotas 
 
If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears!

Something like that happened to me once: it was dark in the centre of Copenhagen and I reversed my 2CV into an empty slot of a car-park, when my progress was abruptly stopped. I looked into the rear and wing mirrors and couldn't see anything offending, either were there any walls or bollards. I got out of the car and bumped into a huge black candelabre - just couldn't see the thing in the dark.
 

That's why I was asking for some pictures. One can then comment on possible qualities and point to reliable sources.

Could you post pictures of these machines to better understand what you are talking about?
 

We don't anything else, but quality 👍🏻

Makes sense! Thinking about it, it would be also more stable during pushing, as there is less of a cantilever on the rig, than if it was pushed the other way around. I also didn't realise that there was a 'bow' end.
 

Would the pile-driver actually pushed from the side of the rig? I would have expected the tug to be tied up to the other side, also so that the driver can be manoeuvred into position.

That's why I was asking for some pictures. One can then comment on possible qualities and point to reliable sources.

Could you post pictures of these machines to better understand what you are talking about?
 

Makes sense! Thinking about it, it would be also more stable during pushing, as there is less of a cantilever on the rig, than if it was pushed the other way around. I also didn't realise that there was a 'bow' end.
 

Something like that happened to me once: it was dark in the centre of Copenhagen and I reversed my 2CV into an empty slot of a car-park, when my progress was abruptly stopped. I looked into the rear and wing mirrors and couldn't see anything offending, either were there any walls or bollards. I got out of the car and bumped into a huge black candelabre - just couldn't see the thing in the dark.
 

... equally interesting is the vertically boilered shunter on the photograph. Will you be building one too?
 

... equally interesting is the vertically boilered shunter on the photograph. Will you be building one too?
 

OK, this is now a bit of thread drift, but would concern the 'input' side of the grain-elevator.
 
Since around the middle of the 19th century threshing was typically done by contractors, who would travel around the country with their portable steam-engines or their agricultural steam-engines and the the threshing machine in tow. This was, of course, before the days of combine-harvesters. The threshing system could be set-up either on the field or on the farm, depending on when the contractor would arrive in late summer/autumn.
The grain would be collected in bags and stored on the farm, or directly transported to the mill (if it had the capacity) or to the station/harbour for shipping. However, I think in Europe grain was mainly locally milled and the flour shipped, but distances were comparatively short. Over longer distances, the grain would be shipped in bulk and milled at the destination. So, bags were used along the way from the field to the point of bulk shipping.
From the early 20th century on, even smaller farms may have had their own small threshing machine and a portable hit-n-miss or similar petrol engine to drive it. Or such equipment was shared across the village.
 
The arrival of the combine-harvester seems to have changed this pattern, as they either off-loaded into a lorry dring alongside or were periodically emptied into open lorries that then drove to mill or the shipping point.
 
 

Well, good for those out in the Far West, who have the space for such scenic settings. We humble urban dwellers have to make do with dioramas or scenes in glass boxes 😞
 
Where did the power for the grain-elevator come from? Manual labour? In windmills power is taken off the 'main shaft' to drive a winch with which the sacks were lifted to the highest level from which they migrated by gravity through the processing.
 
How would be the grain delivered to the silo, in sacks or loose? Threshing machines in Europe were designed to output into sacks.
 
Perhaps the ramp served both, the hay-barn and the grain-silo. With the carts going half-way up, this would save a lot of labour/energy. The carts would then be unloades somewhere inside the building.
 
Ventilation doors were also my first thought, to prevent dust explosions and to make also the working atmosphere in this enclosed space a bit more comfortable.
 

Very nice ship's capentry job !  Although on a real boat it would be a lot more physical labour to cut the rabbets, laying out in 1:1 is a lot easier than at a small scale (how do I know this ...).