Wintergreen

Hi Valeriy,

Even if your work is truly amazing and well above the skill level of many of us here it is still very useful to us.

It is useful since your work shows what actually can be done at a small scale. 

Thanks to your build we have been taught how metalwork actually can be accomplished on a model ship.

Truly amazing!

Well, if you opt for another sail yacht, how about Lulworth?

At present I can not help in the steam object trade.

18 hours ago, KeithAug said:

I am currently wondering what to build next.

Well, to refresh our memories you can start by just list what you've built so far 😉 

Then I am certain there will be suggestions from the audience here 🙂 

About your GN, and schooners in general, such beautiful boats! 

Thanks for likes and comments! Always appreaciated 🙂 

So, filler work continued in stern area. Since I hadn't drafted this part mostly due to lazyness all pieces were cut oversized.

First a copule of pictures for scale...

I especially like the second picture and the little fella with the torch. What also can be seen in the second picture is how even and nice all the filler pieces are.

Mine, not so much as we'll see shortly.

In the next picture starboard side is more or less roughly to shape. Port, as can be seen, is not started.

When both sides where filled and after some initial sanding with 60 and 100 grit paper I drew a bunch of waterlines to see the shape more clearly.

Looks okay from this angle...

Not so much from this angle (see below) 😮 

As the lines reveal the lady needs to loose some pounds from her rear end. (Do Not, I repeat, do Not say that to the Admiral!)

The lines should in a perfect world describe a nice arch and lines from both sides should meet att no more than 90 degrees to the centreline. Problematic areas are highlighted.

After even more sanding things are starting to look okay.

A bit wavy close to the centreline, but I put that in the bag for hard to reach areas when drawing the waterline.

Right side up and things are looking even better (yup, I'm biased).

Now over to the rabbet and planking can soon be started. Yay!

Pax et bonum, friends!

Fascinating!

Well done to say the least! 🙂 

Thanks guys for all the well-wishes ❤

A couple more progress photos today.

The shapes are a bit crude, but nothing some sanding can't fix. "Oh, glorius sanding" 

I don't know if you've been dying for an update?

Anyway, at last, here is one. 🙂 

Since last update I have been fairing the outside of the frames. I used my blue Bosch orbital sander. All in all it looks good. Areas left are closest to the keel where more work is needed.

For the next step I have been debating if I should start carving the rabbet or if I should try to make the cant frames at the stern.

After some messing around with the rabbet just to see if it was plausible to work on I decided to focus on the aft section. The challenge to solve was for some kind of jig for ease of fitting all these flimsy and small frame pieces. On the real ship the stern is completely filled with timber and I intend to do likewise.

As can be seen in the images the structure is movable and the upper part is detachable. To get the shape right I switched from one type of CAD to another... that is from Computer Aided Design to Cardboard Aided Design 😄 

The upper face of the lower part is the deck line and the upper face of the top part is the top of stanchions line.

From the book it is clear that the rail stanchions only go halfway down to the keel bar the foremost one. That is a blessing since it will be much easier to fit those compared to the first pair seen in the pictures.

Another subject under debate is my health. It was supposed to be a DT for pre-operative planning but instead it became me vs cancer Round 2. At the moment I've been to one MRi last Monday and was right away scheduled for another one three weeks from now. The worry is metastatis in the liver.

What can I say... Life is what it is and there is no guarantee for a long and healthy life for any of us. Try to make the most of it or as Gandalf says to Frodo:

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

Voliá!

Here I am again. No boating this summer to blame, instead  a lot of other fun activities.

I guess the picture material calls for some sort of celebration, right? Yep, that is framing done. Well, almost... there are filler pieces that goes up to the stem and then there are the stern timbers also. Now I must make plan for sanding the hull and how to support it. My plan for now at least is to temporary glue strakes to the timber tops. That will give me an even curvature of the frames. 

As far as my drafting goes I had made a couple of mistakes so I had to redo 4-5 pieces. Not much at all and I'm satisfied of the result.

Nice progress Vaddoc!

If you decide to paint the hull I'd say it will look very authentic with those small cracks and gaps. The paint will of course fill the gaps somewhat and then it will just look like any wooden boat after a winters storage 😉

Keep it up!

Hi Keith!

Just catching upafter some absence on my part.

Excellent progress and you truly deserve every superlative comment. 

Alas, what the others have said!

Keep it up 🙂

It has been a while since I last checked in. Glad to find some good progress Bolin!

Keep it up!

Lovely work Keith!

Keep it up!

Me again. Thanks for likes and comments! Always appreciated.

As can be seen in the photos below progress is being made. My goal is one frame per day. As of now, #30 is glued in place (yes, after the picture was taken) which means I'm not exactly up to target. After frame zero, actually no 22, I'm on the home stretch regarding framing. The hull shape is starting to show now.

Apart from that, not much else to report at the moment. Feeling quite well and been out MTB-ing a couple of times in the last week. Feels good!

Nice progress Bolin.

I think that with this kind of builds, where there is no unambiguous documentation a bit of artistic license is always allowed. 🙂 

You can always add Meta as source of inspiration to the Baltic schooner.

Keep it up!

I thought that it's time to treat the audience with a small update.

The "quick recovery" is unfortunately not what my body was in for. However, on the upside I've skipped the painkillers and I'm back to work tomorrow at 50%. Downside, I still need IV Mon through Fri, but I think that is about to change soon. My bowel is slowly going back to normal speed. Right now I'm only 10-15% above target. It has been 70-90% previously. And I still get (very) tired after any kind of exercise. 

Anyway, that about my health. 

Now about the build. 

Frames are coming along at a slow and steady pace. No 9 is in place. No 10 is what you see resting on the board. Before it got too crowded I took care of the keelson (laying beside the keel structure).

With No 10 in place I'm 1/3 done with building the frames. Parts for No 12 to 32 are already sawn and waiting for their turn. 

If you wonder, the ruler is set at deck level. I chose that as reference instead of any other line. Timber tops will need trimming and the waterline is secondary to the build I thought.

It can't be seen in this photo, but the timbertops are waywing a bit in and out. That will be remedied when the horizontal help beam is removed and sanding commence. 

Also, the templates are mounted to the frames with double adhesive tape. No too tricky to remove after sanding has taken place.

Finally, a Big thank you for likes, comments and well wishes!

On 4/1/2022 at 10:07 PM, vaddoc said:

I am very impressed that you can create a three dimensional fair hull from just 2D plans, I am really looking forward to see how all will come together.

Vaddoc, well, that remains to be seen, doesn't it? And I also am looking forward to see if it will come together.

Anyway, it's been a while and I was not released from hospital on that particular weekend. Instead it became almost three weeks in hospital with an additional surgery Fri April 1st. It's a story for itself and I will not recapitulate it here.

Status now is that I need IV every day to keep my fluids balanced and I can be up and about for a hour or so before pain takes the fun out of it. They've been rummaging about in my lower abdominum and it takes a while before it "sets" again. Hence the pain.

Boatbuildingwise four frames are now in place. Frame no 4 was prepared before my hospital experience and today I felt good enough to glue it in place.

It looks like this:

Four frames done means it is 32 to go...well, one at a time. Slow and steady, slow and steady.

Finally, thank you for likes, comments and well wishes!

Keith, good to see you back at the yard with some progress to show 🙂

Wheel looks okay I'd say.

Well salvaged 🙂

Keep it up!

14 hours ago, Keith Black said:

I thought the workers might have gone on strike

Or maybe out to chase the easter bunnies?

Looks like a good old cabin or deckhouse to me 🙂

Keep it up!

On 3/12/2022 at 9:04 PM, Jim Lad said:

Ain't chemo a fun time in your life!!! 

No John, it's not! 😄

I have managed to build and mount three frames. It's a finicky business to say the least.

On another note, the surgery is done and I'm currently in the hospital. Will be released this weekend as it looks right now. Belly looks like a Swiss cheese with all the patches...

Restrictions are no lifting. No cycling. Nothing heavy for at least 4-6 weeks. Modelboat building should be okay though. 😉

Spirits are, if not high, on a modest level anyway.

Changing subject is always a good diversion for the mind.

And by somemagic the brain works in the background coming up with solutions or inspiration tot he previous task. 😉

Nice!

Have two books on my wish-list 🙂 

I too have seen wheels mounted to the side.

Awkward - yes. But it saves a 90 degree turn for the steering cables at least.

Twin pot petrol sounds likely. But what about a SABB diesel 😉 Link to youtube

Keep it up!

@KeithAug, @FlyingFish Thank you guys!

Yes, I try to keep an upbeat note to this crap called cancer. Makes it easier to bear.

Stay tuned for more updates on my build... I feel there are frames coming soon...