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Very nice and well fabricated windlass Erik! I really like the hull form in the picture above in your previous post. You can quite easy see the resemblance with the Swedish cog that I built a couple of years ago. Keep it up!

I'm sorry John, it just slipped my tungoe. Let me rephrase... Watching some rugby. It seems to be green against black and for rhe moment one team has more points than the other. May the best team win!

Hello to all, thanks for likes and comments along the way. 🙂 Planking along here. Just thought that I would show my take on the spiling business. It is not unique, in fact, it is what Chuck shows in one of his planking tutorials. It goes like this... 1. Use quite broad, frosted tape and run a pencil along the edge of the previous plank. 2. Since the sides should be more or less identical, I work the planks in pair. Put the tape on the plank and also take a short strip around the ends to keep them together. 3. Over to the gigantic band-saw and cut along the scribbled line. 4. Since it is a bit wavy, sanding is needed to smooth the curve out. Here you can see my contraption for holding planks and other narrow stuff while planing or sanding. 5. Over to the band-saw again and cut the planks down to width, or more likely, a bit over sized, but closer to spec at least. With a short support on the band-saw fence equal width is easy to maintain over curved stock. 6. After that, more sanding and now down to specification. It is a bit of a struggle since the planks spring down under pressure, so care must be taken to have support and not to sand away too much. 7. And finally, after a steam bath, glued and clamped in place. Holes drilled for treenails. It doesn't really show on the picture but extensive care is taken to have the plank sit firmly in the rabbet and also beveled to sit tight against the previous strake. 11 strakes done, 12 to go... yay, almost at half way! Now it's time for some WC Rugby. All Blacks against Ireland in quarter final 2. It will be a humdinger of a match (we hope :-D) And yes, It's All Blacks all the way, of course! Cheers!

I agree in what Keith said above, your painting skills is really something to aspire to. Beautiful!

Apologies to Vaddoc for temporarily hi-jacking his thread. Chapmans Architectura Navalis don't show that level of detail. But I found a couple of other leads. 1. Underhills "Plank on frame models" vol 2, plate 3, shows a ships boat (probably from a merchant man from the looks of it) and it has double knees on every thwart. 2. Short story first. A long while ago my wife saw a brown book about model ship building and thought "well that is a brown meager looking book, lets buy it for hubby". As it turns out it was a joy to read. Lovely language and descriptions. The book in question is "Ship model builders assistant" by Charles G Davis. First edition was 1926. Anyway, in chapter 17 "Boats" Davis refers to a publication from US Gvt called "Standard Boats of the US Navy" and he describes it as details as down to the last nail and screw. Then Davis goes on to refer to a French publication as "In one of the six volumes of ship's plans, published in France and compiled by Admiral de Paris, there is a set of plans showing the shape of each sized boat used in the French navy at the time". Unfortunately there is no reference list in the book so I don't have any more information about that publication. If not exactly what you are looking for it is at least something. Glad to help 🙂

Looks good Vaddoc! Colouring is a challenge, to say the least. White is good choice, never really wrong (and maybe not right every time either). @allanyed I don't know if that detail shows on Chapmans Architectura Navalis, but there is a plate with ships boats in there. Keep it up!

It does look steady though 🙂 Ah, masts, that's in the distant future for me, but it is looking good Alan. I also liked the "after" water on your carving. Big improvement. Keep it up!

Not much to show really, but I decided to break the monotony of planking with another exciting task, tree-nailing 😄 Well, not that drawing bamboo and drilling myriads of small holes is less monotone, but anyway, better do it section by section. Holes are marked with a pointy awl before drilling and holes are about 6-7 mm deep to stop short in the frame. For planking I use diluted regular carpenters white glue and for the tree nails it's CA, medium viscosity for any that wonder. And with tree nails, or trunnels. However, on the real ship it was bolts with nut and washers. Back to the shed.

Thank you for the kind words Nils and don't worry, it is still a long time left of building at my current speed (or lack thereof).

Ah, I see Andy @FlyingFish, well, I do measure the gap and divide by the number of strakes left to fit. I also know that the thorough practice is to use lines or strips and dividing the hull in sections as to have a nice run of all planks. That is for the next build though... Right now I'm more interested in having a reasonably fair (i.e not perfect) run of the planks.

Trials and tribulations! But the end result looks very good. Your perseverance paid off Vaddoc. I am also glad to see that there is some kind of time study official in the vicinity to keep an eye on you 😉 😄 Keep it up!

Thank you John, that is true. We are our own worst critics. Thanks also for the likes guys. Thank you Andy. I am not quite sure what you mean. In case of spiling, that is needed for the upper part of the transom because those planks twist in a very unnatural way. In the bow it is more a question of keeping a firm eye on the lay of the planks. They have a tendency to dip down when looked on from a front. Also, I try to stick to the mentioned number of strakes from the book and hence I know the width of the planks midships and at the bow. But basically, I'm just wingin' it 😄

Mark, that depends on preferences. Yes, four days of marvelous sailing, then the engine gave in. We were counting on at least 25-30 days of sailing 😞 Over to the build. Painstakingly slow this planking business. Last time I planked a hull was over 30 yrs ago. Glad I already decided to paint the boat so I can hide the imperfections (because there are, trust me). I also don't bother to have a tidy workshop so you other guys out there won't feel so bad about yours. 😄 Cheers!

Hi all, first real update for the season. Okay, so the potential "bobo" was the arrangement for the bowsprit. The drawing only show one post but luckily I was a bit slow to build during the spring and had a look in the book. Of course there should be two posts to support the bowsprit. So, some more bracing was needed as well as a step for the heel of the second post. Tow pictures showing the small progress that in no way correlates to the hours it took. But, hey, that's true for every part of a scratch build right? I will leave them there and come back later for detailing. Note, only dry fitted at this time. Now on to the garboard...

Hi all, Just to let you know that I'm still around and slowly turning my attention to the shop again as the days grow shorter. Updates to come.

Never heard of him, so I had to some reading up on the subject. And no, Captain Horatio Pugwash has not been aired on Sweden television. I think I'm old enough to know that since being raised by "Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter" (that will due for a funny translation) which was a 70's children show that educated us toddlers in subjects like "above", "below", "in front of", "behind". Memory games, and the interesting characters of "Spara" and "Slösa" (two females, one economic and the other spending). For the audience, my knowledge about Pugwash is down to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Pugwash The page contains some useful strong language to use when things not go to plan 😄

Roger that!

That whipping technique is usually used to stop line ends to fray. It is quick and easy when you get the hang of it. For a more secure whipping one can use needle and sew it on. Anyway, your whippings on the mast look the part!

Keith, that is indeed true! Albeit, the first time after surgery I had troubles standing up concentrating for any period of time due some uneasiness in the "behind". Now I'm fine though. But as you guess, I have a lot of life to live now. Got myself a brand new mountainbike and the sailboat is also now in the water. The boat was on the hard the entire last season. I have actually contemplated over the build and realized what would have been "bobo" down the line. Anyhow, I'll see if I can get myself in the mood for building anytime soon or not.

Okay, so this may be your first ship model, but man, you have painted before! That Cap'n looks extraordinary. Keep it up!

Congratulations on the success with your first ever small boat! My first try went into the bin for reference. Keep it up!

On the pictures Janelle provided you can also see the relative thickness of the knees. The kit provided are definitely too thick. Nice work on the harpoon 🙂

Looking good Henke! I see that you keep the gun tackles to a minimum, which I think is a sensible choise. If not done exactly to scale, gun tackles can definitely bug up an otherwise nice ship model. There will be more than enough details when the rigging comes together to "oh" and "ah" over in the end 😉 Keep it up!

My guess is that they wanted a kit to be out as soon as possible. It was probably quite a hype when they found the ship in the late 1950:s. And for the first decades it was kept in a temporary location primarily used for conservation of the ship. Though it doubled up as a museum. It wasn't until 1990 that it was moved to its current location in the dedicated Vasa museum. That said, you're doing a good job on enhancing the old kit harbor johnny!

Good save and good job on that forward decking Vaddoc! Tricky is an understatement I think. Keep it up!