WBlakeny

Nice work!!  Your "La Créole" is really becoming a beautiful ship, another work of art.

Wow, beautfiul.  Those dutch ships really were work of arts.  Just as your model is...  Nice work Hans

It seems so real.  I'll grab a chair and will follow along, if you don't mind.

I'm following this log as well, i have this one also in my wishlist.

I already bought the plans from Ancre.

You already seems to have a good start.

Beautiful, nice work!

I love the integration of that led in the lamp. It really looks like a candle inside, nicely done.

yes, that's true, i've watched yesterday two times the chapter about hull construction.

Way too much information to get it right away. You have to let it sink in.

I received my dvd yesterday, i've watched the first chapters and already can't wait to try that technique.

I'm really glad i ordered it, money well spend.

Now only to find the time to continue watching it.

Bob, the hull will be 26 centimeters, around 10" i suppose.

I hope to be able to work on her this weekend, i'm a slow builder.

I use a syringe of 5ml, with a rather big needle. The glue is not diluted and i've kept the cap of the needle.

After using it or refilling, i put on the cap, an i can keep the glue for days (weeks) in the syringe.

It's proved very useful for controlling the glue.

Thanks Ray, i'm sure i'll have plenty of joy building her.

Hey Barbossa, glad to have you along. 

For tools i've got some basic power tools, a scroll saw, a sander and a proxxon table saw. The last one i've not used much yet, but that'll change when i'll have to cut my planks.

Then it was time to make my first sawdust.  I glued all the bulkheads on a sheet of ply and then cut them out using a scroll saw. 

After sawing them out (i had to leave enough on them), i used the sander to finetune the bulkheads.

I printed the plans a couple of times, en used them to cut out the forms to make the keel. I temporarily glued them using a paper glue on a piece of cherry wood.  First time i used this wood, and it sure is a difference from the wood used in kits. It feel and looks so much nicer.

First thing i noticed when examing the bulkheads, is that on some of them, the sides were not equal.

Perhaps it was not that bad, maybe in the case of fairing up it would have dissapeared. But i was afraid of taking the risk, so i took the bulkheads and with the aid of my computer i took a mirror image from one side.

Result, both sides equal now

Hi all

This will be my first build log of my first scratch build. 

As I was dreaming of scratchbuilding, about a decade ago (I’m getting old!!) I bought the “Progressive Scratch Building” CD set from seaways.  It seemed to me at the time it was a good start to get into scratchbuilding (and it still does )

It contains the plans and information to build three ships, each one increasing in difficulty. The first one being the Bermuda boat Corsair.

She was built in 1807 and designed for speed. She acted as an inter-island courier.

The corsair seems ideal to start, a small boat, a very simple rigging as no complex fittings to be made. And I like her hull lines, she really must have been a fast little boat.

I’ll build her using cherry, ebony for the wale and maple for her deck.

Nothing wrong with your talent Barbossa, your Diana is looking real good!

It's inspiring for less talented builders, like me.

You really should be proud of her, she really is a beauty!!

I'm in awe of such skills, i truly wish to get there as well one day....  amazing.

Hey Michiel,  I've just finished reading your build log,  she's becoming a real beauty. 

Those old dutch ships, they surely have a certain charm about them .

I like your workshop, wish i had a space like yours to create a similar shipyard.

Seeing those pictures, it feels like beeing in the "musee naval de paris" again.

Truly a masterpiece!