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  1. Katsumoto
    I see what you mean. Yes the bulkheads came down almost to the keel. I uploaded a picture below which shows a green triangle. That is where you trim the width of the false keel. After that, no rabbet is needed for this build. Hope you take on a ship like this, it's a pleasure to build, I really enjoy it. It's not to big, fast result after something has done, not to expensive to buy and easy to storage if you do not have a permanent "building area" like I have.
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    Hi Kier, No bothering here mate, thanks for asking. I didn’t form a rabbit into the false keel or into the keel. I should have shaved a bit off the stern side on the false keel. I didn’t that either, but I had to sand off a lot of the first layer to get the proper width by not doing so. But it turned out allright. 🙂 hope the answer make some sense...
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    Thanks guys! Next update will be the sails placed on the ship....
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    Love the endcaps. Please unstained, I like your creative solution for the endgrain issue. 👍🏻
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    **Chapter - Long-winded** Hello my friends! So, still working on the sails and it's a long proces when you do this by hand as I do. So, stick with me please and forgive me that it takes a bit longer and I perhaps challenge your patience. What I have done so far is to use the pre-fab sails and took everything apart and build it up again with a different approach. I stained the cloth, stained the rope that goes around the sail (do not know the English term) and sewed everthing by hand into a sail again. After spending some midnight hours doing so, this is the finished result... It's time to put the sails on the yards, but the instruction manual was not clear again. The drawings stated that the sails are connected to the yards by two loops in the rope that goes around the sail. It was not what I liked so, I changed this as well.... Continues with a lot of "lose ends".... So the proces step by step... After all sails has been connected to the yards.... Recap, the pre-fab sails from the box.... The finished result after altering the pre-fab sails....what do you think? I did it again and bashed everything my fingers can get a grip on....oh well....such is life... Peter aka "the sewing machine"
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    I would leave the violin blocks as they are on the main mast yard. It’s hardly noticable. 🙂 you make excellent progress and I really love the details and quality of you as a builder. Such a nice ship. the picture where the main sail first is shown is spectaculair. Peter
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    It will be a ship in no time at all...when you sorted out the bulkheads and keelplate, before you know it the frame of the vessel stands. Some sanding is needed on the bulkheads so they can accept the planks of the hull. Then the deck will be placed...some paint on the hull. Mast and rigging and she is finished.👌🏻 nothing to it really...you’ll be a master in no time at all madame! 😉 so, one step at the time and keep asking questions no matter what, it’s a good way to learn new things afterall. Peter
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    Absolutely stunning model! Congratualtions with this magnificient result. Proud you should be at yourself. Work of art. The paintscheme, sails, rigging, decks, all high class. Well done my friend, well done!!!
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    I didn't shown the pictures of my blood every where on the table due to the fact I used my fingers as a pincushion.... I doubt my insurance policy would cover it if I choose a career out of it!
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    Good luck with your first wooden ship Jo! I’m sure you manage this just fine and the guys and galls of this forum has your back. 😉 I’ll hope she (the ship) is a pleasure to build Peter
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    Great work on the rails. Much better than the brass things included with the kit. Top job Sir!
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    Will the sails become stiff after applying the GAC 400? So you can model the sails in a specific form like the wind that blows into the sails?
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    **Itching - Stitching** Hi mates! The rigging continues, but I'm a bit frustrated about the AL drawings and the lack of explanation. They show only a picture about the rigging, but I have to figure out by myself where the lines goes to from A to B and how to make it work. I really struggle with it, but I'm hanging on and pushing forward into the right direction. So, from this moment on I focussed on the pre-fab sails. As I soaked them into tea earlier, I'm pretty satisfied with the overall colour. However, I think the SM deserves just a bit more on the quality of the sails. I think it will complement the model and so I choose to "upgrade" the pre-fab sails a bit so they look a bit better. So, the first sail as it is, soaked in tea... Time to pull the poor thing apart... Then put it back together... I do not have access to a sewing machine so I do this part by hand with needle and thread. And the result... 1 down, many to go. To bad all the small holes of the previous stitches are shown in the fabric, but I can't get them out... I'll guess I have to live with that... Until next time, Peter
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    Very well organized sir! Good luck with this beauty and hopefully everthing is going better with your arm.
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    This is a nice kit doh. Wood quality and metal party are excellent. The plans however are doubtable... good luck with this beauty. 🙂
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    What a great gift Vossie! It’s a beautiful knife, really Sharp as well...so Nice. Well done sir!
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    Hi mtbediz sir, I don’t do anything special to the ropes except using beeswax to wax the ropes before I use it. 🙂
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    Okay, 3 favours, 1 oppose....so the majority wins. I let them as they are. Thanks guys!
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    old Ben Kenobi is saying your deck looks fine. Later with all deck ornaments and things going on when she is finished the attention to your deck will be minimized. Move on and save your energy for your next deck. Finish your ship or she will never set sail. may the force be with you my young padawan!
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    Perfect job so far Mark. Your ratlines and shrouds are top notch work! Keep going!!
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    **futtock shrouds - the wrong decision** Hello my friends! After my last update I completed the other side of the shrouds and ratlines, here's the result! So, both sides are finished concerning the shrouds and ratlines. It was a lot of work, but I didn't know at that time how sailors entered the top. Someone mentioned to me to make "futtock shrouds". By adding this sailors could enter the top! After contemplating with myself I looked at the drawings by AL. On the artistic representation of the model, a small ladder was shown made of rope, but it wasn't into the plans. I thought, let's do it, let's turn the ladder into futtock shrouds. Historically correct or not....and so I constructed some futtock shrouds....I was wrong! Another person mentioned to me that ships of that timeperiod had an "open top". More like round rings of wood on a wooden frame. Sailors entered the top by manoeuvring themselves between the rings and enter the top. Ladders or futtock shrouds were non existing! So....what to do....leave them on or remove them....what would you do....after seeing the next pictures? So, futtock shrouds been made....I moved to the shrouds of the mizzen mast... Thanks for watching, Peter
  22. Katsumoto
    Congratulations with this beautiful build ship. Such a beauty my friend. You have earned a master degree! Kapt. Christos, bon voyage on your journey at the mediteranian sea and beyond!
  23. Katsumoto
    Very nice, Good idea to hold the upper deadeyes with some nails and a wooden board. Well done. The "whipping" of the light colour rope looks excellent!
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    A nice ship she is, good luck with the build sir!
  25. Katsumoto
    I like your solution of the chainplates on the hull much better than WJ suggests. So, time to bring on the lady and set sail to open water! It's a realy nice ship she is....very elegant indeed!

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