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Yes, it's the waterline reference, about 1/8" above waterline. The fainter lines further up are for bead molding and channel placement.
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Here's the decking applied.Main and poop are glued in, Forecastle is just placed in, needs trimming.
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Looking very good, Stan. Can't wait to see the plating! Nic
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I also have to carve out a notch to fit the bowsprit. I cut the sides of the notch with a razor saw, and used the chisel blade in my Xacto handle. Slow going, but not difficult.
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In my working on the Red Jacket, I neglected to sand in the deck camber before I put the bulwarks on. So now I have 3 choices: 1- ignore it 2- rip the bulwarks out 3- get creative. I can't do #1 because the laser-cut deckhouses have the curvature cut into the bottoms already. As for #2 - NO WAY JOSE ! So I got creative, and made a spine and ribs to the 3/32 camber. I made sure the ribs supported the deckhouse edges, fiferails, and mast locations. I think it will work just fine. tapering the ribs is much easier than trying to sand the entire deck, anyway.
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Yes, we will. As with all our kit pieces, they will be available individually. It will probably take some weeks to get them going.
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I'm sure it would. You would have to mark the two edge rails and glue the battens to them, that's all.
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And guess what? IT WORKED! So well, in fact, that we will be adding this into the three kits we offer that have battens (Pauline, Bowdoin, and Notman)
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So the rigging is done, and it's time to add the battens to the port shrouds. Now, that's a job I don't particularly like. After attaching hundreds of them on the Charles Notman, I decided to try something new and novel. Why not laser cut the battens at the correct spacing, and leave a support strip on each side? That way you have a single piece, correctly spaced, that you can glue to the shrouds. When the glue dries, all you have to do is snip off the excess, and you have perfectly spaced battens the easy way!
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We do have shot for the kit, ( 2 sizes I think) but because it is a kit specific part, it is not on the web. You can call and request it, however. Nic
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Moving on, the gallows are attached. Check out the just visible inside of the companionway door - I'm kinda proud of that detail.
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It's Floquil CN Green - we still have a bunch of bottles of that color to sell.
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Living in Maine, I invite you to come visit our shop and gallery in Searsport, outside Belfast. Nic
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Wanted to do another angle, but the file upload is failing. Will take another photo tonight.
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Starting to put it all together now. Added registration numbers, everything you see is glued down. What's left is the gallows, fish racks, rigging, and fish nets.
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Beginner's class in rigging techniques
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