Kevin

stunning work as usual 

i would like to wish everyone Merry Christmas, and hope everyone has a safe new year

i would like to wish everyone Merry Christmas, and hope everyone has a safe new year

1 minute ago, clearway said:

Love these vanguard fishing smacks- speaking from practical experience as the son of a fisherman you certainly feel at one with the water in a force 6 gale in a 50foot wooden fishing vessel (unlike submariners who hide underneath the waves😁).

 

Keith

lol in my 30 years of being a submariner, i never once tried fishing once dived

good evening everyone

Thank you for comments and likes

with the the keel fitted on ok, and the clever rabbet patterns i can get on with the 2nd planking using 1mm x 4mm pear strips

taking my time i have managed to achieve something, that

A looks tidy

B i am really happy with,

maybe its not perfect but that why i needed to do this kit, 

thank you OC hope you have a nice Christmas, and a better new year you both deserve it

Very nice indeed

Tremendous work, that beam makes so more sense, well done

good evening everyone

thank you for comments and likes, and apologies for not interacting so much on the forum recently

boy i am rusty when it comes to planking and so real pleased I never went straight in with the Indy when she is released, Victory was the last kit i fully planked and that was over 15years ago

1st planking with the 1mm lime is now complete, and the prow with the stern post are glue in position

10 minutes ago, Haliburton said:

No excuses needed here Kevin - I always enjoy following your work and cameo appearances by doggie.
Scott

lol this one?

good evening everyone

another kit and excuses for it

it has been a bit chilly here in the UK recently, in the mornings the mancave has been down to 4 degs C, and i was finding it impossible to do 1mm PE with frozen fingers working on the Britannic , thats the first excuse, 

the next one is that in have the new Vanguard Models HMS Indefatigable on order

the weakest excuse is i need to relearn some basic wood skills hence the novice kit Lady Eleanor

this is a christmas pressie to me from the Admiral (yes early)

the MDF false keel with the bulkheads dry fitted, everything fits lovely

1/64 v 1/200

i even have room on the freezer

early fairing

dry fitting the lower upper deck, a maple veneer fits over this after the hull planking is complete

bulwarks, everything is a pleasure to fit

first lime planking this is the first of the double planking

The Fifie is a design of sailing boat developed on the east coast of Scotland. It was a traditional fishing boat used by Scottish fishermen from the 1850s until well into the 20th century. These boats were mainly used to fish for herring using drift nets, and along with other designs of boat were known as herring drifters.

While the boats varied in design, they can be categorised by their vertical stem and stern, their long straight keel and wide beam. These attributes made the Fifies very stable in the water and allowed them to carry a very large set of sails. The long keel, however, made them difficult to manoeuvre in small harbours.

Sailing Fifies had two masts with the standard rig consisting of a main dipping lug sail and a mizzen standing lug sail.[1] The masts were positioned far forward and aft on the boat to give the maximum clear working space amidships. A large fifie could reach just over 20 metres (66 ft) in length. Because of their large sail area they were very fast sailing boats.

Fifies built after 1860 were all decked and from the 1870s onwards the bigger boats were built with carvel planking, i.e. the planks were laid edge to edge instead of the overlapping clinker style of previous boats. The introduction of steam powered capstans in the 1890s, to help raising the lugs sails, allowed the size of these vessels to increase from 30 feet (9.14 m) to over 70 feet (21.34 m) in length. From about 1905 onwards sailing Fifies were gradually fitted with engines and converted to motorised vessels.

There are few surviving examples of this type of fishing boat still in existence. The Scottish Fisheries Museum based in Anstruther, Fife has restored and still sails a classic example of this type of vessel named the Reaper. The Swan Trust in Lerwick, Shetland have restored and maintain another Fifie, The Swan, as a sail training vessel. She now takes over 1000 trainees each year, and has taken trainees to participate in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Races to ports in France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland as well as around the UK. The Isabella Fortuna is owned by the Wick Society. 

im quite happy to take blame but certainly not for you watching itv lol

that looks fantastic, but that is also a awful amount of work

you made a lovely job of this, i have just started mine

build progress is going to slow down for a while now (not stop), the cold weather is making it more difficult to handle very small PE, meanwhile i am going back to wood in preparation for my next big build in Feb,  

took her out into the winter sunshine and tried to get a few better  photos

what a lovely build

37 minutes ago, yvesvidal said:

And she said NO !!!!! You have way too many boxes !!

 

Yves

just the opposite, said yes, and go for the boxwood as well, lol i must have hidden the boxes well

22 hours ago, Mike_H said:

Now this is very exciting news.  Time for some serious conversations.

i have already had those conversations

49 minutes ago, realworkingsailor said:

Hopefully this won't fix won't end up looking too ugly......

 

Andy

you can do it Andy

9 minutes ago, chris watton said:

Looks fantastic, well done, Kevin!

Thank you 

good evening everyone

thank you for comments and likes

i have now moved to the front end working around the bridge and the forward stack, but even at this stage i am moving bits of titanic as they dont appear on this hull

most of the lighting is now done, i will try and get nav light to work, but doubt i will be doing any mast lights 

it would seam that none of the links i shared work anymore, perhaps i should delete the topic

lovely work

6 hours ago, DanielD said:

This is a spectacular build. I'm getting ready to start my own Amerigo Vespucci and will frequently review your log as I build mine.

I have also been following his build for a few years now, as I try to try to finish mine