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HMMMM, her jib is backed. I wonder why they haven't tacked the jib over to the starboard tack?

Good luck with the build. "The immortal memory" indeed.

Sweet progress. Love that stern.

Nice build.

As someone with a bit (small bit) of time serving in submarines, this is a VERY cool build.

Yup, she's a beauty.

This will be a nice build to follow. I do love a schooner.

Nice work. She's such a beautiful ship, she's worth doing over to get just right.

Somewhere I have drawings of the internal workings of ALGOMARINE's unloading gear. I had to draw them out as part of my cadet time. I'd pass on trying to model that as well.

Tom, to answer your question about coaming height. In a sailing vessle with a cockpit, it is preferable (though not always done) to have the opening to the cabin also known as the companionway at a higher height than the coaming surrounding the cockpit. The reason for this is pretty evident when you think that a wave could poop her and flood the cockpit. If the opening to the vessel is lower than the level of the cockpit coaming, the water trapped in the cockpit will flood below. If the opening is higher, then the cockpit (which should be restricted to the smallest practical size in an oceangoing vessel for just this reason) contents cannot flood below decks. An option often used to get around the lack of space to do this properly is to fit drop boards that extend higher than the coaming. The problem with this solution is that the crew must fit these boards before they encounter heavy weather in order for them to work. As far as keeping water that has washed down the deck from flooding the cockpit.... Yes, that is true. However it is not entirely possible to keep ALL water out of the cockpit in really nasty weather and the best insurance is to have your companionway separated from the cockpit by a bridge deck (small seat/deck that is level with the rest of the deck) and a coaming around the cockpit. Keep the accomodation companionway higher than the deck level and keep the cockpit small with oversized drains. This is all stuff that should be looked after by the NA who designs the boat. There are many MANY illdesigned vessels out there today. They cost a lot of money and are comfortable alongside in port. They hardly meet the minimum safety requirements for proceeding offshore. Large windows and skylights, big open cockpits.... All these things are nice to have in port but at sea, most seasoned sailors will have a vessel that has the smallest round (not square) portlights, and the smallest cockpit possible. A vessel with a larger cockpit will often carry her liferaft in the cockpit. It is no longer useful to stand in as you'll hit your head on the boom but it displaces the water that would otherwise swamp the boat. The most famous cruising couple, Lin and Larry Pardey built their boat, a small 30 foot cutter similar to this, with NO COCKPIT at all. Therefore no chance of being swamped by a cockpit that won't drain. Plus they've gained a ton of space below decks. They have added strength from uncut deckbeams under the deck in way of where the cockpit would have been. I love this stuff. So cool to think about. Hope this isn't too rambling and that it answers your question. Sorry about stealing the thread. I now return you to the build you were looking for. Cheers, Daniel

I disagree. Though respect your opinion. I find the beauty in a lot of these projects are in the design details. Working at a scale that allows you to replicate everything to scale is great. If you leave a hatch door too thick, or have a coaming out of scale, it tells the eye immediately that you're not looking at the real thing. To me the height of this art/craft/skill is being able to trick the eye into thinking that you're looking at the real thing in full scale. The thick cockpit coaming you had would never pass that test for anyone with an interest in yacht design and beautiful boats in general. It just looks off. Kudos on correcting that.

I have found that sawdust from the boards being sanded do not result in the same colour. My experience was mostly with WRC as opposed to sapele or other hardwoods. I found they came out much much darker than I would have hoped for.

I'd love to do Aggy one day. Beautiful ship.

I never knew that about the masts. I knew of the "Nelson Checker" but didn't know it extended to the masts as well.

I have never really had much of an appreciation for just how beautiful these ships were. The detail is outstanding. Imagine spending that kind of money on mere decoration in today's world? Unheard of. I'm glad we have the opportunity to see and build these ships as models because we'll never see another full sized version like this again.

That triworks is VERY cool. I don't know if you've seen it but if you log on to the woodenboat forum at www.woodenboat.com/forum you'll see a thread about the MORGAN and her restoration. There is a gentleman who volunteers at the Seaport museum and brings his camera in. In fact, here's the link to that thread: http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?109593-Charles-W-Morgan-Restoration-A-Volunteer-s-Perspective-1 It's a fairly lengthy thread but absolutely FILLED with detailed photos of her as well as other interesting things at Mystic Seaport Museum. Video of old single lung engines, big slow speeds, lots of cool stuff. The gentleman who took all the pictures I believe took on the restoration of her galley stove to the point of replacing cast feet or something if I recall correctly. I'm sure if you haven't seen it yet, I've just ruined about 4 hours of your Saturday night browsing it. Beautiful job you've got going there. Keep it up. Cheers, Daniel (BTW, my latest build thread is http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?127530-Catspaw-build)

Looks like a great coppering job to me.

Would you recommend her as a first POB build? I've only ever built plastic kits before but would love to do some wood kits at some point.

Brings back memories. I remember working in the tunnel with the tunnelmen one night. Got paid overtime for that work. Lost a shovel to the belt. Just ripped it out of my hands and ended up in a coal pile somewhere. I wonder if anyone ever found the handle and blade in a boiler or something.

Smooth looking hull you've got there.

Step three, add pictures. Don't worry, you're two steps ahead of me already.

This is a neat build. Awesome attention to detail.

I have no idea what there is under the casing on that class of sub but in our boats, there are so many lines, pipes, tubes, wires etc that it's hard to keep track of it all. Greasy and cramped when you do a casing crawl. Submarines sure are an interesting craft.

This was the my first attempt at lofting, probably 15 years ago or so. I wasn't terribly successful, mostly because I didn't have any battens in my university dorm room. My next attempt, a 13 foot CATSPAW dinghy in full scale went much better.

Sit on the deck outside the coaming. I think looks trump function in that case.