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    The ceiling planks are fitted but I left one side off in the cargo section to show the frames. The planks are clearly reused planks and rough as they would be regularly replaced with whatever was lying around the boatyard. This shows the removable bulheads in slotted boards. These are up against through beams to prevent amphorae shifting into the crew area. Cheerio Dick
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    They are a bit reluctant to supply methylene chloride because of its toxicity so they usually sell other glues to the general public. That's my experience. BUt you can get it if you go to the bulk supplier in your town. They also have these cute squeezy bottles with a needle on it that lets you run the stuff into the join. Worth a try. A couple of boards joined at an exact right angle and positioned like a V will support the sheets while applying the liquid methylene chloride. Dick
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    Thanks, PietFriet. Wise words. I think a little break from the build is needed. There is still enjoyment and, having reviewed all my images, there is enough there to justify a reverse clinker model. A frieze from the Chapter house of Salisbury Cathedral showing noahs ark dated to 1230 CE. Undoubtedly this shows reverse clinker and the sculptor has taken trouble to be accurate. Dick🙂
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    I find myself at a crossroads and I dont know which way the Snark has gone. If I go down the present path I am committed to a long build of a putative vessel using vague assumptions and no hard data. The other path is to shelve the hull and complete my other projects. At the end of the day is this reconstruction TOO frumious to continue. What value is this build to anyone but me and the Bellman?😕 Dick
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    I have completed planking up to deck level and taken the hull off its stand. The hull is seen to be quite barge-like which I believe the hulc was , if it existed, and betrays its probable fluvial origin. Obviously there would be a tendency to leeway and lee boards are not fitted. One of the advantages of reverse-clinker, it is said, is the resistance to leeway given by the horizontally directed plank edges . It is also said that the same feature minimises the amount of heeling in a cross sea. Perhaps the sailors can tell me if this is all cods. The hull is very light but quite strong even without rivets, which I will fit soon. Floors and cross members will add tranverse strength and hopefully prevent twisting or hogging. rivets, Cheers Dick
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    Steven, The proper adhesive for polycarbonate is, I believe, methylene chhloride. This a bit toxic and you have to hold the sheets in jigs and run the liquid along the seam with a needle and syringe. This will actually fuse the sheets together. Superglue will produce clouding at the join. I elected to put he polycarbonate in slotted wooden frames which means they can be replaced if scratched. This is the third large case I have done this way ( see my round ship build, last page). Also see this link: https://www.cutplasticsheeting.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/how-to-glue-polycarbonate/
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    Thank you all at MSW for your help and support during this build. Cheers Dick
  8. woodrat
    I have made a new home for the vessel whom I now name La Serenissima Cheers Dick
  9. woodrat
    That was a bit below the belt, Andrew!
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    It is comforting to think that the unfortunate Baker, when he did vanish away, reappeared in the universe where all Boojums have vanished away.😁 Cheers The Beaver
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    Thanks, Steven, Alberto, andrew and Tony. The Beast is taking shape but I don't know anymore than you what this will be. Since I have applied the bottom strakes, the hull has banana'd a bit and the stress generated has pulled the keel plank away from the support. This seems to indicate that the hull is finding its own curvature. I rather like the appearance so far and no matter if such a beast was never built in Europe, I'm sure there is an alternate snarky universe in which it was. Cheers Dick
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    I got the crumbs out by turning upside down and hitting it with a wooden mallet. I am worried that the hulc model may turn out to be a bread-barge in disguise after all. So the Port Admiral may still win. Dick
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    Our hearts bleed with empathy oozing from our every pore at the thoughts of our southern brothers and sisters in thrall to Covid. The least we can do is have some more dip and another sip of wine. 😢 The Port Admiral did not want to release the bread-boat back to the boatbuilders, however, and tried to claim it as a gift. After a brief mutiny, It has returned to the shed for decking and rigging. Dick
  14. woodrat
    Cheers 🍷 Dick
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    What can I say, Steven, that hasn't been said. This is chocolate for the eyes!! The stand really sets it off. What's next? Dick Oh, and please, put it in a display case before the cat jumps on it
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    Here is the start of planking. The garbord strakes and the next two strakes. Note the rabbeted breasthook at stem and stern into which to bolt the strakes. This I think is the "collar" seen on a lot of pictures of hulcs. Cheers Dick
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    Just to show I haven't repented the errors of my ways, here is the "keel plank" being heat bent to shape and stuck to supporting molds . Cheerio Dick
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    Unfortunately, once the ceiling planks, decks and half-decks are installed, very little of the frames will be visible. Can't be helped. I am debating whether to fill the hold with amphorae which were found in situ at the excavation. Cheers Dick
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    Thanks, Banyan, I think I will just let the wood seak for itself. I have an aversion to stains and paint except under special circumstances. Here is the hull with gunwales fitted and pinned with dowels. The centre plank is jarrah and different to the other planks on the gunwale. I ran out of wood. But it does show up the sigmoid horizontal scarf. Cheers Dick
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    An excellent project Bolin. I look forward to further reports. Dick
  21. woodrat
    Thanks, John and Steven. Post sanding and oiling. These vessels were coated in bitumen but I thought that would not display well. Cheers Dick
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    I have a couple more drafts. One is long and wide the other is shorter and narrower. Cheers Dick
  23. woodrat
    The planking is now complete. After sanding I will work on the internal stringers, internal bulkheads and bitts. The gunwales come last. Cheers Dick
  24. woodrat
    "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. I don't much care where--" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. But there ARE toothed sea-monsters. That's why I don't surf. And there are enough mediaeval illustrations, apart from coins and seals, that show, in some detail, reverse clinker to justify such a representation. I will show the pictures in a later post. These pictures of a patia show reverse clinker being used to produce a large upsweep to the bow. The workmanship is superb. A patia is worth a model in its own right. Dick
  25. woodrat
    Yes, indeed, Andrew. With the Abominable Snowman at the tiller, a Sasquatch as the forrard hand and a unicorn in the hold. And yes, it should be an hulc. Am I planning to put castles on it? It would look like a nude banana without them Dick

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