Dorade by Kevin - FINISHED - Amati - 1/20 - renamed Dora - completed March 2021

[Old Collingwood]

Great work Kevin,   loving that nibbling.

 

OC.

[Jim Lad]

Crikey!  That's all come together very quickly, Keven.  That deck planking looks really good.

 

john

[Kevin]

good evening everyone

 

i hit a problem this morning, and took until tonight to think through a decent repair

 

the after corner  jogling board either side of the cockpit did not meet the run of planking was infact just over 1mm short, it has taken me all day to think through a solution

in this photo i have tried to go round it but you can see the next board will not be wide enough to fill the gap

pulling all the baords off would not solve  the problem, as you can see they are symmetrical, infill would not work, then tonight whilst dog walking, i had a senior moment and thought make the cockpit boards wider, and that what i did, an 6 hour worry and an hour to resolve, im happy again, personally i dont know how this could have been avoided

 

 

starboard side cut off

found a piece of strip wood the right width

attached it to the joggling board

both sides done and back in place

 

[vaddoc]

A very elegant solution! Well done 

[James H]

Nice catch.

 

I wonder if this was due to a collective lack of width in deck planking.

[BobG]

Nicely done, Kevin. Joggling is not for the faint at heart; a lot of things have to come together precisely for it to look good.

[Old Collingwood]

Thats a great save mate,   I wouldn't have thought of that  I would have been fiddling with the planks.

 

OC.

[Kevin]

7 hours ago, James H said:

Nice catch.

 

I wonder if this was due to a collective lack of width in deck planking.

i was looking at the build you tagged me on the FB Amati page, looks like he might have had the same issue, fwd and aft meet quite well,just that area i now hope i can colour match the infills

[Kevin]

2 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

Thats a great save mate,   I wouldn't have thought of that  I would have been fiddling with the planks.

 

OC.

i would have thrown all my toys out of the pram after a couple of rows, my other solution would have been to take the cocpit surround off, plank and then use it as a template to cut the planks where the two meet, but that would not look right, and look a worse mess

[Kevin]

good morning everyone

 

thank you for comments and likes

 

deck planking continues, 

 

what ever error i have made is continuing through, even though i still dont know if it was a mistake by me, as i have to do the same repair to the foremast joggle plate

 

 

[Kevin]

good evening everyone

one side is nearly completed, what a lot of work to get it this far

[Jim Lad]

Well worth all the work, Kevin. She's looking very nice indeed.

 

John

[Old Collingwood]

Very nice work.

 

OC.

[vaddoc]

Looks very good Kevin! What is the wood supplied for the deck?

[Kevin]

Good evening everyone

 

well the decking was completed, without to much fuss, and everything was the same both side, Joggling is a bit of an art, but got better as time went by

 

then i had a fantastic idea remove the king planks sand them back and re-stain , sort the wonky nibbles out and then varnish the planking before the king plank go back on

 

brilliant idea (actually it was a very very bad idea, just spent three hours getting them back in, they bear no resemblance to what i have been test fitting over the last few days, god i make some work for myself lol

 

the stand is temporary for now i want to paint it a different colour to the hull which will be blue

 

[James H]

That's looking great! Nice idea to remove the king planks too. 

[BobG]

The deck looks great! How in the world did you manage to remove the king plank without breaking it?

[Old Collingwood]

Really nice job on the deck  - very very impressive.

 

OC.

[Kevin]

Good morning everyone

 

well thats game of thrones watched, we thouroughly enjoyed it all 8 seasons,

so now hope to spend a couple extra hours a day on the build until the next boxset, possibly "Killing Eve"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Eve

 

made some progress on the cabin top, i am finding it much harder than anticipated to keep everything clean and new looking, and trying to keep it OOB without extra, although i would like to get some white rigging line,

 

and the box art shows brass rings on the sails, im not sure if thats correct, these are not included as part of the kit

 

 

 

[vaddoc]

Those rings on the sails are almost as big as the portholes! Completely out of scale. Probably better off without.

[Kevin]

good evening everyone

 

work on the yacht continues, the rudder post fitted, the rudder its self will be secured into position later, it will be fixed in a permanent way

 

the structure has now been secured inside the hull, i now need to secure the deck to the sides, as i did not want to much 2 part epoxy dripping everywhere

 

26 holes have been put in, mainly for the scuppers and 4 hawse holes using the PE templete

the scuppers were a real pain, and still need a lot of work to just get two looking the same

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[clearway]

nice work with that deck m8- that looked a proper ballache😁

 

Keith

[Kevin]

6 minutes ago, clearway said:

nice work with that deck m8- that looked a proper ballache😁

 

Keith

its the scuppers that have let it down

[James H]

Really liking this and how quick it's come together. She's certainly gonna be tall when complete.

[Kevin]

On 6/27/2020 at 10:04 AM, James H said:

Really liking this and how quick it's come together. She's certainly gonna be tall when complete.

i found it hard to believe that the mast is 97CM

[Kevin]

good evening everyone

 

i in a position now to think about putting a primer on the hull, but been to wet and windy this weekend

 

the mast is made up, by off centring different different strip wood to create an oval shape, it going to be tall at 97 cm long, still to be tapered off

 

today i have brought another build back from the dead and will now also progress the Amerigo Vespucci   

[BobG]

Big and beautiful!

[Kevin]

good afternoon everyone

 

between sanding priming and filling the AV  hull, lets put some colour on the Dorade

[James H]

Very nice! What sort of paint are you using on that hull?

[Kevin]

the blue is hycote on top of Halfords grey primer, its def the best spray work i have ever done, but no as good as others. personally i am very pleased with it