Cutty Sark by My Fathers Son - Restoration

[My Fathers Son]

If anyone has wondered why there have not been any recent updates from me its because I have had to put CS to one side for a bit.

 

We brought two kittens into the house a month ago and they get into everything.  I cant do anything without them sticking their noses in it and they would create havoc with CS so she is up high on the shelf and is going to have to stay there for a little while.

 

In the mean time I will still be popping in to keep up with every one elses progress.

 

Simon

 

[Jim Lad]

Enjoy the new rulers of your house, Kevin! 

 

John

[Keith Black]

 Simon, enjoy their kittenness. 

[My Fathers Son]

Well, my Kittens are now 6 months old and instead of tiny bundles of fur they are now 3kilo bundles of high energy fur running through the house destroying everything in their path. So Cutty Sark is staying right where she is, on a high shelf, out of reach and not attracting their insatiatiable curiosity.

 

I have been looking for plans for Thermopylae but also, I have never actually made a hull and I do not want to cut my teeth on a crucial one. So, I have scaled down my Cutty plans to 1/200 and am taking a dry run at cutting out and assembling the parts. Going well so far.

[Keith Black]

 Ah, the joys of fuzzy teenagers. Simon, enjoy their kittenness while you can and post some photos of the little buggers. 

[My Fathers Son]

Well, they started out yey big.but now they are this big.

 The black and white male is Kobi and is now 3.5kg. The female that is mostly black is only 2.5kg but she is quick and full of mischief. 

 

I have been sat at that table in the garden making a practice hull at 1:200 and they just walk through my work space or climb up on to my lap, no matter what I am doing.

 

Bless them

 

[Keith Black]

Cute little shredders. I nicknamed our cat Emma, Stump Grinder. 

[My Fathers Son]

They ate at the stage of having mad half hour hour bursts of energy running full speed from one end of the house to the other. Heaven help any thing or one in their way.

[Keith Black]

 I don't know how old they are when they grow out of that stage. Emma turned two in May and she still tears through the house like her tail is on fire. 

Edited August 22, 2022 by Keith Black

[My Fathers Son]

So my baby's are now a year old, so I have taken down my practice hull to see what I can get away with without the fiends getting too curious. 

 

So far, they have not been overly curious but the boy, now nearly 6kg, does attempt to sit with me when I have been working on it.

 

i have been planking the hull with 3mm strips of 3/16" basswood. At this width, i am able to manuaver it into place keeping it flat against the bulkheads and curving up to the last strake.

 

I have also started setting up the deck for the masts.  I have purposely left the lower strokes of so I can create a box below decks to receive them. 

 

I am torn between removing the extensions of the frames to install the gully now or to install the sides above decks now avoiding glueing to them. I suspect the former is the correct action as I am planking over a false deck.

 

I am aware the deck planks are not to scale, but this is just to give me some practice.

 

I am still very nervous about taking CS down of the shelf, but it would seem that I am able to take on tasks I can do without her in front of me. Still have the majority of the sails to set up so hopefully I will be able to get back to making progress with the real thing.

 

Simon

 

[My Fathers Son]

Since starting a new job after being made redundant I have been too tired when I get home so have not really done much. That plus while undergoing a stress echo cardiogram, they induced a minor heart attack which meant another week stay in hospital. 

I have been told to relax and there is not much more relaxing than making small boats. 

I wanted to improve on my captains gig as the proportions were all wrong. My second attempt was better but my Admiral and I think I could do better. So I go ahead and make a new design in FreeCAD as version 21 is available.  I cut out the parts for the former and create a frame and keel. 

I go inside to make a coffee and hear a sound like a blow torch, rush out to my work area and find that two disposable lighters have somehow ignited and my tray with all my modelling stuff is ablaze.

I managed to snuff it out without too much drama but you can be sure that my formers and the lattest frame attempt are all gone.

So ba k to drawing board. Created new design in FreeCAD to modify the former.

I recently aquires a 15" Dremell scroll saw second hand and used this to cut out the parts.

Rhe ribs were present by wrapping the soaked strip around a piece of 15mm copper pipe which I then warmed over a candle. This made it very easy to press the cut length over the frame to achieve their final shape.

Next up, planking.

[My Fathers Son]

So a little progress, still have the seats to install and some brass work to sort out. The gunwhales will be painted black. I am liking the proportions much more than previous attempts. 

[Keith Black]

 Very nice, Simon. 

[My Fathers Son]

Well, that's the seats installed and the paint is as far as I go with this. Any brass work I do is going to be out of scale

[NenadM]

Nice work!