Atlantica by Wintergreen – Scale 1:30 - POF - sail training ketch - a smack of English heritage

[Jim Lad]

Looking really good, Håkan!

 

If you call that workshop 'cluttered' i won't show you a photo of my home work space!

 

John

[Wintergreen]

You are all too kind.

Cluttered or not, I guess I loose a little faith in myself when I see other builders staged photos. It looks so pretty with a calm backdrop and nice, ambient light.

 

[Nirvana]

Stökig hobbyrum? Cluddered workshop?

Then your Santa has been early, the Santa of mine will not be here for another couple of days - and I bet I was on the naughty list, so my workshop won't be touched.

Anyway, that mast looks incredible and your workshop as well.

God Jul till dig och familj.

[vaddoc]

Great to see updates Hakan! The boat looks beautiful and the scale is proper. Looking forward for the rest of the journey.

Have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year!

Best wishes

Vaddoc

[Dr PR]

Very nice!

[Keith Black]

 Hakan, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.

[KeithAug]

She looks beautiful Hakan. Best wishes for the new year - nearly 3 years now. Hopefully many more to come. 

[Wintergreen]

Dear all, I wish everyone passing by here a splendid 2025! Lots of hours in the shed or workshop, whereever it is and of course, lots of hours with the near and dear.

 

Yes @KeithAug, nearly three years now. Three years you wonder? This build started april 2021, which is more than three years. So what's with the three years?

Well, during winter 2021-2022 I went through a cancer treatment. The whole shebang with radiation (dec -21), chemo (dec -21 to feb -22) and a final surgery (end of March -22). 

Don't worry, all is well with me. Yearly checkins with the healthcare to monitor that I stay free from the cr**p.

But since I posted somewhat of a diary on Facebook, I get reminded every winter (like I could forget, right?). But still, memory fades over time and my updates on FB reminds me of how crappy I felt from the chemo. And also how lucky I am to actually writing this.

"Lest we not forget!" as the saying goes.

 

So, to end this update and year (yes John I know you already write 2025 atm), apart from the previous well wishes I also wish everyone a healthy 2025!

Take care and let's continue in 2025!!

[Jim Lad]

And a very happy new Year to you too, Håkan!

 

May the 'C' word never darken our doors again.

 

John

[Wintergreen]

Thanks for likes and visits!

Progress is steady and slow.

Slow because the do and then the undo habit.. I thought to plan ahead and paint the bulwark stanchions white while they were unobstructed.

Turns out it was a bad idea. They are left unpainted on the real ship... so I had to scrape of the paint... instead I dug around my selection of stains and found a suitable colour to mimic weathered oak.

Then there is a lot of fiddling around with the plank sheer inside and out. Inside the stanchions it is quite straight forward bar the lapped joints, which will be handled later. Outside is a lot of templating and then careful sanding and filing to get a good fit.

Pictures in order of work.

I am particular happy that I did not go ahead and glue the king plank in on the entire deck because it will only be found in front of the bollards up front. For the remainder of the deck there will be regular deck planks all the way to the centerline. 

Although I will keep the plank in full length when I actually glue it down to have the short piece up front to be dead centered.

The overhang will be trimmed down to just about an inch (0.8mm in scale) later on.

And this picture I just let in here for I find it wholesome. 😉

More templating to come... Cheers!

[Jim Lad]

Your careful progress is certainly paying off, mate!

 

John

[Wintergreen]

Thanks John 😊

It is a delicate puzzle to file enough but not too much...

[KeithAug]

Excellent work Hakan. Pity about the rework but we all suffer from it.

[Wintergreen]

Thanks Keith, yes, as part of this community it is easy to get addicted to the perfect fit or the exact representation...

Just a short update. Another couple of boards are filed and dry-fitted. Glue will have to wait a fair bit still.

When it is time for glue the inboard plank will be fastened first. Then I can do the final fine trim of the outboard plank against it.

"I worked all nitght, then it dawned on me" ... well not that it matter now, but I think I planked the hull with aspen instead of birch.

And how did you come to that conclusion. Well, I scrapped a veneered cupboard and used the bulk wood for planking. But when I thought of it now, it seemed pointless to use birch as bulk when the veneer was birch... so some searching the www gave me the plausible wood aspen instead. Similarly light coloured and the grain is not obvious. However, aspen is lighter and softer than birch. So, a quick comparison on the scale of similarly sized pieces gave that what I thought was birch (ie the aspen) was a fair bit lighter than actual birch.

But as I said, not that it matter now.

Will however be 100% consistent in using birch for the deck. Hence, the covering boards (or margin planks) are my 2nd attempt...

 

Thanks also for all the likes, fellows!

 

[FriedClams]

Beautiful exacting work as always, Håkan.  

 

Gary

[Wintergreen]

2 hours ago, FriedClams said:

Beautiful exacting work as always, Håkan.  

Well, thank you Gary! Most appreciated.

At the moment the build is somewhat stalled due to an sudden, unexptected bout of organizational frenzy energy that I got. (plus the fact that I noticed that my rediculously expensive Osmo oil had started going off in its can, had to find something to use it on). So I made a mess of the workshop in order to organize it. Makes sense, yes?

You can see the shiny benchtops in the background where I used some of the precious Osmo oil. Hint, the six drawer cupboard and the table behind the bandsaw. Still over a liter left so I poured it into a more suitable jar instead of the original 2.5 liter one it came in.

What is hiding is my newly organized sanding workstation. Picture to come tomorrow. 

Also happy to answer any questions of peculiar, out-of-place items in my shop 😄 

Cheers to all!

[Keith Black]

 Nice workshop, Hakan. 

[Jim Lad]

Plenty of space to work there, Håkan! Looks like you've got a nice supply of timber over there on the far right.

 

John

[Wintergreen]

15 hours ago, Jim Lad said:

Plenty of space to work there, Håkan! Looks like you've got a nice supply of timber over there on the far right.

Thanks Keith and John 🙂 

Yes John, I have. I am very fortunate to have an entire workshop to mess around in. About the supply of timber... you should see my garage... what is in the picture is only a fraction of the supply available to me.

Quite a lot of birch, however lot of it is curly grown. Decent amount of apple (own harvest) and then the common pine. Some fine/slow grown, which can be used to spars, I have salvaged from old furniture and railings and stuff.

 

Here is my organized sanding station. Shopvac is connected to the aft end of the box. I might redo the contraption witht the white top. At present it can hold a Dremel, but I'm contemplating using a power drill instead, that can take larger cylinder/drum sanders. Future will tell.

The two drawers came from a scrapped desk. I still have one door and a larger drawer at my disposal from that desk to use somewhere in my shop. Haven't figured out where just yet.

And the power outlet from the shopvac is used so it starts simultaniously as the tools.

Now back to the build.

Cheers!

[Jim Lad]

Is there anything you don't have in there? 😀

 

John

[Wintergreen]

42 minutes ago, Jim Lad said:

Is there anything you don't have in there? 

Snow shovel?

Off course there is John! The equation is always like:

"the tools you need" = "the tools you have" + 1

Same with bikes for a cyclist 😄 (I have four, haha)

 

Jokes aside, I'm happy with how it turned out. Storage for sanding papers and belts in the drawers. Table saw discs on the side in the narrow compartment. Large shelf for Dremel or whatever I choose.

Lockable swivel wheels for easy moving around. In the background you can see the old stool with caster wheels, red cushion, that takes me to a perfect height for using the sanders.

 

Note though, I did take several years to reach this final state of the station. With a couple of repurposing done over time.