Cangarda 1901 by KeithAug - Scale 1:24 - Steam Yacht

[KeithAug]

14 hours ago, Dr PR said:

I have mixed sanding dust with clear paint to create a thin paste for filling gaps and blemishes.

Yes that would work Phil. I am using clear polyurethane for the lower hull but I don't think that would affect the suggestion. In some ways I think your method is better than mine.

[KeithAug]

Almost another week gone and here is another update.

 

Firstly a couple of pictures of the hull with the compensation plates in position.

And a picture of the plywood wrapped around the stern.

The next job was drilling out the portholes. These are positioned mid way between the frames and as the frames are to scale the lontitudinal positioning of the holes should have been easy. The problem occurred because one of the holes on the plan view was in a different position to the hole on the side elevation. There followed a long process of investigating photos to try and decide which was right. I think I got it right but then again who knows.

The next photo is my list of the porthole positions measured in "frames". Port and starboard are different so this introduced a further degree of uncertainty, prompting checking and re-checking and re-checking. I hate the anxiety accompanying drilling holes in hulls.

 

Fortunately (as near as makes no difference) all the portholes are equidistant from the bulwark edge of the compensation plate.

I made my self a little marking out jig (arrow A) to get the positioning consistent. The half frame positions were transferred from the hull up-stands using the laser level. Arrows B are the centre lines for drilling.

I took the drilling steadily, fearful of splintering the plywood. The next photo is my drilling equipment consisting of an alarmingly powerful drill plus a 6mm brad point wood drill, a 7mm reamer, a 8m reamer and a set of 9mm sanding drums glued to a pencil. The reamers occasionally went into threepenny bit mode but the sanding drums always brought the holes back to round.

Some time later all 28 holes were drilled.

I then transferred my attention to planking the stern. You can see from previous posts that the stern is the only part of the hull with a mahogany finish.

The stern has vertical edge planks with horizontal planking between. The edge planks were cut as matched pair and glued in place with PVA.

I decided it would be easier to pre-bend the horizontal planks. Fortunately my wife was out and I discovered that one of her baking tins was just what I needed for the former.

With the plank attached to the former I dunked the whole thing in boiling water (utilising a Lecruset pan that just happened to be lying about). I really have been living on the edge this week.

Then the last bit of the hull planking was done.

That's all for now folks.

 

 

[druxey]

I had no idea that planking a transom could be skirting danger! Looking very fine, Keith.

[Keith Black]

More stellar work, Keith. You do know that if Ann ever catches you mucking about in her kitchen you'll be singing like Tiny Tim. 

[wefalck]

Double stress: getting it right and that your wife might come home early, finding out what tools you used 😱

[Rick310]

Your a brave man Keith, but a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

Cangarda’s really looking great!!

Rick

[KeithAug]

7 minutes ago, Rick310 said:

Your a brave man Keith, but a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

 

30 minutes ago, wefalck said:

your wife might come home early,

 

37 minutes ago, Keith Black said:

you'll be singing like Tiny Tim. 

 

They breed us thick skinned, tough (and stupid) in Yorkshire.

 

 

Edited August 6 by KeithAug

[AJohnson]

21 minutes ago, KeithAug said:

 

 

 

They breed us thick skinned, tough (and stupid) in Yorkshire.

 

 

My wife would agree! about the part in ()’s - (from another Tyke!) 🤣

Looking really smart Keith!  👏

 

[Ian_Grant]

Keith, she's a thing of beauty!

[KeithAug]

Thank you Andrew, Ian and Druxey.

1 hour ago, AJohnson said:

(from another Tyke!)

Andrew - I come from Thurnscoe, Near Barnsley. I grew up climbing and sledging down the slag heaps but that was in the good old days before the mines closed. It went rapidly downhill after that which is quite a trick noting its lowly starting point. We always thought Knaresborough was very posh, only visited on rare charabanc trips that always seemed manage a return route via Harry Ramsdens. I escaped aged 16 when I left home and haven't lived in Yorkshire since. My ambition was to retire to Harrogate, sadly not to be.

[druxey]

Sussex ain't so bad, surely, Keith? I recall as a child visiting an uncle and seeing the glow of the steel furnaces in the night sky. 

[Jim Lad]

Just catching up after holidays, Keith. She's progressing very nicely.

 

John

[Keith Black]

1 hour ago, KeithAug said:

I come from Thurnscoe, Near Barnsley. I grew up climbing and sledging down the slag heaps but that was in the good old days before the mines closed. It went rapidly downhill after that which is quite a trick noting its lowly starting point. We always thought Knaresborough was very posh, only visited on rare charabanc trips that always seemed manage a return route via Harry Ramsdens. I escaped aged 16 when I left home and haven't lived in Yorkshire since. My ambition was to retire to Harrogate, sadly not to be.

 

1 hour ago, druxey said:

Sussex ain't so bad, surely, Keith? I recall as a child visiting an uncle and seeing the glow of the steel furnaces in the night sky. 

 

 I so love MSW. Yeah, the boats are great but it's the above tidbits that puts meat on the bone. Keith, David, thank you both for sharing these snippets of your lives.  

[BANYAN]

Wow Keith, that hull looks magnificent - those photos really show off the sleek profile and beautiful flow of her lines.  

 

While the cat's away, the mice will play   - my Admiral will have blown a safety valve.  Great advice on the use of the round sanding sticks (pencils) to true the shape of the portholes.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[TBlack]

I hate to change the subject, but did you need to curve the transom planks so much? It looks relatively flat.

[Dr PR]

Adding planks and details to hulls is a pleasurable thing, and if you make a mistake you can just peel off the bad part and add a new one. But drilling holes always puts me on edge. It's not just that you can't undo a hole after it is added. As an old Navy man I just don't like the idea of holes in the hull!

 

I do question the sanity of using the Admiral's pots and pans for your hobbies. My wife's father was from Yorkshire, and she had a lovely Yorkshire accent. But it was always clear that I could do whatever I wanted with my hobbies but her pots and pans (and other kitchen tools) were OFF LIMITS!!!!

[KeithAug]

9 hours ago, druxey said:

Sussex ain't so bad, surely, Keith?

Druxey, yes Sussex is beautifully rural and green. You don’t get the glow of blast furnaces in Yorkshire any more. Just the lights from the shopping centres that now occupy their former sites.
 

3 hours ago, TBlack said:

but did you need to curve the transom planks so much?

Tom, I find over bending and then allowing the hull to straighten the plank a little makes the plank nest better while glueing.

 

3 hours ago, Dr PR said:

My wife's father was from Yorkshire, and she had a lovely Yorkshire accent. But it was always clear that I could do whatever I wanted with my hobbies but her pots and pans (and other kitchen tools) were OFF LIMITS!!!!

Phil - Fortunately my wife is Welsh. The Welsh are not really noted for their tolerance but fortunately they do spend a lot of time out shopping.

 

Keith, John , Pat - thank you as ever for your continuing support.

 

Keith,

 

 

[Paul Le Wol]

Hi Keith, thank you for showing how you bent the transom planking. I would never have thought of bending one length and cutting. I looked at the photo of the long circular bent plank for the longest time before realizing what it was for.😀

[Rick310]

Interesting technique of pre-bending the planks so they nest better on the transom and allowing the hull to straighten them.

Rick

[FriedClams]

21 hours ago, KeithAug said:

checking and re-checking and re-checking. I hate the anxiety accompanying drilling holes in hulls.

 

Yes and 28 times no less!

 

21 hours ago, KeithAug said:

I really have been living on the edge this week.

 

Keith, when you chose a pan to soak the wood in, did you intentionally go looking for the most expensive one you could find?  My wife bought a Dutch oven from Le Creuset a few years ago that made me literally gasp when she informed me of the price.  If she had caught me using it to stew wood - well, I shudder to think.

 

Gary

[KeithAug]

1 hour ago, FriedClams said:

when you chose a pan to soak the wood in, did you intentionally go looking for the most expensive

Gary - it had just been washed and was drying on the counter top so I didn't have to go looking. In actual fact the full story is that in theory it is mine. My wife bought it for me as a Christmas Present one year because she needed it. She is very good to me. 

 

3 hours ago, Rick310 said:

so they nest better on the transom and allowing the hull to straighten them.

Rick - the advantage comes at the plank ends which press down hard. If you have under bent planks then pulling the ends down can be a bit problematic if the hull geometry makes clamping tricky.

 

4 hours ago, Paul Le Wol said:

I would never have thought of bending one length and cutting.

Paul - I am basically lazy so I spend a lot of time thinking about the easiest way. I always feel uplifted when someone on the forum inspires me with a new trick that makes things easier.

[Keith Black]

36 minutes ago, KeithAug said:

it had just been washed and was drying on the counter top so I didn't have to go looking. In actual fact the full story is that in theory it is mine. My wife bought it for me as a Christmas Present one year because she needed it. She is very good to me. 

 

 I can't stop laughing.......that logic might save you but somehow I doubt it.  

 

 "Owdee die?" "Pan dimic." 

[KeithAug]

17 minutes ago, Keith Black said:

I can't stop laughing.

Keith - I like it when people laugh, it insulates me from world events.

[FlyingFish]

On 8/6/2024 at 5:49 PM, KeithAug said:

one of her baking tins was just what I needed for the former

Strueth Keith! Pearl-clutchingly staggered at the bravado shown here.  I wouldn't suprise me at all if you are wearing a slice of bara brith in your ear shortly. My ancetsry is from the balmy south in Chesterfield. We would never have had such courage. You do realise you have just weoponised the heaviest pot in her armoury? Brave, very brave...

 

[KeithAug]

4 minutes ago, FlyingFish said:

My ancetsry is from the balmy south in Chesterfield.

Andy - Is your spire still bent?😁

Bravery and foolishness are opposite sides of the same coin.

 

 

[KeithAug]

For the confused:-

[FlyingFish]

..as a nine bob note, Keith. Apologies to our friends over the pond. This must be as confusing as a cricket commentry.

[Keith Black]

1 hour ago, FlyingFish said:

This must be as confusing as a cricket commentry.

 Andy, not really. I get the church's spire from your ancestors area is twisted but I do wonder if it was intentionally built that way? I mean, I've built stuff that turned out like that but it sure wasn't intentional. If it was intentionally built that way it begs the question, why?  

[wefalck]

It was unintentional, they used too fresh wood and put all the beams in the same way as they came from the trees, so that they all twisted the same - as far as I remember. Been there only once,

[KeithAug]

Eberhard / Keith - I guess you would be a little twisted if you were that old.

 

The spire

The most recognisable part of the Parish Church, its adopted name, is of course the Crooked Spire, constructed in 1362. However, the spire certainly is not crooked. It is twisted and leaning, but not crooked. Historians have suggested a number of factors for this - the use of unseasoned wood, a lack of skilled labour, the later use of heavy lead sheeting in the 17th century. Many have tried to explain what makes the spire twist and many have disagreed as to the real reason. Perhaps we shall never know for sure.

 

But the myth I like the best is - A virgin once went to the church to get married and the spire was so amazed it turned round to have a look. It’s going to turn back when it sees the next one.