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Hurricane Island Pulling Boat by em_fo - Laughing Whale - 1:24 - first build


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Looks like a very cool model, I haven't heard of that one before. How did you find the kit, and what got you interested in building it?

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Thanks everyone for jumping in and following along! After opening things up and getting sorted I know I'll need some advice as I go.... 

 

I grew up in a place with a history of wooden boat building and have always been a fan of them, never learned any hard skills about it though. Now I work for Outward Bound, who still uses these boats for their courses in Maine & The Florida Keys (https://www.hiobs.org/) and I think at the New Zealand school as well... I was looking for more info about the history of the OB boats online and stumbled upon this kit on ebay as well as this forum where I thought - I'd love to build that! 

 

Preliminary steps: 

- Made copies of the instructions and blueprints just to have back ups 

- organized planking and plank-like pieces by size, which was not as easy as I thought it'd be, but my dad had a helpful measuring tool for tiny thicknesses

 

Upcoming steps: 

- getting a piece of scrap wood for a building surface, setting up the mold and backbone

- tapering and shortening the inner kelson (from one of the  1/16" x 1/4") and cutting the outer kelson (from one of the 1/16"x1/8") to make up the backbone and fit into the stern timber/stem

- Planking... 

 

Images attached: 

- The planking instructions, haven't really started any of that yet

- The blue print with the kelson specifications 

- My piles of planking and plank-like materials organized by size; beginning to realize what I've just gotten myself into! :)

 

Any thoughts, ideas, advice, or resources welcome and appreciated (especially re: learning how to do planking)! 

 

 

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Very cool! It looks like this model will be a bit of a challenge to plank because it's an open boat, so any errors will be visible inside and outside. On planking in general, this site has a lot of resources that you can look for, like Chuck Passaro's planking tutorial. You might also look for examples of small vessels that are similarly constructed around removeable molds, like the Midwest Maine Peapod kit (although that uses strips for planking and may not be the best example to follow). Looking forward to watching the build move forward!

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Wow!

finally someone building this long ago made kit.

I vaguely remember this kit.

I live close to Rockland, Maine and grew up just south of Rockland so remember the Outward bound school and there pulling boats.

Never seen a build of the kit so will be interesting to follow along.

Good luck.

 

one tip for the planking aspect.

put scotch tape on the molds so t when glueing the planks on you do not inadvertently glue them to the molds.

 

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And in case you’re curious.

 Cyrus Hamlin designed this pulling boat.

Plans for this boat may be here:

Additional material, including the majority of Hamlin's ships plans, can be found in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library, Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT.

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