Schooner America by Mjohn - BlueJacket Shipcrafters - 1/96

[Mjohn]

20 or so years ago my wife and I were in New England visiting (we had lived there before moving to the west coast) and we stopped in at Bluejacket.   I think we stayed at a motel next door.    I bought this kit but I never built it.      The scale is pretty small and I'm not sure I can work at this scale any longer, but I'm going to give it a try.

 

The plans look pretty straightforward.     Instructions are clear.   The kit seems well made and well stocked.    Should be fun.

 

I am planning to plank and paint the hull rather than build it in the dockyard style.

 

In the first picture the frames are glued to the subdeck and keel.   If you build this kit, and if the parts are still cut the same way on the mahogany sheet, be aware that frame 3 is pretty fragile.   I broke the frame twice along the grain while I was fitting and before gluing.     One other note is that I changed the mast step at frame 3 by cutting it square and eliminating the alignment hole.  I did this so I would have more freedom to align the masts fore/aft and port/starboard when I install them.   

Edited 3 hours ago by ccoyle
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