The Gokstad Ship 900 AD by Siggi52 - 1:50

[Baker]

I repeat myself (again).

Beautiful very beautiful work 

[Siggi52]

Hello,

the last two day I was pretty busy at the shipyard. UPs, and where is the ship?    😄

All the frames are installed.

The next days I think, I must concentrate my work more onto my house and garden. During that time, the ship could settle before I install the bitis (deck beams)

[Jim Lad]

Coming along very nicely indeed.

 

John

[Richard Braithwaite]

Your ship is looking fantastic. I built the hull of my "Olympias" model is a similar way (planking first and then frames made to fit). My log starts after I had done this, but I think ive included some description somewhere...

 

Interested to know if you made those frames to fit your planking or made them from patterns and then pulled the planking to fit them?

 

I remember working on an old steel ship, which we were rebuilding to make a different sort of ship...

 

I had designed a substantial, cambered frame to fit under a thin, lightly stiffened deck. Our shipwrights tried to fit it on a hot day. They made the frame with some extra material ("green"), craned it into place, marked it off to fit the undulations of the (old battered) deck and then took it back to the dockside to cut it to their marked shape. When they craned it back on board they found that the deck had changed shape (the sun was now shining on it from a different direction...). So they marked it off again and repeated the process.

 

After repeating this a few times they had cut off all the "green" and then some. They called me to come down to the ship and asked it I minded that the frame was now quite a bit smaller than I had intended...

 

The next day we tried again. We cut a new frame to the design shape (no "green") and pulled the deck down to fit it.

 

Your hull planking is very light, have you had any difficulties with distortion as you fit your frames?

Edited yesterday at 09:15 PM by Richard Braithwaite

[Siggi52]

Hello John and Richard, thank you.

 

Richard, because I could't build the ship like the Vikings, I build the planks over a plug and take the frames also from that plug, as seen in one picture. And yes, I had to fit the planks to the frames because they sorted themself into a comfortable way and did't stay in the way they where build at the plug. But it was not soo much I had to correct.