Venetian Polacre by Cristiano - FINISHED - XVIII century
More than 20 years ago I built from scratch a venetian xebec, from purchased plans.
The plans are available but are not made by the usual ships manufacturers.
They were made accordingly to original drawings coming from a Venetian archive.
In the photos can be seen some of the plans and the model that I made.
The model is rather big (around 90 cm long).
I always been puzzled by the strange shape of such xebec (a bit fat, hull not common on xebec).
Now finally
Small update,
now I am starting the stern (without hurry)
In one photo can be seen the gunners windows, placed above the gunports.
For the stern, I cut the shape on a thin layer of balsa.
This will be the main frame and will be glued to the main body.
When it will be in place I will glue to it the wood strips to cover it.
For the decorations, I prepared the pieces of wood that will hold them.
these pieces will be added to the main frame only later.
In the photos can be seen the balsa ma
