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In November of this year I celebrated the completion of a 6 year and 3 month attempt at building a wooden Spanish galleon... the San Juan Nepomucemo. This is my first ever wooden ship build ever. Yes, there are plenty of barrels of bourbon on the manifest. Needless to say, lots of blood, tears, mistakes, bourbon, and countless curse words went into this thing. There’s a mistake for every knot I tied (several thousand), but I did this my way. The kit was 50% material, 25% instructions that were more like riddles, 15% research, and 10% personal touches and concepts influenced by life experiences along the journey of building this gunship (Galleon).
If anyone has seen the movie Shawshank Redemption and recalls the oak tree at the end of the film, the gold lion figurehead, and a few other pieces on board, I hand carved out of oak from the very tree. A huge storm in Paris took down a London Prime tree on our street in Paris this past summer... using a piece of that trees fate, I carved blocks for the anchors. Lots of other eater eggs like this are throughout the ship. This was an incredible journey for me, including a four-year doldrum of creativity in which the hull sat completed without any masts or sails, but there were other “ships” I was building in life at that time.
I’d be happy to share photos I’ve taken throughout this journey and share any tips/tricks I came up with myself.
Cheers .
”Don't spend your entire life building a ship, without ever tasting the salt of the ocean.”
-Alexander Den Heijer
If anyone has seen the movie Shawshank Redemption and recalls the oak tree at the end of the film, the gold lion figurehead, and a few other pieces on board, I hand carved out of oak from the very tree. A huge storm in Paris took down a London Prime tree on our street in Paris this past summer... using a piece of that trees fate, I carved blocks for the anchors. Lots of other eater eggs like this are throughout the ship. This was an incredible journey for me, including a four-year doldrum of creativity in which the hull sat completed without any masts or sails, but there were other “ships” I was building in life at that time.
I’d be happy to share photos I’ve taken throughout this journey and share any tips/tricks I came up with myself.
Cheers .
”Don't spend your entire life building a ship, without ever tasting the salt of the ocean.”
-Alexander Den Heijer