fishing sloop build

Robberdebop · Mar 23, 2026

Frank48 said:
Sorry, I didn't mean the joints—I meant the notches on the keel. Frank

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Hie Frank,
The distance of the notches are determined by the distance between the rafters and is discribed in the book. The same technique was used in the past on the real ships.

Best regards, Rob

Frank48 · Mar 23, 2026

Robberdebop said:
Hie Frank,
The distance of the notches are determined by the distance between the rafters and is discribed in the book. The same technique was used in the past on the real ships.

Best regards, Rob

Thanks for getting back to me. Frank

Magic Mike · Mar 23, 2026

Welcome Rob to the forums and greetings from Texas! I'm following your build with much interest! Magic Mike

Robberdebop · Apr 9, 2026

Magic Mike said:
Welcome Rob to the forums and greetings from Texas! I'm following your build with much interest! Magic Mike

welcome! And thanks for your interest.

In the mean time the model is allready in a further stage.

fourseas · Apr 9, 2026

Welcome to the SOS group. Fascinating subject and excellent workmanship. I will enjoy following along.

Jim

Robberdebop · Apr 21, 2026

fourseas said:
Welcome to the SOS group. Fascinating subject and excellent workmanship. I will enjoy following along.

Jim

Thanks for your welcome and Nice words. Highly apricieted.

In the meantime this thread is catching up with the status of my progress.
The frames are provided with a slot for the inner keel. I had to make this by hand. The milling machine was not able to reach it.

Bill-R · Apr 21, 2026

Hello Rob,

I just found your build thread. You are doing a great job. This will be a very interesting and enjoyable build. I will definitely be following along.

Bill

Robberdebop · Apr 27, 2026

Bill-R said:
Hello Rob,

I just found your build thread. You are doing a great job. This will be a very interesting and enjoyable build. I will definitely be following along.

Bill

Thanks Bill. I appreciate your interest!

In the meantime all the rafters are in place and I make the inner keel. The spaces are made with a Proxxon milling machine. Due to the tolerance of the rafters I determined the places of the rafters with a pencil while the inner keel was laying in the ship. So I did not work with theoretical measerements.
Pictures of the process:

Besides the earlier mentioned book there is an other book which had inspired me to build this model.
The man who build the replica had written a book of the whole process. This book is filled with very clear detaildrawings and lots of detailled pictures. Without this book and tips from the author it was not possible for me to make this build.

Robberdebop · Friday at 10:10 AM

The inner keel in front of the ship has a difficult shape. When I made this I had no tools to determine the shape. So I made a tool with toothpics:

With this it was possible to make the front part of the inner keel:

I had to make is twice. The first one had a spot in the wood. In the early days in real they insert a so called “half wood” in it. I was thinking to do it likewise, but the result was no good so I made a new one.

The beams are not yet shapened on the right height. I am going to do this later and determine the right height with a stroke of thin wood. With a small saw I can make them on the right height. The surface of the building rig is exact waterlinie 5, so it should be no problem to locate the exact point.

Oak is having a rough structure. Boxwood is finer. I think of making the small parts in Boxwood or pear.
Enjoy your weekend. And best regards from Holland