A Dutch Fluyt in shell first, reconstructing the "Ghost ship" scale 1:36

NMBROOK said:
Very nice work indeed Maarten :cool:

Should your keel support blocks not be surrounded by Mud to be a true recreation?ROTFROTFROTF Only kidding but there's a thought for a diorama

Kind Regards

Nigel
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Hi Nigel,

We are here in holland, not in the UK. The sand is here not always mud as we don t have 365 days of rain but only 360. These pictures were taken on a sunny day. 8-)
 
Work on the rabbet started with roughly cutting the stern post to fit the lower two planks of the floor. The shape will be fine tuned when the garboard strake is fitted.
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The knee in the stem post is also fitted.
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To finish the rabbet I use a profiled razor blade and scrape it along the keel. This is a simple process which gives you maximum control.
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It results in a clean rabbet profile. The razor you can shape yourselve with a grinding tool or file.
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Now the stem and keel rabbet should be connected. This I cut by hand.
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The rabbet is now finished except for some fine tuning when the garboard strake is fitted.
 
Time for fitting the keel joint.
As template I use the wreck data of the Pinas Samuel of which the keel joint drawings are available.
The keel joint is fixed with 4 bolts of 2 Amsterdam inches ( Amsterdamse duimen) in diameter. 8 tree nails of 1 1/4 duim and 7 nails on each end of the joint.
In scale here bolts of 1,4 mm, treenails of 0,9 mm and nails of 0,35 mm.
All holes marked.
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Bolts and treenails drilled through.
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Bolts and nails fitted.
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The treenails I make of birch wood sticks.
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As I use them all way through the keel I fit them through a drawplate to 0,95 mm to fit the 0,9 mm hole and hammer them in place.
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Sanding and a layer of Clou.
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Sanding with steelwool and colouring the steel nails and bolts.
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Maarten said:
Time for fitting the keel joint.
As template I use the wreck data of the Pinas Samuel of which the keel joint drawings are available.
The keel joint is fixed with 4 bolts of 2 Amsterdam inches ( Amsterdamse duimen) in diameter. 8 tree nails of 1 1/4 duim and 7 nails on each end of the joint.
In scale here bolts of 1,4 mm, treenails of 0,9 mm and nails of 0,35 mm.
All holes marked.
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Bolts and treenails drilled through.
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Bolts and nails fitted.
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The treenails I make of birch wood sticks.
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As I use them all way through the keel I fit them through a drawplate to 0,95 mm to fit the 0,9 mm hole and hammer them in place.
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Sanding and a layer of Clou.
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Sanding with steelwool and colouring the steel nails and bolts.
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A very nice and clean result, Maarten.
Regards, Peter
 
Maarten,
Beautifully built with an excellent explanation about 'shell-first'. I will be following this built with great interest.
Once I finish my fluit, Zeehaen, I plan to built a ship in the shell-first method. Either the war jacht De Heemskerck or some other Dutch ship.

Marcus
 
flying_dutchman2 said:
Maarten,
Beautifully built with an excellent explanation about 'shell-first'. I will be following this built with great interest.
Once I finish my fluit, Zeehaen, I plan to built a ship in the shell-first method. Either the war jacht De Heemskerck or some other Dutch ship.

Marcus
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Looking forward to that build Marcus.
 
I'll echo the many. Super neat job on the rabbit! I am going to give it a test myself. Very interesting ship. That is the first I've seen such geometry as on your keel/stem post joint. Very unique. Really enjoying your build Maarten.
 
Not much done this weekend, to busy in the garden at the moment.

But I hade sone time to finish the keel joint.
Something typical Dutch a hole through the keel joint surface, stuffed with moss and plugged on both sides with wooden dowels. This was done to watertighten the keel joint.
Here pointed you see this in the archeological drawing of the Pinas Samuel.
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And yes I had collected some moss from our garden, left it to dry and used it to stuf the joint.
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Followed by tapping in a wooden plug on both sides.
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Cut it off and sand it.
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The crew on the yard is happy with the result.
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Hoss6262 said:
I'll echo the many. Super neat job on the rabbit! I am going to give it a test myself. Very interesting ship. That is the first I've seen such geometry as on your keel/stem post joint. Very unique. Really enjoying your build Maarten.
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That is the fun of using archeological data, using sources of actual shipwrecks where this is documented. Now a lot of this data is digitally accesible you can review it globally and use it for your hobby.
 
Peter Voogt said:
It’s all in the details, Maarten. A nice one in the keel. Many to come ……..
Regards, Peter
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Thx Peter and indeed plenty details to come.
Repeating myself I am working on the stem joint.
Adding the bolts and nails according the pinas E81 wreck drawings.
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Adding moss and plugs
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Drawing in the lines for the knee bolts
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And drilling these all the way through
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To insert the bolt.
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When the bolt is fitted I burnish the heads.
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The finished result.
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After a discussion I had woth Ab Hoving and some additional research on two wreck I decided to split the stem in two parts so that will be next.
 
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