Hello Everyone. I had some spare time yesterday so I read through my log from the beginning. I found it interesting to see just how much interest and encouragement I’d received throughout my build, so to everyone I thank you very much as it became something to look forward to as the build progressed.
I am now starting the final stage of the build, I’m even letting my mind wander on to my next project which I will again do a build log of. I now need to make the ships boats, as these are a main feature of the A.V. I’ll give them my best shot and try to do them justice. I need to make two different pinnace, four motor launches in two different sizes, four rowing boats and a cutter to hang at the stern. I feel like this is a completely different part of my build and that each of the boats will be a project in itself. Each boat is double plank on frame and for once the plans are very good and there should be no issues. I’ve started the frames but haven’t done any photos yet they’ll come soon.
As there’s not much to look at I’ll show some more pictures of my home area. The peninsular where I live is only a very short ferry trip from Liverpool but it could be hundreds of miles from any big city or town, mostly it’s a rural coast but with a history of ship building. The Confederate warship Alabama was built here, it nearly caused a war, it was sold as a civilian ship but was built with armour and secret gun mountings, the heavy guns were first shipped to Australia and imported from there to be fitted to the Alabama later, a serious breach of neutrality.
The first picture shows my home town West Kirby, nestling on the coast. There is a large sailing lake built onto the seafront and the small island is a pleasant walk away and is a bird sanctuary.
This is the island on a nice day, at its tip is the remains of an old lifeboat station
Then there are the small inlets, popular for sailing with their small boat yards
This is the beach and the old fort
