Good afternoon Heinrich. Looking beautiful. The bashing of your stern paid healthy returns for your WB.The Coat of arms and “door” ( strange place for a door…leave the cabin into the icy seas- only on Dutch ships
) are totally in character with your build. Fine work. Cheers Grant
Thank you very much Grant. Yes, the "door" I suspect was more of a window than anything else. earlier in the build of WB1, I was kept up the whole night by an extremely lively discussion of what this "door/window" could have been used for!Good afternoon Heinrich. Looking beautiful. The bashing of your stern paid healthy returns for your WB.The Coat of arms and “door” ( strange place for a door…leave the cabin into the icy seas- only on Dutch ships
For ‘a while‘ not visiting your log and a lot of details added! The stern with the window/door (hatch?) and the Amsterdam XXX looks lovely, Heinrich.
Thank you very much, Peter. These added details are small and take a long time, so it feels like there is no real progress. Hopefully the ship's boats will bring a nice diversion from the otherwise mundane tasks.
Bear in mind that the width of the bulkhead is approximately 12mm into which 6 planks on either side have been squeezed into at an angle of 45 degrees. The top two planks and bottom two ones have in fact been glued together before they were glued onto the bulkhead as there would simply not be enough gluing surface on the bulkheads for the planks to adhere to.
I think so, Peter. I know that the stern looks rough now, but I am confident in my finishing abilities.That is a verry nice change to the chaloup Heinrich
Good morning Heinrich. Excellent work on the railings. It is so much fun to add all these little improvements to the ships boats. I wish I had include these planks to mine at the stern- good thinking. Cheers GrantDear Friends
Work continues in every spare moment available. Tonight, I am showing you real Work in Progress pictures with sanding dust and wet glue et al.
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Both railings between the two canopies have been fitted and sanded smooth. The fit is beautiful and I'm very happy with that.
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I have also assembled the keel and frames of the sloop (chaloup) which I think will be the version that I will use. You will notice that the sternmost bulkhead is missing. The reason is to be found below.
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This monstrosity that looks as if it has no rhyme or reason, is in fact the rearmost bulkhead of the sloop that is being planked. I post this picture on purpose to show a process and not just a finished result.
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This is in actual fact what is happening on the other side!
Hopefully, I can show you some better-finished pictures tomorrow night.
The planked stern of the lifeboats is also a Dutch trademark which I learnt in my Batavia-building days. I could do it on the larger of the two boats, but on the smaller one it is simply not viable.
Good morning Heinrich. Your WB is progressing into a fantastic “rendition”. I find it amazing how such a simple thing as 4 rails stained make an impressionable impact. Small boat- I find them so much fun. Cheers Grant
Hi Grant. You are absolutely right. Everything that gets added now does seem to have quite a visual impact, so it's obviously up to the builders to make sure it is a good impact.
The small boats are fun, but oh boy, they are fiddly little things.
Thank you, my friend.Your WB is looking graet Heinrich, superb even.
And your litle ones are coming along very nicely. they were a real pain in the a..e to me
. Be encouraged - it looks very good at this stage!
Thank you very much, Paul for the encouragement. What you are doing, however, with the esping is beyond my skill set! Your work on that little boat from scratch is out of this world. From one little boat builder to a fellow one.As a fellow tiny boat builder, I can only agree with everything you have said...every mistake seems bigger...every step seems harder
Hi Jan - good question. Installing the bigger one over the hatch grating with the smaller inside would certainly be logical. However, there are two caveats: Firstly, I have never seen examples of this being done on Dutch ships and secondly, the combined height of the two boats will not fit underneath the front canopy. So, I will not go for the Over-Under shotgun combination, but for the classic Side-by-Side.
