Hoy, 1760

[Jackie Wolf]

Nice work Albert. I also hesitated for quite a while over the deck plank width, but eventually followed the one provided in the kit, which is 4 mm. I saw you referred to the width（around 7mm?） in Antscherl (2018), which looks more comfortable, less “stressful”. I simplified the construction of the main hatch by omitting the some joints.

The kit was designed based on the plan from Maritime Museum in Greenwich. I don’t have Antscherl’s book on hand, so I’m not sure what reference he used as a basis and why the model he built would differ from the kit by 10 mm. But 10mm differ is fine overall. Cheers.

 

[Albert Mary]

Nice work Albert. I also hesitated for quite a while over the deck plank width, but eventually followed the one provided in the kit, which is 4 mm. I saw you referred to the width（around 7mm?） in Antscherl (2018), which looks more comfortable, less “stressful”. I simplified the construction of the main hatch by omitting the some joints.

The kit was designed based on the plan from Maritime Museum in Greenwich. I don’t have Antscherl’s book on hand, so I’m not sure what reference he used as a basis and why the model he built would differ from the kit by 10 mm. But 10mm differ is fine overall. Cheers.

You have a keen eye on scantling. Planks are basicly 7.1 or 7.2 mm wide (except for stealers, wich are even wider). The stripes provided with the kit looked to me to narrow compared to Antscherl's plan.The main issue here is pear stripes that wide are unavailable at my dealer, so I had to glue together two 6 mm slats and shaped them to measure. I also usued a black cotton "pre-applied" rope to simulate the caulking. Meanwile I added a couple of further raws of plank, but I'm not going to reach the centreline for sure. Last, even a full 10 mm discrepancy in width isn't a problem at all, indeed. Cheers!