Happy Birthday, Mon Amie!! 
Heute ist der Jahrestag des Tages, an dem Sie geboren wurden! Ich möchte meine Freude ausdrücken und wünsche Ihnen noch viele glückliche und gesunde Jahre zusammen mit Ihrer Familie und Ihren Hobbys.
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LE COUREUR - french Lugger 1776 - POF kit from CAF in 1:48 by Uwe
Heute ist der Jahrestag des Tages, an dem Sie geboren wurden! Ich möchte meine Freude ausdrücken und wünsche Ihnen noch viele glückliche und gesunde Jahre zusammen mit Ihrer Familie und Ihren Hobbys.
Ah - wonderful Uwe! My best wishes for an enjoyable birthday filled with ample electricity and time with family (and ship).
Happy birthday!!
Kurt Konrath
Kurt Konrath
No power in shop gives you more time for book reviews and other non-building tasks!
Not always a true down time, plus you get to keep the eye on the pets! I sure they love the extra attention.
Many Many Thanks for all your wishes - I am very happy and much appreciated
and my best birthday present was the repair of the electricity in my workshop
and my best birthday present was the repair of the electricity in my workshop
Not much to show - yesterday I was able to restart the works and installed the rail planking on the other side of the model.
I hope to finish this work during today, so stay tuned ...... to be continued ....
I hope to finish this work during today, so stay tuned ...... to be continued ....
Happy birthday, Uwe, may all energies be stable , the electric as well as the personal!Many Many Thanks for all your wishes - I am very happy and much appreciated
and my best birthday present was the repair of the electricity in my workshop
Karl Ingwer
Herzlichen Glückwunsch auch noch an dieser Stelle, Uwe!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch auch zu diesem sauberen Bau!
Liebe Grüße
Alexander
Herzlichen Glückwunsch auch zu diesem sauberen Bau!
Liebe Grüße
Alexander
Tanti auguri!
Happy birthday, mate!
My friends - Many Many Thanks for all the birthday wishes
This forum is realy a group of friends
I want to show you my "morning session" sanding the gunports and finally also the last treenailing with the copper nails
Here the installed planks row No.0 and already prepared gunports
For everybody coming to this stage of construction:
It is important, that the gunport sides are sanded in a rectangal angle to the ship axis, means parallel to the framing and not rectangle to the ships-hull
Because of the sanding dust I closed the deck surface with some tape
So the planking is finished and all nails are done
This forum is realy a group of friends
I want to show you my "morning session" sanding the gunports and finally also the last treenailing with the copper nails
Here the installed planks row No.0 and already prepared gunports
For everybody coming to this stage of construction:
It is important, that the gunport sides are sanded in a rectangal angle to the ship axis, means parallel to the framing and not rectangle to the ships-hull
Because of the sanding dust I closed the deck surface with some tape
So the planking is finished and all nails are done
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Uwe, it's always nice to watch your construction site. A lot of useful material and technologies. And it's always nice to see a good job. 
I have one question and maybe somebody knows the answer, or have some opinion.
I did not find any information in my complete library, so ......
Oriantation of the nails in the cravel planked area
In all monographis, also in the planset of the Le Coureur it is usually shown the stareboard view of the ship, usually never the port side
Here, when you take a look at the nailing pattern the top nail of a plank connection is fore, the lower one is aft
So here is my model, where I made it in the same way
But how is the pattern on the other side of the hull ????
I made it mirrored, so also here the topnail is oriantated towards the bow - the lower one direction to stern
I made the decision, because I had to make a decision, but not based on any clear knowledge, so maybe somebody knows, guess or has a link to any publication describing this orientation of the nailing pattern
I did not find any information in my complete library, so ......
Oriantation of the nails in the cravel planked area
In all monographis, also in the planset of the Le Coureur it is usually shown the stareboard view of the ship, usually never the port side
Here, when you take a look at the nailing pattern the top nail of a plank connection is fore, the lower one is aft
So here is my model, where I made it in the same way
But how is the pattern on the other side of the hull ????
I made it mirrored, so also here the topnail is oriantated towards the bow - the lower one direction to stern
I made the decision, because I had to make a decision, but not based on any clear knowledge, so maybe somebody knows, guess or has a link to any publication describing this orientation of the nailing pattern
so I made it in this way - red arrow is direction towards the bow -simply mirrored
I'm not an expert on this, but common sense would advise me to mirror it, like you did.
I have the same opinion.