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Discussion What’s Next on the Bench? Choosing the Next Model (Ship?)

Jimsky said:
It is Gajeta Falkusa.
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Sweet choice! I enjoy boats like this. That will indeed be a bit unique! My only question is "just where did you get that photo?" To the best of my recollection, Atlantis sank many thousands of years ago! :p (okay, I'll stop already!)
 
MThomas said:
Sweet choice! I enjoy boats like this. That will indeed be a bit unique! My only question is "just where did you get that photo?" To the best of my recollection, Atlantis sank many thousands of years ago! :p (okay, I'll stop already!)
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You're absolutely right, only three Gajeta remain in use as working boats today. Each was built using original plans and proudly carries its historical name. While they now mainly serve as tourist boats, they also occasionally compete in regattas against each other.
The one in the photo is the Falkuša Komiža, better known as Comeza-Lisboa. She was restored and rebuilt by a dedicated group who carefully researched and revived the original construction plans. This faithful replica was brought to life through the dedication of several key figures (I have researched this a long way back):
  • Joško Božanić, a linguist and local historian from Komiža, and Velimir Salamon, a naval architect and professor, spearheaded an 11‑year research project that reconstructed the original plans from wreckage and oral history.
  • The actual construction in 1997 was led by master boatbuilder Tonči Bakić from Trogir, with the lateen sails expertly crafted by sailmaker Stjepan Tokić.
  • After Bakić’s passing, the subsequent replicas (Mikula in 2004 and Palagruža in 2014) were built under the skillful hands of shipwright Mile Jadrešić Pile from Betina.
The result is a beautiful blend of scholarly research and master craftsmanship, a living cultural treasure that sails both for tourism and in friendly regattas. Below is Comeza-Lisboa and her parents.

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Jimsky said:
You're absolutely right, only three Gajeta remain in use as working boats today. Each was built using original plans and proudly carries its historical name.
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I wonder... just how many of us modelers also build wooden boats that we can actually sit in? "Hmm...?"
I've entertained the idea, but never acted upon it...
 
MThomas said:
Jim, where should I put that thread?
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Same as this one.

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My next kit will be wood. Among my meager stash sit both an old Freedom Song Felicity II, and an AL Bluenose II. The 'little' Felicity single mast boat will be my entry into wood kits. Nothing too overwhelming but enough to keep one on their toes. I'm pretty sure I'll survive this venture into wood kits, and then maybe there's a familiar Cape Islander at a dockside in Shediac I can board for details. Haven't looked for a Cape Islander kit yet, but I'm sure they're out there. I keep perusing the Freedom Song kit, but my now-renamed 1/96 connie isn't half finished yet and I've already planked her decks in birch and plan to replace a few of the smaller mast sections and yards with wood pieces. It' a start lol! One at a time.
 
At the moment I am reading about the Age of Discovery and the epic voyages into the unknown undertaken by Spain and Portugal. I am drawn to the Santa Maria (Mamoli), not particularly because of Columbus, but because this type of ship was widely used in that era. Their achievements were truly epic in opening up the world, and in ships I would only step onto for a day trip around the bay.
 
My next project is to well complete some old long stalled projects.

Fixing the damage to my first build a solid hull Phantom Pilot boat.
Finishing the planked hull of Clara May, English Ketch
Finalizing the standing rigging and part of running rigging on my stalled Swift 1805 Pilot Boat

Most of these are just small projects to get cleared off the work bench and shelves.

My real goal is to be able to finish the work on the Sovereign of the Seas, which I got from a fellow member years ago, he has the hull 85+ percent completed, ready for final work and all the accessories on the hull to be added, then the masts and rigging.

My reason for the SotS, is I have seen many great builds, I like the size of the ship and want to fulfill the promise to get her finished.
 
I was hoping to build an OcCre model but a lucky member @WingNut beat me to it. Congratulations. So now I will turn my attention to the Astrolabe 1812 and finish rigging that ship. Hopefully I will win the next one, I am down to just a trian model in my stach. Maybe the model gods will send me something else to work on lol
Bobby K ‼️
 
...ah! The million dollar question. Always made easier by the 1 penny answer. What kits do you already have in stock...
Problem is I have 3 kits awaiting... looks like its not a simple answer after all...Dooh!
 
Rob444 said:
After I finish my Constitution cross section I was going to start on a model of the Bluenose. Why? Because I love her lines and it looks like something I would love to actually ride in. It is a truly beautiful ship.

That being said, my next ship will be Occres Black Swan. Why? Because the wonderful people here had a contest and I was the lucky winner of the kit. I will certainly be doing a build log of her construction.

After that? Perhaps the Beagle, it is such an historic ship, influencing Charles Darwin with his theory of evolution. Perhaps an early steamship with its paddlewheel and sails.

I figure, at the current rate I build, that I should be closing in on 100. The process of what will be next may be easier by then? ;)

Rob
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Hey Rob, how did you find the USS Constitution cross section? Considering that one for my next model, from Model Shipways. Funny enough, I am actually just wrapping up the Occre Beagle you mentioned. It was my first 3 mast ship, so it took me a full year, with some multi month breaks in there. The rigging was quite the challenge for me. But all in all, it was a great model.
 
I have just spent the last four years on two commissions, Continental Frigate Hancock and USF Essex. I am exhausted, but I am also running out of time to build a few more ships in my repertoire. I was looking for something that might be relaxing when I uncovered the stash of old "Yellow Box" kits from Model Seaways. I have decided on building the Topsail Schooner Eagle. Although these kits can almost be consided scratch builds because they are a rough carved hull block with a box of wood pieces and some lead castings (which nobody works with anymore). I really like the lines of this ship and the plans are from the lines taken by Howard Chapelle from the builder's half hull. She was built in Arrowsic Island in the Kennebec River in 1847. She was a lumber schooner in the Bath-New York run. This is my 'what's next" entry and I will begin work after I clean up the ship yard.
 
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