Excuse my English, because I am a Spanish speaker.
“Spray”
I have been a member of this forum for weeks now and I have had the pleasure of seeing the excellent models displayed here. Already "retired" and with time to spare, in recent years I have been doing naval modeling, but more than large ships, frigates or liners, I am interested in making models of medium-sized work, transport or fishing boats (but that are not commercial kits). I have already done several and if you allow me, I will present these in the following weeks; I'll start with the emblematic “Spray”. This is my first scratch boat....
You will know better than I the story of Joshua Slocum who was born in Nova Scotia in 1844 and disappeared at sea in 1909, Canadian sailor and writer, famous for being the first to circumnavigate the Earth alone, on a long voyage aboard a ship. sailboat just over 11 meters long. In 1892 a friend gave him a sloop, but not without warning him that it needed major repairs. Joshua Slocum came across an old fishing sloop, rotting in a meadow. It was the “Spray”, 11.28 meters long and lacking money, he rebuilt it personally. In 1895 he decided to sail around the world, alone. A long journey without financial resources or even the equipment that the technology of the time allowed.
General data:
Type: Yacht
Length: 11.55 m (330 mm)
Beam: 5.24 m (121 mm)
Prop: 1.40 m (40 mm)
Total Length: 20.88 m (580 mm)
Total height: 14.70 m (420 mm)
Scale: 1/35
Date: June 2020
I obtained two sets of general plans from the Internet, and with the photos, I redrawn it in Autocad, I obtained the general lines to get the false keel and frames, I printed them in PDF and sent them to be laser cut on a 3mm plywood sheet. The rest of the dimensions were obtained directly from the plans. Greater detail, references and photos of the construction phase and the finished model can be seen on my blog:
Modelismo Naval: Cap.1 "Spray" (modelismonavaljoseruesta.blogspot.com)
“Spray”
I have been a member of this forum for weeks now and I have had the pleasure of seeing the excellent models displayed here. Already "retired" and with time to spare, in recent years I have been doing naval modeling, but more than large ships, frigates or liners, I am interested in making models of medium-sized work, transport or fishing boats (but that are not commercial kits). I have already done several and if you allow me, I will present these in the following weeks; I'll start with the emblematic “Spray”. This is my first scratch boat....
You will know better than I the story of Joshua Slocum who was born in Nova Scotia in 1844 and disappeared at sea in 1909, Canadian sailor and writer, famous for being the first to circumnavigate the Earth alone, on a long voyage aboard a ship. sailboat just over 11 meters long. In 1892 a friend gave him a sloop, but not without warning him that it needed major repairs. Joshua Slocum came across an old fishing sloop, rotting in a meadow. It was the “Spray”, 11.28 meters long and lacking money, he rebuilt it personally. In 1895 he decided to sail around the world, alone. A long journey without financial resources or even the equipment that the technology of the time allowed.
General data:
Type: Yacht
Length: 11.55 m (330 mm)
Beam: 5.24 m (121 mm)
Prop: 1.40 m (40 mm)
Total Length: 20.88 m (580 mm)
Total height: 14.70 m (420 mm)
Scale: 1/35
Date: June 2020
I obtained two sets of general plans from the Internet, and with the photos, I redrawn it in Autocad, I obtained the general lines to get the false keel and frames, I printed them in PDF and sent them to be laser cut on a 3mm plywood sheet. The rest of the dimensions were obtained directly from the plans. Greater detail, references and photos of the construction phase and the finished model can be seen on my blog:
Modelismo Naval: Cap.1 "Spray" (modelismonavaljoseruesta.blogspot.com)
