ZEEHAEN 1639, 1:37.5, Dutch fluit from Dutch Explorer Abel J. Tasman by Marcus

[flying_dutchman2]

Repaired the bow and added crack filler.

Did a first sanding of the hull, patched the cracks again and will do a second sanding in the next couple of days.

After that, will finish the rest of the planking on the sides of the hull. From looking at all the pictures I have from Fluits this area is clinker built. I will continue to study the books.

Marcus

 

[Uwek]

Hallo Dutchman,
are you flying today or celebrating with friends and family?

we wish you all the Best and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY

 

[Jimsky]

Happy Birthday, Markus! Enjoy your special day!!!

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Thank you, Jimsky.
Marcus

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Hallo Dutchman,
are you flying today or celebrating with friends and family?

we wish you all the Best and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Thank you, Uwek.
Marcus

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Thanks for all the likes and comments.

Installed 2 thin strakes of 5mm wide cherry planks above the upper wale. I am using narrow planks because the contour of this part of the hull curves inwards on the left and right and outwards on the up and down.












Once they are glued on two, 2mm narrow straks (wales) will be installed and from there on clinker built planking wall going all the way up.

Marcus

 

[Jimsky]

Moving along nicely, Markus! Keep going.

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Thanks for all the likes and comments.

Made a minor mistake on the hull planking towards the stern. The strakes on each side of the hull did not meet equally going towards the stern.









So I removed 4 strakes with a chisel, sanded the rest of the area and reinstalled the first new strake.





Marcus

 

[shota70]

Dear Markus
it's really very good progress

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Thanks for all the likes and comments.

Started back on the Fluit after lots of garden work, redoing some perennial plant beds. All that is left is harvesting the last of the food and put everything to bed.

After much sanding started on the third layer of the wales. The planks are 2.5mm thick and 6mm wide. There will be a total of 6 on each side. The last one which is towards the top is 2mm x 2mm. There will be two of these side by side











Marcus

 

[Heinrich]

Very good progress Marcus! It is difficult to believe that this is the same ship as earlier (aanhouer wint!). Just pay attention to the slight indentation on the starboard side - but you are obviously aware of that.

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Thanks for all the likes and comments.

As I mentioned before the wales are 2.5mm thick and 6mm wide. The planks have been soaking in plain water for about 4 weeks. I soak all my wood a long time especially with building the Fluit.

I made small indentations in tbe stem of the bow and stern.


The plank for the wale will be pushed into it. I than slowly bend the planks by pushing with my fingers to the contour of the hull. At the same time I make small pilot holes and use pushpins to hold the we on the hull.















Initially I make scarph joints for every plank. Once set, I will add more.

The holes from the pushpins become holes for half round headed black stainless steel pins imitating the heavy nails used to hold the wales on the hull.

Marcus

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Wales have been glued on and scarph joints have been created.




Made some pilot holes with an awl and will drill them a bit bigger so a black pin will fit into the hole.

Planking the sides above the wales and eventually paint it green.





All colors for the Fluit will be paints that existed in the 17th century.


When I was sanding the opening where the tiller goes in, the two top wales sprung loose from the hull. Ten cm of that wale was removed and 8 cm of the wale below the top wale was removed. Created 2 new scarph joints and placed 2 new walnut planks in place of where the other wales were removed. Using glue & sawdust combo, bend the wales towards the hull, clamped and pinned the area and let dry overnight.







On the inside installed 0.5mm thick planks and most of it will not be visible.


The tiller opening the stern area is a bit off. If you look towards the hole and keep the stem as your middle point the left area is a bit bigger than the right side. I'll figure something out to make it more even.


Next will be the 4 windows on the rounded stern.



This is what she looks like so far.


Marcus

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Thanks for all the likes and comments


Made a template from the area that is glued on top of the sternpost.






Created a 1mm thick veneer by glueing 0.5mm plywood and 0.5mm walnut veneer together. Used the template to create those 2 pieces and glued them to the sternpost. At the same time it will hide the square dowel added to the sternpost.




Now the area where the tiller goes in. In Dutch it's called het "hennegat".

Removed with a x-acto knife and saw the two upper wales on both sides. Then sanded it even.



Created a template from a round dowel. Both sides of the dowel have the same angle as each of the sides of the Fluit



With a combination of glue and sawdust re - installed the upper wales. The glue / sawdust combo was also added to the inside of the planks to create a hard structure.

The newly glued on planks were held together with painters tape. The planks are thin as second layer will be installed on the first layer.







0.5mm thick small piece of plywood was soaked for 30 min in water. Shaped it around the round dowel. This piece follows the curve of the area where the tiller goes in.




If this does not work I will go back to the drawing table and figure something else out. Eventually I will find a solution. I refuse to trash this and start over correctly..

The bend 0.5mm thick plywood has been formed and installed where the tiller goes in and filled with the combo glue / sawdust.



Once this is dried and hardened I can make a rectangular hole wher the tiller goes through. After that I will plank it with walnut planks that are 0.5mm thick by 2mm wide strip wood.



The wales have been redone. Still needs much sanding

Marcus

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Presently adding a few things to the hull. Created the 4 windows on the stern area and the two in the upper area of the back of the hull.
I am not doing these Itty bitty carvings and instead putting little pieces of wood around the window frames and then painting it Yellow Ochre, a color that existed in the Dutch golden age.




















Holes are cut into the hull on different areas and single and double blocks are put into them.

Marcus

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Thanks for all the likes.

Small update.
Painted all the windows yellow ochre.



Inserted the single and double blocks in upper area of the hull. The area where the single blocks are located will be painted 'An Dyk' green.





I don't know the name of this but installed a small rectangular piece of wood with a hole for rope in between the upper wales.


Marcus

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Thanks for all the likes and wonderful comments.

Building the bowsprite. I find this part on of the most demanding exercise of building a scratch ship model. I always double or triple the pieces of wood that make up the bowsprite. I always break one or two.

I have glued some of the paper templates to the wood. I will make them out of walnut and cherry.









Marcus

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Cut out and rough sanded all the cheeks from walnut en some extra pieces from cherry and basswood. I use the basswood and cherry pieces as practice. Once these pieces fit I will take and compare them to the walnut cheeks, fine sanding where needed and glue them together.
I know this is a lot of work but it is my way of getting it right.

It has been warm these last two days so all the cutting and rough sanding was done outside.

Marcus

 

[flying_dutchman2]

Thanks for all the likes and comments.

After all the cheeks were rough sanded, I started to dry fit the bottom cheeks. When everything fit I glued each side in place. The next day I sanded the bottom cheeks and dry fitted the second layer of the cheeks, glued in place and the following day sanded that and did the same for the 3rd, 4th,and fifth cheek layer. This process has taken me 3 weeks.

Also my first attempt a lion from Sculpey, looks more like a monster. I see that it needs work.













With Christmas did not work much on the Zeehaen. I spent several nice days in December outsie with my newly acquired bandsaw from WEN. Most of the wood I got from my woodworkers club has been sawn in 3, 5, 7 an 10mm planks.

Next will be the grating that is inside the cheeks.

Marcus

 

[Jimsky]

Great progress Marcus!! You have not posted for a while...we couldn't see the progress of your build. Is that a clay you made the figurehead? Can you give us the details...