Hello, everyone! I am actually NEW to the wooden ship world. I've always loved the way they look, but steered away from them, as I was always a little intimidated by the amount of work that was required. I was mainly worried that I wouldn't be able to set aside the time for such a massive undertaking, thus never completing the vessel and losing it in the dark corners of an unused closet, only to have it look at me once or twice a year as I stumble across its dusty remnants while I search for something lost. But one day...it just hit me.
One evening I was searching the web for completed wooden ships and I came across a ship that was built, not only in the city that my wife is from, but the shipyard that she once worked many years ago. It was a Vietnamese built model ship. There was no price listed on the site so I began to search some more; looking at other sites for the same ship, then other Russian tall ships, and then I found the Ingermanland, and I knew that I was done. And even thought it wasn't built in my wife city, I knew the search was over. And here I am, doing something that I never thought I would be doing...
...truly loving building a wooden ship.
I started a Facebook page for my build, just to document my progress, and then I had followers, and my posts were being shared, and then I was asked to bring my work here, to SOS, and share my experience with all of you, and to gain knowledge and experience from you as well, in order to help me along was of these wonderfully uncharted waters...for me at least anyway.
One evening I was searching the web for completed wooden ships and I came across a ship that was built, not only in the city that my wife is from, but the shipyard that she once worked many years ago. It was a Vietnamese built model ship. There was no price listed on the site so I began to search some more; looking at other sites for the same ship, then other Russian tall ships, and then I found the Ingermanland, and I knew that I was done. And even thought it wasn't built in my wife city, I knew the search was over. And here I am, doing something that I never thought I would be doing...
...truly loving building a wooden ship.
I started a Facebook page for my build, just to document my progress, and then I had followers, and my posts were being shared, and then I was asked to bring my work here, to SOS, and share my experience with all of you, and to gain knowledge and experience from you as well, in order to help me along was of these wonderfully uncharted waters...for me at least anyway.