As the title of this build log suggests this is a continuation of Donnie’s Marina II build, the trawler has moved to a new boat yard in Australia, I was fortunate enough to purchase the boat from Donnie.
I wasn’t going to do anything to the boat until later in the year but curiosity got the better of me and I started on the superstructure, I will continue with the hull later.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words but to hold the object from the picture in ones hands I am at a loss for words. Donnie’s craftsmanship is outstanding.
As for the kit itself, the laser cutting is very good, however where some pieces have to interlock the laser cut slots are just that little bit too wide. On a few of the pieces that make up the frame work for the smoke stack, a few of them required some heavy sanding to make them all fit together. I haven’t yet started on the wheel house (gluing). The portholes are made out of white metal; I have some brass stock and will turn some portholes on my mini lathe.
I usually like to find out the history of period ships and as this is not a period ship there is no history, however, I did find out that this style of boat is used in the Bay of Biscay for tuna fishing. The Bay can be dead calm one minute the next there can be ferocious seas that can hide great ocean liners in its troughs, hence the wide flared bow of the trawler which is designed to stop the bow dropping below water as the trawler rides down the trough or heavy swells. North Atlantic tuna boats don’t have the flared bow. The colour scheme of these boats doesn’t vary much most of them are red, white and blue, hardly any green. Some have the deck cabins and wheel house all white, some all blue and some both; I couldn’t find any images that had red above deck. The blue and white above waterline also varied, I think that may be a personal choice of the captain/owner. The cabin/wheelhouse also varies from boat to boat. The smoke stack/exhaust also varies with combinations or single colours of white, blue and yellow, once again personal choice of captain.
So on with the build....
I wasn’t going to do anything to the boat until later in the year but curiosity got the better of me and I started on the superstructure, I will continue with the hull later.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words but to hold the object from the picture in ones hands I am at a loss for words. Donnie’s craftsmanship is outstanding.
As for the kit itself, the laser cutting is very good, however where some pieces have to interlock the laser cut slots are just that little bit too wide. On a few of the pieces that make up the frame work for the smoke stack, a few of them required some heavy sanding to make them all fit together. I haven’t yet started on the wheel house (gluing). The portholes are made out of white metal; I have some brass stock and will turn some portholes on my mini lathe.
I usually like to find out the history of period ships and as this is not a period ship there is no history, however, I did find out that this style of boat is used in the Bay of Biscay for tuna fishing. The Bay can be dead calm one minute the next there can be ferocious seas that can hide great ocean liners in its troughs, hence the wide flared bow of the trawler which is designed to stop the bow dropping below water as the trawler rides down the trough or heavy swells. North Atlantic tuna boats don’t have the flared bow. The colour scheme of these boats doesn’t vary much most of them are red, white and blue, hardly any green. Some have the deck cabins and wheel house all white, some all blue and some both; I couldn’t find any images that had red above deck. The blue and white above waterline also varied, I think that may be a personal choice of the captain/owner. The cabin/wheelhouse also varies from boat to boat. The smoke stack/exhaust also varies with combinations or single colours of white, blue and yellow, once again personal choice of captain.
So on with the build....