Looking awesome Jan. I am expecting lots of rain this weekend. So I should get some bench time in.
Nikitin San Bartolome 1584 A.D. (Kit #35)
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Excellent time to be in the shipyard. I'm looking forward to some more of your build photos.
Jan
Got to love summer
. Good morning Jan. We have had a series of large cold fronts, been having some floods. Good ship building time. Who would have thought the change of glue would make such a difference. Good to see a couple more planks in. Cheers Grant
Hi Grant. We’ve had off and on summer weather. Torrential rain one day (2.5 inches ), hot muggy days the next. Would you believe the the beach lifeguards are warning Tourists about the ocean temperatures. On one of 80+F/27+ C days the water temperature was in the hyperthermia range (50F/10C).Got to love summer
Yup the glue difference solved my hot water/bending fiasco. Titebond III is waterproof. I‘ve only used it on the scarf joints at the bow section of the planks. So no ”DO-OVERS” there.
Jan
(Shipyard time this weekend, heavy rain and T-storms forecast for Saturday and Sunday)
Time for an update. Closing in the hull.
It’s an almost closed hull. I‘ve got the same problems SB and Port. The garboard planks need serious “adjustments“ to get a proper fit.
Jan
It’s an almost closed hull. I‘ve got the same problems SB and Port. The garboard planks need serious “adjustments“ to get a proper fit.
Jan
Good morning Jan. Those “whiskey planks”. On both my models I had some serious whiskey planks to finish off.
We are having some beautiful winter sunshine days - when Cape Town is like this it is truely inspiring. Apologies for late reply however I have not been in the shipyard while enjoying the few stunning winter days we get. Cheers Grant
@GrantTyler . It’s always nice to have a break in the winter doldrums. We’ve had a strange June. Rain events 25 out of 30 days, smoke haze from wildfires in Canada and daily coastal fog. Even with all that there are enough summer chores to keep me busy and out of the Jan boatyard. This mornings humor event was trying to remove several frogs from the pool. The little buggers a incredibly good at dodging the skimmer net.
I’m holding of on fitting those pesky garboard planks. I need to imagineer a jig to hold the hull upside down so I can see just how much trimming I need to do. There is also a lot fiddly hull work left. All the gunports need to be finished, the planks at the stern need to be trimmed flush with the transom, the sanding marathon of the hull, etc. I also have lots of bits and pieces that need to be painted. Those are waiting for July - August warm weather. My Admiral doesn’t like the smell of the model paints in the house so I do my painting in the garage. With our high humidity events I wait for days that are warm with low humidity. I even move her car outside
A little teaser.
Whatzit??
San Bartolome video Latrine fencing
One of those little fiddly items.
Jan
Whatzit??
San Bartolome video Latrine fencing
One of those little fiddly items.
Jan
No idea…….
@GrantTyler,
The answer to Whazit (Ships of Pavil Nikitin San Bartolome video #45)I work on sub assemblies while waiting for an hour or so for glue to set as the planking progresses. The video for this part is great, I would have struggled to get the bits right by working from the plans.
Jan
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Great work on your Galeon Jan
OSHA stopped by and noted that there was no hatch cover on the main deck.
So...
Emergency hatch cover in place. It's a self defense mechanism, half a dozen little bits have disappeared into that opening.
Jan
So...
Emergency hatch cover in place. It's a self defense mechanism, half a dozen little bits have disappeared into that opening.
Jan
A little bit of an engineering problem. The openings underlined in red are 8mm X 8mm, the dowels supplied as beams for those openings are 9mm X 9mm. I can see how to enlarge the the exterior openings, but there are two interior cross frames with the smaller openings. Those have me temporarily stumped. I think it might have been a good idea to have adjusted the openings in those frames before they were placed. So imagineering is in progress.
Yup, I'm thinking about it.
Jan
Yup, I'm thinking about it.
Jan
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You have to do as I did, use 8x8 bars or reduce those you have from 9x9 to 8x8
Thanks, I think I will follow your example and find some 8mm X 8mm bars. Those would be around 5/16 of an inch. A much better solution than trying to ream those to holes to 9mm X 9mm.
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I got some 8x8 bars because I was sure I would do a bad job of reducing those 9x9
Yup, I have to agree, I couldn't figure out a way to increase the size of the openings without damaging something else.
I'm getting some shipyard time today. It's the second day with a heat index of 100F/100C. Summer has arrived.
Jan
Oh boy, the "Bumbler" has created a problem.The plan.
The how to do it video
What the "Bumbler" did.
The inside planking juts just a "WEE" bit above the hull planks. Both the SB side and Port side have the same problem. I'm blaming the build error on "Heat Stroke". It's been over 90F/32C most of the week. That temperature when corrected for high Humidity places the temperature well over 100F. (Can't cool off in the pool, the water temperature is over 85F)
I think I'm going to take a break and try figure out what went wrong. It's going to take some careful ungluing to do a "Do-Over"
Jan