I have to admit it was a challenging build... however, believe me, if I can do it, anyone can... my woodworking experience was negligible and back then my workshop was,
I did have a sheapo benchtop drill press to shape the mast and spars.
I really relished in the forming of the hull as it actually made me think... helped by a "plank bender" which crimped the timber to curve it... Back when I started, Woodworking was at the back of the dictionary and it took a long time to progress to that page.
Now yazall know why I never took up that white dog collar!
Ron Stewart ...... It’s good that you built a display case for it. It’d be a shame to have the rigging and all the tiny crevices clogged with dust.
The case was a must, given that it spent a lot of time in the kitchen... whenever SWMBO has a go at me about my mess, I point to the boat and tell her that all that dust on it can't be removed because of that filthy kitchen oil vapours impregnating it.
Close up, it's hard to ignore roughly 16 years (when I abandoned the bedroom build location) of uncontrolled dust settlement. When the detail expanded, cleaning of dust decreased... compressed air was too strong and it was a debate what was harder, compressor in the kitchen or boat in the tiny workshop... I didn't know about canned air... one must read to learn.
YRTi ..... I enjoyed the 250+ detail pictures.....
Thanks YRTi... occasionally I look back at the pictures, more so than the actual boat, as they give me a greater appreciation of the full lengthy process, and question "did I really do all that"? I feel that pictures can be understood in any language other than just duck prattle.
I still have the leftovers that allay those thoughts, and some of the timber still bundled when I moved to Churchill in 2010, it was basically 5 sails and some of the running gear that took me 7 years to finish.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
