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Monday, April 25, 2011

Cutting the planking

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The Yellow wood planking is cut to 3mm X 1.5mm strips from wider 1.5 mm strips, for the hull planking of the Schooner I am building. At firs...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

H.M.S Halifax Plans

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HMS Halifax was a schooner built for merchant service at Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1765 and purchased in 1768 by the British Royal Navy for co...
Saturday, April 9, 2011

H.M.A.V Bounty

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HMS Bounty (known to historians as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, popularly as HMAV Bounty, and to many simply as "The Bounty"), famous ...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Plans for the Replica of the 1963 "Bluenose II" Schooner which is based on the original "Bluenose"

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What a beutifull design of a working fishing Schooner, that not only caught fish but raced and won. The "Bluenose II" was built ba...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Cannon Update First prototype complete

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Below is a pic of the cannon on top of the truck's fith wheel (scale of the truck is 1/10 scale of the cannon is 1/84) just to show the ...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Dec Update 64 Gun French Galleon

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I have now started on the cannons and the gun carriages, have just realised how small they are. Finally started to revamp my new work statio...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Update 64 Gun French Galleon second layer hull planking

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Well at last the second layer of hull planking is complete on one side and most of the gun ports have been cut out. Some of the sanding has ...