Model boat, solid pear tree, for the smaller workshop owner

[stef]

as promised, something i started years ago when i was at uni.
solid pear three, cut from a few rescued logs. I still have loads of material in the loft, but not enough time and space at the mo to complete the work.
I might take it up again when the nipper is old enough to help me out.

it's about 50cm long. each frame is made of at least 5 piece, to get the grain to follow the curve of the frame. the norm is to get 50% wood, 50% air space between frames..)

The planking was cut with a band saw and the outside face still needs tidying.

The boat is the "Three brothers of Rye" a sailing trawler. plans from H. Underhill, and method from the same author.

 

[PowerTool]

Looks great,would love to see it finished

Andrew

 

[Anonymous]

Is that a Breton form of ship? Forgive me, my knowledge of boat's is thin to non existent BUT is your one carvel style (build frames first and keep them as part of the finished structure?? is that right??) I think the vikings did theirs in a clinker stlye where the planks overlap and are done with a copper rivet (I love rivetting me!!) It has character any way. When you mark out the planks do you have to scribe fit one to the next? It is a puzzle to me how they get the boards flush edge to edge AND with good contact on every part of the frame.
Any way nice job Stef 8)

 

[stef]

Is that a Breton form of ship? Forgive me, my knowledge of boat's is thin to non existent BUT is your one carvel style (build frames first and keep them as part of the finished structure?? is that right??) I think the vikings did theirs in a clinker stlye where the planks overlap and are done with a copper rivet (I love rivetting me!!) It has character any way. When you mark out the planks do you have to scribe fit one to the next? It is a puzzle to me how they get the boards flush edge to edge AND with good contact on every part of the frame.
Any way nice job Stef 8)

I dont think it is particularly Breton, although it probably was design to sail around the same seas and do the same sort of work. yes, it is a plank on frame.
they normally fit some sort of "caulk" (really not sure about the word here) between adjacent planks, a mixture of cotton and tar, to bridge the gap.
and those boats didnt float when first put to sea. you had to keep them supported for a few days, until the wood expended enough to make them sort of water tight.
i remember craning a 21foot sailing boat in the river, we had to leave it on the slings for 48h before letting go (and hope it would float !)

It's the frame that impresses me though.. you could almost remove the planks, and the thing would still look like a boat...

 

[CarlC]

Looking good, looking good.

 

[Lord Nibbo]

It is a puzzle to me how they get the boards flush edge to edge AND with good contact on every part of the frame.
Any way nice job Stef 8)

Not many old wooden sailboats planks met flush edge to edge, well not perfectly, thats why so many had caulking hammered in the gaps and when immersed in water it relied on the wood swelling and filling the gaps.

 

[dedee]

That's gorgeous can you give me an idea of scale? I made a model boat like that from a kit once and that was hard enough. I can imagine how much more satisfying it is to cut all the pieces your self. Great stuff.


Andy

 

[stef]

That's gorgeous can you give me an idea of scale? I made a model boat like that from a kit once and that was hard enough. I can imagine how much more satisfying it is to cut all the pieces your self. Great stuff.


Andy

i cant remember the exact scale, but it's approx 50cm long, whilst the original was around the 25m mark.. making the scale around 1:20 ?

 

[mahking51]

Hi All,
Years ago I put 17 new planks into my 1939 S&S 46 ft Sloop in the BVI and she was carvel but each plank had a small bead down the middle of the edge which was filled with a tarred twine before screwing to the frame.
Bloody nightmare!
Also did 15 frame sisters, huge chunk of new deadwood, new transom and new 'sprit.
Spent so much money I never could put an engine in it and sold it a year later!
Boats! Doncha love em! :roll:
Martin

 

[stef]

you should stick with models !
probably more chances to sail one !