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Just a further point on Hood's rudder. For years there was controversy as to whether Hood had turned to bring her full broadside to bear on Bismarck immediately before she was blown up. An inspection of the wreck found that her rudder had indeed turned to port to bring her aft turrets to bear on the target.

Agree with Phil, don't mix and match. If you choose to use shellac based sanding sealer then carry on with traditional surface finishes. They still work!

Alternatively use the acrylic sealers and either epoxy or waterbased resins prior to painting.

As always, Horses for courses.

Also, as Phil says, don't nglect the underside of the deck. and seal as much as possible.  It does stabilise the wood and protect from moisture.

Coln

Another one to push on with over Xmas is my Speedline Trent..

Some have made fair comments, and I agree after sanding sealer has been applied some epoxy’s may not bond. Another question how have you sealed the underside of the fore deck ? (silly question but peeps do forget about that bit)
Having build all wood hulls for many years, I personally, being old school, have primed and hand painted ( I Know )  although a little dull on the finish now ( well it is 40 odd years old) still has a good finish, and no epoxy used. So thathas been said your-hull looks good and strong.
So I would rub down, prime. and paint ( maybe an inside coat or resin if you are concerned) oh lots of paint and rubbing down …..
Please keep us updated

Only a mother could love that!!

Hardly things of beauty, those X-Bow ships, are they?


But they seem to be becoming more more common within the offshore support world.

Further update

Nothing to do with Hood, but an interesting moment in time. Not long before closure of HMDYd Chatham. At the nuclear refit dock they built a fixed base crane to lift out heavy lifts from the subs. The crane needed a solid forged hook weighing 12 ton. The yard blacksmiths said they could manufacture it, but the government said no and offered out to contract. No one in U/K could make it so it was offered oversea, but still no reply. Eventually the yard blacksmiths said let us have a go as you have nothing to loose. So the blacksmiths went to work on a very old steam hammer, an yes they succeeded and the hook stayed on the crane until its demolition when the yard was closed, the firm given the task to develop the yard for commercial purposes systematically destroyed all the work shops in the yard and scrapped all the caissons for the dry docks and started to build houses instead. No1 blacksmith shop had 2 steam hammers and was built in 1765, with an earthen floor, they also made all the small chain quick release system for all RN boats on ships and out behind it they  had a peg board with pins to hammer out the frames for all the subs built there to 1/4" tolerance, plus oven for heating the steel and steel lates going back to about 1865 and a frame for hammering steel plate into the desired shape for fitting to hulls,

Just remembered, when i was on the old cable vessel St Margaret's, when in hot weather underway, to increase ventilation to the lower deck we used to rig a canvas
cloth/ Old hatch cloth with odd timber to make temporary funnel vent to force air below when underway.

Hi More from the Deans Marine clear out sales
 sets of spare for the KEHRER water jet drive units very hard to get nowadaysone complete out drive unit with reverseone unit as spare drive shaft and propeller 8 axial flow unitssold as seen   £50.00can reserve and collect at our open day on the 20th Decall items not sold will then go on auction site Regards Ron