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[YTHANEIDER]

Am a newcomer to this board
Currently building a 3/4-in to 1ft scale plank on frame model of the Scottish ring net boat Ribhinn Donn 1
The original was built by Alex Noble & Sons of Girvan
Am building this model off the original drawings
We're well on with it ... the basic hull is nearly complete
It is the family's second ringer ... the first was started in the mid 1990s and completed around 1997
It is a Weatherhead & Blackie style of ringer ... slightly longer
These boats invariably worked in pairs, so the new boat is the long awaited partner
Neither model has metal fastenings ... all dowelled
The build of the second one can be reviewed on the trawlerphotos website
http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=908
Attached is a taster showing the current state of build

[DickyD]

Excellent. Beautiful work, something to be proud of.

[derekwarner]

Yes Ythaneider.....your build is excellent.....keep the photographs  here @ Mayhem,,,,,,,,,,..Derek......

www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=908

[YTHANEIDER]

Thanks guys
Here's an image of the earlier ringer named Antonia & Ruaraidh (aka Catherine Anne)
Also built off original yard drawings
Hull length is 43 inches

[ronkh]

I really like those. Thanks for sharing.

Ron.

[dreadnought72]

Stunning - that's what woodwork ought to look like!

Andy

[YTHANEIDER]

Here are the two together
Two distinctively different builds of ring netter ... Alex Noble & Sons (left); Weatherhead & Blackie (left/behind)

[YTHANEIDER]

Have been fairly busy, plodding on with fitting capping rails, fishroom hatch, accommodation skylight and access hatch, the curvy thaft at the back end that was such a characteristic of Clyde herring boats, etc
All rails are oak ... three sections to port, three to starboard, with 3:1 ratio scarphs; hatches are also oak, skylight is ash ... variously scarphed/tenoned at key joints

[SteamboatPhil]

Congratulations of some fine woodwork, it is nice to see traditional wood (oak etc) being used for a model.
 

[YTHANEIDER]

Thanks Steamboatphil
One of the interesting aspects of using woods such as oak and pitchpine is just how workable they are
Indeed, over time, I have come to prefer them to the standard offerings that one buys at a model shop
I'm currently drying some applewood and look forward to using that!
Meantime, have been working on the largest metal item on the model ... the engineroom casing (or "poop deck" as the Alex Noble yard prefers). I've fabricated this from angle aluminium ... standard stock from B&Q. It has worked better than I had hoped for (am not an enthusiastic metal worker). The wheelhouse will sit atop this casing
Jay

[YTHANEIDER]

Now working on wheelhouse
Pine frame, 1.5mm ply inner carcass, pitchpine outer skin cut/sanded to look like feather and groove

[YTHANEIDER]

Many months have passed since last I posted
Here are a few images of the boat pretty much completed bar a detail or two