Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Full Scale Ships => Topic started by: missyd on February 10, 2018, 08:53:58 pm

Title: A new bow for a trawler with wood hull
Post by: missyd on February 10, 2018, 08:53:58 pm

Very interesting video for all wooden boat lovers !  :-)) :-)) :-))

https://vimeo.com/252220921 (https://vimeo.com/252220921)

Title: Re: A new bow for a trawler with wood hull
Post by: derekwarner on February 10, 2018, 11:04:31 pm

Yes excellent........thanks for sharing Danielle  :-))

Apart from wooden slabs [assumed as kiln or naturally aged? as arriving on the trailer]...the galvanised spikes.....just hammered in to predrilled holes

I did see a little Coppercoat near the bow timbers..

Derek

Title: Re: A new bow for a trawler with wood hull
Post by: ballastanksian on February 11, 2018, 10:38:30 pm

Oh for TV documentries to be like that! No repetition, no snap change shots, no making the craftsmen look like fools, getting them to say innane twaddle instead of info worth hearing.

I am sure shipwrights down the ages would have given their eye teeth for power tools, but it was pleasing to see the master craftsman adjusting his build with an adze, not an electric planer, not a power file, an adze. The shipwrights who built the Mary Rose and the Victory would have watched and appreciated that (as well as going 'Mary on a Donkey, what are those whiney tools the apprentices are weilding?')

Thanks for sharing Danielle, I will look out for more.

Title: Re: A new bow for a trawler with wood hull
Post by: roycv on February 12, 2018, 04:33:26 am

Hi I echo all of that, an excellent video.  The boat was not just lengthened but changed its shape, bow etc.  I like the way he was working from a half model and created the full size and it all fitted!  I expect they built the boat in the first place but nevertheless great workmanship.
Thanks for finding that, I did not understand the French but the camera work made it unecessary.
regrds Roy