sorry, no construction blogs, computer is mostly beyond me. Little aluminium gillnet boat is scrap styrene (tennis tournament score board),the sienne boat Northern Dawn is left over yellow cedar blanks from the Lloyd B.Gore build,drop stern ramp and net drum are left over copper sheat from somebody's roof. Life boats on the Gore are card stock layed up over wooden plug. I am a shipwright in real life so these models are both easier and harder at the same time. It can take a couple days for me to cut ,fit and install a plank (for example shear plank from stem back 24' ,4 1/2" thick and 8" wide on the full size Lloyd B. Gore;now called Ku'ulakai)while on the model I can lay up the hull in a week.The live boats take about an hour to lay up over the plug, another couple to finish, the lanterns take about an hour each,as they are turned from plexiglass rod then brass wire is added. The tow winch is based on a fishing real (with spooling gear) with new end made of copper or brass and driven off the center shaft through a converted flow control valve gear set (from hot water heating system but I have repositioned the output and the drive, good gears and case though) and powered by a deconstructed servo, using the motor for drive and the electronics for speed and direction. Hope this has been of some interest. Al