A face only a mother could love.
GM,
You know, if you weather it like that you leave yourself open to be called Barnacle Bill.
Thanks for hanging tough. I expect typing these posts is good Therapy.
Keep it up!.
Jim.
Oh Heavens !
How long did she spend on the Bottom ?
I’m getting ahead of myself, but I needed to get this “out of my system”.
Mask for surgery.
Mark the cuts.
Surgery.
End result.
I know I’m running a llittle long but that beats coming up short.
The thinking behind the staggered cut is that the broadest point at the rail was a little back from the point in the hull where the join would match at all. It makes the join a little stronger too.
I don’t know but she sank twice in one year (2012) in Anacortes, WA.
Actually the question probably is: “How long did she spend grounded above the highwater line?” That’s a alot of rust and corrosion.
She’s a woodie so it’s a lot of something…
I think somebody paid $ 2M for her in that condition. But she is a little bit of history. As you probably know, John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts chartered her in March 1940 out of Monterey, for a six week expedition to Baja California and “The Sea of Cortez”.
In addition to her little ten foot net setting skiff, they towed a twenty foot skiff that they putted around in collecting sea creatures. Now I just need to find a 1/60 1939 Johnson Sea Horse…
Bill;
That is an interesting Tidbit . I have seen worse . I brought up a 65 foot Owens from 120 feet of water north of the Farallons . She had no color left or cabin top for that matter .
It’s Alive!!
Frankenship went together pretty well. There’s work to do realigning the wales, putty, sanding off all of the steel plate detail (thankfully old school raised), and building the keel, rudder post, rudder and screw fairing. I also had to take off all of the detail inside the bulwarks. But all in all, I’m pretty happy with the results.
Next, modify the bulwarks at the bow, and install a sub deck, with camber.
GM,
You sound energized! Sawing, Scraping, and sanding agree with you. It looks really Good. I can’t wait for more. Henceforth I will be glued to this Thread. I’ve been attempting similar surgery on a smaller kit so watching this has me enthused.
So what is the “K49” in the background? A bit of repair/refurbishment? The Hull number K49 seems to indicate a Flower Class ship but the profile looks different then pictures I looked up. Perchance are you considering a conversion of this hull too? Maybe a Tug?
Nino
http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/7/t/176578.aspx
Yes, I hope to get that one going too.
Hey " G "
I think you might find an outboard motor , at least for the bottom end from the old Lindberg Owens kit . Maybe you could modify it to work . I do have this particular outboard , But , It goes with my R/C runabout .
Very impressive modelling. Looking forward to seeing more of what you do sir. Dale