Dutchman
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damnation. Silver, I'm sorry this is going on. I was really hoping this would all get straightened out. thankyou for keeping us all posted. how is everyone else doing with this?
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Hold fast shipmates! two more orders received from Blackbear. It looks like progress is being made.
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We have been onboard Luna a couple of days this week so rather than doing a timeline of the projects I’m going to review the projects themselves.
Lets head back to the aft cabin. We have two things going on there this week.
First: The remaining knees for the captains cabin have been completed. In this photo, the knees have been fared out and are awaiting paint. They will then be installed.
Second: A new project has begun. Brian, another Sea Scout has begun working on the aft cabin windows. He spent part of the day making templates for the side window frames and we actually began making the aft window frame. We are making the frames out of a rotproof fiberglass reinforced foam. Once the box is shaped in place we are going to remove it and fiberglass it. It will then be reinstalled and finished in place.
Third: Now back to the keelson! This part of the construction project is almost done! That arm belongs to Joanna who is waterproofing the keelson. Note the floor timbers going from left to right. They are all in place!
We had to make some blocks to fill spaces where bolts connect the keel deadwood and keelson. Even though we are using huge chunks of white oak, we are concerned about rot. Typically, the rot occurs where these blocks and the dead wood meet. To remedy this we have added a few layers (1/4 of an inch actually) of fiberglass to the bottoms of the blocks. This also gives us some reinforcement to the block as the epoxy will soak into the wood and make it strong as nails.
one big block of wood will be turned into many small ones.
the two smaller blocks will be fillers and the larger is the beginning of the mast step
the blocks are now fiberglassed. The block on the left shows how many layers are going on and the block on the right has been glassed. it needs to be trimmed once dry
well there ya go! A weeks worth of little things add up to a lot of good work by all
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let me put one together and get it posted here. they should not take that long to do. we'll figure out price once i get the time straight.
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is anyone interested in procuring some of these? We have TONS of scraps from Lunas construction that would be perfect for this. We can do custom boxes out of a couple choices of soft woods. (we can do hard, but they would cost a bundle to ship) The cost of boxes would be a donation to construction. Any thoughts?
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Where do I even begin. . . . .
The past two weeks has been amazing for us! First, our long hunted for storage container came to fruition as a twenty foot shipping container was donated to us. This will allow us to store the resins and paints away from the barn making the whole operation safer. Now, here is the kicker. It apparently was a yard box as it came to us with shelves, lights, and power outlets.
Now onto construction updates.
-Tony has installed the port, or left, bulkhead half separating the main hold from the galley. We were working on the starboard, or right, side and we were pressed for a bit of time. But it looks great!
-The shipwright was in the captains cabin working on framing knees. These are all now either permanently mounted or roughed in and ready to mount. Once that is done we can install the roof on the captains cabin.
-The floor timbers which support the keelson have all been installed and the keelson is now laid in place. We have another days work of fine tuning and bolting before we can claim it as finis! One of our Sea Scouts, Joanna, installing the first of her floor timbers. This has been her Quartmasters project for her Scout promotion
- A final picture for the day………
That warmly dressed blob on the foredeck is no other than our board member and pirate living historian extraordinaire, Pern. He is checking out Tony’s work on the bulkhead previously mentioned. Due to various issues, he has not been able to board Luna in over eight months. It was a grand day to have him back on board. Now if we can just get him to do some work.
I’m going to do a new video tomorrow and get that posted so stay tuned.
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We just throw kick *** parties.
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The hearings can be viewed live at WWW.wavy.com. they also have the first days tribunals available.
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happy birthday shipmate
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Ahoy all! After a long time of hunting, searching, and telling our story we now have our long needed chemical locker! This 20 foot container is damned near perfect! no rust, fresh paint, power already installed and shelf brackets running down one side already. We will be adding a rack to hold rolls of fiberglass and make a cutting table to prep the material. Adding an old metal fridge with no motor will hold and isolate the catalysts. When we are done building, we will use it for seasonal downrigging storage. Thank you B. A. E. industries for your donation!
WE ARE UNDER WAY!!!!!!!!!
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Blackbear contacted us earlier this week. He has been provided the names of folks that I know of who he owes merchandise to. He has agreed that these orders need to be filled and is working towards that, but could not give a time frame.
Thank you all for contacting me with your info so we can get this straightened out. While I obviously can't make any promises about his deliveries or completions we at least have some dialogue and headway now so lets see where it goes.
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Indeed. I'll send you her info tonight when I get home.
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ahoy vendors! it looks like grace has two spaces available in the period vendors area! If you may be interested in attending please let me know and I'll put you in touch with grace. We are looking for something new to the festival such as furniture, chests, weapons colonial goods.
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we just throw really good parties!
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shirts v/s skins........
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pretty common for boats in the 50ish and less foot range to have them. Think about it this way. boats of this size don't have a whole lot of deck room to lash down small boats. Without small boats, larger boats cannot navigate tight harbors while sailing against the wind or current. Its easier to row this size boat than carry small boats to maneuver around. I can manage my 40 foot sloop with 12 foot oars pretty easily in flat water.
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plans a' startin!
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ahoy all,
while i can obviously make no promises- if folks would like a collective effort, please get me your name, the event (particularly blackbeard and beaufort), the date the orders were taken and what is owed to you, I'll see what I can do to help get this straight. So far, i'm counting five here and I know of three more not on the pub.
L. Silver -i'm aware of your issue, but not the exact items.
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hey mates,
thanks for viewing and checking it out. below is a link to the query where a lot of our miscellaneous videos are. I'm trying to figure out how to get our actual channel link up there. Back to the boat.......
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good morning all. The Colonial Seaport Foundation now has a youtube channel. Below is the link or you can search for colonialseaport as the channel.
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happy birthday stynky. oh grace says hey too
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new video is up!
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O.K. my brain is fried tonight and I'm just not getting the blog to transfer over. Below is the link.
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Ahoy all.
It's been an action packed week around the boat yard. I'll do a full account Monday after the dust settles. In the meantime here are some teasers!
Floor timber templates being laid and holes being packed with epoxy
Deck beams 12, 11 & 8 cut and shaped down.
Deck beam #8 being dressed and sanded. Next stop- ON BOARD
Be sure to follow along Monday. Wait till you see whats coming up!
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on the phone as I type......................
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