Dear friends,
At the end of the last year I was deciding, what a ship will be next. I put aside all my favorites ships, and try to find something, what I never built. Then I found the wreck of fluit, lying next to Dalaro - and I simply fell in love in this ship, the choose was born
Now, when I returned back to this forum, I found also, that
abhove is building similar ship. If you want to learn, ask, or have any questions about merchand vessels of 17 / 18 th century, please ask him. His thread is the greatest ispiration for me.
If you wanna know closer informations about this ship, here is the page:
https://www.abc.se/~pa/uwa/annamari.htm
Simplified history:
Anna Maria was built for consortium of 15 shipowners in Swenden for trading route to Portugal and back, trading iron, copper and wooden planks from north and salt and wine from Portugal. In the winter 1708 / 1709 the ship stayed locked in ice in Dalaro. The crew was sent home except 5 sailors, who had guard the vessel. At the evening of 6 th february, after supper, the crew left the ship, and very soon she catch the fire and sunk under the ice.
Shipwreck was found and identified by amateur divers in 60īts.
Now back to the model. I found plans on russian webpages, they were created by Cor Emke, Bussum Netherland. Dimensions are in Amsterdam feets, so it was very easy to transform it to 1:96 scale. I will using all my technologies as always. So please - enjoy the building with me.
1st step, as always, transform hull lines to 3d
, create holes for strenghtening and strengh the frame by wooden bars. As you can see, I had to create two ribs which arenīt included in plans.
Now Iīm gluing horizontal ribs, next photos very soon. My wish is create the hull into the end of spring. Then I will continue in the reconscruction of my house again.
Jan