SS Zuiderkruis

[Bluenoser]

Here you can see that I opened up the rest of the bulwark. I left a few little vertical pieces to keep the bulwark from being too floppy.

[Bluenoser]

When I applied the Foredeck, which is aligned at the break of the deck, it extended well beyond the skeletal stem. I wasn't sure what to do about it so I will leave it to for now.

[Texman]

Excellent techniques! These should be employed sometime soon.

[Bluenoser]

The Stern is assembled first and glued into position by itself. I then placed on the aft hull plateing up to this and glued it along the deck only leaving the forward end free for trimming the reserve later. Prior to putting on the forward hull plating, I figured it best to join the two halves together at the stem first so that I could get a nice joint.

[Bluenoser]

Thanks for the kinds comments gents.

Once the hull plateing stem was dry, I glued it on to the boat and aligned it with the apparent over length deck and ingnored the underhanging stem frame. Interestingly the trailing edge of the plating extended well past the expected reserve cut-off point as noted by the line on the aft piece.

As a test, I lined up the forward plate with the aft at the reserve line and portholes and it was obvious that there is too much hull here for the frame (see marked up picture).

[Bluenoser]

The joint of the hull plates is set up with a butt strap, but I omitted this and just did a overlap joint instead and it looks just fine to me. The deck and the cut-out lined up pretty good. I was afraid that the deck would sit to high and the tabs were going to show.

[Bluenoser]

Having joined the stem first was the way to go as it looks good.

[Bluenoser]

The anchor was just a flat piece of card in the same shape and color as that printed on the bow. I added some more card to this to give it some depth and shape and then painted it. It doesn't really show up well on the photo, but it looks a hundred times better.

[Bluenoser]

Bollards and capstan are added to the stern and bow plus a new deck house has sprouted aft.

[Royaloakmin]

Nice work on the hull. How did the break at the forcastle end up?