11/25/14

PRIDE of BALTIMORE
Pride of Baltimore
a 1/20th scale working model
BOTTOM

11/13/10
Plans by Tom Gilmer.

Printing the plan on the 3 foot plotter.

1:20th scale plan.

Station patterns in 1:20 scale.

11/19
Forms on building board.

9/17/11
Keel cut and fitted.

10/8
Table saw rigged for ripping planks.

ripping a plank.

planks!

10/8
Starboard garboard going on.

10/10
A few more strakes.

10/15

10/21

10/22
Sheer strake.

Planking from the sheer
down connects with the transom.

10/23
Scribed the waterline and
planking continues.

10/27
Pulled almost all the pins, knocked off some bumps and ridges with the plane, and sanded a bit.

10/29

10/30

10/31

11/1
Final plank.

11/3
Pulling out form #10.

11/4
Some more putty (note can in background).

All sanded.

Transome trimmed down to where it should be.

11/5
Fully taped

11/6
Made a stand

11/11
3oz cloth laid on.

11/12
Glassed.

11/13
Unglassed.

Forms pulled out.

11/20
Resin inside.

12/25
Port side glassed.

12/27
Starboard side glassed.

12/30
Transom glassed.

1/18
Deck clamps installed and main beams fitted.

1/19
First float in the tub.

3/15
Another coat of resin after sanding.

3/17
Stern post cut-out for prop.

Deck beams fitted and tacked in place.
The pilot hole for the shaft stuffing box has been drilled as well.

3/23
Dagger board trunk with 6" wide 1/8" aluminum plate.

Installed in the hull.

3/29
Dagger board trunk trimed down, capped, and braced.

Motor mount bulkhead fitted and spaces between deck beams filled around perimeter.

3/30
A much younger me in 1:20 scale.

3/31
Making a cardstock deck template.

Made a cardstock deck template.

Cutting the tube that reenforces the keel-bolt hole.

Board in place with keel-bolt installed.

Starboard wale epoxied on.

4/2
Starboard wale while wet port wale is clamped on.

Port wale epoxied on.

4/4
Port wale.

A coat of primer.

Waterline taped.

4/5
Wales thinned out.

Moss Green paint.

Bottom painted.

Sides painted to the tops of the wales.

Hawse bolsters and starboard molding going on.

Forward channels cut; starboard one installed.

4/6
Port side molding installed, more paint, and gunports cut out.

4/7
Fashion pieces fitted.

Transom wings fitted.

Transom arch epoxied on.

Lower transom attached.

4/9
Masked off to spray the red molding.

Molding sprayed and some touch-up.

Port quarter.

4/10
Installing the port channels.

Installing the starboard channel.

A coat of paint drying outside.

New deck clamps, resized deck beams, mast partners, and cabin stringers.

4/13
Transom filler installed and cabin trunk made.

Cabin trunk.

Tracing deck pattern onto plywood.

Subdeck fitted.

4/14
A little more paint and some sticks to get an idea of what she'll look like.

Deck furniture marked on subdeck.

4/15:Table saw jig to cut parallel kerfs in underside of subdeck 1-1.2" apart.

Kerfs cut.

Subdeck will now bend to deck camber.

4/17
Marking 1:20 scale measurements on the spar plan..

4/18
Motor mount plate from an electrical box cover.

4/19
Trenails, also known as toothpicks.

Pegging on the timber cap rail.

One rail pegged while the other takes shape.

Nipping off the pegs.

Pegs cut, everything sanded, and some paint.

4/20
Staining basswood sheets:
L: gray then oak
M: oak then gray
R: plain bass.

Cutting planks.

Looks like that will work.

Access hatch cut in subdeck.

Framing the access hatch.

4/21
Cutting out the access hatch.

Gluing up the access hatch cover.

Additional deck framing and support posts at mast partners.

Two hatches.

Deck framing.

Bulkhead #7 epoxied into the hull. The motor mount plate has been painted red.

Wood from Pride's mast cut into 3/16" slabs.

Constructing the cabin trunk.

4/22
Bitts.

4/23
Aft riding bitt with windlass axle and knees.

Forward bitts.

4/24
Counter framing.

Cabin top installed.

Inside the cabin top.

Skylight made of wood from the original boat.

4/25
Oak block for rudder tube.

Drilling the drift pin holes in the rudder.

Test fit.

Against the hull.

Filling with J.B.Weld.

Rudder tube in place-inside.

Rudder tube in place-outside.

Cabin top with trim, hatch, and skylight in place.

4/26
Cutting the motice for the gudgeon plate mounting plate.

Test fit, now I need some screws.

The model so far with Greg Pease's book Sailing With Pride.
All of it's pictures have been very helpful.

4/27
The gudgeon plate and the tools to tap the holes.

Mounting plate epoxied and screwed in place.

Job done.

Counter replanked.

Riding bitts glued to subdeck.

Riding bitts glued to subdeck.

Battery suppored installed.

4/29
Binnacle box and hatch panels added; cabin top and counter decking primed.

4/30
Transom knees and clamp installed.

Servo placement.

Pump boxes started, Binnacle box corrected, and transom knees trimmed.

5/1
Focs'l hatch coaming. Drawn line is from deck plan, coaming is based on stuctural plan and photos.

Prop, shaft, stuffing box, and motor link from Dumas.

Sockets and nylon link for the motor.

Hatch coamings added.

Beginning the tiller.

5/2
The tiller with a photo of the real one.

5/3
Knees to support the servo tray.

A look in the access hatch.

5/4
Focs'l hatch gets a hinge.

Hatch cover opens.

Rudder servo in the cabin hatch.

Sail control servo tray with main mast step.

Focs'l hatch sitting in place.

Cabin hatch with cover removed.

Access hatch with cover removed.

5/6
Sail control shuttle mock-up.

5/7
Hull stood up to install stuffing box for prop shaft.

The Traxxas 1260 rotary speed control.

Rigged for a test run.

5/8
Speed control mount.

5/9
Speed control mounted in hull.

5/10
Full size sail plan on shop wall.

Jib altered to reduce amount sails overlap.

5/11
Cutting a V groove in a test piece.

Test piece glued up; made 8 sided, made round.

Making cheek blocks for the riding bitts.

Cheek blocks on the aft bitts.

5/12
"Iron" banding on pumps made from bass.

Foremast tenon.

fits into an oak mast step.

5/13
Cream colored paint on most of the furniture, and "iron" pump bands painted black.

Foremast cut, stained, and painted.

Hole made in subdeck for foremast.

5/14
Cross-trees and trestle-trees parts cut.

Fore mast set glued and pinned.

Hounds installed.

Painted black.

5/15
Plywood cut for caps.

Tape around perimer to represent iron banding. Fore cap painted, main cap is next.

Outside the shop for a little sunshine.

5/16
One of the cedar boards left over from Constellation that will make Pride's masts.

Cedar ripped into 1/4" thick boards.

1/4" board ripped into 5/16" strips.

Pushing the strips through the router to cut the V-groove.

Strips laid out by stave.

Gluing up the mast.

Almost there.

All bound up with rubber bands and a string clamp.

5/17
All set up and bindings removed.

Ridges planed off to 8-sided.

Heel plugged.

Head getting plugged.

Marking out the doubling.

Rounding the mast between the head and the bury.

Cross-trees and trestle-trees assembled.

Head shaped with hounds, cross-trees, cap.

5/18
Beginning the bowsprit.

Opening the bulwark for the bowsprit.

Mini-me checks the fit.

5/19
8-sided from near the bulwark out.

Round from the end of the head knee out.

Tenon cut.

Sleeved holes in bitts for shear pin.

Cap cut out.

So far.

5/20
Made the hand-pump hardware.

5/22
bowsprit cap and bees.

Stay holes in fore topmast cap sleeved.

Bobstay holes in stem sleeved.

5/23
Dolphin striker and spreaders.

5/24
Tiller parts.

All together and in place.

Set screw in placed when it can be accessed.

5/30
False rudder head installed.

Mast hoops.

Compared to the real thing.

5/31
Finished hoops on the mast.

Stained hoops drying.

Installing foremast cleats.

Cleats installed and painted.

6/1
Pennant cut with new hot-knife blade.

Tubing guides steering cables below deck...

...from the lazerette hatch.

Cedar block reenforces the tubing.

6/2
Foresail cut from Supplex with the hot-knife.

6/3
All the sails cut and ruled.

6/4
Steering fair-lead block under sub-deck.

New fabric glue.

6/5
Three heads'ls tried on for size.

Fore t'gallant and "The Eye of Sauron."

6/6
Squares added to the laundry list.

6/8
Fully clothed.

6/9
Boom, yards, gaffs.

6/11
Boom and gaff's jaws and slots cut to receive them.

Main mast table and boom jaws.

Main gaff and jack-yard.

Sail hung up on the wall and the yards laying across the rail.

6/12
Stuns'l boom iron.

Ring-tail boom iron on boom with a photo of the real thing below.

6/14
Blackened stuns'l boom iron and stuns'l boom on painted yard.

Thickened boom saddle.

Jackstays.

6/18
T'gallant got a bolt-rope and is attached to it's yard.

6/30
Four lowers set.

7/1
1/2" blocks.

7/2
A 1/2" block and a 3/8" block.

7/6
Throat halyard double blocks.

Fore peak halyard rove through.

7/10
3/8" block stropped.

Setting sails for display next week.

7/13
Main tops'l and flying jib bolt-roped and set.
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