Archive for the 'Shipbuilding' Category

Sultana is finished!!

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

After more than a year of effort and peering at tiny little details, shaping wood, threading cotton through tiny holes in blocks and deadeyes, the Sultana is finally completed. Today I am a proud father! Certainly it has flaws if you peer closely but the overall effect is rather good and for my first build […]

The Sultana is almost finished

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

I have posted the latest pictures of my Sultana model. After over a year of painstaking work, she is almost complete. I have a couple more yards to hang and then the final rigging. I amalready looking around for a display case to house her in and protect her from the cats and dust. Unfortunately […]

New shipbuilding pictures

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

My Sultana ship model progresses nicely. I am at the stage where it is time to construct the masts and rigging. Hopefully I shall be done in a month or two. Take a look at the latest pics.

Building the Sultana

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Now you can see the first photos of the new hobby I took up back in May. ‘Woop-de-doo’, you say. To try to escape computers and do something challenging with my hands I took up wooden historical ship modelling. My maiden build is the Sultana