It only seems polite to introduce myself a bit.
Way back a half century and more ago I fooled around with some model boats. Stank out the entire school block when a master foolishly allowed me to fibre glass a yacht hull wot I had made - about 5 foot long as I remember it. I can't recall the plan names I stared with, but they were just lines.
A model of Thermopylae followed me around for many years, and almost reached being fully rigged, but sank on the occasion of a house move. I still have some deck fittings in a box somewhere.
Harold Underhill became my hero, and I have his masterwork in the 'reserve stock' area of our 'library' where they won't get cleared out on a Throwout Thursday day.
Fast forward to retirement, and having recently made a 1:1 scale model of a St Ayles skiff and played with it, the workshop is almost back to usable declutter, so it's time to return to something satisfying. With no water around here I'm leaning to something plank on frame, or maybe a giant tanker from 8x4 sheets of marine ply with loads of water ballast, plus a couple of tugs. Hmm - I'll never smuggle that past the domestic authorities though.
Or how about a model of one of our local lifeboats - but that's been done to death surely?
At the moment, I could make anything - armchair modelling is SO satisfying its once you decide on summat that it gets harder.
Probably a 2 masted barquentine as a plank on frame model. I have some boxwood and holly in the workshop. If I make some miniature pit saws I could start cutting out the timbers...
See you all in a year or two..
Richard
