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I ordered and received the plans from a place in Canada.  I scratched my head a few times (hence the few hair left) about the plan I received.  First the 1:1 model plan (in other words, the one at 2"=1' ) is  not to scale, its's a bit too big Second, even if the positions of the moulds marked on the plan are correct, the distance between the moulds written on the plan are incorrect. This threw me  away for a good period of time. Fortunately, in the documentation that comes with the plan the author mentions the dimensions are incorrect and gives the right ones. Third, the plans are not very good quality, which makes the enlargement somewhat messy. Since I want a 3/4 size of the original model, in other words a 1.5 inches = 1 foot model,  I had a local printer shop print a 3/4 version of the pdf file I got from that vendor, and generated a new table of offsets by measuring each station of the plan. I also bought a great book called "how to build glued-lapstrake wo...
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Wide A Wake first post

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Yo all, So, I have always been interested in steam model marine engines. I built Alexandra, a steam launch from Krick, fitted with a Cheddar steam plant back in 2005. That blog can be found here . Now that I am retired, I sailed Alexandra a few times and the steam modeling virus came back to haunt me. I subscribed to a few steam models building blogs (in UK as this is where the real steam modelers are !), and got really impressed with two building blogs of Wide A Wake: 'WIDE A WAKE' a steam launch tale by Ramon WIDE-A-WAKE LAUNCH FOR STUART TWIN ENGINE The Wide a Wake model is a replica of a clinker built boat in Australia. The actual size was 25 feet with a 7'6" beam I never built a clinker boat before, so this could be an interesting experience. Also the overall shape and form of this steam boat are extremely elegant. The model is at 1/6 scale or 2" for 1 foot. At that scale, the model is 50" long ( 127cm) with a beam of 15" (38.1cm) Th...
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