Russian Deck Boat St.Gabriel 1728 by Dubz - Master Korabel - 1:72

[Dubz]

Russian Deck Boat (imo a Poon with Jacht Rigging) St.Gabriel 1728 1:72


I needed something small and fast and the Master Korabel kits made me want to build them. Just building, little thinking, little pimping (ähm no, that does not wortk ....).

Because not another cutter (the AVOS) for the time being, I just finished one and the St.Gabriel came into my mind. A small nice little boat :-)





History:

Vitus Jonassen Bering was a Danish naval officer in Russian services. He led the First Kamchatka Expedition from 1728 to 1730 and from 1733 the Second Kamchatka Expedition, on which he died. Among other things, "Columbus the Tsar" proved that Asia and North America are not connected.

In 1728 Bering had the 18-metre long sloop St. Gabriel built. From July 1728, he used this ship to explore the coast of Siberia in a northerly direction, discovering several islands and penetrating further and further into the Arctic Ocean without finding a land connection between Asia and America. On 26 August 1728, due to bad weather, Bering gave the command to turn around and turned back at 67°18' north latitude. Although he had already crossed the strait later named after him, he did not provide the final proof that there is no land connection between Asia and North America.

Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitus_Bering

I will not lose so many words, rather let pictures speak.


The basic hull structure














Size comparison with the Maria (same scale)





Second planking












Unfortunately, the veneers do not quite "fit together" in terms of grain, see above and below the wale.




First "oiling", always nice to see how the whole wooden structures are highlighted and everything darkens.






The wale and first photoetched parts.








The waterway.








The handrail (consists of two layers of veneer)






Here you can see that color comes into play. You won't find much information about St.Gabriel in the net, I stumbled over a picture where this typical green colour is shown and I want to try to add a little more individuality. Master Korabel kits have the ... haha ... "disadvantage" that they all like to look equally damn good. They are really one of the best kit designs I have ever had in my hands.






Nice pear wood is also included :-)









Cheers

Dirk

[Dubz]

The winch was built. A small miniature model made of umpteen parts. The result is really good.











And it continued with various small components.


















Now it was the turn of the side-swords. Beautiful pear wood, all laser cut and etched parts fitting exactly. That was fun :-)














This ship has an incredible amount of a Dutch poon. It's hard to get good information about her.









Cheers

Dirk

[Dubz]

Small things done :-)








































I continued with the rudder.














And some deck stuff.








With this almost all work on the hull is done and it goes already again to the rig ....





Cheers

Dirk

[Dubz]

Yes Bering and his expeditions is a very interessting lecture. I didn't know either before. I also didn't know about the major dutch shipbuilding influence at this time. Zar Peter studied shipbuilding in the netherlands that explains why the St.Sabriel has kind Poon Hull and a typical dutch jacht rig :-).

Something I like with historical shipbuilding that the history is revealed too :-)


More progress. Mast made of pear.
















Redid the Windows (wanted to be consistent OOB ... but well the rig will be scratched again anyway ...), small stuff.








And it gets ... dirty ;-) The Russians like to work with bitumen, I wanted to try it, the deck was too light for me anyway :-P




















The kit includes all round timbers as dowels or as lasered (pear) square timbers to make them round in very good quality.

Wish to Master Korabel: Make the lasered spars and oars longer so the could turned in a lathe :-)

But I make all my scratch new from pear.





























Cheers

Dirk

[Dubz]

I continued with details and the oars.






I spent a long time studying the plans for the rig and it became clear for me that Master Korabel had planned a dutch Jacht rig (with small changes like the boom etc.). Then I grabbed the book by Werner Jaeger (The Dutch yacht in the 17th century) and read it. Yepp the Rig is a Jacht Rig, so a few small adjustments and nice little details can be added.

Then I rebuilt the mast again as things were not in line .. hmpf .... I always find it difficult to get everything exactly in line and also in quarter or eighth intervals, I tried it with some thread as guide this time :-)










With the "barrel" but not the "lobster". I don't want to become Dutch 100%y but I like to show how much influence the Dutch had on the Russian shipbuilding at Peter's time.












The two spars were also reworked and fitted with cleats according to Werner Jaeger.




The sails are the Master Korabel sails, and I won't do much on them either. They are fine for kit sails! I dyed it with coffee and black tea :-)












Cheers

Dirk

[Dubz]

More standing rigging.






In between the I built the Case.










Deadeyes and shrouds.







Images
















Macros














More Images





Cheers

Dirk

[Dubz]

Lines for the swords.






Deadeyes for the Stay.








Then I did the stays for the bowsprit.


















Macros








Impressions













Cheers

Dirk

[Dubz]

Finished the shrouds.






The result :-)












And some impressions with nice warm sunlight.












Ratlines done :-)











Cheers

Dirk

[Dubz]

Very important for my style to do rigging is CA glue, a fine tweezer and +4.00 China Glasses :-P

I "harden" the rope then I can do a precise cut and glue the eye like a splice.



Then I use very fine thread to secure the "splice".



More examples.



















Breech Rope. Here I also use a small drop of CA.













Simplified Block Rigging with Hook and Eye.





















Hope this is for help for you :-)

Dirk

[Dubz]

Working on the running rigging. I will show the mainsail reefed (even if the sail is a bit rough and a bit out of scale .. the usual problem).



















Finishline is close ... :-)

















cheers

Dirk