Concept to Reality

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Design stages
Building the hull (2 of 4)
Deck details and masts
Rigging and Sails
Shipping
Maintenance

Building the Hull Stage 2

The planked hull, complete with individually planked decks. Care is taken to plank the ship in as much a similar fashion as the original ship would have been planked.

Gun ports are built before the planking, so are all below-deck furniture and accessories that may be visible once the ship is completed.

Next step would be to built the top-handrails, wales, paint and hull decorations. Notice also the hull coppering below. These thin copper plates were applied to counter the effects of ship worm such as the Teredo and other mollusks and hull decay.

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