Former Anderton Company motor "Norway"

[BEngo]

Looks very good.

 

If you have the right software model it might be worth 3D printing a plastic version. 

If that is OK you can then cut scaled flat sheet  to check how the plating goes before attacking a 12 in to the foot version.

All very leading edge boat building for canal work.

N

[stagedamager]

10 minutes ago, BEngo said:

Looks very good.

 

If you have the right software model it might be worth 3D printing a plastic version. 

If that is OK you can then cut scaled flat sheet  to check how the plating goes before attacking a 12 in to the foot version.

All very leading edge boat building for canal work.

N

We have someone who will be cutting a 12th scale baseplate and knees which we can then "plate".... watch this space!

Edited March 21, 2020 by stagedamager

[David Mack]

10 hours ago, BEngo said:

Looks very good.

 

If you have the right software model it might be worth 3D printing a plastic version. 

If that is OK you can then cut scaled flat sheet  to check how the plating goes before attacking a 12 in to the foot version.

All very leading edge boat building for canal work.

N

 

There are a number of boat hull design packages out there which allow you to do the hull form development on screen, and which will show which areas can be developed as flat surfaces, and which are double curved. Having then tweaked the design so that all surfaces can be plated, you can then print out the plate shapes for cutting,  or export to a CAD programme etc. I have looked at playing with a couple for a while but haven't actually got round to it, so I can't say how easy the process is, or how steep the learning curve. One such free package is Freeship (https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeship/) . If you google something like "free hull design software" you will find others, as well as some boatbuilding forum posts discussing the options.

[stagedamager]

Due to self isolation I've cracked on with the model....... Daniel and Keri from Reverie canal trading co on Lyra chopped out some 12th scale bits for me which we've stuck together. A couple are slightly off and the position needs double checking... but hopefully you get the idea.

Edited March 25, 2020 by stagedamager

[BEngo]

That should make a nice RC model when you are finished with it as a development tool.  You could even market them as a kit for home assembly?

N

 

[stagedamager]

I can't believe it's been over 3 years since my last post!

We've finally laid the baseplate and hopefully will make some progress over the next few weeks, weather dependent, covid and work have very much got in the way of moving forward with this.....

She will be on display at the forthcoming rally at Langley Mill in a few weeks if anyone is visiting. 

[merline]

Just discovered this, saw your post on IG, what a fantastic project!

Looking forward to following progress reports 

[stagedamager]

A few further photos of the work over the past few days. We can now see the shape in its entirety, hopefully today we can tack the bow on......

[BEngo]

Looking very good.  That is a handy looking adjuster, next the spare flywheel/fan/plate weight.

 

What is the thinking behind limber holes in the front few frames, but not the remainder?

 

N

[stagedamager]

It's a pavers maul, used for smacking theatre show floors around...... all the knees have drain holes in, inset by an inch so we can get a tight and accurate reference point at the chine.

[Derek R.]

That'll swim like a fish - and get near the bank!

[stagedamager]

Had a play with the bow yesterday, as we're replicating a wooden boat we wanted to recreate both the stem iron and stem post, which involves much more work but should add to the lines hopefully.

[Bee]

That should be a lovely thing. Makes you realise there is more to narrow boats than 6`10" wide and right angles everywhere. 

[stagedamager]

2 hours ago, Bee said:

That should be a lovely thing. Makes you realise there is more to narrow boats than 6`10" wide and right angles everywhere. 

Or rather..... 'there should be more to narrowboats than 6'10" wide and right angles everywhere'...... this whole exercise is about making a boat that looks amd swims well..... hopefully.

[agg221]

What are your thoughts on the bow section? The planks would of course have originally run right through to the bow, horizontally, but the exterior appearance would have been the ice plates, running vertically. Which do you reckon you will go for?

 

Alec

[stagedamager]

2 hours ago, Bee said:

That should be a lovely thing. Makes you realise there is more to narrow boats than 6`10" wide and right angles everywhere. 

Or rather..... 'there should be more to narrowboats than 6'10" wide and right angles everywhere'...... this whole exercise is about making a boat that looks amd swims well..... hopefully.

[stagedamager]

A few weeks on, we've managed to get some more planks on, which has thrown up a couple of curveballs which we thought might happen, mainly due to knee shapes. All we'll do is let some fillets in behind the knees to the planks and tweak the drawing should we build another one...... 

[Bee]

That is going to be beautiful.

[stagedamager]

5 hours ago, Bee said:

That is going to be beautiful.

Thanks Bee, that is very much the plan, but you can't rush these things, and today is far too hot to even think about doing any work!

[jacko264]

Fantastic work I can’t wait to see it finished 

as a welder fabrication I love looking at this sort of projects 👍👍😀

Graham

[stagedamager]

Hi all,

It's been a couple of months since, and we've moved on a bit, working mainly on the stern, and building the bow up ready to get the top bend and bow chine  profiles scribed in. We have also set up a page, over on Facebook if anyone is one there and wishes to follow our progress. 

 

Facebook

 

 

Edited October 11, 2023 by stagedamager

[agg221]

I had a look today- coming on well.

 

Alec

[Chris-B]

That’s really going to be a bit special 

[stagedamager]

2 hours ago, agg221 said:

I had a look today- coming on well.

 

Alec

sorry I missed you. week 4 of 5 in South Korea. nearly done!!

[stagedamager]

its 1 year ago today we laid the baseplate and whilst the first 6 months produced quick results, the last half of the year have been thwarted by rain, wind, floods and generally pretty poor weather. So what to report..... Well, we found her original stern dollies and rudder. Sadly they're on a bota on the K and A, made from the stern of the GUCCCo butty Satellite, called Adrastea, so they won't be reunited, and the unique Anderton profiling on the rudder top has been reprofiled to a more standard semicircle. So, we have machined an unmatched pair of dollies as they originally were, and also made a new T stud as the location of that is also unknown. We've also fabricated the majority of the deck beam on the bench, to weld into the deck beam frame which is where the first large wooden knees would have been under the deck board. The other job we squeezed in between rain clouds is starting to make the templates for sections of the hull we can't achieve with parallel planking.

We can but hope the weather will somewhat improve over the coming weeks....... we're not holding our breath.

Photos showing progress as of today