Yachting Monthly Eventide

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

Yet another furlough build from my favourite era the Maurice Griffith's Eventide a classic 24' home build design from the early 1960's

Regards Ray

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

24 ft Sloop 1/12 th scale

[geconParticipant @gecon]

Hi Ray, so there it is! I had to go back to Google to find out what 'furlough' was . I must start reading more.

What scale are you going to build to? 1:12th? 1:6th ?!!

George

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi George,

Sorry I should have explained, here i n the UK 8 million of us are being paid by our government to keep the economy going until our work becomes available again.

Eventide will be 1" – 1 '. 1/12th scale the same as my other Yachting Monthly design Wild Duck 😄 and will use my standard detachable fin keel for sailing.

Regards Ray

[geconParticipant @gecon]

OK, I was going to mention that it reminded me of your 'Wild Duck' -which also has a cosy, traditional look to it.

Looking forward to even more photos of the forthcomming increase in your arsenal of models. Launch in a couple of weeks I suppose!

George

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

Nice wet weekend weather, good for drafting the sections of the hull for the Eventide which I'm hoping will be a pretty little yacht 😀⛵ it takes as long to draw as the build will !! once I have all the bulkhead s we will be cutting wood 👍

Regards Ray

[Tim RoweParticipant @timrowe83142]

Another great subject Ray

Tim R

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Tim,

There are so many classics overlooked by modellers, I will do my best to put that right 😀 Percy Blandford's Lysander at 17ft long and double chine hull has to be done at some stage 👍

Regards Ray

Edited By Ray Wood 2 on 25/07/2020 21:13:55

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

Hi Ray. Glad your all well down there below the Thames.

That’s a nice looking yacht. I have a book somewhere on building yachts of this kind. I must dig it out as it has line drawings in it that could be scaled. I have been doing a bit on the sparrow of late but it’s a fiddly job planking the hull.
I will probably end up with a bit of filler on it. I bought some of the resin and glass cloth that you recommended. Is the resin air cure?

I like the chine hulls as they are easier for me to make. I will keep an eye on the build. Be interesting to see how you make the keel removable.

Brian

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Bri,

It maybe the same book I'm using Building Chine Boats by Michael Verney 12/6p in 1963 😀

I don't recall recommending a resin ? Which sort did you buy ?? There are 2 part like West epoxy or my preferred water based resin now with lots of coats.

Regards Ray

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

Hi Ray. I will have to look for the book. I bought the water based type resin.

Bri

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Bri,

Yes I prefer it now it's not so fussy about overcoating times 😀 I have had epoxy which never dried !!I

Regards Ray

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Hi Ray

As others have said a nice little boat. I suppose you are going to embarrass us again with the speed of the build!

I haven't done any building for weeks though have done some drawing and I'm just about to mark out some ply for my new build – you will soon overtake me though!

How did you find going back to work!

Chris

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Chris,

My experience during my 3 month trial retirement was the longer it went on the less I did !! I'm sure your in the same boat ? I could never really understand you building 3 boats the same but different shapes 😉 perhaps you need to get on with the sailing boat your planning ??

Work is fine, at least I can enjoy the weekends again,

All the best Ray

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

My Book was Complete amateur boat building by the same author. I cant seem to place it, however i did send a lot of books to the charity shop in Porthmadog and it may have gone there?

Had a look up of your book and ordered a copy to have a look at.

Happy Sunday sailing.

Bri

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Hi Ray

Whilst the time has flown and I've been busy for the last 12 months or so the temptation is always there to leave things until tomorrow as not going to work.

Wasn't intending to build a similar boat at the moment but the Huntress with a stern-drive sent me down that route but with something different to get the enthusiasm going again. The motor sailer will be a winter build as to be honest I never intended to do any model building in the summer as there's other things to do outside. The Huntress is a lot simpler (well apart from the drive) and I can do a bit when the weather is not so good.

Cheers, Chris

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Chris,

Yes I can see where your coming from with building in different seasons, I have always been in a rush to build a model before I loose interest and start something else !! But I do need to relax at some stage, and will probably go back to locomotive building as it takes longer 😀 but the price of castings is staggering these days !!

Keep going with the flow 👍⛵⛵⛵

Regards Ray

[Peter VintonParticipant @petervinton69315]

Ray, a nice model to build, could I ask where you obtained the plans from? I've often thought of making a model of the YM Senior.

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Peter,

The book is Building Chine Boats by Michael Verney 1962 12s 6d lines drawing of the YM Senior is included, another classic home build 😀

Regards Ray

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

My book arrived to day. Its an easy read as there are not too many pages.

Ray,

How are you scaling the drawings? Measurement taken from the book?

Brian

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Brian,

I photocopied the general arrangement and plan view enlarged to the 1" – 1 ft then trace onto tracing film, and using those views measure and draft the bulkhead s, I have 3 left to draw plus the transom, then we can get building 😀👍⛵

Regards Ray

Edited By Ray Wood 2 on 29/07/2020 18:53:14

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

Ah that’s a good way. Do you get the deck lines as well? Or is there a bit of modellers licence involved.

Bri

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Brian,

I think if you have the book everything is shown to build a real boat so it's all there 😀

Regards Ray

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

Now with bulkhead s all drafted I have spray mounted photocopies onto some card to make templates to draw round, I find this a good way of checking the sizes & positions of the chines etc before I start cutting wood 😀

My wife forced me to go to Maldon in Essex this week 😉⛵bought a great book, Yachting World Annual 1957 with loads of classic yachts & motor boat designs, happy days 👍

Regards Ray

[geconParticipant @gecon]

Hi Ray,

wish I'd thought of spraymounting my tracing paper efforts when drawing the frames for the Fisher. I cut out in card from the tracing paper but spraymounting would have increased the accuracy and saved me some agro. Still, I'm not tempted to start a new scratch build just so I can use the spray!

Looking forward to following the build of your Eventide.

Regards, George

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