• Adopted products
• Anchors - and cathead
• Anchors - locations
• Anchors - parts
• Armament - rigging guns
• Armored launch - a special building
• Armored launch - angular joints, finishing
• Armored launch - blocks, bow filler blocks
• Armored launch - boom
• Armored launch - braces
• Armored launch - bulkheads, correcting
• Armored launch - bulkheads, fitting edges
• Armored launch - bulkheads, temporary
• Armored launch - caulking
• Armored launch - dyeing
• Armored launch - equipment & accessories
• Armored launch - gunwales, cutting gunwales
• Armored launch - gunwales, partial laying
• Armored launch - hull, inner finishing
• Armored launch - hull, outer finishing
• Armored launch - hull, planking the outer hull
• Armored launch - hull, sanding
• Armored launch - keel, finishing
• Armored launch - keel, planking
• Armored launch - oars
• Armored launch - planking, inner planking
• Armored launch - planking, outer planking
• Armored launch - planking, triple planking
• Armored launch - plans, checking
• Armored launch - ribs, laying
• Armored launch - rudder
• Armored launch - sails
• Armored launch - sails, dimensions
• Armored launch - sheets, false sheets
• Armored launch - strakes, first strakes
• Armored launch - tiller, fitting
• Armored launch - varnishing
• Armored launch - veneer, cutting excess
• Armored launch - waterline
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• Base - acrylic
• Base - transporting
• Base - working
• Belaying pins - racks
• Bending - iron bender
• Bending - a large plank
• Bending - on the good side
• Blackener - for brass
• Block strops - for tackles
• Block strops - in line
• Block strops - in metal
• Block strops - well tightened on their blocks
• Blocks - on yard ends
• Blocks - strops, seizing, setting
• Blocks - for tackles
• Blocks - for the masttop
• Bluenose - false keel, assembling
• Bluenose - breakwater, cutting & setting
• Bluenose - bulkheads
• Bluenose - bulwarks
• Bluenose - chainplates passages
• Bluenose - chainplates, setting passages
• Bluenose - deadeyes & chainplates
• Bluenose - decks
• Bluenose - decks, planking
• Bluenose - dories, finishing
• Bluenose - dories, the hull
• Bluenose - false bulkheads
• Bluenose - false keel
• Bluenose - fore deck floor
• Bluenose - greay beam
• Bluenose - hull planking
• Bluenose - inventory of materials
• Bluenose - keel, final assembly
• Bluenose - main rail, bow part
• Bluenose - main rail, final fit
• Bluenose - main rail, lateral parts
• Bluenose - main rail, setting up
• Bluenose - main rail, stern part
• Bluenose - monkey rail
• Bluenose - monkey rail, cutting & preparing
• Bluenose - monkey rail, installing
• Bluenose - quarter deck floor
• Bluenose - rabbets
• Bluenose - scuppers
• Bluenose - stern filler blocks
• Bluenose - stern post
• Bluenose - straigtening the false keel
• Bluenose - strake, the first
• Bluenose - strake, the last
• Bluenose - strakes to be rectified
• Bluenose - timberheads
• Bluenose - tools for cutting slots
• Bluenose - tools for planking decks
• Bluenose - transom
• Bluenose - waterways
• Bluenose - waterways, location
• Bow - filling blocks
• Bowsprit - parts
• Bowsprit - blocks & hearts
• Bowsprit - setting & fitting
• Bowsprit - don't forget
• Bowsprit - spritsail yard
• Brace - to lower/hoist yards
• Brass - painting in black
• Brass - scouring agent
• Brass - oxidizing agent
• Brass - blackening small parts
• Brass - blackening guns
• Breeching - rigging guns
• Bulwark - timberheads
• Bulwark - cutting pattern
• Bulwark - drawing & cutting
• Bulwark - inner planking
• Bulwark - cap rail & gunports
• Bulwark - laying upper second planking
• Bulwark - drawing & cutting cap rails
• Bulwark - cutting gunports
• Bulwark - cap rail, improvements
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• Caulking - deck
• Caulking - deck, with black wood filler
• Caulking - 2mm planks
• Caulking - hull
• Cap - to be checked
• Careen - doubling
• Catheads - details
• Catheads - installation
• Chainplates - assembly
• Channels - building
• Choice - first model
• Cleaner - for brass
• Clear the ship for action
• Cleats - quick cutting
• Cleats - small-sized
• Corner joints - finishing
• Crow's feet - building
• Cut - same length planks
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• Darken - brass parts
• Darkener - for guns & brass pieces
• Deadeyes - jigs for same spacings
• Deadeyes - on channels
• Deadeyes - on the masttop
• Deadeyes - with chainplates
• Deck planks - caulking
• Deck planks - caulking planks of 2mm width
• Deck planks - cutting planks
• Deck planks - dowelling
• Deck planks - finishing varnish
• Deck planks - going through plan details
• Deck planks - laying & gluing planks
• Deck planks - laying options (3)
• Deck planks - laying planks
• Deck planks - laying, three methods
• Deck planks - marking the dowels location
• Deck planks - preparing strips
• Deck planks - setting dowels
• Deck planks - starting a new row
• Deck planks - starting line
• Deck structures - assembly
• Decks - gun carriages on the second deck
• Decks - setting up before planking
• Dowels - cutting & finishing
• Dowels - laying
• Dowels - marking the places
• Drilling - repetitive
• Dyeing - blocks
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• Epoxy - glue
• Epoxy - spray
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• Fife rails - drilling & finishing
• Fife rails - size & assembly
• Figureheads - installing
• Filler blocks - bow
• Filler blocks - stern
• First model - characteristics
• First model - choice
• First planking - corrections
• First planking - finishing
• First planking - installing
• First planking - using stealers
• Foot ropes - of yards, assembly
• Frames - assembling on keel
• Frames - checking
• Frames - controlling before gluing
• Frames - fitting the edge
• Futtock shrouds - preparation
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• Glue - carpenter's
• Glue - cyano gel (LocTite)
• Glue - cyano super thin (ZAPca)
• Glue - epoxy (LePage)
• Glue - Weldbond
• Glue - and syringes
• Glues - characteristics & uses
• Gluing - planking
• Gluing - precise & repetitive
• Gluing - square to rear parts
• Gluing - square to small pieces
• Grapnels - details
• Gratings - assembling
• Gratings - assembling ledges & battens
• Gratings - checking before cutting
• Gratings - fitting to the deck curve
• Gratings - frame assembly
• Guard rail - and masttop netting
• Gun carriages - assembling
• Gun carriages - axle trees
• Gun carriages - axle trees & wheels, setting
• Gun carriages - blocks & tackles
• Gun carriages - breeching
• Gun carriages - dyeing wheels & gun carriages
• Gun carriages - ending nails
• Gun carriages - example not to be followed
• Gun carriages - fitting & finishing
• Gun carriages - on second deck
• Gun carriages - rear tackles anchoring
• Gun carriages - ring-bolts
• Gun carriages - setting & rigging
• Gun carriages - standard rigging
• Gun ports - anticipated preparation
• Gun ports - cutting openings in bulwark
• Gun ports - easy
• Gun ports - follow your practical sense
• Gun ports - less easy
• Gun ports - locations
• Gun ports - metal lids
• Gun ports - openings in the hull
• Gun ports - symmetry
• Gun ports - wooden lids
• Guns - axle (trunnions), setting without glue
• Guns - blackening, two methods
• Guns - blocks & tackles
• Guns - breeching
• Guns - coiling lines
• Guns - gun carriages
• Guns - placing gun carriages & rigging
• Guns - rigging
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• Hammock nettings - and hammocks
• Head grating - assembling
• Head-rail - fitting & installing
• Hull - caulking
• Hull - dyeing
• Hull - finishing the second planking
• Hull - marking the waterline
• Hull - sanding
• Hull - varnishing
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• Improving - one's kit, objectives
• Information - improving a kit
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• Jib - down-hauler
• Jib - epoxy enamel, final touch
• Jib - fixing
• Jib - halyard
• Jib - preparation
• Jib - sheet & false sheet
• Jib - starching the fabric
• Jib - stays
• Jib - the three points of a jib
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• Keel - assembling with bulkheads
• Keel - doubling
• Keel & frames - checkings
• Kits - available on the market
• Kits - box, plans, parts & materials
• Kits - qualities & defects
• Kits manufacturers - list
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• Ladders - assembly & tilt
• Lanyards - tension
• Lifts - rigging of yards
• Lines - coiling
• Lines - coiling
• Lines - coiling a line on a belaying pin
• Lines - identifying them
• Lines - on belaying-pins
• Lines - mini turning table for coiling lines
• Lines - pre-positioning them
• Lines - presentation
• Lower masts - shrouds, stays & ratlines
• Luff slide - making eyes
• Luff slide - of a jib
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• Masts - assembling
• Masts - fore topgallant-mast + masttop
• Masts - bad gluing
• Masts - bowsprit
• Masts - bowsprit, gaps to avoid
• Masts - final assembly
• Masts - gammonings
• Masts - mast caps
• Masts - preparing components
• Masts - sequence for steppings
• Masts - stepping
• Miter box - adjustable
• Miter box - mini miter box
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• N....
alphabetical    index




• Oars - for manoeuvring, details
alphabetical    index




• Paint - aerosol KRYLON
• Photos - rules to follow
• Pin guns - supports
• Pin rails - building
• Pins rail - on cap rails
• Planking - preparation
• Planking - simple planking, finishing
• Planking - strakes, calculation of dimensions
• Planking - tools for correcting
• Planking - tools for laying
• Plans - of a kit
• Platform - for the masttop
• Pliers - to make round hooks
• Port-lids - metal lids, building up
• Port-lids - wooden lids, building up
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• Quarter galleries - assembling
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• Rail - improvements
• Rail - installation
• Rat-lines - for lower mast, hanging
• Rat-lines - for topmast, hanging
• Reef points - shaping and setting
• Renard (Le) - bow, filler block
• Renard (Le) - bulkwarks, drilling & gluing
• Renard (Le) - bulkwarks, dual gluings
• Renard (Le) - bulkwarks, fitting the top
• Renard (Le) - bulwarks & gun ports
• Renard (Le) - cap rails, too thin
• Renard (Le) - deck structures
• Renard (Le) - deck structures, assembly
• Renard (Le) - deck structures, marks
• Renard (Le) - deck structures, baseboards
• Renard (Le) - deck structures, veneer & stain
• Renard (Le) - deck, caulking planks
• Renard (Le) - deck, planking
• Renard (Le) - deck, preparing & gluing
• Renard (Le) - deck, sanding
• Renard (Le) - deck, varnishing
• Renard (Le) - first planking
• Renard (Le) - first planking, finishing
• Renard (Le) - first planking, laying
• Renard (Le) - frames, fitting
• Renard (Le) - hull, dyeing & varnishing
• Renard (Le) - keel & frames, first gluings
• Renard (Le) - keel & hull, checking
• Renard (Le) - keel & stem, installation
• Renard (Le) - keel, frame & deck
• Renard (Le) - keel, twisted
• Renard (Le) - kit and magic words
• Renard (Le) - rudder
• Renard (Le) - rudder, anticipated assembly
• Renard (Le) - rudder, axles of hinges
• Renard (Le) - rudder, final assembly
• Renard (Le) - rudder, installation of half-hinges
• Renard (Le) - second planking
• Renard (Le) - second planking, finishing
• Renard (Le) - second planking, raw caulking
• Renard (Le) - second planking, sanding
• Renard (Le) - skylights, bars for protection
• Renard (Le) - stern, filler block
• Renard (Le) - strakes, calculation of the width
• Renard (Le) - strakes, constraints in laying
• Renard (Le) - strakes, decrease of the length
• Renard (Le) - strakes, jig to profile (1)
• Renard (Le) - strakes, jig to profile (2)
• Renard (Le) - strakes, sequence for laying
• Riding bitts - assembling
• Riding bitts - diamond cut for bitts
• Riding bitts - fixing & finishing
• Rigging - of a gun
• Rings - brass, on spars
• Rings - on deck
• Rope woolding - for masting
• Rudder - and stern post
• Rudder - iron works & tiller
• Running rigging - identification
• Running rigging - pre-positioning
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• Sails - "active"
• Sails - epoxy spray
• Sails - identification
• Sails - jibs
• Sails - jibs, shaping
• Sails - lateen sails, shaping
• Sails - sequence for rigging
• Sails - sewing a reinforcement
• Sails - shaping & hanging
• Sails - square, furled
• Sails - square, unfurled
• Sails - starch
• Sails - unfurled spankers
• Sanding - strips
• Second planking - controling strips
• Second planking - correcting anomalies
• Second planking - dimensions of strakes
• Second planking - finishing
• Second planking - hull with planksheers
• Second planking - hull without planksheer
• Second planking - laying
• Seizings - false seizings
• Seizings - for shrouds & back stays
• Seizings - good-looking
• Shrouds - lashings
• Shrouds - lashings on masts
• Shrouds - of lower mast, tension
• Shrouds - of topmast, tension
• Small pieces - cutting
• Stain - water-based
• Standing rigging - identification
• Starboard - the "good side"
• Starch - for sails
• Stays - rigging, lashing
• Stays - used as back stays
• Stern - assembly
• Stern - filler blocks
• Strakes - calculation of various widths
• Strakes - cutting the "main strake"
• Strakes - first strake for first planking
• Strakes - inserting stealers
• Strakes - laying center strakes
• Strakes - laying lower strakes
• Strakes - laying upper strakes
• Strakes - location of the firststrake
• Strakes - sequence for laying
• Studding sails - boom irons
• Syringe for glue - keep them clean
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• Tack cringle - at the lower part of the sail
• Tackles
• Tackles - assembling
• Tackles - of guns, anchoring
• Tackles - parts
• Tackles - tension & coil of lines
• Tie - seizing
• Timberheads - and bulwarks
• Timberheads - and gun carriages
• Timberheads - setting up
• Timberheads - the case of "L'Astrolabe"
• Timberheads - to cut or not to cut
• Tools - for belaying pin racks
• Tools - for building an acrylic base
• Tools - for cleats
• Tools - for finishing the hull
• Tools - for lashings & seizings
• Tools - for laying the first planking
• Tools - for laying the second planking
• Tools - home-made, assembling small tackles
• Tools - home-made, gluing square
• Tools - home-made, mini-miter box
• Tools - home-made, miter box
• Tools - home-made, to cut square
• Tools - home-made, the crab
• Tools - home-made, transportation base
• Tools - home-made, work base
• Tools - scissors & others
• Tools - to drill
• Tools - to grip
• Tools - to tighten
• Tools - to bend, to curve
• Tools - to nail
• Tools - to cut strakes
• Tools - to taper yards
• Tools - to file, to rasp
• Tools - to measure
• Tools - warning
• Tools - wood scissors
• Top - assembling & installing
• Top - blocks
• Top - crosstrees
• Top - deadeyes
• Top - fore futtocks shrouds
• Top - guardrail & safety netting
• Top - masttop
• Top - ratlines
• Top - shroud tension
• Top - trestletress
• Traveller - bowsprit
• Trestletrees - top
• Tricks & tips - "small-weight" clips
• Tricks & tips - adjustable work support
• Tricks & tips - bands on spars
• Tricks & tips - bending a long strip
• Tricks & tips - bending gluing
• Tricks & tips - bending the good side
• Tricks & tips - black wood filler
• Tricks & tips - blackening a line
• Tricks & tips - blackening brass
• Tricks & tips - blackening brass
• Tricks & tips - burning untidy hair
• Tricks & tips - comb for shrouds
• Tricks & tips - cutting plank
• Tricks & tips - cutting small cleats
• Tricks & tips - cutting small parts
• Tricks & tips - cutting without running
• Tricks & tips - drilling in line
• Tricks & tips - dyeing blocks
• Tricks & tips - line elevator
• Tricks & tips - finishing angle joints
• Tricks & tips - freezing holes in a fabric
• Tricks & tips - gluings out of reach
• Tricks & tips - guide for rigging
• Tricks & tips - keeping syringes clean
• Tricks & tips - lashings without knot
• Tricks & tips - pliers for ropes
• Tricks & tips - pliers for round hooks
• Tricks & tips - red flag
• Tricks & tips - reinforcing wood fibers
• Tricks & tips - repetitive drills
• Tricks & tips - repetitive settings
• Tricks & tips - sail tensioners
• Tricks & tips - sanding strips
• Tricks & tips - sewing a bolt rope
• Tricks & tips - straightening a steel wire
• Tricks & tips - tightening a strop
• Tricks & tips - turntable for coils
alphabetical    index




• UE products - links to websites
alphabetical    index




• Varnish - Varathane
alphabetical    index




• Waterline - drawing
• Wood fibers - how to reinforce them
• Wood filler - black, recipe
alphabetical    index




• Yards - assembling
• Yards - attaching booms
• Yards - braces
• Yards - end blocks
• Yards - foot ropes
• Yards - halyards & tackles
• Yards - hoisting blocks
• Yards - lifts
• Yards - parts
• Yards - pliers to work on
• Yards - spritsail
• Yards - studding sail
• Yards - tools for shaping them

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