Welcome to part 6 and the final part of building the french fishing boat “La Provencale”.
I spent most of the time in this video building the wooden boxes.
In this section, I’m finally showing you the finished boat. I’ve gained a lot of experience and learned a great deal.
Especially since this was my first wooden boat model. As documented in the videos, I made several mistakes, and where possible, I’ve also shared my solutions.
Perhaps the most important thing I’ve learned is that I need more patience to achieve a better result.
Overall, I enjoyed building this fishing boat; sometimes it was quite a challenge simply because of the model’s size.
I can’t even begin to imagine what it will be like with a large sailing battleship.
I will keep these insights in mind for my future projects and hope to be able to present you with more interesting projects.
Thank you for your interest!
Remarks on these construction phases
Assembling the wooden boxes took a very long time overall. That was because many individual pieces of wood had to be cut and glued. Making the carrying handles also took some time.
In the last part of the video, you can see exactly how the paddle blades warped during sanding with the belt sander.
I explained why I think this happened in one of the previous videos.
I will replace these paddle blades with new ones at some point.
I will document the model making of the “La Provencale” part 6 also in a gallery and on video and show the work steps in detail.
Part 6 covers the following topics:
– Assembling the wooden boxes
– Finishing the bucket
– Glue the wooden boxes and the bucket
– Gluing the ax
– Completing the stand
– The completed boat
Part 1 of this project you can find here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here and part 5 here..
