My next project has been a request from a local fisherman who after seeing my other models has asked me to make one of his. My father put the engines in the boat when it was first built. Julie Jean works from the beach at Dungeness. I am going to make the hulls from scratch as I can not find a catamaran hull with the right hull shape. This will be made from board and then coated in glass and resin. Scale will be metric 5cm - 1 m so total length will be 50cm..some photos here of the boat

I spent a day at sea to understand the gear and get lots of measurements. The boat is fishing for whelks currently and after hauling and shooting 200 pots we had just under 500 kilos!

Plans created and I have started to build the hull which is being constructed from plastiboards.
The intention is to make a plug so I can do my first ever mould!

Shape getting there, a few more layers of plaster and sanding to do yet before starting to take a mould off it.

Three fills and sands later and the plug is glued to the board and has had a coat to resin to seal it. Now to try and get a mould!!

Really happy that the mould released from the plug! Now to make the hull!

Hull is now out of the mould and the deck has been fitted but not fixed as I am waiting for motors to arrive. Wheelhouse and gantry are underway!

Missed a few updates as I have been completing a new project.
So here’s the final model, more detail to follow but for now it’s on the back burner!
A Lochin 33 is currently on the bench being completed for a man in Cornwall