Surrounded by sea, with limited cultivated lands, fishing is an important source of protein for the settlers of Kojima. Luckily for these privateer-settlers, there were some skilled craftmen and shipwrights among them, it didn't them to long to launch their first boats.

The Aiiro class fishing boat:

 

Time to have homeland products, fine bakery and wine are indispensable to keep moral high.

 

Enough for today, back to port!

OOC: I'm once again trying to work with an official set, but not enhancement this time, I rather prefer to build something different than the original, as it's hard to work out an era-appropriate boat with that Thor's ship.

A well built ship with sails and rigging. I particularly like how the plates and slope curved were placed on the ship's hull. Croissants and a bottle of wine are always good.

Very good work , i like it. Reminds me of old Dutch fishing boats too

10 hours ago, NOD said:

A well built ship with sails and rigging. I particularly like how the plates and slope curved were placed on the ship's hull. Croissants and a bottle of wine are always good.

 

Glad you like it.

4 hours ago, Fraunces said:

Very good work , i like it. Reminds me of old Dutch fishing boats too

Thank you Fraunces.

Looks good! Like Fraunces already said, it is very reminiscent of an old Dutch Flat-Bottom! ^^

My favourite kind of boats! The brick built hull turned out excellent and so does the rigging!

Edited April 20, 20231 yr by blackdeathgr

I also immediately thought dutch fishing/small cargo vessel. You've achieved a really nice hull, which is hard at this scale, and as always, your rigging is great.

And I just looooove seeing these smaller vessels, which tend to drown amongst the frigates and ships of the line!

I am also a fan of the smaller non-military vessels and this one is no exception. The hull looks great and i really like the mast and sails. The shape of the sails give this small boat more panache than some bigger naval vessels will ever have. Well done

On 4/19/2023 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Waagenaar said:

Looks good! Like Fraunces already said, it is very reminiscent of an old Dutch Flat-Bottom! ^^

Thank you, Thomas Waagenaar. Now you mention it, I recall having seen a few of one or two masted boats near a dock somewhere around the Af...dike (the large dam with a highway on it) years back. 

13 hours ago, blackdeathgr said:

My favourite kind of boats! The brick built hull turned out excellent and so does the rigging!

Thank you, BD, glad to see you around again.

7 hours ago, Bregir said:

I also immediately thought dutch fishing/small cargo vessel. You've achieved a really nice hull, which is hard at this scale, and as always, your rigging is great.

And I just looooove seeing these smaller vessels, which tend to drown amongst the frigates and ships of the line!

Thank you Bregir. I've to say I struggle the most with sails and rigging when building ships.

7 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

I am also a fan of the smaller non-military vessels and this one is no exception. The hull looks great and i really like the mast and sails. The shape of the sails give this small boat more panache than some bigger naval vessels will ever have. Well done

Thank you Yperio_Bricks. Small boat are fun to build, we may expect to see more of them since there isn't any arms race going on.