Dear Friends
Another week ... another update. Being back at work obviously means much less time on the Haarlem, but given the circumstances, I'm happy to be back at work and with what I achieved this week.
The week started nicely with a package from the Admiraal delivered to my door. As you will remember, I stupidly destroyed my keel and had to order a new one along with 6 x extra cannons.
To my surprise, Hans did not just send me a new keel, but a new roer, galjoen, galjoen beak and a host of other parts as well! (I don't know if this is a serious lack of confidence in my ability, or if he was just very nice

!) Let's go for the nice.
The extra six cannons with rolpaarden, blokke and hake en messing represent one of the two main differences between the Haarlem and the Batavia.
And then it was back to planking the hull section above the berghouten on the stuurboord side and taking both planking levels up to dekvlak. As you can see from the picture above, the replacement keel has been fitted.
Whilst waiting for the glue to dry inbetween planks, I started with the front schot.
The door frames and kozijne glued and in place.
Test-fitting the doors.
Starting the beplanking.
Die schotelende plankies het nogal fijn werk gekos.
The doors were sprayed with extremely thin layers of paint (3 in total) so as to maintain the laser-cut lines and grain of the wood.
The wall was then sprayed black (in exactly the same way). Obviously, I still have to fit hinges and ring-handles to the doors and the whole assembly was put away for later fitment.
Kind regards - Heinrich