The palette

Wood in four shades: dark oak planks below the waterline, spruce planks for the hull, oak planks for the castles, stripped dark oak for the wales and rails. White wool sails with red crosses, red and yellow terracotta for the castles' frieze, black concrete gunports under mangrove lids.

Techniques

• A deep curved hull
• Castles fore and aft
• Sails that catch the wind
• Tops and shrouds
• Colour where the eye goes

The steps

1. Dig the basin
2. Keel, stem and bottom
3. Hull: the planks at the waterline
4. Hull: wales and gunports
5. Main deck
6. Waist bulwarks and forecastle
7. Sterncastle
8. Castle decks, doors and ladders
9. Gunport lids
10. Rudder and stern lantern
11. Masts
12. Main course
13. Fore course
14. Fighting tops
15. Topsails
16. Lateen mizzen
17. Bowsprit and spritsail
18. Shrouds
19. Anchors, lanterns and pennants
20. Water

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