The Cutter Pillsbury - Home Page

This is a very special model I recently built as an appreciation gift to Dr. Harold Pillsbury.

When this amazing ENT surgeon first saw me as a patient, I was, without knowing the seriousness of my ear infection, like a small vessel sailing directly into the center of a "perfect storm".  

Dr. Pillsbury took the helm and managed to navigate me back to calm waters and clear skies.

He virtually saved my life.

The UNC ENT Cutter Pillsbury

Overhead view 

Port side view

High starboard side view

High bow deck view

Port side bow view

Overhead view with the "Decoy Ship".... explained later in this blog.


























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Cutter Pillsbury - page 2

 Final Rigging - Full side view

Adding the deadeyes and chain plates.

Final Rigging - Bow view.

 Rigging - Bow stem

 Rigging - Deck view.

Rigging - Top and cross tree.

 Rigging - Boom

 Rigging - Bowsprit

 Rigging - Boom belaying

Custom Flags

Cutter Pillsbury - page 3

 
Inboard rudder tiller.
 














The "Pillsbury" transom nameplate.

Completed transom with rudder and gun port lids installed.

Rudder installed.

Installing the rudder.

Creating the stern post gudgeons that will hold the rudder pintels. 

Also, cut the opening into the transom where the tiller end of the rudder passes through.

 Creating the rudder with pintels that will fit into the stern post gudgeons.

The transom painted Carolina blue.

Cutter Pillsbury - page 4

Deck completed with all cannons and deck fixtures.... She's all ready for rigging

Overhead deck view.

Installed cannons.

 The bow cannons.

 The first cannon rigging.

Creating cannons from mold castings.  The master blank cannon was turned on a mini lathe.

Casting cannon trucks and cannons.
















Close up of the windless.... and winching system used to raise the anchors.






















 Forward deck view.



















Deck View - Ready for some fire power.





















High Deck view.

Cutter Pillsbury - page 5

Deck view with Carolina Blue trim of the bulwarks and skylight and companionway.

Adding the grating to the deck.

 Another view of the deck fixtures.

 Aft view of the new deck fixtures.

 Close up of the companionway and the skylight.

Close up of the skylight and the companionway.... trimmed out in Carolina Blue.

















Close up of the keel joinery and iron reinforcement plates

 

The hull - completed and painted.

Bow view of the bamboo hull planking.

 

Stern view of the bamboo hull planking







Planking the hull.

The keel with bulkhead frames installed and the gun ports framed and painted.

Note:  This is approximately 40 hours into the beginning of this build.