The three gratings of the gun deck sit in their coamings; under the middle hatch a deck beam is in the way of the ladder, and Piet, Hans and SjorsZ weigh in on sawing it out or hiding it.
First shot garlands around the hatches, with a step-by-step method: a small plastic template with two holes puts all the shot holes at exactly the same spacing, then filing on the pillar drill and setting the balls in wet varnish.
The three hatches with ladders and shot garlands have been glued onto the gun deck; the deck beam under the ladder was removed after all and finished off with a thin strip of wood.
After a lot of fitting, sanding and repainting the head is finished apart from the figurehead; the carvings have been done in gold because the yellow ochre stays too orange.
The hawse holes end up below the gun deck because the supplied fitting does not go under the headrails; Piet explains the difference between anchor cable and messenger, Henk and Jan how the messenger runs around the capstan.
The gun deck capstan turns on a ball bearing, the hawse holes have been moved up a level after all, left-hand laid rope has been ordered (2.6 and 1.6 mm) and the stove and bitts are on the deck.
The pump system is dry-fitted on the gun deck; Stephan and Jan point out that on the real ship the pillars next to the capstan were removable so the capstan could be worked.
