Don Shaw's Page

Approximately eighteen years ago I took my family on a trip to Washington, DC, Pennsylvania and the Inner Harbor at Baltimore. I must admit, the side trip to the Inner Harbor had a selfish motive but fortunately there was plenty there to make it an enjoyable trip for the whole family. My personal motive, though, was that I had heard that the USF Constellation had been restored and was on display at the Inner Harbor.

This turned out to be not entirely true. The hull was there but the restoration… Continue

Just recently, I got back to my roots and started a new model of a War of 1812 privateer. It's of plank on bulkhead construction and I had reached the point where I had shaped all the bulkheads and readied the skeleton to receive the first hull planks. I also glued on the false deck to help hold the alignment of the bulkheads and to make sure the sheer ran fair. I am now feeling pretty good about the whole project.

Then the lightning struck and although it didn't burn my ship, it did fire the c… Continue