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For some reason or other, I love ships.

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When I get the hull formed, when I'm building, and I start to see something that stops looking like a bunch of wood and starts looking like the hull, I just think it's beautiful.

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I went through. I became a reader, and that's had a lot of influence on who I became.

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You know, I didn't watch so much TV and started reading, and, you know, as you build models, you get better at it.

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The name is Scott Sefranzky.

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This is where I can hit my finger with a mallet.

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All sorts of dangers in this job. There has been blood.

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Trying not to blow it right into the camera.

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You've counted all the plastic models I built, along with the wooden ships.

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I'm probably up around 30. One of these days I'm going to probably have to either part with a couple of them or build a bigger house.

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It becomes a bit of a jigsaw puzzle, and you have to think ahead.

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As you continue to do through a hobby like this, you continue to learn and make adjustments.

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You know, you learn as you go, and you get better and better.

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There are some times when you start a part of it where you've just got to work for a couple hours to get it done to a stopping point.

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But I probably mostly do half hour to hour long sessions, after supper in the evening or something.

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It may seem stupid, but when you're putting planks on a ship, if you're doing it well, and you're getting them tight and all that, that can be a lot of fun.

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The funny thing is when I'm looking at a task. If I'm worried about it, I think about it. It usually goes very well.

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If I'm not worried about it, I don't think about it. I regret it. It usually goes poorly, and then I do it again.

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Sometimes things go wrong, and you know, you say a lot of really bad stuff. You put it down and you go away from it for a couple of weeks.

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The San Felipe, which is one of the latest ones I built, the plans were in another language. I've never been certain what it was.

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And so I had to do it without English plans. I had drafts, and my solution was to put them up all around the room, so that then I could look from one to the other and say, okay, this is what it appears to be here, but from this angle, I can see more clearly what's really going on.

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And I could build it that way.

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Probably a pretty close story to be here.

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There's a story behind every one of them. There's people who sailed them. I'm not an engineer, but you can see the engineering in it.

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And you can see the kinds of forces it was designed to deal with and counter.

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And I just think that's neat.

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Thank you.