December 7 2023: If you've been following along, you know I've been poking at 3D models of various things for all three models. One thing I started back in 2020 was making the rest of Constellation's boats in 3D. The quarter-boats and stern-boat all hang from davits outboard of the ship, and are pretty likely to be damaged at some point. If I can 3D print them, I can replace them more easily if need be.

2nd Cutter: I started building the 2nd cutter on page 36 but building a clinker-planked boat in 3D, especially in the software I use, is really really tedious. I tried just picking up where I left off back in 2020, but that wasn't working, and I deleted everything but the keel, and started over. I finally got the second cutter built, and spent a great deal of time trying to get it faired, and decent looking; then I started adding details; a grating fore-deck, seats, oar-notches, and still have more such things to add. Some of these parts can be copied over to the other boats, saving some work. Almost as tedious as the planking are the ribs, but they'll get done eventually.

December 13: Poking ribs into the 2nd cutter, one by one, along with a grating under the aft seat.

December 19: Finally got the boat as done as I'm gonna make it. I positioned the two halves for printing, and output the STL file.
The slicing software says it'll weight 29.9 grams (1.6 ounces), use $1.05 worth of resin, and take 4 hours and 51 minutes to print.
I was worried the planking might be too thin, but it was good enough. The model wouldn't scale down though without some things being made thicker, so I'll probably do that anyway, and make the rest of the boats that way from the start.

January 1 2024: Quarter-boats At a glance, the quarterboats look very like the 2nd cutter, but they are slightly longer, narrower in the stern, and the hull isn't as tall. Two of these boats will hang from davits on each quarter of the ship, between the main and mizzen shrouds.
I worked very hard to get the model done by New Years Eve so it could be printing while we were out, but I kept finding more things to adjust, so it didn't print until the afternoon of New Years Day.

This boat also had to be printed in halves to fit in the printer, but I could still fit two boats to print at once.
The slicing software said this pair of boats would weight 63 grams (2.2 ounces), cost $2.21 in resin, and take 5 hours and 2 minutes to print.
After bonding the boats halves together, I sat them on the model about where they will go when complete, just to see.

January 3: Whale Boat: The last boat to model is the stern-boat, or "whale boat," that will obviously hang from davits on Constellation's stern.

January 6: The whale boat is nearly ready to print. The floor boards and seat clamp are going in, then it get's gratings and thole-pins (up-right pegs that act as oar-locks).

January 7: The Whale Boat 3D model is complete! It's on the printer as I post this update, we'll see how it turns out in 5 hours, 25 minutes. The slicing software says this one will weight 23.6 grams (.83 ounces), and use $.83 worth of resin

Here's all three 3D model boats in one picture.

January 8: Printing started the night of the 7th, and next day, I found $.83 worth of resin weighing .83 ounces (23.6 grams), that looked very much like a whale boat...albiet, broken in half.

Here's all the boats together...
the 25'10" 2nd cutter, on the left, is 8.625" ( 219 mm) long,
the 28'2" whale boat, in the center, is 9.625" ( 245 mm) long,
the two 26' 6" quarter boats, on the right, are each 8.875" ( 226 mm) long.

The whale boat's been bonded together and filling and filing has commensed to clean up the seams in the middle of each boat.

January 15: I gave all the boats a coat of primer, and worked on the seams some more, but there's still more to do, especially on the quarterboats and whaleboat, which will be more visible. I brought the 1st cutter and launch up to my desk to clean them of shop dust. All the boats need lifting rings installed, and the two hand-built ones need rudder gudgeons. They'll all get spars and sails, and bundles of oars lashed to the seats, and rudders laying in the stern-sheets. I think that's all the "detailing" I going to put into them.

I had to get some white paint to do the interiors, and gave them a quick coat. The rub-rails reflect the light, they aren't painted, nor will they be. The baots will just be plain black out-board and white inboard; though i will paint the gratings a wood color.

I made some simple boat chocks. If I figure out the Navy had a specific pattern for these things in 1855, I'll replace these, till then, these will do.

I made the rudders, though I still have to make one each for the 1st cutter and the launch. I made them to fir the gudgeon rings on the boats, but the rudders will get stowed inboard, and most likely, glued in place. I guess I need to make tillers too. :/

January 17: I made two more rudders, added a little detail to all of them and printed all of them as well as tillers. The launch and cutter got brass eye gudgeons, and so all six boats have rudders now. They also all got lifting eyes.