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    I would also say that they are air holes as that area around the stack would heat up. The holes would allow the heated air to escape. Taking a hard look at your photos, it's hard to see the lower part of the Charlie Noble/ventilator. If it does turn 90 degrees and in to cabin than I would have to say it a smoke stack. If it goes straight down thur the deck than I would think its a ventilator. Ventilators had a funnel shaped top and some could been rotated to catch the wind. Its location can not be seen in the last photo. These work boats were changing all the time, as in my project no two photos show the same things. Steve
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    I have used spalted english walnut and spalted holly for the weathered look. The walnut I scribed and the holly was individual planks.
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    Tom, good looking steamer, I have a smaller version on my someday list. I would also think that what you have circled is a ventilator.
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    I have a line drawing of a compound steam engine that I am using. From some documents about the John Cudahy that I have read I know that at one point she had a Vulcan compound engine. So this is the best I can do for a engine.
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    I will be adding some detail that will be little seen. I am going to out fit the engineroom/boiler space with a assortment of gear. This is the beginings of my compound steam engine. Wood items are my master molds, the red items are a couple of finished molds with there master patterns removed. I use a vulcanizing rubber for my molds and use Cerro Cast the actual casting. Some molds will be flat cast where the casting material is just poured in. Other molds will be cast in a centrifugal. The wire on the master forms are for cast inplace venting holes which are needed when centrifugal casting.
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    John, There is very little info on my built so alot of it is conjecture on my part. When I made my propeller for this model it did not matter to me if it was left or right. I am not trying to be historically correct as I don't have that kind of information available. Just my version on how it might of looked.
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    I love these old wood speed boats. I have built A small model of a John Hacker one step called "Zippy". Plans came from a "Ideal" book series.
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    Some cabin work is done as well as some pilot house work.
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    The deck is scribed spalted English Walnut, cap rails are Yew wood. I craved the prop out of Maple and the rudder is yew wood but painted. Cabin coaming is also yew wood.
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    I redrew a set of tug plans to fit the sizes I needed to match up with the John Cudahy's spec's. Basswood was used for frames and planking. Yew wood was used for keel, stem, counter timber, guard timbers.
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    I know this is not a stick and string type build, but I enjoy building vessels of local interest. The John Cudahy was built in Ballard Washington in 1900 for the fisheries trade. In 1904 she was sold to a tug firm in Grays Harbor and was rebuild for tug work. Her duties included ship assist and log raft towing. She was sold several times during her stay on Grays Harbor and went thur several changes. She went to work on the Columbia River for a number of years before being sold again. Foss tug bought her and rebuild her completely. Added length, changed to diesel power and renamed her Henry Foss. She was lost in Alaska in 1952. The period I chose to model is sometime after her conversion in 1905 to about 1915.

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