PETERPETER

Your centerboard pivot nut and bolt look very realistic, Have to bring to our next meeting a set of very tiny taps and dies, with which you can make real miniature bolts. Knowing the treasures you have stored in your shop, you probably already have these tools. 
Peter

Your centerboard pivot nut and bolt look very realistic, Have to bring to our next meeting a set of very tiny taps and dies, with which you can make real miniature bolts. Knowing the treasures you have stored in your shop, you probably already have these tools. 
Peter

It's always a pleasure to see your work and the speed with which you move ahead with logical, well planned steps.
Peter

Your centerboard pivot nut and bolt look very realistic, Have to bring to our next meeting a set of very tiny taps and dies, with which you can make real miniature bolts. Knowing the treasures you have stored in your shop, you probably already have these tools. 
Peter

It's always a pleasure to see your work and the speed with which you move ahead with logical, well planned steps.
Peter

It's always a pleasure to see your work and the speed with which you move ahead with logical, well planned steps.
Peter

In the Crabtree collection at the Mariners Museum at Newport News, there is a model of a cave man polling or paddling a log raft.  The guy is wearing an animal hide garment that according to the museum is a tanned mouse skin.
 
Roger

That is a relief, Ed! I had visions of you tanning mouse hides....

Yes, I know what you mean, Greg.  My initial reaction to the seemingly small sizes of iron straps etc. was similar - and I'm kind of a nut on strength issues.  Some research and some arithmetic helped.  Based on some numbers in S.B. Luce, Seamanship, 1868, an 11" hemp rope of the time had a breaking strain of 64,000 lbs.  On rope of this size on the model I am using 24 gauge copper wire for straps and bolts.  At .020" diameter this converts to  just less than 1 1/2" at 1:72.  If my math is right (always questionable) iron rod of this diameter would have a tensile strength of about 90,000 lbs  (55 KPSI), about 1.5 times the strength of the rope itself.  So, not to worry.  I would assume the rope around the deadeye/bullseye would beak first.
 
I took the bolts through the knightheads (assume nuts), rather than into the tops as is shown on some drawings, because I thought bolting into the end grain would subject the knightheads to splitting.  I wasn't too crazy about main stay eyebolts in foremast bitts, but this was common.
 
Wait till we get to wire rigging sizes.
 
Ed

Young America - extreme clipper 1853
Part 209 Forestay
 
The forestay was a fairly simple job to install, but before getting into it, I should say a few words about my sequence.  I am sure there are many approaches to this, but my general plan is to work fore to aft, bottom up, so I will do the standing rigging on the lower masts, working aft, then either go on to the lower yards or topmasts – not decided yet.  Details on the lower shrouds like fairleads, staves and ratlines will be added later when convenient.
 
The first picture shows the installed forestay.
 

 
It is 10½" rope (like the lower shrouds), doubled around the masthead with a seized collar, secured with four seizings on each leg to bullseyes with iron straps shackled to eyebolts in the knightheads.  These were installed earlier.  The lower legs are seized together above the lower seizings.  The rope is served around the collar and at the lower ends and the upper part around the masthead is leathered.
 
The next picture shows the leathered collar bedded on the shrouds.
 

 
The next picture shows the extent of the upper serving and leathering and the upper seizing.
 

 
In the next picture the lower ends of the stay have been hauled up and clipped so the seizings can be put on.
 
 
 
The starboard seizing has been started in the picture.  The next picture shows the lower legs completed and the lower seizing installed to pull them together.
 

 
Finally, the completed stay from above.
 

 
There is quite a bit of work to do on the bowsprit, but because the forestay is secured at the knightheads, I can defer this until the fore topmast is being fitted.
 
Next, the main and mizzen lower mast rigging, but first I want to replace all those topmast backstay chains and channel deadeyes discussed in an earlier post.
 
Ed

You said you would finish the frames this weekend and by golly you did. I am still wanting to understand how the frames were fastened to the keel after being slotted into the mortises. 
Your encouragement finally has me back to work on Willie Bennett. The plans have a tremendous amount of detailed I not did recall, having last worked on her years ago. The work I did then passes my scrutiny. I finished the woodwork and iron fittings on the bowsprit today and I will be able to show some progress at our next meeting. Thanks for your help.
Peter

You said you would finish the frames this weekend and by golly you did. I am still wanting to understand how the frames were fastened to the keel after being slotted into the mortises. 
Your encouragement finally has me back to work on Willie Bennett. The plans have a tremendous amount of detailed I not did recall, having last worked on her years ago. The work I did then passes my scrutiny. I finished the woodwork and iron fittings on the bowsprit today and I will be able to show some progress at our next meeting. Thanks for your help.
Peter

You said you would finish the frames this weekend and by golly you did. I am still wanting to understand how the frames were fastened to the keel after being slotted into the mortises. 
Your encouragement finally has me back to work on Willie Bennett. The plans have a tremendous amount of detailed I not did recall, having last worked on her years ago. The work I did then passes my scrutiny. I finished the woodwork and iron fittings on the bowsprit today and I will be able to show some progress at our next meeting. Thanks for your help.
Peter

You said you would finish the frames this weekend and by golly you did. I am still wanting to understand how the frames were fastened to the keel after being slotted into the mortises. 
Your encouragement finally has me back to work on Willie Bennett. The plans have a tremendous amount of detailed I not did recall, having last worked on her years ago. The work I did then passes my scrutiny. I finished the woodwork and iron fittings on the bowsprit today and I will be able to show some progress at our next meeting. Thanks for your help.
Peter

You said you would finish the frames this weekend and by golly you did. I am still wanting to understand how the frames were fastened to the keel after being slotted into the mortises. 
Your encouragement finally has me back to work on Willie Bennett. The plans have a tremendous amount of detailed I not did recall, having last worked on her years ago. The work I did then passes my scrutiny. I finished the woodwork and iron fittings on the bowsprit today and I will be able to show some progress at our next meeting. Thanks for your help.
Peter

You said you would finish the frames this weekend and by golly you did. I am still wanting to understand how the frames were fastened to the keel after being slotted into the mortises. 
Your encouragement finally has me back to work on Willie Bennett. The plans have a tremendous amount of detailed I not did recall, having last worked on her years ago. The work I did then passes my scrutiny. I finished the woodwork and iron fittings on the bowsprit today and I will be able to show some progress at our next meeting. Thanks for your help.
Peter

BRAVO!!!!
 
 

 
 
 
Pawel

You've not only built a fine model, but you've told us a fine story of Irish immigration.  Well done on both 'counts.
 
Bob

G'day Frank,
Excellent photos of the method you used for replicating the lodging knees for the mast step. This is what we discussed during my visit Sunday. You must be using a tripod setup to take your photos, no?
Peter

G'day Frank,
Excellent photos of the method you used for replicating the lodging knees for the mast step. This is what we discussed during my visit Sunday. You must be using a tripod setup to take your photos, no?
Peter

G'day Frank,
Excellent photos of the method you used for replicating the lodging knees for the mast step. This is what we discussed during my visit Sunday. You must be using a tripod setup to take your photos, no?
Peter

G'day Frank,
Excellent photos of the method you used for replicating the lodging knees for the mast step. This is what we discussed during my visit Sunday. You must be using a tripod setup to take your photos, no?
Peter

G'day Frank,
Excellent photos of the method you used for replicating the lodging knees for the mast step. This is what we discussed during my visit Sunday. You must be using a tripod setup to take your photos, no?
Peter

G'day Frank,
Excellent photos of the method you used for replicating the lodging knees for the mast step. This is what we discussed during my visit Sunday. You must be using a tripod setup to take your photos, no?
Peter

Yes Rob is swiss pear.