CDR_Ret

Thank you, gentlemen. I appreciate the feedback, suggestions, and encouragement. 
 
As far as the amount of sanding is concerned, I’m enjoying it. It’s an opportunity to take some time out of the day, do something with my hands, and let my mind wander a bit. It’s also fun to see the shape come in little by little.  I realize there are other, quicker ways to remove wood, but this way, I can’t do too much damage in a quick fashion, plus, being tool limited limits my options. 😉. I’m fine with it taking a few days to get into tolerance. 

For those of you in the States, Happy Thanksgiving. For those of you elsewhere, Happy Thanksgiving as well! 😁 I wish you all the best and hope you have your own things to be thankful for this year. 
 
Tom
 

Looking good Tom, I don't  envy the amount of sanding you've inflicted on yourself, but must say you doing great.
Love the fact it's your dads sub, must give you extra motivation 🙂😉

This Fall has been busy with many birthday and Christmas projects, and the resumption of homeschool with my grandchildren. So not much time has been available for work on Galilee's plans.
 
However, a recent topic regarding gaff-rigged sails in this forum reminded me that I haven't been able to identify Galilee's mainsail type. Basically, it is a leg-of-mutton sail headed by a short spar. The not-so-all-knowing Internet claims that brigantines and hermaphrodite brigs all carry/carried a gaff-headed mainsail.
 
Here is Galilee in all her glory, courtesy of the Carnegie Science Library:
 

 
So, what is this kind of mainsail called?
 
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
 
Terry
 
 

Thank you @CDR_Ret  Correct me if I’m wrong but CDR is the abbreviation for Navy’s Commander, correct?

As far as the wood working is going, it seems to be progressing well.  I spent some more time on it today and the hull lines are firming up. 

I’ve still got a ways to go. I sand a bit, then check the profiles of the different areas with my hull templates. 

Probably steel coated with copper.  Fine steel wire will burn.

Took a few hours today to do a detailed search of the Web on this topic. The only things I came up with were the following.
 
Balclutha, which is one of the premier museum vessels held by the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, is extremely well documented through the National Park Service HAER program. Several of the scale drawings in that program include diagrams of the anchor windlass, which is shown below. Though the Balclutha is much larger than Galilee, she is almost contemporary to the brigantine. The following diagram shows Balclutha's hand-powered anchor windlass.

The photo below that I found on Pinterest of capstan/windlass of the sunken Lucerne (check out the Wikipedia article) is probably more similar to the one Galilee carried. Since there doesn't seem to be any contemporary diagrams available of a Hyde windlass, I'll have to approximate one when developing the ship's plans.

Ah, Sea Stories. The things we could tell...

Ah, Sea Stories. The things we could tell...

Ah, Sea Stories. The things we could tell...

Ah, Sea Stories. The things we could tell...

Ah, Sea Stories. The things we could tell...

Gonna tell you a story, not very long that took place on a Fletcher Destroyer, (USS Ammen DD 527) chasing Soviet Submarines off the California Coast at Condition 2, all about a potato, a Captain and a kid not long out of boot, who found himself standing the Mid watch in the Main Battery Director manning the Pointers station and also trained the thing by reaching across into that unmanned station. At 17 and no midrats those midwatches are hungry affairs. Coming off a ranch and cooking for myself often , also snacking on raw spuds, the spud locker was my Idea of salvation, I swiped two nice ones. About 0130, one was consumed and it filled me, so the plan to consume all the evidence was foiled, what to do with that other spud? Then it hit me, I was on the top of the superstructure and no one was looking, had control of the training mechanism and manual movement made no noise. Trained her around to Starboard, opened the overhead hatch, climbed on the seat and let fly. falling off the seat as I let go, spud ricichead off the hatch and headed toward the bridge wing where sudden surprised talking commenced, the wheel on that hatch never turned so fast and the director was soon pointing forward. I assumed the attitude of a hiding mouse, hoping I would not be traced as the culprit. All was well until the next morning when I found out that spud had hit the Captain on the head, the Repair Party that was mustered near the spud locker were restricted to the ship until the guilty came forward and owned up to his eval deed. Could not let that stand so I told the Chief Boatswain Mate what had happened. No one suspected me and could have let it fade in to history but because I didn't and the Captain and the Chief Boatswain Mate had a sense of humor, I escaped without punishment,other than all aboard knew about my great potato caper. Took some photos of the director hatch, flight path and target area, this was 1960, 60 years ago, how time flies.
 

Based on the novel "The Good Shepherd" by C.S. Forester.

The author of the fantastic "Hornblower " naval novels, set against the Napoleonic wars

Based on the novel "The Good Shepherd" by C.S. Forester.

Based on the novel "The Good Shepherd" by C.S. Forester.

here you go, one of the best free guides in the universe
http://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Framing_and_Planking/plankingprojectbeginners.pdf

There were in practice many different ways of doing this and the numbers and names of the timbers involved seem to vary. There is normally a fairly massive piece running on the inside of the stanchions. Sometimes it has the half-round waterways cut out in the lower part. Sometimes the waterways is a smaller timber, about double the thickness of the planking and the same width that runs between the larger baulk and the planking. The space between the stanchions can be filled in, but more often there is a thin covering board that is notched out for the stanchions. This covering board may be set-in from the outside and forms a line visible from the outside, forming a sort of narrow shelf. The bulkwark may be raisde above the covering board by a couple of centimeters to allow water to drain outboard. This is often the case in smaller ships, where every second or third frame actually forms the bulwark stanchions.

Thank you for the detailed response, Jaager.
 
Now that I know what to look for, I went back to the DTM photos and discovered that there indeed appears to be a seam between the inboard waterway and the pieces filling in between the stanchions. That certainly makes a lot of sense.
 

 
I appreciate your input.
 
Terry
 
 
 

And here is my reconstruction of the capstan and windlass installation in Galilee. Basically, the screw actuators that tensioned the band brakes on the windlass drum were replaced by pry bar-actuated rods that tensioned the band brakes. I'm still not satisfied with the results because the loops which the pry bar fingers engage are much closer to the base of the capstan in my model than shown in the cyanotype photo. So, either the linkage is at a different angle than in the model or there may be a different lever configuration relating to the band brakes themselves. I suspect that windlass installations could be customized as needed to fit the ship.
 
 
 
There is one final detail that needs to be created for the forecastle equipment, and that is locating and installing the chain stoppers. Hyde's catalog shows them looking like this:
 

Hello Lane.
 
Thank you for your efforts and interest. I'm in the process as we speak of changing out the local hand-crank brake actuator to the topside lever device in my digital model. Looking forward to seeing what you have.
 
Thanks again.
 
Terry

This past weekend, I received a packet from the Maine Maritime Museum*. It contained several scanned pages from a 1902 Hyde Windlass Company (HWC) catalog that related to their manual capstan and windlass machinery. Since the patents listed in the figure were several decades prior to the publication date, the design spans the time the Galilee was built, and is likely representative of the type she carried.
 
This is the scanned engraving of the machinery from the catalog.
 
Compare this design with the image in the previous post. The wildcat brake actuators consist of forked lever rods that engage the band brakes from the forecastle deck, rather than screw actuators mounted on the main deck as I drew them.
 
It turns out that Galilee did indeed have this type of brake control, as indicated in the following photograph, which was taken in 1905 during her outfitting as a magnetic research vessel. I also discovered from this photo that the capstan was mounted on a base about 8–10 inches high. This is referred to in HWC catalog, so I will need to include that detail in the final plans.

So I am now much more confident that I have identified at least a plausible anchor handling gear for this vessel, and can now move on to other deck furniture.
 
Terry
 
*Maine Maritime Museum contact information:
Anne Witty, Chief Curator
Maine Maritime Museum
243 Washington Street
Bath, Maine (ME) 04530
Tel: 207-443-1316, ext. 328
Email: witty@maritimeme.org

Wefalck,
 
Thanks for the information. In the case of Galilee, she was actually conducting geomagnetic research using very sensitive declination, dip, and, intensity instruments, as well as several standard ship's compasses in general use at the time. The ship swings were essential for cancelling the local influences to determine the absolute elements of the earth's magnetic field.
 
As an aside, the Carnegie Institution eventually built a completely non-magnetic research vessel (the Carnegie) and continued Galilee's work into the late 20s. Sadly, the ship was destroyed by a fire caused by, you guessed it, gasoline fumes igniting explosively. The ship's captain, a former coworker and a good friend of my grandfather, was killed in the explosion.
 
An update to this post: I've posted my reconstruction work for Galilee's launch in my research thread here.
 
Terry

Update: the tutorial from Ab and a very detailed off-board lesson from Terry are being digested. I hope to have a four hour slot to sit down at the computer and do both exercises properly later today.

For the DELFTship fans out there, I've posted my latest project in my main plans research thread showing some of the things you can do with the program.
 
Terry