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Greetings - at sorry to have neglected this lady for so long! 
 
The ECB gets my attention this month - have beveled and now installed 4 frames since the first (may not seem like much, but after taking so long to get the first 9 in, 4 in les than a week is really moving!!!)
 
So, here is her present status.  I have frames 14 and 15 in preparation right now, hope to get them in by tomorrow evening.
 

 

 

 

 
 

Greetings - at sorry to have neglected this lady for so long! 
 
The ECB gets my attention this month - have beveled and now installed 4 frames since the first (may not seem like much, but after taking so long to get the first 9 in, 4 in les than a week is really moving!!!)
 
So, here is her present status.  I have frames 14 and 15 in preparation right now, hope to get them in by tomorrow evening.
 

 

 

 

 
 

Greetings - at sorry to have neglected this lady for so long! 
 
The ECB gets my attention this month - have beveled and now installed 4 frames since the first (may not seem like much, but after taking so long to get the first 9 in, 4 in les than a week is really moving!!!)
 
So, here is her present status.  I have frames 14 and 15 in preparation right now, hope to get them in by tomorrow evening.
 

 

 

 

 
 

I'll do my best Frank !
 
The only thing that rocks at the moment is my wallet.......he want some money in it !!!!!!!!
I spend everything today on Anja     
 

Thank you for your work on this, Wayne! Here's a blurb I posted recently that many may not know about but is a wonderful resource for gaining access to rarer, expensive books:
 
Cheers,Jay

While I haven't completed the process as yet, I am expanding my list to include the link to downloadable books.  Also have added quite a bit to the print books - guess I ought to update those as well.  Is there anything in particular you folks could recommend to make the list more useful for you?

What brings up the next question: What to be done with the length of the side tackles running side ?
 
My usual way, take a length of rope and check the options. The coil was not in my mind for several reasons, that is why I did not try it here.
 
First loosely placed beside the gun - over the breeching rope that lies on the deck - as seen on V. in P. on several guns.
 

 
I do not like it as ropes could get tangled up easily. Second try, put behind the gun where usually the coils are placed ...
 

 
... gives a nice trap to fit the back tackle.
 
And here my personal favorite, also seen on several museum ships, loose loops put over the barrel. 
Keeps the floor free, no messing, easy to grap.
 
 
 
As Captain Hardy was sad to have been was some kind of etiquette freak here a more "ship shape" or "Bristol-fashion" style of: the loops secured in the middle.
 

 

 
And this is my personal winner :-)
 
XXXDAn

Welcome,
 
Some more deckhouse pictures.  Key points include:
 
>>> Deck house bulkheads were glued to together and to their respective coamings using the deck cutout to ensure squareness
>>> Deck beams were fitted
>>> Note windlass pump handles stowed on the forward house front
>>> Note that coamings will not be glued to the hull until all adjacent outfit has been fitted
>>> Note this construction sequence gives a clean paint line between the house sides and coamings
 
Pete Jaquith
Shipbuilder

I have made the sail templates to make sure it all fits, next job is to make the sails and see if I can get them to work the way I want them to.
 
Even though the sails are just cardboard it looks magnificent, I think it is going to look brilliant under sail.
 

 

 

 
I am hoping this pic will give a good idea of it's presence in a room
 

 

Greetings, all.  Have taken a tip from the Master of Cotton Balls (Sjors) and will be trying to split my time a month at a time amongst builds.  The Essex will now be relgated to a shelf for the next month whilst I get back to my sorely neglected Emma C. Berry.  Here, then, are a couple of shots of where I am on the Essex.
 
I am prepping the hull for the first planking - nearly done with the fairing, still need to cut the rabbet along the bow area.
 

 
Question - since there is no "false deck", would it be prudent to add some additional deck beams to support the deck planiking, or would that be creating work with minimal benefit (see drawing of kit structure below)?
 

 
Meanwhile, Brett (my son) has been tackling the detail painting for the stern decoration - not done yet, but progressing.  He has all sorts of cool artist supplies, and found that one of his very fine artists pens was perfect for getting the tiny details around the scroll work to look better.
 

 
Still more to do, but looks a lot better than I could ever hope to accomplish!
 
So, until June (unless I decide to move the Harriet Lane back to the rigging table), that's it for now!

Greetings, all.  Have taken a tip from the Master of Cotton Balls (Sjors) and will be trying to split my time a month at a time amongst builds.  The Essex will now be relgated to a shelf for the next month whilst I get back to my sorely neglected Emma C. Berry.  Here, then, are a couple of shots of where I am on the Essex.
 
I am prepping the hull for the first planking - nearly done with the fairing, still need to cut the rabbet along the bow area.
 

 
Question - since there is no "false deck", would it be prudent to add some additional deck beams to support the deck planiking, or would that be creating work with minimal benefit (see drawing of kit structure below)?
 

 
Meanwhile, Brett (my son) has been tackling the detail painting for the stern decoration - not done yet, but progressing.  He has all sorts of cool artist supplies, and found that one of his very fine artists pens was perfect for getting the tiny details around the scroll work to look better.
 

 
Still more to do, but looks a lot better than I could ever hope to accomplish!
 
So, until June (unless I decide to move the Harriet Lane back to the rigging table), that's it for now!

Greetings, all.  Have taken a tip from the Master of Cotton Balls (Sjors) and will be trying to split my time a month at a time amongst builds.  The Essex will now be relgated to a shelf for the next month whilst I get back to my sorely neglected Emma C. Berry.  Here, then, are a couple of shots of where I am on the Essex.
 
I am prepping the hull for the first planking - nearly done with the fairing, still need to cut the rabbet along the bow area.
 

 
Question - since there is no "false deck", would it be prudent to add some additional deck beams to support the deck planiking, or would that be creating work with minimal benefit (see drawing of kit structure below)?
 

 
Meanwhile, Brett (my son) has been tackling the detail painting for the stern decoration - not done yet, but progressing.  He has all sorts of cool artist supplies, and found that one of his very fine artists pens was perfect for getting the tiny details around the scroll work to look better.
 

 
Still more to do, but looks a lot better than I could ever hope to accomplish!
 
So, until June (unless I decide to move the Harriet Lane back to the rigging table), that's it for now!

I picked up a book at gutenberg.org about the "History of Holland. Very interesting, very detailed and information I have never read before.

The following naval officer is famous of capturing four fleeing galleons trapped on the Cuban coast. Hein captured 11,509,524 guilders of booty in gold, silver, and other expensive trade goods, such as indigo and cochineal, without any bloodshed. The capture of the treasure fleet was the company's greatest victory in the Caribbean.

Pieter Pietersen Heyn (Hein) (25 November 1577 – 18 June 1629) was a Dutch naval officer and folk hero during the Eighty Years' War between the United Provinces and Spain.

Early life
Hein was born in Delfshaven (now part of Rotterdam), the son of a sea captain, and he became a sailor while he was still a teenager. In his twenties, he was captured by the Spanish, and served as a galley slave for about four years, probably between 1598 and 1602, when he was traded for Spanish prisoners. Between 1603 and 1607 he was again held captive by the Spanish, when captured near Cuba.

In 1607, he joined the Dutch East India Company and left for Asia, returning with the rank of captain (of the Hollandia) five years later. In 1618, when he was captain of the Neptunus, both he and his ship were pressed into service by Venice. In 1621 he left his vessel behind and traveled overland to the Netherlands.

In 1623, he became vice-admiral of the new Dutch West India Company (WIC) and sailed to the West Indies the following year. In Brazil, he briefly captured the Portuguese settlement of Salvador, personally leading the assault on the sea fortress of that town. In August with a small and undermanned fleet he sailed for the African west coast and attacked a Portuguese fleet in the strongly defended bay of Luanda but failed to capture any ships. He then crossed the Atlantic ocean again to try and capture merchant ships at the city of Vitória, but was defeated by a resistance organized by the local citizenry with the assistance of the Portuguese garrison. After finding that Salvador had been recaptured by a large Spanish-Portuguese fleet Hein returned home. The Dutch West India Company, pleased with Hein's leadership qualities, placed him in command of a new squadron in 1626. In subsequent raids during 1627 at Salvador, he attacked and captured over thirty richly laden Portuguese merchant ships before returning to the United Provinces.

Modern historians today often classify Hein as a pirate, though he was more properly a privateer; the Dutch Republic was locked in mortal combat with the Habsburgs and Hein was among the most successful and famous commanders it employed during the Eighty Years' War. While many privateers behaved no better than common pirates, Hein was a strict disciplinarian who discouraged unruly conduct among his crews and had rather enlightened views for the times about "Indian" tribes, slaves and members of other religions. Also, he never was an individual privateer but rather commanded entire fleets of warships.

Spanish treasure fleet
Battle in the Bay of Matanzas

In 1628, Admiral Hein, with Witte de With as his flag captain, sailed out to capture a Spanish treasure fleet loaded with silver from their American colonies and the Philippines. With him was Admiral Hendrick Lonck and he was later joined by a squadron of Vice-Admiral Joost Banckert, as well as by the pirate Moses Cohen Henriques. Part of the Spanish fleet in Venezuela had been warned because a Dutch cabin boy had lost his way on Blanquilla and was captured, betraying the plan, but the other half from Mexico continued its voyage, unaware of the threat. Sixteen Spanish ships were intercepted; one galleon was taken after a surprise encounter during the night, nine smaller merchants were talked into a surrender; two small ships were taken at sea fleeing, four fleeing galleons were trapped on the Cuban coast in the Bay of Matanzas.

After some musket volleys from Dutch sloops the crews of the galleons also surrendered and Hein captured 11,509,524 guilders of booty in gold, silver, and other expensive trade goods, such as indigo and cochineal, without any bloodshed. The Dutch didn't take prisoners: they gave the Spanish crews ample supplies for a march to Havana. The released were surprised to hear the admiral personally giving them directions in fluent Spanish; Hein after all was well acquainted with the region as he had been confined to it during his internment after 1603. The capture of the treasure fleet was the company's greatest victory in the Caribbean.

As a result, the money funded the Dutch army for eight months (and as a direct consequence, allowing it to capture the fortress 's-Hertogenbosch), and the shareholders enjoyed a cash dividend of 50% for that year. Hein returned to the Netherlands in 1629, where he was hailed as a hero. Watching the crowds cheering him as he stood on the balcony of the town hall of Leyden he remarked to the burgomaster: "Now they praise me because I gained riches without the least danger; but earlier when I risked my life in full combat they didn't even know I existed...". Hein was the first and the last to capture such a large part of a Spanish "silver fleet" from America.

Lieutenant-Admiral
He became, after a conflict with the WIC about policy and payment, Lieutenant-Admiral of Holland and West Frisia on 26 March 1629, and thus factual supreme commander of the confederate Dutch fleet, taking as flag captain Maarten Tromp. He died the same year, in a campaign against the Dunkirkers, the highly effective fleet of Habsburg commerce raiders and privateers operating from Dunkirk. As it happened his flotilla intercepted three privateers from Ostend. He deliberately moved his flagship in between two enemy ships to give them both simultaneous broadsides. After half an hour he was hit in the left shoulder by a cannonball and was killed instantly. He is buried in the Oude Kerk in Delft.

Commemoration
The Piet Hein Tunnel in Amsterdam is named in his honor, as is the former Dutch Kortenaer class frigate, Hr. Ms. Piet Heyn.
A direct descendant of Hein was Piet Hein, a famous 20th century Danish mathematician, physicist and poet.
A song praising Admiral Hein's capture of the Spanish "silver fleet" written in 1844 is still sung by choirs and children at primary school in the Netherlands.
(I learned this song as well and still remember this.)


Thanks for reading.
Marc

On old sailing ships, the waterway was a strong timber that formed the outer edge of the deck planking and formed a transition to the bulwark.  Deck scuppers drilled through the waterways drained the water overboard; and where fitted freeports over the water ways drained any large quantities of water overboard.  These ships had significant camber which drained deck water outboard if the ship was not heeled over.  Note the attached thumbnails for examples from "Newsboy" 1854 and "Fair American" 1780.
 
On modern steel ships the shell plating typically extends above the deck plating and deck scuppers are fitted in the outboard deck plate (stringer plate).  Deck camber is typically not fitted due to modern mechanized steel assembly lines, and where fitted straight line camber is used vs. to older parabolic camber.
 
Pete Jaquith
Shipbuilder   

That would be the 1814 ship-rigged Sloop of War.

Kevin et. al. - thank you for this amazing trek through naval and maritime history.  If I may be allowed, I would like to add an entry for May 1st.
 
200 years ago today, on May 1, 1814, The US Sloop of War WASP sets sail from Newburyport, MA under the command of Master Commandant Johnston Blakeley.  Over the ensuing 5 months, WASP sets a record for commerce raiding and successful naval combat unsurpassed by any other US Captain of the time - and never on a single cruise.  In total, WASP is known to have captured 12 merchant vessels and engaged (and defeated) 3 naval vessels before being lost at sea during October or November of 1814.

The waterways served to keep water out of the gap between deck planks and ceiling.

Thank you Wayne,
 
I figured that it was but I wasn't sure.  I built a model of 1807 Wasp (1:64).  Still in my living room.   It was my first completed scratch build.

That would be the 1814 ship-rigged Sloop of War.

Good Afternoon Wayne,
 
Which Wasp?  The 1807 Sloop converted from the Brig?
 
Thanks for this great information,
 
Tom

Nice progress, Mark, but I am confused - are you at the step now where you make little pieces into bigger pieces or big pieces back into little pieces?

Nice progress, Mark, but I am confused - are you at the step now where you make little pieces into bigger pieces or big pieces back into little pieces?

Kevin et. al. - thank you for this amazing trek through naval and maritime history.  If I may be allowed, I would like to add an entry for May 1st.
 
200 years ago today, on May 1, 1814, The US Sloop of War WASP sets sail from Newburyport, MA under the command of Master Commandant Johnston Blakeley.  Over the ensuing 5 months, WASP sets a record for commerce raiding and successful naval combat unsurpassed by any other US Captain of the time - and never on a single cruise.  In total, WASP is known to have captured 12 merchant vessels and engaged (and defeated) 3 naval vessels before being lost at sea during October or November of 1814.

Sounds like a great book! I'll definitely be picking one up ... 

Nice progress, Mark, but I am confused - are you at the step now where you make little pieces into bigger pieces or big pieces back into little pieces?