Keith Black

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Ken, here's wishing that the time passes quickly, that the surgery goes smoothly, and that you regain full vision. I'll be thinking of you as time nears, please keep us informed........Keith

Thank you to all for the likes. I was never happy with the stern castle particularly the skylights. All the elements seemed to be crammed together with a lack of uniformity. With the forecastle and main deck furniture mostly completed the stern castle really became the ugly stepchild. The skylights are now uniform with more space between all the stern castle elements. I moved the fresh air intakes inboard a tenth of an inch. The only element not glued down at this point is the rudder chain access hatch. I continue to work on other areas of the stern castle. Before And after.

Roger, thank you. Pat (BANYAN) also provided great information sending me in the right direction.

Eberhard, the pump was made for 22 GA wire, two brass beads (one larger that the other with a small brass disk sitting atop the large brass bead to create the body profile), and a very small brass eye. One piece of wire starts from the base through the two beads and disk and is then bent to form the handle. A second piece of 24 GA wire is glued to the handle piece that extends vertical above the handle. For the spigot a piece of 22 GA wire is bent to shape with a tail that passes up through the smaller brass bead terminating inside the larger brass bead and glued in place. The small brass eye is glued opposite of the handle and trimmed to length. All is painted black except the 22 GA wire above the circular brass disk and where it is bent to form the handle. I left this part unpainted to represent the piston rod.

See the following link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporator_(marine) Roger, the following from Wikipedia...... At first, only larger warships and some exploratory ships were fitted with distilling apparatus: a warship's large crew (the Tennessee's crew total was 480) naturally needed a large supply of water, more than they could stow on board in advance. Cargo ships, with their smaller crews, merely carried their supplies with them. Early boilers used seawater directly, but this gave problems with the build-up of brine and scale.[20] For efficiency, as well as conserving feedwater, marine engines have usually been condensing engines. By 1865, the use of an improved surface condenser permitted the use of fresh water feed,[21] as the additional feedwater now required was only the small amount required to make up for losses, rather than the total passed through the boiler. Despite this, a large warship could still require up to 100 tons of fresh water makeup to the feedwater system per day, when under full power.[22] Attention was also paid to de-aereating feedwater, to further reduce boiler corrosion.[21] The distillation system for boiler feedwater at this time was usually termed an evaporator, partly to distinguish it from a separate system or distiller used for drinking water. Separate systems were often used, especially in early systems, owing to the problem of contamination from oily lubricants in the feedwater system and because of the greatly different capacities required in larger ships. In time, the two functions became combined and the two terms were applied to the separate components of the system. The first distilling plants that boiled a separate water supply from that of the main boiler, appeared around 1867.[15] These were not directly heated by a flame, but had a primary steam circuit using main boiler steam through coils within a steam drum or evaporator.[23] The distillate from this vessel then passed to an adjacent vessel, the distilling condenser.[23] As these evaporators used a 'clean' seawater supply directly, rather than contaminated water from the boiler circuit, they could be used to supply both feedwater and drinking water. These double distillers appeared around 1884.[15] For security against failure, ships except the smallest were fitted with two sets.[23] See the following link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporator_(marine)

Thank you, Mark and thank you to all for the likes. After making the water cask I started thinking about how fresh water was delivered up to the main deck. They sure didn't haul pails of water from the condenser tanks up the companionways two decks below and they sure weren't going to be hauling pails of water through the Admiral or Captain's quarters out to the main deck. I suspected that there had to be a freshwater hand pump someplace on the main deck. I spoke with Pat (BANYAN) and he confirmed there would have been a FW hand pump located somewhere on the main deck. Pat provided valuable information and insight into my decision making of a hand pump and it's location. Thank you, Pat I also went through build logs hoping to find something on FW hand pumps and their location but couldn't find anything. If anyone knows of a build log/model showing a freshwater hand pump, please advise. I used this photo as a model for the pump. Pump made. The pump placed in position. I located the pump here for three reasons. It's somewhat protected from being snagged by an errant line, it would have received radiant heat from the stack to help keep the pump from freezing during sub freezing temperatures, and it's somewhat above where the condensers and tanks would have been located in the engine room. The fourth photo shows I need to give the pump a slight tweak to port.

Thank you, Brian. Lots of room on the front, I'm delighted you stopped by. This was a folk art model I purchased off eBay in 2009 that needed restoration. I chose to restore the model from folk art to as historically accurate as possible given the hull limitations. The deck planking looks like mahogany which I lightly sanded and sealed with poly.

Keith, Eberhart, and Gary, thank you for your input on the water cask. Pat and Tom, thank you for your kind words and a thank you to all for the likes. I got the two chest/storage lockers that go under the forecastle made. Nothing fancy but they were harder to make than need be due to being under the the forecastle deck and the ladders being in the way, bad planning on my part.

Johann, thank you and a Merry Christmas to you and yours.

MCB, Merry Christmas to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith

Jonathan, Merry Christmas to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith

Lou, Merry Christmas to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith

Valerly, Merry Christmas to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith

Tom, Merry Christmas to you, yours and Stanly () and a Happy New Year.......Keith

JW, Merry Christmas to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith

Chris, Merry Christmas to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith

Mark, Merry Christmas to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith

Pat, Merry Christmas to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith

Rob, Merry Christmas to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith

HYW, Happy New Year.......Keith

Ilhan, Happy Holidays to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith

Phil, Merry Christmas to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith

Brian, Merry Christmas to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith

Eberhard, Merry Christmas to you and yours and a Happy New Year.......Keith