Keith Black

Keep the OOD on watch and closely guard those lines 'till construction resumes... less any land-dwelling critters find said lines amusing and quickly take it upon themselves to create adventure from any loose ends! 😲  

Get well quickly, Bob. 

Get well quickly, Bob. 

Get well quickly, Bob. 

Get well quickly, Bob. 

Hi Wefalck... we enjoyed our cruise on the Seine, and the restored Notre Dame is amazing!
I agree about the colour choice and I will shoot a thin coat of flat white onto my boat covers. Pictures I have show St. Roch's boat covers sometimes light, sometimes darker... could be the lighting or camera settings with black & white film...
Yes, her sails today are reproductions, but originally they were cotton canvas. I'm also thinking about a light gray, off-white, for the sails and we'll see how they turn out!
I appreciate your feedback,
Bruce
 

Well the shipyard is under quarantine, seems I have come down  with strep throat a  cold,  head ach running  nose and eyes are watering so bad I can't see. 
The officer looked around  and found a tangle mess.

Kurt told him  to cut me some slack. Yesterday  we sorted out the lines and numbered  them according.  Then the sickness hit 🤮.
 
 

 

So we are  packed it in for awhile , take care my friends,  off to bed . Rigging  will continue,  
Bob  M. 

Mostly lime with some use of holly for intricate bits like thrbtriarch's chair

Off to a good start then!
 
Well, boat covers often were painted(!) canvas, so in principle could be any colour. I gather some off-white, simulating originally white but slightly yellowed (due to the lineseed-oil as binder) paint could be a good option.
 
I gather, sails in N-America were usually made from cotton, while in Europe more often flax was used, at least for the heavier qualities. Cotton does not yellow, so a somewhat dirty, i.e. very light grey would be good for the sails. 

I'm back, and well rested!
So back to the silkspan... I decided to first work with an offcut to make the boat covers. This leaves the main piece of silkspan for the sails, and if I mess up the offcut I can still make the sails (I hope)!
I had previously (on page 8 of this build log) made the frame to hold the silkspan. Now I wetted the offcut and taped it onto the frame, per David Antscherl's directions. I deviated by using medical adhesive tape since I could not get the paper packing tape in Beaumont. It is waterproof and seems to work very well. Taping two sides vs. all four did not seem to matter on a piece this size. Here is the wet silkspan drying on the frame.

Next I coloured the silkspan to match what I think the boat cover canvas would have looked like. Rather than the artist's tube paints recommended by David I chose to use my Tamiya acrylics. Buying tube paints would leave me enough left over that I could will them to my heirs! The Tamiya paints are water based and give me a broader range of colours, and would go on with my airbrush, which I considered a better technique than brushing.
I used a base of flat white, and added a drop of buff and another of dark sea gray. My airbrush cup was about half full, so I topped it with Tamiya thinner and sprayed it onto the silkspan. Here it is in the spray booth. I laid down two coats, light enough that there were no runs.

When I moved he frame to my bench I saw that the colour was more gray than I would have liked.
Memo to self, better lighting at the paint booth!
Here it is drying on the bench with the boat cover templates laid on top.

After it dries, if I am still not satisfied, I'll shoot another coat of diluted buff to try and get more of a canvas colour... we'll see.
Next will be to cut out and assemble the covers, then try to get them to fold nicely over the boats...
Thanks for looking in, tips and critiques are always welcome!
 
 
 
 

My three marines doing their best to model the Lenormant Relief... (it will be some time before they are joined by the lower oar banks...)
 

Lovely....
 
And you are using Basswood?  or Lime?
 
So nice.

This is excellent.  Will continue to follow.
Mike

Joggling -- usually, though Smyth didn't include that term (or only with an unrelated meaning) and nor did Paasch, so I don't know whether it was in use before the 20th Century.

Ooops. I am glad that got pointed out before I went much further. You are right, Phil, I am having to cut into the margin board a little too much. I am pretty much equal on both sides at this point so I can adjust accordingly moving forward. We will see  

Thanks, Glen. I just call it that because that is what I have seen others call it. Perhaps there is a true nautical term for it out there somewhere, who knows.

The next 17 will go quicker now that you have "experience", Steve 🤣🤣

62 Thranite oars completed...
 

Roughly positioned on the ship (resting on a piece of glass at approx waterline...)
 

 

I got a few items's checked off the list this past week.
 
 Added the stair railing. 

 
The stair railing was the moat time consuming as it was mostly trial and error
 
 Added control lever and steam pressure gauge in the pilothouse and it's now permanently attached. 
 
 Added the water tank, exhaust pipe, steam whistle, drive shaft (as much as can be seen) and step over

 
 
 Thank you to everyone for the likes and for your support, I appreciate it so very much. 
 
    Keith

I understand the problems you have experienced in establishing such a Rigging Warrant.  I was lucky enough to have that document but, as you have experienced, the implementation is a whole different issue.
 
Nice bit of research
 
Pat

I'm not sure what nibbling is, Mark, but if this is what you are talking about, that's some very nice work!

Mark,
 
The book title is compelling.  As long as it looks correct to the builder, at least the builder will be happy!
 
Is it this guy?
https://www.fishermensvoice.com/archives/201809CastinesJohnPGardnerAndHisShipModels.html
 
Your nibbing looks very clean.  Well done!

That one, I think I can answer: No, there were no deck lights in sailing ships. There is usually enough light, even on a moonless night, for men to work the rig and usually no call for anything more detailed (maintenance tasks or whatever) until daylight. When it was (and is) truly dark, seamen were expected to work by feel, knowing which line was belayed on which pin.
 
As to lights for other ships to see and follow: My guess is that a rather ordinary lantern would be hoisted in the rigging, probably using a spare flag halliard or the like. That's how anchor lights were shown in more recent times. In the 1940s, it was claimed that U-Boat lookouts could find a convoy if one smoker could not resist the need to strike a match when on deck at night. (I don't know the truth of it but that was claimed at the time.) So a lantern with even a single candle could likely be seen from  a distance, given reasonable weather.
 
Trevor

I got a few items's checked off the list this past week.
 
 Added the stair railing. 

 
The stair railing was the moat time consuming as it was mostly trial and error
 
 Added control lever and steam pressure gauge in the pilothouse and it's now permanently attached. 
 
 Added the water tank, exhaust pipe, steam whistle, drive shaft (as much as can be seen) and step over

 
 
 Thank you to everyone for the likes and for your support, I appreciate it so very much. 
 
    Keith

You're slowing down in your old age, Bob.   Is your Harriet Lane the old  solid wood hull?