rwiederrich

Model railroading are always my alternate sites for accessories....like chain.
 
Cast Your Anchor's supplier no longer provides them with the 42 lpi chain apparently.   That is where I have purchased my chain for years....too bad.
 
I could get it in 6ft lengths too..
 
Rob

I lightened up and slightly changed the angle
 

Folks have been asking for a comparison shot of Glory in SanFran in 1877.    The image I used as a model.   
 
Will this do? You’d think I colorized the image.

I took a bunch of pictures today.  
 
Enjoy

First of all...thanks to everyone who  commented and congratulated me on Glory's completion.  A most heart felt...thanks.
 
Rich.....Talking to Mike, he suggested contacting the Bainbridge Island Historical Society...claiming Glory did indeed share some history with Kitsap County.  I hope I enticed him to throw some of his own Authorship weight behind the venture and do some investigating himself.  Most of these local nautical historical societies have, either previously corroborated with him, and or, provided him with information.  His name among certain circles, I am sure, can at least, give us the  traction needed to find a suitable and respectable museum partnership.
 
Rob

I lightened up and slightly changed the angle
 

I took a bunch of pictures today.  
 
Enjoy

I threw an email out to Mike and he is considering getting involved himself...since his own collection could accent the entire exhibit....making his own efforts (Books) more visible to the public.
 
If you are willing, I am... So please feel free to extend to her finished images of my model.  Since you are the primary contact at this point.  Again...thanks.
 
Rob

Good job Vlad.  
 Im interested in how you will properly align both sides when they join in the middle 
And what becomes of your waterway as you cover her up with new decking?  
 
Are you replacing the deck because the old one is out of scale?
 
Rob

I threw an email out to Mike and he is considering getting involved himself...since his own collection could accent the entire exhibit....making his own efforts (Books) more visible to the public.
 
If you are willing, I am... So please feel free to extend to her finished images of my model.  Since you are the primary contact at this point.  Again...thanks.
 
Rob

Your stay sails are amazing.   You used the same method I did on my Great Republic.  But I used thread size stainless steel orthodontic wire.   I did wonder how you were supporting the billowing stay sails.  
 
Super job 
 
Rob

I took a bunch of pictures today.  
 
Enjoy

Thanks Pat.
I'm taking a great deal of my leanings from Mike Preske.  He did the initial research on her and I want to glean heavely from his input.
What I find most intrigueing about Western Shore, is that Mr Simpson NEVER insured his vessels.  He owned them flat out and took full responsibility of them.  His ships were built for his own particular use...so there was no *contractor* as was expected with most East coast clippers.  Donald McKay acted in similar fasion on several occasions with several of his own clippers...where he flipped the construction bill...owned it flat out..with full intention of selling later...so insurance was a necessity for him.
 
I'm, impresses with Mr Simpsons ability to reverse engineer his ships.  A practice I tend to use myself.  Going aboard vessels in port and adopting systems and structures he liked...taking measurments and then adopting them to his own vessels.  That is a man who knows what he wants and skips the *middleman* to get the desired goal he seeks.
The open helm design he selected is a very simple but efficient design.
 
One thing I noticed about this design, is that the rudder post is much further forward then on the typical East coast clipper designs...suggesting that there was a greater fantail length to her stern then on those East Coast clippers...permitting her tiller or yoke to extend aft where the control lines can engage it via the control line drum.
 
Your Victoria must have the hardware mounted under deck. The image of your helm is quite different.   It looks more like the helm on the Charles W Morgan but without it being mounted on the tiller itself.  
 
 
Rob

My friend Steve Priske who first introduced me to the Western Shore built this model of her.    Simpson built her not sparing any modern comfort……..and Steve represented her well in this model. 
 
Rob

And a bit closer so you can see the individually laid planks.
I hope to begin on more.but the Glory needs finishing work too.

Spent some time laying the wooden deck for the Western Shore.

Further study reveals that the Western Shore had a simple(whaler) tiller style steering gear...unlike the mechanical designs of clippers a decade earlier and since.
 
Here are some examples of the wheel and tiller rigging the Western Shore emulated.
 
Asa Simpson wanted his ships as modern as possible..but  sturdy and sometimes the simpler the design the better.
 
He never insured his vessels since he owned and operated them for his own particulars.....and when they wrecked that was it.
 
Rob

Some art work of the Western Shore.

Among many other things..I plan on building the clipper ship Western Shore.  She has a most wonderful and exciting...not to mention short history.  She was the only clipper to have been built on the West coast of the US...in Coos Bay Oregon over 20 years after the last clipper was built on the East coast. She set world speed records and holds the fastest time from Portland Oregon to Liverpool England to this day of 97 days. She was involved in a high stakes bet race between the clippers, *Three Brothers, and the *British King*.  they all left SanFransisco the same day and both the Three Brothers and the British King consumed over 150 days passage, while the Western Shore passed them both and moored at the Liverpool docks in 104 days.
 
Built for Asa Simpson in Coos Bay/North Bend Yards by John Kruse...the Western Shore will be a grand addition to my Donald McKay collection.  One note....the WS was sporting 6 yards per mast and the main mast yards were the same size as the fore and both main and for masts were the same height. This calculation was probably the reason she was known as the fastest clipper ever built...beating clippers easily that were 20 years her junior.
 
A couple photos(Paintings)..were as there are no actual photographs of the ship. Steve Priske in his soon to be published book will provide the hull and line drawings.
 
Scale will be decided at a later date...but I will probably stay close to 1/96...for special reasons.
 
 

What a whirlwind of building adventure since I began this log for the Western Shore.
The Great Republic is finished.....I abandoned the old Glory of the Seas and built an entirely new one from scratch.  Waiting for confermation from the museum I've contacted about her display.....and now.......
 
Speaking to Steve Priske concerning his own builds of the Western Shore......I'm getting excited.  there is still much more research to be done and supplies to be acquired but she is in the *Que*.
 
Another painting of her.
 

Folks have been asking for a comparison shot of Glory in SanFran in 1877.    The image I used as a model.   
 
Will this do? You’d think I colorized the image.

I took a bunch of pictures today.  
 
Enjoy

I’ve  completed all the rigging.   
 
Just a flag or two left. 
 
I’ll prep her for more professional images a bit later. 

Your stay sails are amazing.   You used the same method I did on my Great Republic.  But I used thread size stainless steel orthodontic wire.   I did wonder how you were supporting the billowing stay sails.  
 
Super job 
 
Rob

The Museum in Tacoma has kindly declined my offer, sighting a desire for more hands on displays and their model display area is under renovation.
 
Rob