iMustBeCrazy

No worries Andy, you're welcome.

I've added 1:32 to my scale rulers HERE. Bob's right, you may have to adjust your print scale using 'Custom' or the like.

See post #47, the rails were quite crudely cut on the starboard side but reasonably neat on the port side.

Well, that's thrown the cat amongst the worms! By any chance, was the main hold used as the dining room during winter? That might explain it. No, I don't think that works either. Then again, maybe. I assumed the pillars were to strengthen the bridge deck but I had/have a niggling suspicion the the beams aren't really 'ritz' quality. So perhaps they did duplicate the 'ritz' layout in the hold. I'm so confused. This shot shows a glimpse through to what I have been thinking is the galley but now I realise we should see a dirty great big stove if that was the case. Perhaps it's a servery below the galley? It doesn't appear to be the Officers cabins as the 'servery' would be either the Captains cabin or one of the other cabins and the door would be wrong. The door and the wall it's attached to are better quality than the partitions down the sides and are probably original. Could be the main hold/lower deck, bottom of the stairs. Sorry, rambling. So many worms.

Just remember, 'there are less rules than there are exceptions'. It will help you remain prevent you from slipping further into insanity.

Well, I've had to make a few edits to post #35, my brain kept confusing the two doors shown inside the 'ritz'. I'm probably still wrong and I can't really guess at the 'mud room' and 'pantry' beside the galley, but I think the 'ritz' was something like this:

You're moving along. I was trying to get ahead and was looking at the bridge deck access. From what I can see of the wing bridges they are surrounded by solid railing and it would seem the companionways have a landing at the top with a right angle turn to access the bridge deck proper. Then I found this: It would appear that the starboard wing bridge and companionway were removed, the raw ends of the beams suggest that it was probably after getting trapped.

It could be ZAZ6987.

Even then there wouldn't be much showing unless you turned it upside down. Just noticed the British version is a slightly different shape and only about 5/8" thick:

Some of the carriage drawings show a split top/bottom view (including ZAZ6993 which I posted a link to above )

Thankfully the legible dimensions let you do that pretty easily: The British ones would be more like this:

This is getting a bit out of my comfort zone, my experience is limited to modern rigs for yachts up to about 42'. Someone with tall ship experience might have a better answer. Generally when heaving on a line it should pass around the fixing it is to be tied off to (just a half loop). This provides a friction point making it easier to hold and tie off. It also changes the direction of pull. Given blocks on the main deck there would be two three fixing point options, 1/ a belaying pin on the spider band 2/ a cleat on the main deck. 3/ There could also be a pin rail on the main deck (as per the foremast). Depending on load there could be three teams of men involved, one pulling the tail of the line, one pulling the line down the mast and ( if using a belaying pin on the spider band) one pulling the line up through the pulley on the main deck.

The window proportions look much better, well done. Main mast fore and aft:

The aft companionway would appear to have two doors, the first two shots aren't conclusive but the third shows the left door still hanging: And a brightened version of your last shot:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Excellent_(1787)_RMG_J0723.png The bracket seems to be quite common amongst the few drawings I have. The only reason I can think of for it is to stop the axle rotating but...............

Keith, we basically have two situations, pre and post departure. We have photos from both but we don't always know which they represent, for example the one above with the cat and rectangular window could be either. That shot also shows a round porthole aft of the galley door and there is another showing a cook skinning a penguin and a porthole forward of the galley door. Another of the wreck shows a round porthole in the forward galley bulkhead inboard of the galley stove. These I am pretty sure existed post departure. Of the rectangular windows or any other windows in the 'ritz' I think we only have the following pre departure shots. EDIT: The shot above has the cook skinning a seal, obviously post departure. These shots are facing aft (unless I'm really wrong) with the galley behind the photographers right shoulder. The shot below is also facing aft. The 'ritz' has been stripped, two rows of columns have been added along with partitions down each side (the left one has a sign reading 'The Billabong'). The area behind the partitions can only be 2-3 feet and probably have bunks you crawl into from the end, but that's a guess. The partitions also hide any windows/ports. EDIT: The door at the end is new and opens to the main hatch. This shot is looking forwards. The photo below is facing forwards AFT, it again shows the partitions left and right, it shows the table top hanging from the right hand columns with the trestles behind the man on the right. It shows a heating stove with a water boiler on top and a doorway which could access the pantry or perhaps a W.C. In the forward right is the entrance to the galley an office?. Now, a couple of questions: What happened to the skylight or is it still there? Where does the chimney for that stove come out, the stove must be nearly under the binnacle?

Those are the 'ritz's' windows, two per side, originally over the tables (see post #11 and also marked on the plans). Three per side. Each one about 3mm long at 1:70 at a guess. The plan sort of suggests it slides but that might be my brain making suggestions, anyway it has sufficient head height that it doesn't need to slide.

I think I have it (maybe). The dashed (yellow) line had me puzzled. I think it shows 'C' rebated into 'B' so that 'B' can only slide in a straight line. End view. Pin(2) is actually just indicating the stowage position for the fighting pin(1). So to stow the gun you remove the securing bracket(3), lift pin(1) until it clears the yellow line, drag the slide(A) ('B' comes with it due to pin(1)) back until pin(1) can drop in to position(2), refit securing bracket(3) and swing the gun to the stowed position. That's my guess anyway.

A few more photos: The interior of the 'ritz', obviously gutted during the fit-out and I think modified during the voyage. Note the door in the aft bulkhead (I'm happy to see it as it just had to be there), no ladder and no visible skylight (but it's shown in exterior shots actually I'm not sure about that now, I think we only see a canvas cover on the voyage which could be covering stores ??? Not sure.). Strangely it looks too wide but that must be an illusion. https://www.gettyimages.com.au/search/2/image?family=editorial&phrase=endurance ritz A view forward along the bridge deck (is/has anybody added the skiff to their model?) : The galley door, port wing bridge and companionway:

Makes my 3D work look very amateurish (which it is ). The were accurate at one point in time, note that they should overlap the roofs though.

Actually what I was saying was that although the dog appears to be next to the binnacle it's actually about 10 feet closer to the camera ('D' in the images below). It's probably under the tall canvas but I'm not sure. It could be or it could be through the skylight, again I'm not sure. Note the 'X's. Man, they kept moving everything didn't they. I suspect the 'small pic' was taken after they offloaded the dogs on to the ice which would explain the skis. Crane for the main hatch? Yeah, they're a nice touch. That last pic shows the foreshortening by the camera again, the beam under the gangways is about half way between the cabins and the 'ritz' or if you like, the middle of the gangways.

I said above that there was a lot of foreshortening in these photos, in the following shot the dog has it's paws on the 'ritz' skylight roof and looks to be just in front of the binnacle but the plan shows the skylight to be 'half a boat length' (about 11 feet) aft of the binnacle. Some of this is shown in the second photo. Not also that the binnacle was changed at some point. The first photo also shows kennels running from the skylight past the binnacle blocking access to the wing bridge companionway helping explain the need for a new way to access the bridge deck.

The model is a clue but we don't (yet) know why they built it that way, so it's interesting but not definitive. The 'Bovril' photo has a stanchion in the lower right which I initially thought was at the corner of the 'ritz' roof. However it is about two 'man lengths' from the mast which likely makes it the corner of the cabins roof . The same photo shows the area in front of the mast decked in at least as wide as that stanchion. It might extend forward either side of the 'ritz', perhaps as far as the bows of the boats as the model depicts (heck, perhaps even as far as the wing bridges) since they have chosen to store the boats outboard on the davits and there is 'stuff' stacked outboard of the 'ritz' kennels. Something like this perhaps:

Unless he is standing on the skylight? Maybe maybe not. Whatever, the kennels would get in the way of accessing the new structure. Why don't the 'ritz' kennels show up in the other photos? 1/ there is a lot of foreshortening in these shots 2/ he is standing on the now decked in area between the cabins and the 'ritz', his back is against the mast, but why does the planking run port/starboard instead of fore/aft? 2a/ the skylight is under the white canvas cover between the dog and the binnacle. What it certainly does show is the difficulty of access to the bridge deck. I am currently thinking that the area in green was fully decked (maybe):

Nothing adds up at first glance, that's what makes it interesting (think of the Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times"). First up Getty has a larger version of 'the small pic' And I can see my piece of wood is actually a ski, oops. But note that the new structure is made from salvaged pieces, where did they come from? It also seems obvious in the second pic in my post above that the structure has been very roughly assembled, then presumably rebuilt opening the other way. It is also sitting on a curved 'something' proud of the deck, where did this come from? Note the join between it and the new structure. Now lets look at this photo taken inside the 'ritz' We can see the skylight spans more than one pair of beams (probably two, the beams, windows and tables are shown on the plans in my post above). It would appear that during the fit-out it was extended to twice the original length. As to why no ladder, this photo was obviously taken during the fit-out. Now, this opens another can of worms. The new structure sits on a square base but the skylight is a rectangle. Either the square base is new or the skylight has been modified. If the square base is new why bother with it? Why not build the new structure directly on the deck? If the skylight has been halved in size (keeping the aft half as shown in purple in the plan in my previous post) it could have provided materials for the new structure (maybe). Lots of questions, few answers so far.