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  1. iMustBeCrazy
    Well, I may be barking up the wrong tree but I did a bit of searching and since you include the seal of Winchelsea in your examples which appears to be a Nef as Winchelsea was one of the Cinque-Ports. Nef (ship type) ump to navigationJump to search The Nef , anciently also Naves , Cinque-Port-Schiff or to differentiate it more clearly from the general French name Nef for ship , also called Norman Nef , designates a single-masted merchant ship type, which in the Middle Ages from the 11th to the 13th century was mainly used in Western Europe Coasts and with the southern English city union, the Cinque Ports , was very common. The Nef is generally known for its depictions on city seals, the depiction of cruise fleets and the possible depiction of early Nef types on the Bayeux Tapestry . The above was translated using Chrome's built in translator. Some Model info and pics here. The more biblical images may be something else altogether. The 'whale' image (larger version here) may be fishing boat size.
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    Hank, that should make a huge difference. At the moment you effectively have no roof insulation at all.
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    G'day Hank, It's hard to remember but I think you insulated all the walls (excluding the door and window), the ceiling above the sitting area including the sloping sides and perhaps the ceiling between the attic and loft. These are shown in pink below. If so, then yes you need to close off and insulate the opening to the attic. You also need to insulate the loft either as shown in green or by insulating the floor of the loft and closing the loft off like the attic but with an insulated door.
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    Ok, I think I've got it. In 1796 the British captured the French 5th Rate Frigate L'Unité (formerly Gracieuse) and renamed her HMS Unite (or Unity). In 1798 the British captured another French Frigate (6th Rate) named L'Unité and renamed her HMS Surprise. Confusion reigns as many sources get them mixed up.
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    EDIT: Made an error, this is L'Unite captured in 1796.
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    Yes. That's the way I see it. Enlarged.
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    I did understand what you wanted but I don't think you are going to find anything. I hope somebody will prove me wrong. In all the cutter plans I have, the structure on the Grace is unique. The Watchfull (ZAZ6466) and the Starling (ZAZ6479) have rectangular structures doing the same job but these are only shown on the deck plans so there is no height information. The two models below have structures doing the same job but are very different.
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    Something like this maybe?
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    I would assume that's it's primary purpose, but it seems overly large. If it was my ship that extra space would be used for something even if only for storing buckets.
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    My guess is a wooden enclosure, covered aft of the rudder. Probably used for storage simply because it could be.
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    No problem, it gave me something different to do. Unfortunately it only took about 10 seconds.
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    Steven, I think this is as far as I can push it, hope it helps:
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    There is a PDF copy of the whole (untranslated) manuscript at https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbhs/content/titleinfo/7061 (click on PDF) which can be greatly enlarged in a PDF reader (page 108). Edit: file size 128MB
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    Sounds like me trying to decipher my great great great uncle's journal of his voyage from Gravesend to Adelaide in 1853. April 18th The weather now very calm, had the awning up and established a ???? society for the ???? of bad language, G L ??????? secretary. ???? ???? for a week in succession every time one who said a bad word was fined 1/4d which the secretary collected & paid to me every Sunday afternoon, this has proved an admirable affair. April 30th ???? the trade winds, crossed the Tropic of Cancer. April 23rd Saw Cape de Verde Islands, at least two of them, vis ???? and Brava. April 24th ???? all day, one of the forward passengers shot a duck but could not get it, saw three flying fish. Back on topic, I think I've cleaned it up some.
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    Yay, I get to say "No worries mate". Careful with that. If a different scale is used it is usually specified, but not always. Another thing, no way is that boat on page 35 'about 21 feet', with only 3 thwarts it's most likely 16, maybe 18.
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    Well done!
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    Originally Bligh was going to be sent 'ashore' in the 'small cutter' with two or three others but it was 'wormed' or 'stove in' and couldn't be kept afloat (what sort of ship was Bligh running?). So then the large cutter was to be used but that was changed to the Launch. So all three boats were aboard for the voyage. The large cutter and the launch seem to have been stowed with all thwarts removed and the 'knees and bolts' kept in the carpenters and carpenters mates chests. This comes from the trial transcripts at https://www.famous-trials.com/bounty/399-transcript Bligh didn't say much about the launch in his log except 'In the afternoon I got fitted a pair of shrouds for each mast and contrived a canvass weather cloth round the boat, and raised the quarters about nine inches, by nailing on the seats of the stern sheets, which proved of great benefit to us.' which may imply that no shrouds were normally fitted (therefore no deadeyes) and with the short masts that may be true.
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    G'day vaddoc, My first visit to your build. These Admiralty drawings certainly aren't engineering drawings are they? For the davit I think it goes something like this (the text says Davit 'something', I'm guessing socket):
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    Just tripped over this newspaper clipping.
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    G'day Lucien, good job, you've left me for dead. I keep getting stuck on making it right and therefore not making it at all since there is no actual information of what right is. I've come to the conclusion that this model is based on the replica 'Child of Bounty' built for the documentary 'The Voyage of Bounty's Child (1984)' even though the manual suggests it's based on the drawing on page 3. And your information on the blackening solution is priceless.
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    I think you're going to need thicker than 1mm. This is for a BR1 engined Camel and (if I'm right) you would need 218.5 ÷ 16 ÷ 8 giving 1.7mm for this prop. Yours wouldn't be far off that.
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    No problem, when you haul the flag up one side of the line (the one you pulled on) will be under tension. If the side under tension presses on the sail it will deform the sail or chafe or both. In the Mermaid example, if you hauled the flag up the starboard side of the sail the line to port would be the line under tension but it would be clear of the sail. However if you tacked the sail would then press against it. Meanwhile, my diagram only shows that when the boom is swung out the point where the line is tied off is still accessible from the deck. If as I suggested above, it was tied off above the mainsheet you would have to crawl out the boom to reach it.
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    Lightbulb moment. As far out as can still be reached from the deck.
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    I agree, flag halyard. On the Harriet, tied off at the boom as in your Gunboat and in use. However, the flag would have to come down and go back up each time you tacked. On the Gunboat, if they took it to above the mainsheet that could be avoided.
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    Yeah, just skimmed 'Narrative of a Survey Volume 1'. He mostly just refers to 'the boat', sometimes 'the whale boat' or 'the jolly-boat' and once 'the small whale boat' (which implies two sizes). When he refers to 'the cutter' he is talking about the Mermaid. One of the boats was lost while being towed and a new one built from the spare frames. I doubt it, on length alone the three big boats could be Launches, Cutters, Yawls, Gigs, Life boats or Wherries but a breadth of around 5 feet would rule out all of those except Wherries. And King's sketches seem to be double ended. Given King's remarks, go with Whale boats. Who does?

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