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I am replacing the windlass that came with my Flying Fish kit (40yrs old) with a beautiful windlass from Blue jacket. Their castings are really well done. The rest I am attempting to make myself including the figurehead
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I drilled the hawse holes on my Fish parallel to the centerline. It was difficult to determine from the plans but seemed reasonable that one would want the chain to exit straight and not have a bend in the chain as the anchor fell away
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In one of the earlier post it was stated that the waterways were placed on top of the deck planks. I believe that the waterways were actually butted against the inside of the bulwarks and let into the deck beams. The decking was then butted against the waterways and laid on top of the deck beams. Really great work everybody!! Rick
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While different structural members were called the clamps, beam clamps etc., the clamp I am referring to is a piece of wood between the bottom of the main rail to the top of the pin rail which lowers the height of the pin rail also called the rack rail. This is specifically mentioned in Duncan McLean‘s description of the westward Ho and men Langford when he revised his owner plans of the flying fish added this detail. However according to William Crothers The rack rail for the flying fish was attached to the underside of the main rail as well as the temper heads. Yes this seems to be the more common position of the pin rail. I’ve included a picture from Crothers book. I hope this explains what I’m talking about. Also in the paining I can’t trio If the rails were painted or less bright and a different color avoid in the timber heads
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Ed, first let me congratulate you on the magnificent three book series building the young America. it is an invaluable resource for model shipbuilding and certainly sets the bar for for the rest of us to strive for!. I I have a paining by Charles Ogilvy of the New Castle Maine build Clippership Golden Rule. The painting clearly shows an iron railing around the stern and belaying pin rail exactly as you modeled for the Young America. I thought you might find this interesting. Great job, regards Rick
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This is the Bark I L Skolfield Note the red mask bands as well as the Bulwarks and the clamp separating the pin rail from the main rail which is painted, where as the rails appear to be bright.
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Rob, I have been following your blog for many months now with much interest! I seem to remember having read that glories stem was damaged and the iron bars that run from her naval hood to her stem were added to support the stem at that time. As Regards to her color, all the articles written by Ducan McLean Describing Donald McKay build ships, all had blue waterways. I am not aware of any that were described with waterways that had any other color other than blue. Ben Langford, when he upgraded the flying fish for model ship Ways described pearl as a light gray color, as opposed to buff, a light brown color? if Glory’s bulwarks are described as pearl trimmed in white, it seems to me to indicate that the interior bulwark planking was painted pearl with the tlmberheads highlighted in white. This will be a quite attractive combination. I have a China Tradetrade painting of the bark IL Schofield which shows clearly the interior bulwarks painted white with the timber heads left bright. Both the pin rail,the main rail and the inside of the top gallant rail are also bright. If I knew how to post a picture from my iPhone I would be happy to share this. Keep up the great work and really well done on the stanchions. Also, as regards to contemporary paintings light gray is going to look white from a distance. Rick
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I drilled the holes for the vents in the plank sheer with a pen vice prior to installing the plank sheer. I then set the vents (which provide air circulation in between the frames to prevent rot) and then added the rails ,sieves Ext. I remember it being quite a task to get them all lined up correctly at the same height.
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