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José Moro
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Hello everybody. It has been a long time since my last post. I was really busy and had no time to work on my project. I finally have the water forms of the hull, and I plan to build them in solid wood before starting with the final qarters, just to make sure the general forms are correct. The following picture is a snapshot of my design.
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The Unicorn - Preliminary study There is no way to properly document a vessel that didn’t exist. The research must be made solely on the observations of the drawings that Hergé included in his book, and none of them gave any clue of the way the hull was constructed. Fortunately I found a book titled “Tous les secrets de La Licorne” (All of the Unicorn secrets), written by Yves Horeau, Jacques Hiron and Dominique Maricq, published by Gallimard et Éditions Moulinsart, october, 5, 2017, where they stated that Hergé used a french battleship of the Luis XVI navy, “Le Brillant” (Fig. 1) as a model for the Unicorn. In fact, both the name “Unicorn” and the bow figurehead were adopted from a british fregate, the HMS Unicorn (1824). See Fig. 2. Fig. 1 Fig. 2 At this point I have something to start with. I can assume that the Unicorn (the fictitious one) has to be constructed using similar techniques as the ones used in Le Brillant, that is, the “overlapping ties” technique that can be seen in the XVII century French and Spanish vessels. Starting with the basic structure, the keel, curved pieces of log were installed perpendicularly and then secured into position by using wood spikes. The log pieces were assembled with dovetails. (Fig. 3) Fig. 3 (To be continued)
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Thanks for your clear explanation, ccoyle. I promis to upload the drawings as soon as I have something worth to be shown
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Actually I haven’t started building yet, I am in the phase of design.
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This is my first project after almost 40 years of inactivity. The Unicorn is a fictitious ship created by Hergé, the famosos comic artist. the Unicorn is a 17th-century ship of the third rank, a vessel with three-masts and 50 guns, more than 40 metres long and 11 metres wide. You may have seen it in the Spielberg’s film “the adventures of Tintín”. The real challenge with this model is that there is no documentation apart from some old drawings that are kept in the Hergé’s museum and the snapshots you can find in the comic books. I have been working on it for a lot of time, and now I have the water forms of the hull. But before publishing them here for those interested in building it, I would like to know of it is legal to do it. Any idea?
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I am a new member in this forum... but first of all let me introduce myself. I live in Madrid, Spain, and I am an airline pilot. When I was young I started to build ships but I soon joined the Air Force and han to stop building. I spent the next 40 years flying all over the world as a comercial airline Pilot and now, approaching my retirement age, I plan to start building again. Things are quite diferent nowardays... when I started building I felt I was alone. Today, thanks to the Internet, is easy to keep in contact with other builders and to learn new skills from their experience. That is what I intend to do, and this is my retirement project. My previos experience in building includes a Clipper (Andromede), a spanish galleon (Victory), a river boat (Spirit of Mississippi) and a Grand Banks boat... none of the survived! As you may have noticed, English is not my native language so I must apologize for my errors.
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