Ferrus Manus
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I see what you did with the sail on the first one. This time, i would recommend putting some kind of glue on the sail before it's rigged, so you don't have to fix it in place with a wire. Even better, i would remake the sail using silkspan.- 134 replies
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I could probably find you something on how exactly parrels are rigged, if you wanted.
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Also, you could definitely do the parrel right if you wanted. There's certainly enough space there, and you could definitely find or make a belaying setup. If you want to do the parrel as it would have been, refer to the point at which i explained parrels and square sail tacking in this log.
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Moreover, if footropes did exist, they would probably have been tarred black lines.
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I'm pretty sure the footrope hadn't been invented by that point. Can someone else verify this?
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Perhaps those were the same type of ships that bore the Sea Peoples to the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean, and the rest is history.
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You're right, Roger. That's why I am doing this mostly for fun, and plus, it's useful for my scratch projects in the future.
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How would you possibly be able to construct a shell-first carvel-built ship? At least with clinker-built ships, the overlap of the planks provides a general direction for where the planks should go.
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What i find interesting is that this is probably the same type of ship that St. Paul would have traveled to Rome on. Granted, that ship would have been constructed in the first century AD.
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This is a picture of the Vasa that i have significantly edited in order to make the lower planking more visible. I don't see any drop strakes. The below-waterline planking is nearly impossible to see clearly in any photo i've seen.
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The Mataro Carrack shows no drop planks either, although the planking goes up into the lowermost wale. The one singular thing the Amati kit got right beyond the overall look of the ship.
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Mathew Baker. Can you identify any drop strakes? Grab your magnifying glass and photo editing tools. Neither the Newport Carrack nor the Contarina 1 yielded me any results. What sucks is that the outer planking for pretty much all of these ships has rotted away. It seems as though the Mary Rose has a sort of prototypical drop strake system. However, good luck finding a picture of the outside of the actual hull. This reconstruction of a Venetian medieval ship shows stealers at the stern, but no drop planks. Imagine banging your head against a brick wall because your friend wants to plank his model a certain way. Couldn't be me! Until an intact shipwreck is found, which it likely never will be, we will never know. Someone's interpretation has got to be correct.
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I have seen Amati Coca's with drop strakes, and while it looks nice, i don't think it's accurate. Maybe we should start a new debate/controversy on MSW? The bottom line is we have no evidence, so either way can count as valid. Don't you love working with practically zero evidence outside eight-hundred-year-old buried shipwrecks and inaccurate art?
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I have never seen a period drawing or engraving of a ship of the time with drop strakes, and never seen an honest reconstruction with them either. It wouldn't be bad if it's painted and you can't see them. Go ahead!
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Are you sure drop strakes had been invented by that point? I heard somewhere else that they were a late 15-early 16th century invention, or later.
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Probably not. If you could somehow display it in the middle of the room (if your wife will let you) it would be possible for it to be seen from both sides.
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If the ship were engaging another ship in battle when the two vessels were side-by-side both travelling in the same direction, one side's guns would be open and firing and the other side would be closed.
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The second crab pot is sitting on the thwart, hopefully with dinner inside. That's the boat, so far. Before i call it quits for this one, i would like to know if there's anything else it needs.
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The stone anchor and one of two crab pots are on the boat. I could easily fit 4 or 5 of those crab pots on the tip of my index finger.
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I have made an executive decision in the absence of professional input: we are making a small stone anchor.
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This is presumably a woodcut or a sketch of a fisherman with crab pots. I think i could possibly make some for the boat.
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