captainbob
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Thank you Gerty it was a fun build. Mark, I found several line drawings. Since I could not check them against the boat I checked the three views against each other and the drawings in the book won. Julie, Thanks for the complement and the list of books. Bob
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Beautiful work, as always. Bob
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"My conclusion: Keep going as I have built." Yes, and you're doing a fine job. Bob
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I see that at least three of you agree that 1:96 is the way to go. So now to start. I traced the lines in AutoCad and developed the bulkheads and keel. Then I used the scroll saw and belt sander to create lots of sawdust. What was left is pictured below. Her lines are better than I had expected all 20.75” inches of her. And now it’s on to planking. Bob
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More changes. I've decided to build in 1:96 instead of 1:200. Bob
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Julie, I used both AutoCAD and SolidWorks at work. I now use AutoCAD only to develop bulkheads and keel for scratch building. I thought it would be useful to develop a hull in SolidWorks so I could add angled planes to get cant frames and such. But decided that drawing the 3D ship was more trouble than it was worth for so little return. Bob
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Ah, another of Herreshoff's beautiful boats to admire. Thanks, Pete, for letting us watch. Bob
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I contacted those who put the drawings on the web and this was their response. "I did a bit of digging as I never noticed that "Score" notation in the rigging before and like you was curious. Attached is what I came up with. It appears a "score" on a wooden rope block is a notch or notches chiseled into the outside of the block to strap it into place. So I guess when the naval architect was drawing up the ship rigging they called those single and double sheave blocks "Score Blocks" to detail on the drawings that the pulley to be used should have the "scores" chiseled in. The rest of the notation is the diameter of the sheave or pulley inside the block and the number of sheaves - single, double, triple, etc." Having been a designer I don't know why he would have specified the type of stopping on those particular blocks, but . . . Bob
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I thought the heading was cumbersome, so I changed it. Hope no one gets lost. Bob
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Nils, Michael, Pete, welcome to you all. 1:200 is smaller then I have worked before but I won't know unless I try. Nils at first I wanted to wrap the hull in foil with the rivets, like you do, but I think the scale is too small. As Michael said 1/16" = 12" or 1" = .005" (.127mm) As for detail we will all, me too, have to wait and see what these old fingers can still do. Lets see, a 6" block is 1/32" (0.8mm) . What line do you use to strop a block that small? Do I have this right, if I see the real boat at a distance of 50 feet, at this scale it is the equivalent of 10,000 feet or nearly 2 miles (3k)? Thinking like that, I would take a thin stick, paint it a pale fuzzy gray and say that's it 2 miles away. No, I can't think like that, people will be seeing it from 1 to 3 feet ah well it will be an interesting build. Bob
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Very good. Now all I have to do is figure out how to strop it. Bob
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Thanks John, glad you're back, your input has been missed. Bob
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