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Guy, it appears I dropped the ball on your question of fillers between floor frames. I believe this was common practice to prevent water from stagnating between frames where it could not be reached by the chain pumps. I installedit up to the floor heads on Naiad. These fillers were driven in tightly and perhaps aided in resisting compressive hogging stresses inhe lower hull. I did not find a definitive original source for this. I would install them, butthe choice is always yours.
 
Sorry for the delay with this.
 
Ed

Matrim
Your build looks great even tho you and the model are older..
 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Later Tim

During the last weeks I spent some time on the figurehead.
 
As shown in the following images I used a block of pear wood cut to the right dimensions with a hand scroll saw (image 1a), glued a copy of the Syren figurehead from Chuck’s plans on it, cut it out roughly with the scroll saw (image 1b) and mounted it on a copy of the bow as a stand for carving (image 1c). By means of a rotary tool, different carving knifes and my sanding sticks (already used for the head rail) I refined the shape of the figurehead (image 2). The arms (and later also the head) were separated from the body as it was easier for me to focus on the body shape and the arms/ head as individual pieces. In this way the chances are also increased not to mess up the whole figure if the one or other part does not work out the first time  . The obvious disadvantage of this method is, however, that the figure needs to be pieced together later without showing too many seams. This turned out to be more challenging than initially expected.
 
As a next step the scales for the fish tail and the fin pattern were inscribed (image 3). To make the details more visible I enhanced them with some graphite powder gained from a pencil. The excess powder was “washed away” with Golden Oak wood stain (MinWax). Then I carved arms and head as separate pieces (image 4). Getting a decent looking face at that scale is a bit tricky.
 
The different parts of the figure were finally assembled, correct transitions between the parts established and the seams hidden. The result is shown in images 5 – 9.
 

Image 1
 

Image 2
 

Image 3
 

Image 4
 

Image 5
 

Image 6
 

Image 7
 

Image 8
 

Image 9
 

Thank you very much for your nice compliments and positive feed back. They are greatly appreciated! And Bob, you are absolutely right, it was a "WOW" moment when I realized that I was finished with the head timbers! 
 
Dirk, I am adding a top view and a side view image. I hope this is what you wanted.
 
Thomas
 
 

Top view
 
 

Side view

After not posting anything for several weeks here is a brief update about my head rail efforts:
First I ended up not really liking the middle rails shown in the last images, so I finally tore them down. The major reason for that was that the part which was mounted directly on the wall of the ship turned out to be too short and as a consequence the shape of the head timbers would go from concave to convex.  Then I tried to figure out which method of building the head timbers would lead to some decent looking results. I tried the method mentioned by Chuck in the head rail design of the Confederacy as there the head timbers do not consist out of 2 parts each but just one continuous piece. However, the Syren plans do not show any head timber profiles, so that method ended up with too many “degrees of freedom”.  I finally went with the method described in the Syren instructions. With this method one of the challenges consists in generating the perception that each head timber, although constructed out of 2 parts, looks like it is made out of one continuous piece of wood. As I was not quite sure whether I ultimately would get acceptable results I finished middle rail and head timbers just on one side. So the good news is I have finished half of the head timbers. The bad news is I still have to do the other half. 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

Hello every one and thank you very very much. Your comments mean a lot. Gary

Stand, Inboard Bulwarks and Carronades
 









 
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With those picture building log is up to date.

And I have a Sherline mill. So I really understand. Also have a Sherline lathe. Some of the tool holders etc that I've had to make to do and hold things.
Enjoy the build.
 
Later Tim

Thank you all for all those suggestions. I will try to find all or most of them through my library.
 
When I posted this thread I was thinking of where I was a couple years ago when I started this model ship building. I had sailing experience, did some minor model building but was totally ignorant of all the terminology and the in-and-outs of old sailing ships. Since then many of you helped me with good references (such as Petersson's book on rigging).
So, what I had in mind were some books for beginners in this hobby. Something that could be used in addition to the plans and explanations provided in kits.
 
I found one book that serves that purpose (at least in my opinion). It is 'The Visual Encyclopedia of Nautical Terms Under Sail'. The tittle continues with 'An illustrated guide to the language of the great sailing ships and the men aboard them'.
The book is full of great drawings, photographs, explanations of the various parts of sailing ships, etc. etc. Although not related to modeling, it even has a wonderful section about navigation, its history, tools and the mathematics involved. Below is one page picked at random.

Hooray! I finished all the messy part of gluing metal parts onto wood parts. Damn CA! Hate it!
 
Metal bumper looks much better then a paper one. Or I probably just cant work with the paper (some build logs of ships from card totally changed the view on paper)

 
Rudder tiller have a brass rod inside to make a stronger joint with a rudder:

 
And here is the rudder installed. Fully functional, you can rotate it gently

 
Trunk of the pinnace looked too empty. Then I started to think... What could be there? It is a flashy pinnace, not the one that is used to carry food supply. It is intended to transport officers. What they could carry with them?? Aha! Some high quality booze, to make sure it will not disappear while officers are on the shore.
So here is a tiny booze tank:

 
SKÅL!

Hi Folks.
As Wayne has said seems that am classic bibliophile, with no hope in sight. Figure I would post my small library and it may help others on what books may be worth adding to their own library. Hope it does help. Not as big as Wayne's but it fits my need's. The name of the book is first followed by the author. If you want to know a little bit about the book and if it fits your needs just let me know.
Gary
 
English Maritime Books Printed before 1801- Adams/Waters
Art of Building of Ships 1719 -Allard
The Rigging of Ships in the Days of the Sprit sail Topmast- Anderson,R.C.
Seventeenth Century Rigging.- Anderson,R.C.
The Sailing Ship- Anderson,R.C.
Encylopedie Methodiqiue, 1783-1787, 3 vols plus plates.- Ancre
Dictionary fo Sea Terms- Ansted
Album of Colbert 1670- Anonymous
The Fully Framed model . H.M.S. Swan Class Sloop, vol 1, 2, 4- Antscherl,D
The Fully framed Model. HMS Swan Class Sloop vol 3 -Herbert, Greg
Shipbuilding Repository-1788 -Anonymous
Album DeCobert-1670- Anonymous
The Wooden Fighting Ship in the -Royal Navy Archibald
The Ashley Book of Knots Ashley,-Clifford W.
Building Britain's Wooden Walls, 1697-1851 -Barnard,John E
Ships and Seamanship -Baugean,J.J.
The Art of Gunfounding- Beer,Carel De
A.O.S Royal Yacht Caroline -Bellaburla/Osculoti
Sailing Rigs, An Illustrated Guide -Bennett,Jenny
Mariner Mirror 5 CD set -Bethell,John P
Cross Sections of Man Of War -Biesty
Steering to Glory,A Day in the Life of a ship of the line -Blake,Nicholas
Naval Expositer -Blankley,Thomas
Album Del marques De La Victoria -Borbon, Carlos de
The Sea. Its History and Romance. 4 Vols -Bowen,F
Scale Model Sailing ships -Bowen,John
Model Shipwright, Vol 1-131- Bowen,John
An Anthology,1972-1997, Model shipwright -Bowen,John
2010 Shipwright -Bowen John
2011 Shipwright -Bowen John
2012 Shipwright- Bowen John
2013 Shipwright -Bowen John
Artillerie De La Marine 1758 -Boudriot
History of the French Frigetes,1650-1850- Boudriot
74 to 120 gun ships in the French Navy, 1650/1850 -Boudriot
The Frigates in the French Navy,1650-1850- Boudriot
Naval Gunnery in France, 1650-1850 -Boudriot
La Belle Poule, 12 pdr Frigate,1765 -Boudriot
La Venus, 18 pdr Frigate, 1782- Boudriot
The 74 gun ship, 4 vols- Boudriot
Compagnie Des Indes-2 vols- Boudriot
John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard- Boudriot
La Salamander 1752- Boudriot
Le Fleuron 1729, 64 gun ship- Boudriot
Le Navire Marchand Ancien Regime L Mercure 1730 2vols- Boudriot
La Jacinthe, 1823, Schooner- Boudriot
50 to 64 gun ships in the French Navy. 1650-1850 -Boudriot
Le Trois Ponts Dw Chevalies De Tourville 1680,2 vols- Boudriot
L Aurore 1766, Pleasure Sloop of War, 1766- Boudriot
L Aurore 1784, Slaver- Boudriot
Le Cygne 1806, Brig 24 guns -Boudriot
la Belle Expendition Vessel, 1684, 2 vols- Boudriot
La Diligente, The King's Tartan,138-1761- Boudriot
La Renomme, 8 pdr Frigate, 1744 -Boudriot
Le Requin Xebec, 1750- Boudriot
La Salamandre, Bomb Ketch,1752 -Boudriot
Le Coureur, Lugger 1776 -Boudriot
Bonhomme Richard, 1779- Boudriot
Le Cerf, Cutter 1779 Le Batearc De Lanveoc, Brest's single mast righ boat, 1780 -Boudriot
La Creole Corvette 1827 -Boudriot
La Chaloupe Armee En Guerre, 42 ft Longboat armed for War,1834 -Boudriot
Le Francous 1683- Boudriot/Lemineur
Le Bateau De Lanveoc -Boudriot/Berti
Le Gros Ventre -Boudriot/Delacroix
Encyclopedie Methodique/Marine Vol 1,2,3 and plates -Boudriot reprint
Uniforms of the Royal Naval, 17th 18th century-Boudriot/Petard
Lost Ships Bound, -Mensun
The Model Ship, Her role In History -Boyd,Norman Napier
Anatomy of an Admiralty Model (CD) -Bruckshaw,Robert
H.M.S Victory, Building ,Restoration and Repair, 2 vols -Bugler,A
Sovereign of the Seas -Busmann,H
How to Carve Wood, A book of projects and techniques -Butz,Richard
Nelson in the Caribbean, The Hero Emerges,1784-1787 -Callo,Joseph F
Van De Velde Drawings in the National maritime Museum, 2 vols -Cambridge
Neophty shipmodeler's jackstay -Campbell,G
Old ships Figureheads and Sterns -Carrton
The History of English Sea Ordnance, Vol 1- Caruana
The History of English Sea Ordnance, Vol 2 -Caruana
Vase 1, The Archaeology of a Swedish Warship of 1628- Cederhind/Hocker
Search for speed under Sail -Chapelle
History of American sailing Ships- Chapelle
The Baltimore Clipper, Its origin and Development -Chapelle
The History of the American Sailing Navy -Chapelle
Architecture Navalis Mercatoria -Chapman
Sailing Ships, Their History and Development,part 1 -Clowes,G.S. Laird
Sailing Ships, Their History and Development,part 2 -Clowes,G.S. Laird
The Royal Naval, 7 vols -Clowes,W.M
Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy -Coad,J
Early Sea Painters,1660-1730 -Cockett,F.B.
Peter Monamy-1681-1749- Cockett,F.B
The Age of Sail, vol1 -Conway maritime Press
The Age of Sail, vol2 -Conway maritime Press
The Decorative Arts of the Mariner- Cook,Gervis Frere
Drawing of Nicholas Pocock, 1740-1821- Cordingly
Figureheads, Carving on ships from ancient times to the twentieth century Costa,- Giancarlo
Ship Models -Crabtree
Royal Yachts of Europ -Crabtree, R
The American Built Clipper Ship -Crothers
Pilots,, The World of Pilotage under Sail and Oar, Vol 1 and 2 -Cunlifle,T
Anchors, An Illustrated History -Curryer,Betty Nelson
Naval Architecture 1695 -Dassie
Pepys's Navy, Ships, Men and Warfare, 1649-1689 -Davies, JD
Ship models and How to build them- Daviess,C
The built up ship Model- Daviess,C
Ship Model Builders Assitant -Daviess,C
Art of Knotting and Splicing -Day,C.L
Nelson's Favourite;HMS Agamemnon,1781-1809- Deane,A.N.
Sailing ships(Dutch Prints) 16th to 19th century- DeGroat/Vorstman
L'Amarante Corvette 1747- Delacroix, Gerard
List of French Ships,1661-1715- Demerliac
Memoirs of the Royal Navy -Derrick
Building the Wooden Fighting ship.- Dodds/Moore
Splintering the Wooden Wall -Dudley,Wade G
Dictionay of Ship Types -Dudsyuis
Element D' Architecture Navale, 1758 -Duhamel Du, Monceau
Manufacture of Anchors Reaumur 1723-1764 -Duhamel
Ship Modeler's Shop Notes -Edson
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain -Edwards, Betty
The Restoration Warship -Endsor, Richard
Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving- Esterly, D
Falconer's marine Dictionary 1815 -Falconer,W
Progressive Scratch-Building in Ship Modeling (CD)-Feldman,Clayton
H.M.S Victory -Fenwick, K
L'Artesien, Vaisseau de 64 canons 1764-1785- Fichant,Jacques
Introductory Outline on Practice of Shipbuilding -Fincham,J
A history of Naval Architecture- Fincham,J
A treatise on Masting Ships and Masting making -Fincham,J
Outline of Ship Building,1852 -Fincham,J
Laying Ships off on the Mould Loft Floor.- Fincham,J
USS Constellation, From Frigate to Sloop of War -Footner, Geoffrey M.
Ship Models,1951- Fox
A Distant Storm, the Four day Battle, Battle of 1666- Fox,F
Great Ships; The Battle fleet of King Charles 2 -Fox,Frank
Sailing Ships of War,1400-1860 -Fox,Frank
The Great Ordnance Survey of 1698- Fox Frank/Richard Endsor
Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction- Fox,Uffa
Navy Board Ship Models, 1650-1750 -Franklin,John
Les Genles De La Mer -French Museum
L' Art De Modelisme -Frolich,B
To Build a Ship, the voc replica ship- Garvery,R
Royal Yachts -Gavin
Naval War of 1812 -Gardines,R
Navies and the American Revolution,1775-1783 -Gardines,R
Nelson against Napoleon -Gardines, R
Fleet Battle and Blockade; The French Revolutionary War, 1793-1797 -Gardines,R
Warships of the Napoleonic Era -Gardines,R
Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars -Gardines,R
Heavy Frigate, 18 pounder Frigates,1778-1800 -Gardines,R
The Sailing Frigate, A History in Ship Models -Gardiner, R
Nelson's Ships, a Trafalgar Tribute -Gardner,D
The Floating Prison -Garneray,Louis
The Ships of Trafalgar, The British, French and Spanish Fleets, Oct 1805 -Goodwin,P
The Naval Cutter Alert -Goodwin,P
Pandora, Bomb Vessel -Goodwin,P
Nelson's Victory -Goodwin,P
The Construction and Fitting of the English Man of War -Goodwin,P
Nelson's Ships, A History of the Vessels In Which He Served. 1771-1805 -Goodwin,P
The 20 gun Ship Blanford. -Goodwin,P
Ships of the American Revolution and their models -Hahn.H
The colonial Schooner -Hahn,H
Marine Carving Handbook -Hanna,Jay S
Trafalgar and the Spanish Navy -Harbron,John D
Catchers and Corvettes, The Steam Whalecatcher in Peace and War,1860-1960 -Harland,John H
Capstans and Windlasses -Harland,John H
Seamanship in the Age of Sail, 1600-1860 -Harland, John
F.H.Chapman, The First Naval Architect and his Work -Harris,Daniel G
Manual of Traditional Wood Carving -Hasluck,Paul N
Log of the Union -Hayes,Edmund
The Ships of Abel Tasman -Hoving,A/Emke,C
Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age -Hoving,A.J.
The Staten Jacht Utrecht 1746, Sea Watch Books -Hoving,Ab
Marine Art Of Geoff Hunt -Hunt,G
Tall ship in Art -Hunt/Myers
A Treatise on Naval Architecture -Hutchinson, W
The Model shipbuilders manual of Fittings and Guns -Isard
History of Art -Janson,H.W.
Bound for Blue Water- Jineshsan
Charles Brooking,1723-1759 -Joel,D
The Great Age of Sail -Jobe,J
The Period Ship Handbook, 2 -Julier, Keith
Modelling Late Victorian Battleships -King,Brian
The Kriegstein Collection, 17th and 18th century ship Models- Kriegstein Brothers
The Lore of the Ship- Kelalbery,B
Gunfounding and Gunfounders -Kennard,A.N.
Portsmouth Dockyard Papers,1774-1783, The American War -Knight,R
American Heavy Frigates, 1794-1826 -Lardas,Mark
Trincomalee -Lambert,A
Life in Nelson's Navy -Lavery, B
Marine architecture, Directions for Carrying on a ship,1739, Edmund Bushnell -Lavery,Brian
Jack Aubrey Commands -Lavery,Brian
The Royal Navy's First Invincible, 1744-1758 -Lavery,Brian
Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar- Lavery,Brian
Nelson Navy, 1739-1815 -Lavery,B
The Arming And Fitting of the English Ships of War, 1600-1860 -Lavery,B
Ship of the Line, 2 vols -Lavery,B
74 gun ship Bellona -Lavery,B
Building the wooden walls -Lavery,B
Dean's Doctrine of Naval Architecture, 1670 -Lavery,B
Ship models, Their purpose and development. From 1650 to present -Lavery,B
Line of Battle- Sailing Warship, 1650-1840 -Lavery,B
Nelson and the Nile, The Naval War against Bonaparte -Lavery,B
Ship Board Life and Organisation 1731-1815 -Lavery,B
Ship Modeling From Scratch -Leaf, Edwin B.
Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War, 1625-1860 -Lee,J
Endeavour,a pictorial record of the building of the replica of H.M. Bark Endeavour- Lefroy,Mike
Young Sea Officer Sheet Anchor -Lever,D
Anatomy of Nelson's ship- Longridge,C
Modeling the Cutty Sark -Longridge,C
The Blackwall Frigates -Lubbock, Basil
Modelos De Arsenal, Del Museo Naval -Lunwerg
Album Del Marques De La Victoria -Lunwerg
Sea Battles in Close up. The age of Nelson- Lyon,D
Sailing Navy List- Lyon,D
The Sail and Steam Naval List- Lyon/Winfield
Ships in Minature -Macaffery,L
Building plank on Frame Ship Models- MaCarthy,R
Sails Through the Centuries- Macfie,G
The schooner, Its Design and Development from 1600 to the Present -MacGregor,David R
Merchant Sailing ships. 1775-1815- MacGregor,David R.
The boats of Men of War- May,W.E.
Frigate Constitution and other Historic ships -Maqorew
Artillery of the Navy (Ed. canvas) 1758 -Maritz
The Global Schooner, Origins, Development,Design and Construction,1695-1845- Marquardt, Karl Heinz
18th century Rigs and Rigging- Marquardt,K
AOS, HMS Beagle -Marquardt,K
A Most Fortunate Ship Martin,- Tyrone G
H.M.S. Sussex, 1693 McArdle, Gilbert
Ships, from the archives of Harland and wolff, the builders of the titanic -McCluskie,T
H.M.S. Victory, Her Construction, Career and Restoration- McGowan
The Ship, the Century before Steam -McGowan,A
The Ship, Tiller and whipstaff -McGowan,A
Granado, 24 gun Frigate -McKay/Coleman
The Hudson's Bay Company's 1835 steamship, Beaver -McKay, John
The 100 gun ship Victory- McKay,J
The Practical ship-Builder, 1839, Facsimile reprint, 1940 -McKay,L
Granado, 24gun Frigate -McKay/Coleman
Shipbuilding in Miniature- McNarry,D
Naval Guns, 500 years of Ships and Coastal Artilley- Mehl,H
William Frederick's1874, Scale Journey- Mendez,Antonio
American Ships of the Colonial and Rev Periods- Millar
Building Early american Warships- Millar
The Elements of Naval Architecture, Or A Practical Treatise on Shipbuilding 1764- Monceau, Duhamel/Murray,Mungo
Naval Architectuure Elements 1758 -Monceau, Duhamel
Historic ship Models -Mondfelt
Spars and Rigging, from Nautical Routine,1849- Murphy,J.M/Jeffers,W.N.
A Treatise on Shipbuilding and navigation in Three Parts -Murray, M
Sailing Ship Models -Nance
Legacy of a Ship Model, Examining HMS Princess Royal 1773 -Napier,Rob
Queen Anne's Navy -Navy Records Society
The Sergison Papers -Navy Records society
Schooner Sultana, Building A Chesapeake Legacy -Niemeyer,L/McMullen,D
Ships' Plans -NMM
The Portrait of Peter Pett and the Sovereign of the Seas -NMM
Plymouth's ships of War, Maritime Monographs and Reports, no 4-1972 -NMM
18th Century Shipbuilding, Remarks on the Navies of the English and Dutch, 1737- Ollivier,Blaise
Traite De Construction, 1736 -Ollivier,B
Naval Veneziane, Venetian ships- Penzo,Gilberto
Rigging Period Ship Models- Petersson, Lennarth
Modeling the Brig of war Irene -Petryes,C.W.
Warships of the King. Ann Wyatt(1658-1757)Her life and Her Ships -Philbin,Tobias/Endsor, Richard
Navy Board contracts,1660-1832- Pool,Bernard
Danish Figure heads -Poulsen,H
The Warship Figureheads of Portsmouth- Pulvertaft, David
Figureheads of the Royal Navy -Pulvertaft, David
Building A Miniature Navy Board Model -Reed, Philip
Modelling Sailing Men Of War -Reed, Philip
Period Ship Modelmaking, An Illustrated Masterclass.- Reed, Philip
Rees's Naval Architicture, 1819-1820- Rees's
Ship Models from Kits- Riches, Colin
A Marine Vocabulary -Roberts, David
The painting of the Willem Van De Veldes -Robinson
Allgemeines Worterbuch Der Marine, 4 vols -Roding,J.H.
The Wooden World, An anatomy of the Georgian Navy -Rodger, M.A.M.
HMS Warrior 74 gun Ship, 4 vols -Romero,W
Royal Yacht Fubbs -Romero,W
Conferedacy -Romero,W
L, Art De La Mature, 1777- Romme
L, Art De La Voilure, 1781- Romme
Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern- Roth,M
Dominic Serres, 1719-1793 -Russatt,A
High Relief Wood carving -Schnute, William J
Carving Ornamentatio for Ship Models, -Short,Bill
Naval Achievements, 1793-1817, -by James Jenkins Sim Comfort
American Naval Broadsides, Maritime Prints -Smith,E
Ship Models -Smith,C.Fox
The Warship Vasa-Sculptures. -Soop,H
A goodly Ship , the Building of the Susan Constant -Spectre, P.H./Larkin, D
Naval Architecture,1787 2 vols -Stalkartt,M
Vada Mecuem -Steel,D
Mast Making, Sailmaking and Rigging -Steel,D
Steel's Naval Architicture, 1805, 2 vols -Steel,D
The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamenship,1794 -Steel,D
An account of the construction and Embellishment of Old Time ships -Stevens,J
The world of Sail and Steam -Stobart
Shipbuilding Asstant, 1711 -Sutherland,W
Britain's Glory or ship Building Unvail's1717 -Sutherland,W
Lords of the East -Sutton,J
Ship Modeling Techniques -Takakjian,P
AOS Essex -Takakjian,P
Complete Guide to Wood Carving -Tangerman,E.J.
The Naiad Frigate (38) 1797 Vol1- Tosti, Edward J
British Figurhead and ship Carvers -Thomas,P
The Age of Sail, Vol 1 -Tracy,Nicholas
The Age of Sail, Vol 2 -Tracy,Nicholas/Martin Robson
The Frigates Seafarers,-Time Life
The Clipper ships Seafarers,-Time Life
The Great Liners Seafarers,-Time Life
Fighting Sail Seafarers,-Time Life
The pirates Seafarers,-Time Life
The Explorers Seafarers,-Time Life
The Armada Seafarers,-Time Life
The Men of War Seafarers,-Time Life
The Original Ships in Scale (CD) Vol 1 1983-1987, Vol2 1988-1991 -Seaways Publishing
Seaways Ships in Scale (CD) Vol 1 1990-1994, Vol2 1995-1999 -Seaways Publishing
Model Ship Builder (CD) Vol 1 1979-1984, Vol 1 1985-1989 -Seaways Publishing
Model Ship Builder (CD) Vol 2 1990-1994, Vol 2 1995-1999 -Seaways Publishing
Plank on Frame models, Vol 1- Underhill
Plank on frame models, Vol 2 -Underhill
Sailing ship Rigs and Rigging -Underhill, H
Souvenirs De Marine Conserves, 2 vols -Vice Amiral Paris
Naval Architecture, A Manual on Laying off, 1898 -Watson, Thomas H.
Old Ironsides-Americans Build a fighting ship- Weitzman,D
The Shipwrights Trade,1948- Westcolt,A
Fighting Ships,1750 to 1850 -Willis, Sam
The British Navy and the State in the 18th Century- Wilkinson,Clive
First Rate, The Greatest Warships of the Age of Sail -Winfield, R
British War Ships in the age of sail. 1603-1714- Winfield,R
British War Ships, 1714-1792 -Winfield,R
British War Ships, 1793-1817- Winfield,R
The 50 Gun ship -Winfield,R
The Techniques of Ship Modelling -Wingrove, Gerald A
Coronelli, Ships and other craft -Witt,M.M.
Architicture Navalis, 1671, -Witsen,N
HMS Euryalus(36) 1803. A Plank on Frame Model -Allan Yedlinsky/Wayne Kempson
His Majesty's Royal Ship -Young, Alan R

I am a non-recovering bibliophile...according to Wikipedia,
 
The classic bibliophile is one who loves to read, admire and collect books, often amassing a large and specialized collection. Bibliophiles do not necessarily want to possess the books they love; an alternative would be to admire them in old libraries. However, the bibliophile is usually an avid book collector.
 
Yep - that's me!  Actually, it is apparently contagious.  Between my long suffering Admiral in Chief who has upwards of 200 cookbooks and our other assorted collection, we have conservatively 1,500 volumes on a wide array of topics from History to Philosophy to our specialized Terrorism collection (work related, of course) and now nautical themed.  The attached document is a listing of the print, PDF and a few on-line documents that are a part of the collection.  Feel free to offer suggestions on books I should consider adding to my collection, and Happy Modeling!
 
Wayne

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Epictetus
Waynes Nautical Resource List ver 2 rev 11Feb13 for MSW.pdf

Ray
Neat idea!! 1/2 of a ship's boat. What next.
 
Later Tim

Greetings to all,
Many thanks for the kind words and I must admit that it's great to be back. I have another small milestone to report. After viewing Jonathan’s forum, “Model Shipways Typical Ship’s Boat”, I thought his description and his attention to detail was so well articulated, I’d give it a try and build one from scratch. I went ahead and made a half section of the boat and placed it temporarily on the skid beam as a means of seeing how it will look and I like the look of it. I must admit that if not for his forum I’d never even have tried it and I am quite pleased to say that I found the build quite enjoyable and easy to do. So Jonathan, “Kudos to you Sir”.

This is how I set up the carriage jig to cut the axiltree slots in the carriage side parts. Done using the manual controlled HF Mini-mill.  The clamps hold scrap red oak so I don't have "tear outs" in my good parts as the 1/4" cutting bit chews thru the wood to make the slot....
 
And YES!!..... thats a home made 24VDC motor drive unit with speed & direction control on the left side of the X axis on the HF Mini-mill! Home made engage/dis-engage shifter lever on the front side, power control box mounted over head on top of Z axis. With that I can power the X-axis left or right from 0 to 20 IPM and NOT have to do any hand cranking of the X-axis!!! Really sweet setup when you need to get raw stock down to size and not wear out your arm cranking the table back and forth... LOL
 
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Piet........ Thank you!! I thoroughly enjoyed your post of the 019 submarine build, I need to finish reading it all. We share the same addictions it seems, machinery, planes, ships, subs!!  I'm a self taught manual machinist, learned it over the years out of necessity to make a living with it plus I like doing it!!.  Wasn't till about 8 years ago that I started learning the CNC side of things, still teaching myself and learning how to do it..... LOL I guess I like the challenges of it all and the feeling of creating with it as a hobby. But really, its just another tool to use in the shop, just got a few more buttons to push!!  Stop by the shipyard any time for a visit I'll be here making wood chips and saw dust... LOL  
 
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Got the first carriage stained and some more parts added!! Slowly getting there!!
 
 
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This is how the first cannon is looking so far!!  The cannon barrel  is not glued in, just laid in place to check fit. Still need to stain the carriage wood like I did the wheels.
 
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Kept thinking I needed to make a carriage jig to hold the carriage side at the proper angle for drilling holes and mounting the axiltrees..... so I made a simple and workable jig!  Got the first carriage slots made for the axiltrees with it.
 
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Hey everyone.  A few progress pics... hawse frame construction. The test went well (except for 5 & 6) and the real thing came out as good as I could hope for. Still need some minor adjustment on the angles to attach them to the W frame and fair them, but I think they came out well. Still working out how I want to do 5 & 6. I attempted to do them along with the others, but that didn't turn out too well on my practice run. May wait to install them after I attach the others. Please let me know if any of you notice anything I might have missed.  Have a good one!
 












 

Thank you for your work on this, Wayne! Here's a blurb I posted recently that many may not know about but is a wonderful resource for gaining access to rarer, expensive books:
 
Cheers,Jay

While I haven't completed the process as yet, I am expanding my list to include the link to downloadable books.  Also have added quite a bit to the print books - guess I ought to update those as well.  Is there anything in particular you folks could recommend to make the list more useful for you?

Mike,
If it's just plans showing the internals, etc.,  the "Anatomy of a Ship" books are very good. 
There's also Lavery's "Arming and Fitting of English Ships of War 1600-1815"
 
There's others with some very deep coverage including plans and building instructions such as Antscherl's "The Fully Framed Model: Swan Class Sloops", Ed Tosti's "Naiad" and Yedlinksy's "HMS Euryalus".  Seawatch Books has these and others.
 
For French Ships, there's ANCRE and all their related books.
 
Basically, you spend large piles of money on books....

Captain Blakeley and the Wasp: The Cruise of 1814
 
Stephen W.  H. Duffy
Hardcover: 348 pages including Index, extensive Notes and Bibliography.
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press (2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1557501769
 
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the start of his historic, and ill fated, cruise, it is my honor to present to you a brief review of a narrative of Captain Johnston Blakeley's career in the early American navy, culminating in one of the greatest raiding cruises every undertaken.
 
There are many tales of the accomplishments of America’s young navy during the War of 1812, and several of the most famous names in American Naval History were blazed into the national consciousness during that conflict.  Although the most successful American naval officer of the War of 1812, Johnston Blakely never enjoyed the fame that he had for so long desired.  His fame was posthumous.
 
In Captain Blakeley and the Wasp: The Cruise of 1814, Stephen Duffy tells, in a readable and coherent fashion, the story of Master Commandant Johnston Blakeley and the highly successful cruise of the American sloop of war Wasp in 1814. Duffy draws on archival information from numerous institutions to introduce the reader to the young Blakeley, tracing his youth and formative years through to his early years serving under Thomas Truxton on the President and John Rodgers on the John Adams to his command of the brig Enterprise in 1811. Blakeley’s skills and ambition are rewarded – he is sent to Newburyport, Massachusetts to supervise the construction of the Sloop of War Wasp.
 
Duffy demonstrates his passion for detail and accuracy as he chronicles the building of the Wasp and Blakeley's struggles to outfit and crew his new ship, an effort made more difficult by national politics and by rivalries within the Navy. Designed by Naval Constructor William Doughty as a commerce raider, Wasp was rated at 509 tons and 22 guns with a crew of 173.  Blakeley left port on May 1, 1814, at the helm of the newly commissioned Wasp. 
 
Blakeley captured his first prize on June 2, 1814.  Within the following month, the Wasp captured and burned four more prizes.  Blakeley secured his place in American naval history on June 28, 1814.   Blakeley and his crew chased and brought to battle the Royal Navy’s HMS Reindeer, a Cruizer class brig sloop of 18 guns.  One of the hardest fought battles of the war followed, and when it had concluded, Blakeley’s guns had overpowered and reduced the British vessel to a drifting hulk.  Also damaged, Blakeley sailed to L’Orient, France to offload prisoners and seek repairs.  En route, despite the damage incurred during the battle with the Reindeer, the Wasp still captured two more prizes.
 
The Wasp was back at sea by August 27, and Blakeley set course for Gibraltar.  He continued cruising successfully throughout the fall, even winning a battle over the HMS Avon.  As news of Blakeley’s success filtered back to the United States in October and early November, he became a hero, and Congress promoted him to Captain on November 24.  Meanwhile, the Wasp’s return was long overdue, and rumors swirled concerning the ship’s fate.  The British never made claims to sinking the ship, but the Wasp vanished somewhere on the Atlantic, possibly foundering in a gale.  The last confirmed sighting was by a Swedish crew on the Adonis.  They saw the Wasp on October 9, 1814, some 225 miles southwest of Madeira.
 
Duffy is able to provide a cogent and informative interpretation of the available archival records, and brings Blakeley to life as a tragic hero of his time. Faced with the common constraint imposed on any student of history, Duffy was faced with the paucity of primary source accounts from Blakeley and his close associates, as well as the conflicting accounts in the British and American records.  Duffy was very selective and effective in his use of reasonable speculation about the thoughts of the young officer regarding various situations. Mr. Duffy has succeeded in providing not just a story of a young man who was in the right place with the right ship at the right time, but also presents a well-researched and documented study of a junior officer in the small American navy at the beginning of the 19th Century.
 
 

 

Continuing to hammer away at the forecastle as time allows.  The floor planking is complete and this evening I pretty much got the cap rails.  They are not glued as of yet:
 

 
This leaves the tie down posts which affix to the cap rails, cleats, 2 ladders, blackening of the chimney and the eking rails.  Oh - the scroll transition piece from upper to lower railing.  The list continually shrinks.  I am amazed at how much the look of the ship has changed in the last couple of weeks.
 
Tracing the exposed deck beam onto some paper was VERY key to making the deck plank cover up board quite easy.  It does not cover up the entire deck beam to give some more grip / glue area to the ladders.
 
My plan for the tie down posts is, once their locations are known, to drill a hole for a dowel through the cap rail.  Then the tie down post will be tack glued above this hole.  Once set, I will drill from the bottom and then insert the dowel.  Less things to juggle and should insure an accurate fit.
 
Stay Building My Friends,
Mark