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Could you put up an image showing what you mean? I can't picture how buttocks would be used to show the breadth of a vessel.They are essentially longitudinal station lines. They couldn't be used to determine breadth any more than station lines could be used to delineate profile in a profile drawing...... I need an image of what your'e talking about to picture it properly. Thanks, Daniel
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Write it off as battle damage repaired at sea. She's still a beautiful vessel you've built.
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Most definitely not Cutty Sark. She never crossed 6 yards on the fore, only the main. Until 1885 when she was cut down. Hull is wrong for Cutty as well. Quarterdeck is off. That ship crosses upper and lower t'gallants and Cutty Sark only ever crossed single T'gallants. Double topsail's though as shown in the image. Dead thread.... resuscitating it?
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Normally the square part is just inside the pivot point and the reason for having it square is that the additional weight helps balance the oar to ease the workload on the oarsman.
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So.... What's next? Let us in on the secret.
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Higher coppering. A hull ALWAYS looks better lower in the water. Back then, they didn't worry so much about freeboard and a lower hull provides less windage. Not to mention, when the ship is fully laden, she's bound to sit lower in the water and a long whaling voyage would mean she's low in the water for the end of the voyage so needs the copper. No question you should copper to the higher line. She's looking good.
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I guess building the replica and not the original makes research a whole lot easier. She's looking good.
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And start on the ratlines..... Looks awesome.
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I can't for the life of me figure out how the number of guns on a ship are counted. A 74 gun ship has many more than 74 guns. Victory, a 104 gun first rate, has many more than 104 guns. Which ones are not counted in the reckoning? I know bow and stern chasers are not included but that still doesn't balance things in my count. Thanks, Daniel
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That looks like something I'd catch both hands an elbow and probably a shoelace on. Hopefully you're more careful than I and don't have to redo those spreaders. They look great.
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Ed, I have a solution to the "space available" problem you mention above. Make the book bigger.
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A full pic of YA so far would be nice as well if it's not too much trouble. TIA
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location of stud sails (stuns'l) when stowed
Sailor1234567890 replied to timboat's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Wayne, in your image above, I notice that the lower stuns'ls are hoisted to the end of the Stuns'l boom while the topmast stuns'ls are hoisted to the ends of the yards. Does anyone know why this is? I'd expect that hoisting them all out to the ends of the booms would provide space for a wider sail so more sail area. The drawback would be the stresses on the boom of course.... -
It could pass for full scale if there weren't tools and hands in some of the images.
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I've been looking at Pandora's Jeer bitts lately and I can't figure out how they were used. There's the two blocks at the bottom of each upright, the lower and upper cross member... but how is something made fast to it? There are no belaying pins but I suspect the lines would have been too large for belaying pins. Kevels? I don't see any there. Does anybody know how the Jeers would have been used and how things would have been made fast? Or was it made fast elsewhere? Thanks for your help guys. Daniel
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I've always called those things cable compressors.
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I still say her tour in 1927 or whenever it was. As mentioned, for safe navigation. But just a guess. Glad someone else's guess (if it was a guess) is close to mine. Thanks Henry. Daniel
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