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  1. This is just another way to manage a tiller but this time from a distance. It is a rascona from the Po river in italy as depicted by Admiral Paris. Note how the tillerman is seated and effectively has a tiller parallel to the plane of the rudder. Maybe the people who used such tillers did not stand to use them? Cheers Dick
  2. Thanks, Steven and Thukydides. The occy is tentacles forward in attack mode so as to intimidate the villagers as the ship roars in. The croc adds to the menace. The mycenaeans were generally not all that nice. They were,after all, pirates. Dick
  3. I have never been happy with the figurehead which appeared cartoonish. So I have gone back the original potterry images and found this excellent image of the tragana ship The figurehead I couldnt recognise until I suddenly realised that it was in fact a stylised crocodile head with projecting teeth.. I also have done some nose art using an image of a minoan octopus which was much copied by the mycenaeans The octopus would be an appropriate animal for a ship of Poseidon So the latest figurhead is much more threatening. The crocodile would be familiar to mycenaeans who regularly traded with Egypt. Cheeers Dick
  4. Thanks, Mark.I believe the planking in a gun deck of a warship would be oak. As this was a merchantman, I would think elm or fir. The thickness of the central plankage was of the order of 90 - 100 mm and the outer planking 70 - 75 mm. Other members may be able to give much more detail on plankage. It is said that the old forests of europe never recovered from the stripping that occurred to make the war armadas of the 16th to 18th centuries. Cheers Dick
  5. This vessel did not have lodging knees but lodging planking, this would save money. Knees are made from grown compass timber ( this grain follows the shape of the knee) and for a humble merchant vessel would be expensive overkill. Hanging knees however were used and presumably grown. Dick
  6. Thanks for showing us Kroum's Video, Steven. Very useful for future builds. Let's hope more preserved wrecks are found and that nondestructive visualisation of buried parts of the hulls and rigs can be achieved with further advances in technology. Dick
  7. This painting of the stern of Venezianos nave shows somewhat less substantial supports for the stern castle than yours but of course it doesnt project as much as yours either. Dick
  8. I have installed the main deck beams and hanging knees as well as installing the bitts and all mast partners. The plan is to leave the deck largely onplanked so as to be able to see the lower cabins and the false deck. Dick
  9. There is no doubt that loading ports on at least one side were used and are seen in a number of illustrations for example St Marks coffin being loaded through such a port. As Roger states, it would be ridiculous to set sail with a crenellated hull. I believe the artists sketched thes e ships in port so while loading. At sea the port would be covered to restore freeboard. I took this into account on my round ship reconstruction by building in removable panels which could be rapidly removed and replaced. I used Lillian Ray Martins book extensively as an excellent albeit fallible resource. Dick
  10. I agree with Baker. That black could be toned down with a light buffing, Here are some bangladeshi boats to show effects of wear on pitch, Dick
  11. The open area contained by the "brace" probably obviates the need for a hawse hole (not seen on the mosaic), do you think? There is a bitt here which would serve. The mosaic also suggests that the "brace" and the curved stempost is rabbeted. Does this suggest that at times this area might be planked in as an anti splash cover?🤔 Dick
  12. To drill out the mortices you have to have a decent width of plank or you cant do it. Hence the large scale. This next is from my mycenaean build and I used a jig to do the mortices. But now I do them freehand. I can see why slaves were so prized in the ancient world. This type of repetitive, boring job would be given to them. Also the making of pegs.🥱 Cheers Dick
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