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woodrat got a reaction from Farbror Fartyg in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
Carrick bitts are installed to hold the anchor windlass.
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from Salty Sea Dog in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
Carrick bitts are installed to hold the anchor windlass.
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from tarbrush in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
This is my interpretation of the fifteenth century Botticelli windlass after due pondering. The windlass would be used to tilt the ship by hauling on the mainmast so as to allow cleaning of the hull and replacement of sacrificial planking. The windlass would have to be able to be moved from place to place and to be held with pegs to the ground. The pawl mechanism would have to be VERY reliable and the cables in good repair. Sudden loss of the tension on the mainmast would be catastrophic!
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from firdajan in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
Carrick bitts are installed to hold the anchor windlass.
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from hexnut in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
Carrick bitts are installed to hold the anchor windlass.
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from Louie da fly in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
Carrick bitts are installed to hold the anchor windlass.
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from tarbrush in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
Carrick bitts are installed to hold the anchor windlass.
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from tarbrush in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
A lovely little picture with a wealth of detail, Steven. Note how the mainyard has been lowered to allow the mainsail to belly out in a fashion never seen in the eighteenth century. They liked their sails "full-bosomed", as it were, in the fifteenth century!
As seen below
Here is a further pic from same showing an interesting bustle in the waist where the mainsail is undergoing a "harbour-furl" with the yard fully lowered. Look how long the yard is!
Merry Xmas from the Woodrat
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woodrat got a reaction from avsjerome2003 in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
A lovely little picture with a wealth of detail, Steven. Note how the mainyard has been lowered to allow the mainsail to belly out in a fashion never seen in the eighteenth century. They liked their sails "full-bosomed", as it were, in the fifteenth century!
As seen below
Here is a further pic from same showing an interesting bustle in the waist where the mainsail is undergoing a "harbour-furl" with the yard fully lowered. Look how long the yard is!
Merry Xmas from the Woodrat
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woodrat got a reaction from mtaylor in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
A lovely little picture with a wealth of detail, Steven. Note how the mainyard has been lowered to allow the mainsail to belly out in a fashion never seen in the eighteenth century. They liked their sails "full-bosomed", as it were, in the fifteenth century!
As seen below
Here is a further pic from same showing an interesting bustle in the waist where the mainsail is undergoing a "harbour-furl" with the yard fully lowered. Look how long the yard is!
Merry Xmas from the Woodrat
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woodrat got a reaction from Farbror Fartyg in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
Thanks, Steven. Here are some pics showing the halfdeck and waist with deck knees Which are seen on the Villefranche Nave and the Mary Rose. A start is made on the poop deck.
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from Gimo in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
The following pics show tghe substantial completion of the sterncastle.
I believe the sides of the castle would have contained removable blinds. These would have been removed to reduce windage and would have provided protection for archers if attacked
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from avsjerome2003 in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
I have puzzled over what this structure (arrowed) could represent. I now think it is a crane for lifting objects such as buckets to the sterncastle.
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from Louie da fly in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
Thanks, Joe from Vegas.
Steven, the thing in the foreground is, I believe, a windlass which has been used to pull the ship onto its side for careening via a cable to the mainmast. Please see below for my suggestions as to the function of its parts. Access to the forecastle is by walking up the clinker planks of the great arch. The poop is accessed by ladders. Note the tranverse orientation of the planking in the poop deck which I have also done in the model. Note also the apparently offset deck capstan. This is one of the few illustrations showing deck detail.
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from JesseLee in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
The following pics show tghe substantial completion of the sterncastle.
I believe the sides of the castle would have contained removable blinds. These would have been removed to reduce windage and would have provided protection for archers if attacked
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from Farbror Fartyg in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
The following pics show tghe substantial completion of the sterncastle.
I believe the sides of the castle would have contained removable blinds. These would have been removed to reduce windage and would have provided protection for archers if attacked
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from Salty Sea Dog in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
The following pics show tghe substantial completion of the sterncastle.
I believe the sides of the castle would have contained removable blinds. These would have been removed to reduce windage and would have provided protection for archers if attacked
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from avsjerome2003 in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
The following pics show tghe substantial completion of the sterncastle.
I believe the sides of the castle would have contained removable blinds. These would have been removed to reduce windage and would have provided protection for archers if attacked
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from tarbrush in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
The following pics show tghe substantial completion of the sterncastle.
I believe the sides of the castle would have contained removable blinds. These would have been removed to reduce windage and would have provided protection for archers if attacked
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from Farbror Fartyg in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
The gentlemans seats of ease in the poop!!
The poop decking completed
The supports for the sterncastle are started
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from GConiglio in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
The quarterdeck beams also project through the side planking
Progress on the poop and quarterdeck
note the characteristic vertical timbers on the ships hull to give extra rigidity and protection to the hull
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woodrat got a reaction from canoe21 in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
tail frames are positioned at each end of the keel
Calculation of the narrowing of the frames between the master frame and the tail frames used the geometric "mezza lune" technique. rising of floors can also be calculated by a geometric technique
using these techniques, a half hull block model of the central hull was made and faired
As was done by the original shipwrights of the venetian Arsenale, ribbands were then used to make the bow and stern frames.
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lines were taken off at each station
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woodrat got a reaction from WackoWolf in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
The following pics show tghe substantial completion of the sterncastle.
I believe the sides of the castle would have contained removable blinds. These would have been removed to reduce windage and would have provided protection for archers if attacked
Dick
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woodrat got a reaction from CaptainSteve in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
Yes, this detail from the arrival of St. Ursula at Cologne by Carpaccio clearly shows a steering oar AND a transom. I think that is a sheepskin over the stempost.
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woodrat got a reaction from tarbrush in Venetian Carrack or Cocha by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/64
Yes, this detail from the arrival of St. Ursula at Cologne by Carpaccio clearly shows a steering oar AND a transom. I think that is a sheepskin over the stempost.
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