Western Shore 1874 by rwierrich - 1/96 - Clipper

[BANYAN]

Hi Rob, sorry out of action for a couple of days helping one of my sons with yard work.  'Victoria' used the Rapson son which is under the grating you see.  It used a short axel wheel on an inverted/back to front 'V' frame (opposite to normal) to cater for her short counter and leave room for the after pivot-gun.  This put the legs of the support frame forward of the wheel and the wheel could then be mounted almost directly over the transverse/thwartship slide.  In Victoria's set-up the tiller was abaft the helmsman, you can just make it out in the photo.  That the reason for the grating over the system.

 

cheers

 

Pat

 

 

[rwiederrich]

18 minutes ago, BANYAN said:

Hi Rob, sorry out of action for a couple of days helping one of my sons with yard work.  'Victoria' used the Rapson son which is under the grating you see.  It used a short axel wheel on an inverted/back to front 'V' frame (opposite to normal) to cater for her short counter and leave room for the after pivot-gun.  This put the legs of the support frame forward of the wheel and the wheel could then be mounted almost directly over the transverse/thwartship slide.  In Victoria's set-up the tiller was abaft the helmsman, you can just make it out in the photo.  That the reason for the grating over the system.

 

cheers

 

Pat

 

 

Your Victoria’s helm looks more like that on your drawing of figure #4.   And Western Shore is more like figure #7. 
 

Thanks for the rendering. 
 

Rob