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I am building the Panart HMS Victory and this is the fist ship I am building that has a copper hull. I am looked online and watched videos, looked and pictures and read forums. I have a couple of questions 

first draw the waterline, then i have seen one or two rows of tiles attached parallel to the water line (started in the middle of the ship), then start attaching tile from the keel starting at the stern and work way up to the 2 rows already installed

I have also seen where you just start at the keel by the stern and work your way up to the waterline and the last row of tiles is cut on an angle

Which way is correct??   sorry for the confusion in my questions

 

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I started from the keel at the stern.  It worked for me.

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Both styles of coppering are correct, but the angled rows at the waterline were from about 1760's to about 1800, and the parallel rows at the waterline were a later style. The earlier style usually had a light batten of wood tacked on along the top to protect the pointed ends of copper sheet.

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