Nantucket Lightship by Jerry Berenson - FINISHED - BlueJacket Shipcrafters

[Laxian Key]

Looks great Jerry, you set a high bar to follow. Still working on mine, and will post a build log in the near future.

[iceman1947]

Jerry, I can't thank you enough for posting all this information.  This is my first major build and your photos are a gold mine for me.  Although the manual is very complete, as a nubie there is a lot that I was scratching my head on.  Your pictures cleared up most of it. I've already made a few errors but hopefully they will not be obvious at the end. Thanks once again.

[Scooby]

Jerry where can I get  template for the Nantucket kit 1015. i tried to contact BLuejacket but I didn't get a response.

[MrBlueJacket]

The templates are on the plans.

 

Nic

[Lightship Alley]

Great Job on building the Bluejacket LV 112 kit.   One thing that is not correct, not your fault, is the Foghorn. The 112-has a single vertical Foghorn mounted on the Foghorn deckhouse.  The kit supplies a single four horn unit which is incorrect. I believe this was brought to their attention about 15 years ago when the USLM NANTUCKET-LV112 commissioned Bluejacket to build one for us. 
  You probably know the NANTUCKET Lightship in New Bedford , actually two are really no comparison to the 112. 
 The WLV 612 along with the WLV 613 ( Tripod Style mast) are both privately owned.  The Last two to serve on Nantucket Station. 
They are 2 of 6 Sisters built for the USCG 1946-1952. All are 128’ in length. Whereas the 112 built in 1936 was the Largest Lightship built for the USLHS at 148’10”.