Endeavour by Bill97 - OcCre - 1/54

[Hubac's Historian]

Hi Guys - very late to this discussion, but my 1 1/2 CENTS:

 

I was searching for pictures of the replica ship under sail, and could not find any that showed boomkins rigged.

 

Perhaps the crew employs other practical work-arounds, although I have no clue what they might be.

[Bill97]

Good morning Marc. Welcome to this very intriguing conversation. I always say when the world seems to be going to the dogs it is good to have a cave we can get in, roll the stone in front, and just talk ship building!😊

[Kenchington]

18 minutes ago, Hubac's Historian said:

Hi Guys - very late to this discussion, but my 1 1/2 CENTS:

 

I was searching for pictures of the replica ship under sail, and could not find any that showed boomkins rigged.

 

Perhaps the crew employs other practical work-arounds, although I have no clue what they might be.

Looks like they take the fore tack to a block on the end of the cathead:

[Bill97]

That does seem to be the most practical solution.  I will give a look at removing the boomkins. If I can’t without to much damage I think i will arrange some sort of satisfactory rigging and call it a day on this riddle

[shipaholic]

Hi Bill

I did the same as the replica vessel and have a block attached to the cathead. When I built my first Endeavour by AL in the early 1990's their instructions said to rig it that way also. It's interesting that the fore course on the AL model is narrower at the bottom than the top.

Edited March 15 by shipaholic
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[alpayed]

Edited March 16 by alpayed

[shipaholic]

Good pictures Allan, you must have a better library than me. Quite a few of those drawings seem to show boomkins with single guys well away from where the anchor cable might foul them , which makes sense with respect to my earlier point about fouling of the anchor cables

Edited March 16 by shipaholic

[alpayed]

Hi Steve. Yes I think they show that on small vessels boomkins could have only one or in some cases no guys. There are other pictures that don't have boomkins but they seem to be vessel's with the foremast further aft as Harland mentioned. Anyhow it's always fruitful when there is good discussion on these things. Thanks for everyone's contributions and apologies to Bill for hijacking his post. Back to you Biil. Let's know what you do. Rest assured which ever way you go it would be a brave person to question your decision. Regards Allan 

[Bill97]

Oh no Allan you did not hijack my post. I started the discussion and appreciated all the input. What I eventually did was keep the boomkins and simply ran guys back to the ship above the howser hole. Now no guys are below that point. I am not even going to question the outer gammoning! 😀

Edited March 16 by Bill97

[Bill97]

Lifts and braces the order of the day in the ship yard now that I have moved past the boomkins. 

[alpayed]

The outer gammoning is correct. The ships in the pics above are mostly merchant vessels.

[Bill97]

Gentlemen it has been a little over a week since my last update. I believe I am rounding the turn and heading for home (Kentucky Derby verbiage). Since my last post I have gotten the mizzen mast rigged and working on the mizzen course. The mizzen course will be furled when I am finished with rigging it. I still have a good deal of detail work to do like making a zillion coils to put at each of the belay points, additional ropes at the hatches on the sides, flag pole and flags, etc.