English Royal Yacht by Ab Hoving - CARD

[Ab Hoving]

The gift from a friend inspired me to build a model of the type that is shown in the drawing. (See https://modelshipworld.com/topic/22309-what-did-you-receive-today/page/154/#comment-1083544)

Fortunately I have a nice drawing. It is for a ketch-rigged ship, but changing that into a standing gaff rig is just a matter of minutes:

So I spent a day to set up the basics for a nice paper hull:

So far I do not see any problems for the near future. Making a hull with this material is just a breeze. But the point is that I wonder into a world I know nothing about. A Dutch yacht would not have been any problem as I have shown earlier (https://modelshipworld.com/gallery/image/17836-satenjacht_3_lrjpg/?context=new), but about the English counterpart many details on the hull are unknown to me. And here (I hope) you come in.... 

Is there anyone who has clear close-up pictures of a model like this or maybe even draughts? Can you please post them here?

I'd be most grateful.

 

[ccoyle]

I have moved this to the research section, but if you decide to create a build log for this I'm sure we'd all love to follow along!

[Ab Hoving]

That was indeed my intention Chris.

[Martes]

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/search/fubbs

 

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-66391

 

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-459439

 

Note that the plan has a second sheet with some internal arrangements.

[ccoyle]

1 hour ago, Ab Hoving said:

That was indeed my intention Chris.

 

Okay, I have moved it back! Looking forward to seeing how this comes together.

[Michael Mash]

4 hours ago, Ab Hoving said:

Quote:  "The gift from a friend inspired me to build a model of the type that is shown in the drawing." 

 

Art inspiring more art.

Looking forward to watching  .   .   as always !!

 

Mike

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by Michael Mash

[Ab Hoving]

Thank you Martes!

And Chris and Mike: I hope not to disappoint you.

 

[Ab Hoving]

The pictures of Fubbs are most helpful and I had to adjust the model in only a minimal way. But Fubbs was not the ship I wanted to model, because of the different rig. Does anyone know of pictures, drawings or whatever of an English yacht with only one mast?

Edited 4 hours ago by Ab Hoving

[druxey]

Ab: you have opened a large can of worms here! The plans for Fubbs are for the rebuild of the 1720's and differ somewhat from the earlier Stuart classic yachts.

 

As you may know, Effie and I are working on a book covering all the yachts of the Stuart era. There is scanty hard evidence of internal arrangements. The most detailed 'plan' (and perhaps showing artistic licence) are the Vincenzo Coronelli plates of Isabella that include a longitudinal section:

 

[Ab Hoving]

Hello David,

 

I can hardly express how happy I am about your remark about the lack of sources for these yachts. I never aim to picture a specific ship with my models, I am always more after just a type. I don't even think in the direction of making such a beautiful model as you did. I just want to see an impression of what such a ship looked like in reality. So now I am free to make a model of an impression of such a ship without being hindered by what the real ship looked like.

No rivet counters for me... I just want to make fun building a model.

 

Did I tell you how much I admire what you did on the Fubbs? High class! Dazzling.

 

Best,

Ab