Amanda F Lewis 1884 by SardonicMeow - Scale 1:48 - Chesapeake Bay pungy

[SardonicMeow]

Welcome to my build log for the Amanda F. Lewis, built in 1884.  She was a pungy, a type of schooner unique to the Chesapeake Bay.  This will be a plank-on-bulkhead build at 1:48 scale.  There will be lots of 3D design, there will be pirates, maybe a road trip or two, no doubt plenty of successes and mistakes.  I hope you will follow along.

 

Below: 1933 painting of the Amanda F. Lewis by Louis Feuchter, painting photographed by me at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.  It shows the vessel during her later years.

[Jim Lad]

A nice looking vessel, peter.

 

John

[Paul Le Wol]

Peter, I am looking forward to seeing you create this beautiful schooner. Good luck with her!

[ccoyle]

I once had a student named Amanda Lewis. She was born considerably later than 1884, obviously. 🙃

[JacquesCousteau]

I'm looking forward to following along on this build!

[SardonicMeow]

I order the Amanda F. Lewis plans from the Smithsonian.  The ship was surveyed as part of the Historic American Merchant Marine Survey in 1936 or 1937.  H. I. Chapelle drew the plans in 1956 based on that survey.

And, wow, they're big.  The scale of the plans is 1:32.  Hmm, if I made the model in that scale, it would be just about 1 meter from tip of bowsprit to tip of boom...  Tempting, but I think a model that large would trigger a spousal veto, so that's a no-go.  1:48 is what it'll be.

I put the plans on one wall and photographed them from across the room.  The various views were put into separate image files and brought into the Autodesk Fusion environment.

Offset planes were created for each station position.

As well as for each waterline.

And for the buttock lines and diagonals too, though they might not be used.

And with that, the 3D environment is ready for design work.