Double Channels

[hof00]

Hi All,

An issue, (Opportunity?), that I have currently, and one that has been playing on my mind is how do I install the Lower Channels and locate Chainplates within the Channels ensuring the correct angle of the Chainplate with respect to Shrouds/Backstays?

Installation and placement of the Upper Channels was pretty much a "No Brainer."

Kit instructions/plans show the installation of a "Chainplate Support," a 2.0 X 3.0mm strip to act as the Lower Channel. You would think this to be the simplest option. I had a tinker with this yesterday and it doesn't really seem to be.... For a start, the upper Channels are 1.5mm thick, 2.0mm Lower Channels are way too thick.

Secondly, the spacing from Hull to Chainplate, (Chainplate hanging "Plumb" from the Upper Channel, varies from about 3.0mm, (Fore), 2.0mm, (Main) and 2.5mm (Mizzen))

 

One solution that I thought about, make a clone of the Upper Channels. (Lower Channel Width reduced of course.)

The problem with this is that the slots that I would need in the Lower Channel would not allow for the angle of the individual Chainplate with respect to Shrouds/Backstays.

(Chainplates would be "Vertical."

 

The only other solution that I can think of is to omit the Lower channels altogether. (That would make my life a whole lot simpler.... 🙂)

 

There are 72 Chainplates in total.

 

So, what do others do? 😗

 

I am a bit "Stumped."

 

Cheers... HOF.

 

A couple of photos of the Fore Channels:

(Channel Cap is "Pinned" only.)

 

 

[amateur]

Actually, I don’t quite understand the issue at hand.

 

To find the correct angle for the chainplates, take a dowel as dummy mast: ty a piece of string at the top (or were the top will be). Pulling that string from mast doen over the chanels, will give you the angle for the chainplates. 
As the angle varies from front to aftshrould, the lower end of the chainplates will not be at a straight line, but on a large diameter radius.

 

Jan

 

[amateur]

Did some googling. 
you can use that same string to determine the position of the slots in the lower chanel. 
You may discover that the slots in the upper chanel need some tinkering to get enough space to set them on the correct angle

 

Jan

[hof00]

18 hours ago, amateur said:

Did some googling. 
you can use that same string to determine the position of the slots in the lower chanel. 
You may discover that the slots in the upper chanel need some tinkering to get enough space to set them on the correct angle

 

Jan

Thanks Jan,

I think that sometimes I can't see the wood for the trees....

I do recall seeing this in Flying Fish instructions I downloaded years ago.

 

I'll have a go once I have completed the remainder of the Flying Cloud Yards.

The time spent on this task will give me more time to ponder my approach.

 

Cheers and Regards,

 

Harry.