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| Jonathan K |
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 Registered Member #4757 Joined: Thu Mar 24 2016, 12:40amPosts: 15 | My project is to replicate a sailing model of a 10-gun cutter built by three British veterans of the war of 1812 in the early 1830s. The model was built and sailed in Deal, and has never left the area. It is half inch to the foot scale and although simplified, pretty much everything on it worked--including the pump and the guns. The cutter represents a vessel of the 1820s and is five feet long overall and five feet high. It was restored in about 1900 as a sailing model and again in the early 1960s as a static museum exhibit. Both restorations introduced errors and added features. My aim is to try to reconstruct the model's original form and function. I started my project in 1997 and now have the hull nearing completion! I will try to post about progress as I work towards completion. The photo below shows the original model as restored in 1964, warts and all. | ||
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| Gary M |
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 Registered Member #4198 Joined: Tue May 07 2013, 10:50pmPosts: 908 | Jonathan, this is such a wonderful project and one with a deep history. Do you have the original model plans? If not, how did you recreate them? It would be interesting to see a photo of those. Solid hull? Thanks, G | ||
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| Jonathan K |
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| Registered Member #4757 Joined: Thu Mar 24 2016, 12:40amPosts: 15 | Thanks Gary. There were no plans for this cutter, and started by photographing, sketching and measuring everything I could get at. The curator took the cutter out of its case (when the photo in my earlier post was taken) and I built a profile gauge on a base so I could take the lines off it. I even used a dental mirror and flashlight to peer inside the hull. Next I spent a long time reconstructing the cutter on paper. The model is poorly mounted, with neither waterline nor keel level, so I had to adjust my record of it accordingly. Once the drawings were done I moved on to construction. The hull is three feet long with a beam of 16" and my drawings are big. They are also rough working drawings not intended for distribution. I do however have a photo which shows a glimpse of one of them.  | ||
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| Jonathan K |
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| Registered Member #4757 Joined: Thu Mar 24 2016, 12:40amPosts: 15 | Having posted a photo of what the cutter looks like now I should ost an image of what it should look like. This illustration comes from Biddlecombe's Art of Rigging which was published just a few years after Harvey completed his model. | ||
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| Gary M |
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| Registered Member #4198 Joined: Tue May 07 2013, 10:50pmPosts: 908 | Hi Jonathan, thanks for the reply. I think you plans look sharp. Looking forward to more. G | ||
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| bensid54 |
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 Registered Member #2957 Joined: Wed Jun 13 2012, 05:43amPosts: 963 | These are the kind of projects I always enjoy watching, I'll be keeping track of this. | ||
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| Jonathan K |
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| Registered Member #4757 Joined: Thu Mar 24 2016, 12:40amPosts: 15 | This photo shows my replica of Harvey's cutter a couple of years ago at the Maritime Festival in Salem, Massachusetts. The second photo shows an earlier floatation test in our local pool Having overcome a few major roadblocks I should complete the hull this year and I have begun to work on blocks and spars. Right now I am working on the boat and stern davits and completing the windlass and pawl bitts. Anchors are currently being 3D printed in wax and cast in brass.   | ||
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