Would the thwarts on a cutter in the early 1900s have been teak or a white wood?
Current state of build attached. She will have two steam pinnaces, probably four cutters and two or three whalers and a dinghy.
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Would the thwarts on a cutter in the early 1900s have been teak or a white wood?
Current state of build attached. She will have two steam pinnaces, probably four cutters and two or three whalers and a dinghy.
Hi Norm, sorry for late response, been under the weather lately🤔
Can't find now where I saw it but I believe the oars were bundled and lashed to the gunnels in some kind of bracket arrangement.
Cheers, Doug
Dreadnought had two boats on Davits,slung each side of the funnel, and actually directly above the midship main armament gun barrels. I would assume the davits were able to tilt outwards to allow the boats to be lowered directly outboard. Would anyone know what sort of winches the falls would have been paid out with, or were they simp[y lowered by hand? As far as I can make out the rest of here boats were accessed by the crane on the mainmast.
Dreadnought had two boats on Davits,slung each side of the funnel, and actually directly above the midship main armament gun barrels. I would assume the davits were able to tilt outwards to allow the boats to be lowered directly outboard. Would anyone know what sort of winches the falls would have been paid out with, or were they simp[y lowered by hand? As far as I can make out the rest of here boats were accessed by the crane on the mainmast.
Hi Doug,
Happy New Year.
Boats all done and lashed down.
Dreadnought had multiple aerials slung between the masts. As far as I can make out they were connected onwards to a fitting just about at deck level right at the stern and also I think below the forward jack stay. I would have expected there to be connections down to the bridge or the housing forward of the after funnel. None of the photos I have are clear enough to show all the rigging, so some extent I am going to have to guess. She must have had signal halyards from presumably the main yard, but again where did they come down to. The bridge does not have much open space around the main house, so they must have come down to the upper bridge to presumably a rack? Any ideas?
I have fitted canvas dodgers around the bridge, but am not too happy with them. At this scale very difficult.
We have good shipbuilding weather, -12c at midday today. They are ice fishing on our lake.
Take care.
She has now left the builders yard. What next?
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Cheers, Ed
Can't find now where I saw it but I believe the oars were bundled and lashed to the gunnels in some kind of bracket arrangement.
Cheers, Doug