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aew

Sat May 12 2018, 12:34pm

aew

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What that video showed was just how big that ship is!

Tim C

Sat May 12 2018, 04:19pm

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Outstanding just outstanding. I looked at your other videos and have the same word outstanding.

Later Tim

JerryTodd

Wed May 16 2018, 06:29am

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She's not the biggest by a long shot, but she is as big as I can get into my car.
As for the size of the real ship; she wasn't only the last sail-only warship the Navy built, but she was she largest purpose-built sloop of war. The were others about her size or larger; Macedonian, Cumberland, Savannah, etc; but they were all built as frigates and razeed to sloops.
Compared to Constitution


Stella    Conny

181'      175'    waterline length

199'      207'    hull length

43'       43.5'   beam

21'       23'     draft

1400      2200    displacement

[ Edited Wed May 16 2018, 06:32am ]

Tim C

Wed May 16 2018, 01:27pm

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Big and well done. Thanks for sharing with us.

Later Tim

JerryTodd

Sat May 26 2018, 05:02am

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Made the capstan today, though it still needs holes for the capstan bars, pawls, and a base-plate, it's better than that stump of a dowel pin that's been sticking out of the deck for years.

The barrel is a bit of 3/4" maple dowel and the rest is mahogany, painted black, of course.

JerryTodd

Sun May 27 2018, 08:43pm

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Here it is with pawls, holes, and a base plate

[ Edited Mon May 28 2018, 09:39am ]

aew

Mon May 28 2018, 08:45am

aew

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All it needs now is the gold leaf!

Tim C

Mon May 28 2018, 02:35pm

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Nice job.
Later Tim

JerryTodd

Tue May 29 2018, 05:39am

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I spent a couple of hours making a yoke or bow, for the fore tops'l yard. This is the thing that attaches to the yard and connects to the parrell. The main tops'l yard's and all three lower's were made from aluminum, but the last one took three tries to get and came out, well meh.

I tried a different idea in their construction this time, since my soldering has gotten better. I cut some brass rod and hammered it square, or mostly square; then bent it to the right shape as my pattern. I hammered the ends a bit more to widen them and used files to shape them. I cut a notch down the middle of some rod about double the diameter of the first one, then cut off about an 1/8" giving me two half-round pieces. These got soldiered top and bottom to the center of the bow, forming the swell that the parrell pin goes through. After some filing and cleaning up, I drilled the hole in the swell and 1/16" holes in the ends.
Then something happened with the drill press that startled me, I jumped, and the part flew off somewhere. I spent the day "cleaning" the shop trying to find it with no luck.

So tonight I did it all again, but with some hope of finding the errant part eventually, I went about making the mizzen bow instead. when it came time to drill, I dug out the 2-direction sliding vice thing for the drill press, instead of holding it by hand with pliers, and everything came out fine with no unscheduled flights.

The parrell shown is for the fore tops'l yard which is why I was making that bow, I haven't made the mizzen tops'l yard parrell yet. I do need to enlarge the hole slightly because the bow is supposed to go all the way on the post more than shown.

Mounted on it's yard, the chain is the tye for the tops;l halyard, and the bit of line is the end of one of the main tops'l yard braces. The little nuts and bolts are 0-80 x 1" hex head bolts I bought 100 of years ago with some matching nuts, and some "scale nuts."