Correct Terminology

Thank you Jimsky, I'm working on the HMS Terror, I have a drawing profile from the National Maritime Museum in England that shows the bottom of the masts. Using triangulation and verifying it with an adjustable triangle I'm coming up with a mast rake of 3 degrees on the main and mizzen masts but the fore mast is a straight 90 degrees up.
I have the Betts book but there is nothing in there about that. If anyone out there knows how I can verify my calculations please let me know.
Thank you
Jim Maguire
 
JerryTodd said:
Some rake more than others, and some have different rake on the same boat.
On the bowsprit it's called steeve
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Interesting Jerry, I never heard of 'Steeve' before.. in Dutch (the mother tongue of boat building:cool:) 'steven' is prow, 'boeg' is bow,
'sprong' is steeve.

In linguistics this shift of meaning is quite common. A nice example is town (EN: small city), tuin (Dutch: garden), Zaun (German: fence around a garden).
 
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Jimsky,
Thank you for the Shields "Mast Rake Calculation", I have two drawings but they don't have the detail to give me the "YM", "X" or "B" dimensions to work out the calculation; I will just stay with the triangulation and the adjustable triangle and hope for the best. Thank you to Jerry for the term "steeve" I calculated the "steeve" on the HMS Terror to be 23 degrees
 
Thank you all for your answers on the "rake" question; I'm relativity new at this modeling and I found that asking a question on this site gets better results from experienced modelers then spending hours of research on the internet. So here is another one; the HMS Terror had iron cladding added to her bow before the Artic Expedition in 1845, how is the best way to show this cladding? I've seen a lot of copper that can be bought but not anything representing iron cladding?
Thank you
 
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