LE COUREUR - french Lugger 1776 - POF kit from CAF in 1:48 by Uwe
What is the size of the copper nails you used for the planks , for the courier, Uwek.could not find aeronaut reference you mentioned.
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The used nails have 0,6mm diameter, the holes 0,5mm
ah yeah i was wonering on the lenght
the length is not important, when you do it like myself..... mine where 8mm long
For a small brake and because of limted free time during the weekend I started to work on the barrels and the boxes.
To be honest I do not know, if I will pimp the boxes like @PoulD did in his log
due to the fact, that they will be stored in the hold and hardly to see, maybe only to upper one.......
In order to understand the way of construction, please take a look at the manual, which is explaing the way with several sketches
On this photo you can see the different working steps of the barrels.
The left barrel is covered with the first layer of staves
now the second layer is fixed - this evening, when the glue has dried and the sanding is done, I will see the result
To be honest I do not know, if I will pimp the boxes like @PoulD did in his log
Le Coureur 1776, CAF model 1:48 by Poul
I'm still waiting for the HMS Alert 1776 kit which I wanted to make my very first build. For now I do not want to build 2 kits simultaneously so it will most likely take a long time before I start on Le Coureur. However, I have been waiting since May and since I received Le Coreur kit from CAF I...
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In order to understand the way of construction, please take a look at the manual, which is explaing the way with several sketches
On this photo you can see the different working steps of the barrels.
The left barrel is covered with the first layer of staves
now the second layer is fixed - this evening, when the glue has dried and the sanding is done, I will see the result
Today I can show the result of the barrel - the left one is sanded and cleaned
They are looking not so bad I think....
What I realized and I will make the other in this way:
It got a better result to use for the first layer only 11 staves, and not the planned 12 - with this you get some small gaps between, but they lay more smooth around the inner structure. The second layer is done with the planned 12. This is my subjective feeling
They are looking not so bad I think....
What I realized and I will make the other in this way:
It got a better result to use for the first layer only 11 staves, and not the planned 12 - with this you get some small gaps between, but they lay more smooth around the inner structure. The second layer is done with the planned 12. This is my subjective feeling
The work on the barrels and boxes are going on
The photos are showing the elements in different stages of completion
The photos are showing the elements in different stages of completion
Gluing it is not so bad. The really complicated task is to get the skeleton (inside building jig) out when all the planks are glued.
I'll show myself out
Kurt Konrath
Kurt Konrath
Great work on the water or rum barrels, I heard many old sailing ships carried rum because it stayed safer to drink then a barrel of water that got rancid quickly at sea. That and it made the crew feel better as the voyage went along for weeks.
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Keeping water fresh was a constant challenge.
Alcoholic beverages had a better life span.
When you read through the daily ration lists, the sailors must have been constantly under the influence of alcohol. And then climbing up the shrouds......
But maybe the daily routine and the living conditions on the ships could only be endured under the influence of alcohol.
Alcoholic beverages had a better life span.
When you read through the daily ration lists, the sailors must have been constantly under the influence of alcohol. And then climbing up the shrouds......
But maybe the daily routine and the living conditions on the ships could only be endured under the influence of alcohol.
Black Tot Day (31 July 1970)
was the last day on which the Royal Navy issued sailors with a daily rum ration (the daily tot).
In the 17th century, the daily drink ration for English sailors was a gallon of beer (about four litres), although frequently small beer was used with an alcohol content below 1%. Due to the difficulty in storing the large quantities of liquid that this required, in 1655 a half pint (284 mL) of rum was made equivalent and became preferred to beer. Over time, drunkenness on board naval vessels increasingly became a problem and the ration was formalised in naval regulations by Admiral Edward Vernon in 1740 and ordered to be mixed with water in a 4:1 water to rum ratio and split into two servings per day.
In the 19th century, there was a change in the attitude towards alcohol due to continued discipline problems in the navy. In 1824 the size of the tot was halved to one-quarter of an imperial pint (142 ml) in an effort to improve the situation. In 1850, the Admiralty's Grog Committee, convened to look into the problems associated with the rum ration, recommended that it be eliminated completely. However, rather than ending it the navy further halved it to one-eighth of an imperial pint (71 ml) per day, eliminating the evening serving of the ration. This led to the ending of the ration for officers in 1881 and warrant officers in 1918.
On 17 December 1969 the Admiralty Board issued a written answer to a question from the MP for Woolwich East, Christopher Mayhew, saying "The Admiralty Board concludes that the rum issue is no longer compatible with the high standards of efficiency required now that the individual's tasks in ships are concerned with complex, and often delicate, machinery and systems on the correct functioning of which people's lives may depend". This led to a debate in the House of Commons on the evening of 28 January 1970, now referred to as the 'Great Rum Debate', started by James Wellbeloved, MP for Erith and Crayford, who believed that the ration should not be removed. The debate lasted an hour and 15 minutes and closed at 10:29 p.m. with a decision that the rum ration was no longer appropriate.
31 July 1970 was the final day of the rum ration and it was poured as usual at 6 bells in the forenoon watch (11am) after the pipe of 'up spirits'. Some sailors wore black armbands, tots were 'buried at sea' and in one navy training camp, HMS Collingwood, the Royal Naval Electrical College at Fareham in Hampshire, there was a mock funeral procession complete with black coffin and accompanying drummers and piper. The move was not popular with the ratings despite an extra can of beer being added to the daily rations in compensation.
Black Tot Day was subsequently followed in two other Commonwealth navies (the Royal Australian Navy having already discontinued the rum ration, in 1921):
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
was the last day on which the Royal Navy issued sailors with a daily rum ration (the daily tot).
In the 17th century, the daily drink ration for English sailors was a gallon of beer (about four litres), although frequently small beer was used with an alcohol content below 1%. Due to the difficulty in storing the large quantities of liquid that this required, in 1655 a half pint (284 mL) of rum was made equivalent and became preferred to beer. Over time, drunkenness on board naval vessels increasingly became a problem and the ration was formalised in naval regulations by Admiral Edward Vernon in 1740 and ordered to be mixed with water in a 4:1 water to rum ratio and split into two servings per day.
In the 19th century, there was a change in the attitude towards alcohol due to continued discipline problems in the navy. In 1824 the size of the tot was halved to one-quarter of an imperial pint (142 ml) in an effort to improve the situation. In 1850, the Admiralty's Grog Committee, convened to look into the problems associated with the rum ration, recommended that it be eliminated completely. However, rather than ending it the navy further halved it to one-eighth of an imperial pint (71 ml) per day, eliminating the evening serving of the ration. This led to the ending of the ration for officers in 1881 and warrant officers in 1918.
On 17 December 1969 the Admiralty Board issued a written answer to a question from the MP for Woolwich East, Christopher Mayhew, saying "The Admiralty Board concludes that the rum issue is no longer compatible with the high standards of efficiency required now that the individual's tasks in ships are concerned with complex, and often delicate, machinery and systems on the correct functioning of which people's lives may depend". This led to a debate in the House of Commons on the evening of 28 January 1970, now referred to as the 'Great Rum Debate', started by James Wellbeloved, MP for Erith and Crayford, who believed that the ration should not be removed. The debate lasted an hour and 15 minutes and closed at 10:29 p.m. with a decision that the rum ration was no longer appropriate.
31 July 1970 was the final day of the rum ration and it was poured as usual at 6 bells in the forenoon watch (11am) after the pipe of 'up spirits'. Some sailors wore black armbands, tots were 'buried at sea' and in one navy training camp, HMS Collingwood, the Royal Naval Electrical College at Fareham in Hampshire, there was a mock funeral procession complete with black coffin and accompanying drummers and piper. The move was not popular with the ratings despite an extra can of beer being added to the daily rations in compensation.
Black Tot Day was subsequently followed in two other Commonwealth navies (the Royal Australian Navy having already discontinued the rum ration, in 1921):
- 31 March 1972 was the final day of the rum ration in the Royal Canadian Navy.
- 28 February 1990 was the final day of the rum ration in the Royal New Zealand Navy.
Rum ration - Wikipedia
Black Tot Day - Wikipedia
But also very interesting is this page
=> So the Royal Navy used for rum barrels with maximum 27 gallons (british) - which means appr. 120 liters
So our barrels of the Le Coureur, which are much bigger, are for transport of some other fluids, but not for rum -> SORRY
Otherwise we had also to mark the chimbs with red colour.......
So we learnt something new today
Supply of rum to the Royal Navy
=> So the Royal Navy used for rum barrels with maximum 27 gallons (british) - which means appr. 120 liters
So our barrels of the Le Coureur, which are much bigger, are for transport of some other fluids, but not for rum -> SORRY
Otherwise we had also to mark the chimbs with red colour.......
So we learnt something new today
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Unimaginable by today's standards, 0.0 everywhere.
If I remember correctly, Boudriot's "74 Gun Ship" also talks about a generous daily ration of wine. Very probably diluted.
If I remember correctly, Boudriot's "74 Gun Ship" also talks about a generous daily ration of wine. Very probably diluted.
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The barrels remind me of an Asterix volume (Britons?) in which the Romans search for the magic potion in hundreds of barrels of alcohol.But also very interesting is this page
Supply of rum to the Royal Navy
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=> So the Royal Navy used for rum barrels with maximum 27 gallons (british) - which means appr. 120 liters
So our barrels of the Le Coureur, which are much bigger, are for transport of some other fluids, but not for rum -> SORRY
Otherwise we had also to mark the chimbs with red colour.......
So we learnt something new today
Very disciplined at first, but then.....
@Uwek, about the copper nails you got from aeronaut ...do you have the part number. have been lookink high and low for some.
Here we are - the "Kupferstifte dia 0,6 * 8mm, ca. 50g /appr. 1.800 pcs, Art.Nr 7790/52 by www.aero-naut.de
KUPFERSTIFT 0.6x 8 - aeronaut Modellbau
aero-naut.de
unfortunately in moment not available from aeronaut directly - as I know, these small nails are usually produced in Itlay and there seems to be problems in the production....
but I found them f.e. here (especially because of the article number):
Kupfernägel Flachkopf 0,6 x 8 mm (25 g) • Steingraeber-Modelle • der Spezialist für historischen Schiffsmodellbau
Kupfernägel Flachkopf 0,6 x 8 mm (25 g) ca. 25 g Kupfer-Nägel, mit Flachkopf, ca. 750 Stck. Eigenschaften: Kopfdurchmesser: ca. 2,5 mm Schaftdurchmesser: ca. 0,6 mm Schaftlänge: ca. 8 mm Material: Kupfer Verpackungsein...
ok I will give it a try...I wiil let you in on a new event... I have recieved a CAF courier. the plans have been copied, the monograf by ancre has arrived also. Soon I will start..been following the group build.Need to update my work on my other ship too, the bulworks are neally complete. and the gun ports cut out, will try to post pics this weekendHere we are - the "Kupferstifte dia 0,6 * 8mm, ca. 50g /appr. 1.800 pcs, Art.Nr 7790/52 by www.aero-naut.de
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KUPFERSTIFT 0.6x 8 - aeronaut Modellbau
unfortunately in moment not available from aeronaut directly - as I know, these small nails are usually produced in Itlay and there seems to be problems in the production....
but I found them f.e. here (especially because of the article number):
and also hereKupfernägel Flachkopf 0,6 x 8 mm (25 g) • Steingraeber-Modelle • der Spezialist für historischen Schiffsmodellbau
Kupfernägel Flachkopf 0,6 x 8 mm (25 g) ca. 25 g Kupfer-Nägel, mit Flachkopf, ca. 750 Stck. Eigenschaften: Kopfdurchmesser: ca. 2,5 mm Schaftdurchmesser: ca. 0,6 mm Schaftlänge: ca. 8 mm Material: Kupfer Verpackungsein...www.steingraeber-modelle.de