Grants Xebec 1:60 (using Jabeque Cazador Occre1:60 kit) [COMPLETED BUILD]

Grant, just catching up with your new log now. Nine pages deep already! How are you finding it? I imagine anything after the Victory must seem like a walk in the park. I've pulled up a chair, front row where I can heckle if necessary, and looking forward to your progress. Good luck Thumbsup
 
Nomad said:
Grant, just catching up with your new log now. Nine pages deep already! How are you finding it? I imagine anything after the Victory must seem like a walk in the park. I've pulled up a chair, front row where I can heckle if necessary, and looking forward to your progress. Good luck Thumbsup
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Good morning Mark. Good to hear from you. Heckling is mandatory :D. It is so different. With the Victory it was following plans and researching to try make it more authentic. I miss that a lot. Here as the Occre Cazador is so far removed from authenticity and no documentation on the real Cazador, I decide to just have fun and make my own Xebec. My final parts for the Victory have arrived but I’m have a “jol” (for us SAFER’s) on my Xebec. Cheers Grant
 
Good morning. We had a braai last night and this morning I woke up with a little headache o_O Sick. I don’t drink much nowadays and clearly I can no longer “maintain “. Anyway decided not to work on my Xebec- so………

She needs a story, some history. (A short summation)

Grants Xebec has been captured by Zyman Danseker. A Dutchman (I chose this as many of my friends here are Dutch or have Dutch Heritage) who had a brief and infamous career as a privateer. He lived in Marseilles and married the governors daughter. In 1607 he stole a ship and sailed to Algiers and joined the service of Redwan the Pasha of Algiers. Within a year he became one of the leading Captains and brought back many Spanish prisoners and prizes to Algeria.

He became known as Simon Deli-Ries (Captain Crazy).Another of his names was Simon the dancer. He was supplied with a small fleet and men which wrought havoc on the Spanish. Simon joined up with John Ward an English renegade to form a powerful alliance on the Barbary coast making him became a very wealth man.

Simon was such a pain in the Spanish, French and British asses that all 3 nations at various times dispatched galleys and men of war to capture or kill Simon the dancer. The French under the command of De Beaulieu de Pairsac, the Spanish under the command of Don Luis Fajardo and British with Sir Thomas Shorely all failed despite actually engaging in battle with Simon.

In 1609 while taking a Spanish Galleon Simon sent message via a Jesuit Priest to Henry IV of France asking for Pardon and to return to his Family in France. He was exonerated of his crimes and returned to France with four ships, Turkish prisoners and a fortune for Henry. It is believed this action was the catalyst for the Franco-Algerian war 1609 to 1628.

Simon then led expeditions for France against the Algerian corsairs. In 1615 he was dispatch by France to negotiate the release of French ships captured by Yusef Dey in Tunis however Yusef “conned” poor old Simon and on his arrival he was captured and beheaded.

Grants Xebec is going to be part of Simons Fleet flying the Barbary pirate flag colours.
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My creation continues….. (apologies to the purists out there.)
Cheers Grant
 
FANTASTIC GRANT!!!! I find the history of the Barbary Pirates absolutely fascinating. And would you believe it, if I had built one of the Barbary Corsair ships it would also have been based in Algiers. Just goes to show - brilliant minds think alike! ROTF

Man, now you have me VERY excited. Look at those plans I sent you of the Algiers Xebec. That might have been in all likelihood, Dancer's vessel!
 
From Corsairs and Captives:

Simon Dancer was a Dutchman, likely born in Dordrecht, in the Netherlands, around 1570. By his thirties, he had become a privateer Captain. Such privateers received official letters of marque from the States General, the ruling body of the Republic of the Netherlands, authorizing them to harass Spanish shipping (the Republic of the Netherlands fought its own war for independence, against the Spanish, two centuries before the Americans fought theirs against the English). Each privateer expedition was financed by private backers who invested in the expedition in hopes of making a profit on the sale of any booty the privateer ship managed to acquire. So privateers were employed by the States General for a political end—helping to winning the war of independence against Spain—but they were also a species of entrepreneurial businessmen out to make their (and their backers’) fortune.

Simon Dancer was a particularly successful privateer Captain. He picked up the name “Dancer,” so the story goes, because he reliably returned to his home port at the end of each expedition (loaded with booty), and that sort of cruise—out and back again to the same port—was commonly referred to as a round dance.

Another Dutchman turned Corsair - Murad Reis earlier Jan Janszoon of Haarlem - Commander of the Sale Corsairs

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Heinrich said:
From Corsairs and Captives:

Simon Dancer was a Dutchman, likely born in Dordrecht, in the Netherlands, around 1570. By his thirties, he had become a privateer Captain. Such privateers received official letters of marque from the States General, the ruling body of the Republic of the Netherlands, authorizing them to harass Spanish shipping (the Republic of the Netherlands fought its own war for independence, against the Spanish, two centuries before the Americans fought theirs against the English). Each privateer expedition was financed by private backers who invested in the expedition in hopes of making a profit on the sale of any booty the privateer ship managed to acquire. So privateers were employed by the States General for a political end—helping to winning the war of independence against Spain—but they were also a species of entrepreneurial businessmen out to make their (and their backers’) fortune.

Simon Dancer was a particularly successful privateer Captain. He picked up the name “Dancer,” so the story goes, because he reliably returned to his home port at the end of each expedition (loaded with booty), and that sort of cruise—out and back again to the same port—was commonly referred to as a round dance.

Another Dutchman turned Corsair - Murad Reis earlier Jan Janszoon of Haarlem - Commander of the Sale Corsairs

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Thanks for this Heinrich. I’m attempting to read a report by Andrew Barker which was written in 1609 about these privateers. It has reference to Simon and John Ward, however it is in “old English “ and rather tedious to plough through. Cheers Grant
 
GrantTyler said:
Thanks for this Heinrich. I’m attempting to read a report by Andrew Barker which was written in 1609 about these privateers. It has reference to Simon and John Ward, however it is in “old English “ and rather tedious to plough through. Cheers Grant
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Check this out: http://corsairsandcaptivesblog.com/
 
Good morning. Some more ugly, cringe work.

Hull preparation:
The reinforcements glued into the correct place- huge amount of fairing ahead.
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I do not like the way the inner cannons will look.
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I inserted a dummy cannon rail for a longer dummy cannon will be inserted. I will have to buy 4 longer cannons (this will be an interesting experience). To get the depth perception I have painted the area around the bulkheads black.
I also added some bulkwarks supports to ensure good fitment .

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Cheers Grant
 
Ptèr said:
Looking great Grant. Some fairing ahead, it will keep you busy for the moment. Love the idea of the full cannons at the rear of the ship. It's will be a big improvement! Wish I thought of that, so thumps up and go for it. :D
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Good morning Peter. The idea for the full stern cannon came from doing 84 of them on the Victory - still burned into my mind ROTF.
Peter Voogt said:
But that gives you the opportunity to shape her lines you envision.
For now, nice to see how you visualize your personal touch, Grant.
Regard, Peter
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Good morning Peter. I have added more deck supports to maintain the shape of the extended hull and deck. At the moment it all looks a bit ragged, but I will slowly work it into shape and hopefully finishes well.

Grant
 
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