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A Dutch Fluyt in shell first, reconstructing the "Ghost ship" scale 1:36

Thx Ab, you are an early bird :-)
If you have the article that would be interesting.

Hi Markus @flying_dutchman2
That these ships mainly hauled fir and pine can also be seen in the size of the door/port. It is +/- 2,5 Amsterdam foot square, which is some 70 cm.
A super heavy oak trunk is not fitting through this.
Pine and fir is possible and was used in trunks for masts.
To move them through the hold you can use tackles from the deck beams but that is my own interpretation.

I haven't seen a hatch on the side in my ship up till now. But it provides acces to the koebrug which is also accesable via the ports in the great cabin.
 
Another surprisingly effective simple machine was a series of rollers. These could have been nothing more than a series of short pieces of round tree trunks. As the load rolls along someone removes the used roller from behind the load and moves it to the front. My father and I once moved a small building using this technique. Motive power was a farm tractor with me moving the rollers.

These rollers could have been used on the pier to roll the timber into the hole in the vessel’s stern. Once the load’s center of gravity approached the hole, then a tackle would have been attached to the end of the timber inside the hull.

My understanding is that this was a very old and specialized trade. In the shipping industry, time is money and a major time and therefore a cost factor was loading and unloading cargo. This has led to specialized port facilities for handling cargos. Perhaps the most dramatic example are the huge gravity piers here on the Northern Great Lakes that can load 25000 tons of refined iron ore pellets in a few hours. (Photo of loading facility at Two Harbors, MN below). It’s, therefore, reasonable to assume that thought and innovation also went into building specialized loading piers to turn these lumber carrying Flutes around quickly. It’s also possible that the Flutes were standardized to be able to mate with the piers.

Roger

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Slow progress on the fluyt due to too much other obligations, but the hull planking below the wales is coming to an end.
In the stern still 2 planks to go.
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In the bow still one plank to go.
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In the mid section the next plank will connect with one plank from the bow and two from the stern, this to create a plank with an even width to close the hull planking below the lower wale.
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Hopefully I can finalize that somewhere in the coming week.
 
Maarten said:
Slow progress on the fluyt due to too much other obligations, but the hull planking below the wales is coming to an end.
In the stern still 2 planks to go.
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In the bow still one plank to go.
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In the mid section the next plank will connect with one plank from the bow and two from the stern, this to create a plank with an even width to close the hull planking below the lower wale.
View attachment 556950

Hopefully I can finalize that somewhere in the coming week.
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Slow progress = progress! That’s looking very nice and authentic, Maarten.
Regards, Peter
 
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