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Charles Morgan Bark 1:64 POB - By Bill-R

Hello everyone,

Thanks for the comments and likes.

This is my third ship made from basswood mainly. I have found that it is very difficult to make basswood look good from close up. Fortunately, most of the Morgan is painted. The deck planking is natural, but it will be mostly be covered by furniture and equipment.

Bill
 
Bill-R said:
Hello everyone,

I have gotten the filler blocks for the bow and stern installed and shaped. The transom frames are in and at the correct angle. The outer transom frames lean back to match the transom and they also lean in to match the angle of the hull. I have also gotten the waterways installed. It's not real clear as to the instillation of the waterways and the planksheer. I was looking at some other builds and saw some builders installed the waterways first and then the planksheer, while others did it just the opposite. It doesn't show it on the plans, but the the waterways are faired at about a 45deg to just above the height of the deck planks.

Bill

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Exquisite skylight, typical of your crisply detailed workmanship on this kit build. It's a joy to behold!

Did the MS Charles W. Morgan kit originally supply a casting for the skylight or did they expect the modeler to build it from scratch? You've certainly produced a skylight with more detail than what was provided in MS's plans! I don't see how anybody could build a skylight from the MS drawings that was an accurate rendition of the prototype. You did a good job trying to meet that challenge. There's no way anybody could have known that the metal protective bars were set in separate frames from the glass from the MS plans. See photos of the prototype below. I have found similar issues with the 1939 plans, drawn a couple of years prior to her transfer to Mystic Seaport's ownership, and revised in 1957, by Marine Models Co. Mystic Seaport's plans library offers copies from a set of Morgan plans drawn more recently at a substantial price. Mystic's library has construction drawings of the skylight done in 1981. See: http://mobius.mysticseaport.org/detail.php?module=objects&type=related&kv=331331

On and off, I've long been conducting research for a Morgan model. I do not include the Morgan among "models that should be built" by Howard I. Chapelle's measure. (See: https://thenrg.org/resource/articles/ship-models-that-ought-to-be-buillt and https://thenrg.org/resource/articles/ship-models-that-should-not-be-built) There are surely more than enough Morgan models in the world by now and there's little point, other than to produce one's own decorator model, for adding another unless there might be something that sets a further Morgan apart from it's predecessors. To that end, I've been researching the Morgan's "as launched" appearance with an eye to building a model of her as of her 1841 launching. While I have certainly not exhausted known available historical resources, I would like to enquire whether anybody has anything to add to a couple of questions I haven't as yet been able to find answered with academically acceptable citations to authority. The first question is "Was the Morgan's "hurricane shed" part of her original build, or added later?" The second question is whether or not, "When she was launched, was her windlass mounted abaft the foremast where the forward companionway is now located and the forward companionway located before the foremast, or not? I'm just taking a long shot and hoping maybe some Morgan fan who's following this great build log may know. If not, I'll talk to an acquaintance who's worked on Mystic's conservation staff rebuilding the Morgan who ought to know the answers. As far as I know, there are no extant documentation of the Morgan's original configuration as of her launch. (I am aware, of course, that she was ship rigged when launched.)


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