Your boat is neatly done. Is this from a kit? The reason I ask is that the location of the tholes is odd. Pinnaces were typically single banked with one thole on each thwart, alternating port and starboard. Your model has two tholes on one thwart, then none on the next one and so forth I realize this is a common mistake because some contemporary drawings (second boat below) only show tholes on one side as they are cutaway views and then some viewers assume there is a matching thole on the opposite side of the same thwart which is not the case for a pinnace. I hope this is making sense.
Not a kit scratch built from downloaded plan from grenwich maritime then from photos
Hi alan i am not a experienced model boat builder i was asked to build it for sunderland maritime they wanted a boat that would sit oh hms venerable a 1/10th scale model so it is only my representation of a 18th century pinnace just working off a very bad plan i could hardly make out hope this helps
Your model really does look neatly done! I love seeing such a huge scale ship and boat, I am guessing that is quite rare. Thanks for sharing the video it is well done.
), there are nearly 50 very detailed RMG plans of ships' boats in high resolution on the Wiki Commons site including 14 pinnace drawings available for free download. There are also books with details that would be helpful for anyone building a ship's boat such as The Arming and Fitting of English Ships of War, chapters 38-43, and The Boats of Men of War by W. E. May. Boat scantlings can be found in the book by May, as well as in David Steel's The Elements and Practice of Naval Architecture and Scantlings of Royal Navy Ships.Thanks for that info alan they do want more but finding time is the problem once again thank you for your commentsYour model really does look neatly done! I love seeing such a huge scale ship and boat, I am guessing that is quite rare. Thanks for sharing the video it is well done.
Regarding the plan that you used, it is a shame you could not get more detailed information. For the future, if they want additional boats (Venerable would have had six
Allan
You bring up an interesting point Jim, but so far, based on contemporary models and plans I have never seen a single banked boat with tholes or pins on both port and starboard for every thwart. There would be no reason to do so if the boat is 6 feet wide with no room for two oarsmen on each thwart. In looking again at a bunch of contemporary cutter and pinnace drawings, interestingly it seems that the single banked pinnaces mostly have the forward most thole starboard and on the single banked cutters the forward most thole is port. None of them have pins or tholes on both sides for every thwart so I assume (I know that is not usually a good idea
) they were actually built as in the models and drawings. In the end whether the first thwart has an oar starboard or port probably makes no difference. When I was a Plebe at the US Merchant Marine Academy we had to get qualified as a lifeboatman before starting our sea year which was the second of our four years there. We were on US flag merchant ships and had to go on board with a qualification and lifeboatman was the ticket. We learned to act as coxswain with a steering oar and give proper commands to load, row away and return to the dock. Seems basic, but for first timers, it was a challenge the first few tries. Ship oars!!
That makes sense. I would love to read some contemporary materials about this if there is any to be found. Once again, we could sure use Mr. Peabody's Wabac machine for a few days.
Cox with a steering oar?
These were Monomoy whale boats and there was no rudder on the ones at the academy, only steering oars. Fun times! Found this pic of a Monomoy with steering by oar.
