BlueJacket Shipcrafters West Coast Lumber Schooner kit

[alross2]

Plans #2. This will be followed by a standard set of side view/top view plans for both houses.

 

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Third set of drawings completed. Have started the "sticks" plans and will probably have them done today.

 

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The "sticks".

 

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Guess it's time to start rigging.

 

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Some of today's drawings at reduced scale. They will be full size on the kit plans which will be 36" wide.

 

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Added the top view of the framing. Port side just shows subdeck applied, starboard side shows actual framing, fillers, etc. I do like the ability to add color to the drawings to differentiate the parts.

 

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A few more details added. The boat on the davits has lasered floorboards and thwarts added and fire buckets have been placed around the skylight. Another boat with lashings has been added to the fore house roof.

 

[Roger Pellett]

Very nice Al. The ship’s boat hanging on davits from the stern actually looks like a schooner yawl boat, not the often kit supplied generic warship boat.

Well done

Roger

 

[alross2]

This week and next (at a minimum) will be spent drawing. I've been creating the plans by importing the laser drawings as a base which speeds up the process and also gives me another fit check. These two will probably be rearranged several times before they're done. These are the 24" x 36" sheets.

 

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More as-yet completed drawings. The image with the spacing of the lower deadeyes shown is probably the most useful one. On the rigging drawings, they will take the appropriate angles to match the stays and shrouds.

 

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I love the ability to change things easily with the computer drawings. As you can see, this is quite different from this same drawing posted earlier. Still have to add the gaffs, deadeyes, rigging and a few other details.

 

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A few more completed kit plans in the 11" x 17" size.

 

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Mostly-finished Running and Standing Rigging plans. Both are greatly reduced from their original 24" x 36" format. I prefer to do separate rigging plans as it makes them less confusing for the builder with limited familiarity with rigging. Because the original vessels used slats for ratlines, I've used the same laser-cut ladder format as I did with WYOMING, NOTMAN, and a few other kits.

 

[alross2]

Well, the West Coast Lumber Schooner display model is boxed up and going to Nic for rigging (he enjoys rigging, I don't) . I still have to do the sail plan, write the instructions, and, when he's finished the rigging, add a few more items to the display model. Since these boats had the slat ratlines, we've included the laser-cut ones in this kit - real time saver.

 

[11320 Titanic]

One of the boats that was an iron oar hauler on the Delaware River that played an important role in our Revoluionary war were Durham boats. These boats hauled the Continital Army across the river for the battles of Trenton and Princeton.
They had two bows, no stern, were from 50 to 70 feet in length. The large 70 footers had a removable mast to take advantage of any wind as they were heavily constructed and a task to move by oar. They were also pushed along by poles and thr rails were walk ways for the pole men to walk along using those poles.
These were commercial boats that were used by Washington to save the Army after New York and have minimal rigging for thr single mast and played an important role in out early history...would, I think, make an excellent Americana modrl!

 

[11320 Titanic]

One of the boats that was an iron oar hauler on the Delaware River that played an important role in our Revoluionary war were Durham boats. These boats hauled the Continital Army across the river for the battles of Trenton and Princeton.
They had two bows, no stern, were from 50 to 70 feet in length. The large 70 footers had a removable mast to take advantage of any wind as they were heavily constructed and a task to move by oar. They were also pushed along by poles and thr rails were walk ways for the pole men to walk along using those poles.
These were commercial boats that were used by Washington to save the Army after New York and have minimal rigging for thr single mast and played an important role in out early history...would, I think, make an excellent Americana model! I think Ab would enjoy such a model.