Clipper Ship Build Thoughts

I have a set of plans for the Flying Fish, but an instruction manual would be great
My address is
28700 Trails Edge Blvd. #606
Bonita Springs, FL
34134
Yesterday I got all the masts out together. I'm finding that alot of fittings can be home made.

Let me know about cost
Clink
 
Bill-R said:
I am planning on a scratch build of a clipper ship. Lately there has been a lot of posts regarding clipper ships. This has peaked my interest. I find that I really like the lines of the clippers. I also find schooners attractive. My thoughts for a build will be the Ed Tosti Young America or the Scott Bradner Flying Could plans. The build will be a POB. The Ed Tosti plans are beautiful and I have the books to go along with the plans. Having the books will greatly aide me in construction. I have also gotten a set of the Scott Bradner's Flying Cloud plans. These plans appear to be a very complete set of plans. At this time, because I find both ships appealing, I am stuck in the middle as far as a decision on which to build.

Would anyone have any thoughts, opinions or suggestions as to which to choose.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Bill
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I know I'm an old bloke, and been dallying with models for over a half century, but it was only last year that I stumbled over the 'Aberdeen Bow' phenomenon that started the whole clipper ship thing.
Serendi[itously, also in the last century, I started a model of the Scottish Maid - the ship that started it all. I was away from home on a contract and needed something to stop going mad. The model was pone thing, falling into the OldTools virtual Porch was the other.

So my advice is easy - go to the start of clippers. There is now far more information available and that halted model will come out of dock, the tape on the sealed box will be slit open, and a few decades of additional knowledge will see it completed, better rigged, better finished, better planked, better detailed, than ever it was envisioned on a Swedish coffee table in a Swedish company flat (apartment) with next to no tools or holding devices.

start here, then more research..

https://ecoclipper.org/News/the-clipper-bow/

J
 
Clink said:
Just got all the bulk heads (plank-on-bulkhead) traced onto plywood (1/2/2025) and will start cutting them out.
For the first time I purchased a set of plans from "Model Shipways/Model Expo", not getting younger here.
The plans came 1/8"=1' with dimensions for the real Flying Fish.
LOA 222 Feet had to be reduced to a 50-inch model size, thank-you for computers
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Clink,
You mentioned that the LOA 222' had to be reduced to a 50" model size. Yet at 1/8" = 1' a 222' model hull is only 27 & 3/4th" LOA slightly larger than 1/2 the size you're discussing. That's nowhere near as long as 50". Did you scale up everything or what am I missing here? For the past few years, Rob Wiederrich and I have discovered that there are a lot of discrepancies between existing Model Shipways Flying Fish plans, the actual vessel as described in the Boston Daily Atlas article and a famous contemporary painting illustrated by JE Buttersworth. You can reference other builds here and in Model Ship World for greater details. Here's an actual tracing of McKay's vessel.

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