What is the correct terminology for the number of degrees a mast leans toward the stern of the ship? Thank you
Correct Terminology
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It is called a mast rake.
Thank you Jimsky, I'm working on the HMS Terror, I have a drawing profile from the National Maritime Museum in England that shows the bottom of the masts. Using triangulation and verifying it with an adjustable triangle I'm coming up with a mast rake of 3 degrees on the main and mizzen masts but the fore mast is a straight 90 degrees up.
I have the Betts book but there is nothing in there about that. If anyone out there knows how I can verify my calculations please let me know.
Thank you
Jim Maguire
I have the Betts book but there is nothing in there about that. If anyone out there knows how I can verify my calculations please let me know.
Thank you
Jim Maguire
Here you go, Jim
Shields Mast Rake
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Some rake more than others, and some have different rake on the same boat.
On the bowsprit it's called steeve
On the bowsprit it's called steeve
Some rake more than others, and some have different rake on the same boat.
On the bowsprit it's called steeve
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Interesting Jerry, I never heard of 'Steeve' before.. in Dutch (the mother tongue of boat building
) 'steven' is prow, 'boeg' is bow,'sprong' is steeve.
In linguistics this shift of meaning is quite common. A nice example is town (EN: small city), tuin (Dutch: garden), Zaun (German: fence around a garden).
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It's "rake", definitely.
Jimsky,
Thank you for the Shields "Mast Rake Calculation", I have two drawings but they don't have the detail to give me the "YM", "X" or "B" dimensions to work out the calculation; I will just stay with the triangulation and the adjustable triangle and hope for the best. Thank you to Jerry for the term "steeve" I calculated the "steeve" on the HMS Terror to be 23 degrees
Thank you for the Shields "Mast Rake Calculation", I have two drawings but they don't have the detail to give me the "YM", "X" or "B" dimensions to work out the calculation; I will just stay with the triangulation and the adjustable triangle and hope for the best. Thank you to Jerry for the term "steeve" I calculated the "steeve" on the HMS Terror to be 23 degrees
Rake.
Thank you all for your answers on the "rake" question; I'm relativity new at this modeling and I found that asking a question on this site gets better results from experienced modelers then spending hours of research on the internet. So here is another one; the HMS Terror had iron cladding added to her bow before the Artic Expedition in 1845, how is the best way to show this cladding? I've seen a lot of copper that can be bought but not anything representing iron cladding?
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Here is my little Erebus, sister ship to Terror - Iced up, and abandoned -
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What an interesting build. I really like it very much.