Detail on Drawing……Assistance Please!

[Seagull Shipwright]

Hi, just clearing the path ahead! Can someone offer me an insight into the following?


Item 1 appears to be a forked item supporting a wire or rope. I believe this is a hammock net support. You can see it appears to run out at arrows 2 & 3 (next photo). What is confusing me is the line above the line passing through the item. Can the hammock net have a wooden rail above?

Where there is a opening in the topside the hammock rail ends at a bulkhead see 3.

I think I have asked this before is item 5 a ventilation port between the top deck and the cabin areas below?

Finally what is item 4?

Thanks again to all the experts out there that provide me with guidance, it is much appreciated…..Seagull

 

[Roger Pellett]

#1 is a forked iron support for the wooden piece that supports the hammock netting. The bold line is the bottom of the piece. The lighter line is the top.

#4 appears to be a folding iron bracket for either the boat or studding sail booms.

Roger

 

[Seagull Shipwright]

Roger, thank you for taking the time to give me feedback. I am finding that the early “drawings” give the general idea and the detail is left to the shipwrights and other craftsmen working on the vessel construction.

Your input on item 1 aligns with my thinking I noted that 1 has a bar like item in the fork that appears to support the rail above. What also confused me was the support between 1 and2 that also shows no detail…designers license?

Thanks for your input regarding item 4 would you expect two to be shown on the drawing? If there were two the shape would lend itself to stowing a spar parallel to the ships side. Is that the general idea? I guess there would be another set of brackets on the other side of the vessel?

At the location of 5 is that a ventilation cowel (left) and a deck prism (right) I mention this, for your comments or to provide questions to others..

 

[dockattner]

#1 is probably something like this:

 

[Seagull Shipwright]

Dock and thank you for your input ….. I assume you fabricated them yourself?

Do you think if they were mounted outboard that the top rail may be wider and a duplicate set of metal work on the inside of the topsides?

Either way the two replies seem to answer my original question. Any views on item 4 and 5?

Thanks…..Seagull

 

[Seagull Shipwright]

By the way… excellent model. As a novice do you intend to plank and deck further or is this how you intended to exhibit the model, showing the internal detail.

Thanks again…

 

[Roger Pellett]

Item #5. They’re located just below the weather deck so don’t know how effective they would be for ventilation. prisms for Light were mounted horizontally in The deck.

I think that they might be scuppers to remove water from the weather deck. There would be a hole in the deck. Attached to the underside would be a metal or possibly leather elbow leading to a hole in the vessel’s side. The square door shown in the drawing would be hinged at the top to open under water pressure from the elbow.

Roger

 

[dockattner]

Dock and thank you for your input ….. I assume you fabricated them yourself?

Do you think if they were mounted outboard that the top rail may be wider and a duplicate set of metal work on the inside of the topsides?

Either way the two replies seem to answer my original question. Any views on item 4 and 5?

Thanks…..Seagull

Just a bit of soldering - pretty easy. I actually have some detail on their fabrication in my Kingfisher log - maybe around page 190 give or take 10 pages.