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'Doris' UK east coast bawley

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scratchbuild

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Doris is now complete. Another UK East Coast working boat added to my collection. I have made the deck furniture and rigging representational, I cannot claim great accuracy for I have worked mostly from photographs. Doris is a Bawley, once working out of the Thames estuary for shrimp or shellfish. You may have noticed that there is no boom. Mainsails were loose footed on these craft. I hope group members like my approach. I neglected to run log on this build so I have posted straight to completed builds.

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Very nice! I'm starting to become really interested in smaller 'workboats' such as this. I have a 'Hoy' taking form on my drawing board right now. Have you built any 'Hoys'?
 
scratchbuild said:
Doris is now complete. Another UK East Coast working boat added to my collection.
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Cap'n Scratch:
Nice! What scale is this model? There are many examples of loose-footed lugsails but loose-footed gaff sails like this are less common. Often, watermen using small craft disliked booms as hazardous. A boom can 1) be an extra stick that gets in the way of fishing and other activities 2) hit you in the head, and 3) trip the boat in a knockdown. Fair winds!
 
MThomas said:
Very nice! I'm starting to become really interested in smaller 'workboats' such as this. I have a 'Hoy' taking form on my drawing board right now. Have you built any 'Hoys'?
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Small workboats are fascinating and fun to model. You can build them in larger scales allowing much detail and less persnickety work. And you can avoid repetitious work (e.g. building 74 guns for a 74-gun ship of the line). Researching how distinctive small craft were developed and built locally for specific work is very rewarding. Some books on the topic include:
  • American Small Sailing Craft, Howard Chapelle
  • Building Classic Small Craft, John Gardner
  • Spritsails and Lugsails, John Leather
  • Gaff Rig, John Leather
  • Scottish Fishing Boats of the Nineteenth Century, Hamish Barber
  • The Little Boats: Inshore Fishing Craft of Atlantic Canada, Ray MacKean and Robert Percival
  • Model Boat Building: The Spritsail Skiff, Steve Rogers and Patricia Stay-Rogers
  • The Sloops of the Hudson River, Paul Fontenoy
  • The Whaleboat, Willits Ansel
  • The Sea Bright Skiff and Other Jersey Shore Boats, Peter Guthorn
Fair winds!
 
AndyA said:
Cap'n Scratch:
Nice! What scale is this model? There are many examples of loose-footed lugsails but loose-footed gaff sails like this are less common. Often, watermen using small craft disliked booms as hazardous. A boom can 1) be an extra stick that gets in the way of fishing and other activities 2) hit you in the head, and 3) trip the boat in a knockdown. Fair winds!
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The model is 400mm loa including the rudder (excl. bow sprit) so that's about 1/30. Its not that precise, I'm not a person who worries too much about scale. Hope that admission doesn't shock. I do not know precisely why these craft are boomless but a suspect it is for practical. I am thinking gear handling.
 
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