"Flying Cloud " by Mamoli - kit bash

[ClipperFan]

I'd like to know as well. I have never seen a deckhouse with large skylights atop it. Ample light is collected from the side windows. Skylights are needed when there is no other source of light, but by it. Like a cabin or dining cabin within the hull.

Rob

Rob,
It strikes me that structural components which make up a great portion of a clipper ship, like her hull profile and spars are treated with great accuracy (save for missing navel hoods and cutwater). Such items like deck furniture and structures seem to be more conjecture than anything else.

 

[Peter Gutterman]

If conjecture was as structurally sound as the common use of it would suggest, perhaps the world's structural institutions wouldn't be falling apart quite as fast as they appear to be.

 

[Peter Gutterman]

Rob,
It strikes me that structural components which make up a great portion of a clipper ship, like her hull profile and spars are treated with great accuracy (save for missing navel hoods and cutwater). Such items like deck furniture and structures seem to be more conjecture than anything else.

After giving serious consideration to the above and other comments concerning my inclusion of skylights, I decided to hit the "skylight delete" key and return my main deck house roof to the more conservative assessment of how it most likely appeared in 1851. Fortunately, unlike other decisions that I made when I was 18 and had to live with for the rest of my life, this one was reversable. So, having used white glue that can easily be undone with isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol and finding that I was only "a little bit pregnant", I was able to undo the skylight decision and return my cabin roof to its previously pristine virgin condition. As Rob has suggested " A little bit of paint can hide a multitude of sins". That and the judicious use of easily reversable adhesives.

Pete