Hoy, 1760

[Albert Mary]

"The Liberation day" my way... Cheers!

 

[dockattner]

Wonderful model! Congratulations on your progress!

 

[Albert Mary]

Wonderful model! Congratulations on your progress!

Thanks mate, appreciated!

 

[Jackie Wolf]

Hi Albert, hope you are well. Good to see you back with great progress. Will your Hoy got the masks & rigging system? I found the rigging plan for the bowsprit in this kit is very different from David Antscherl.

 

[Albert Mary]

Hi Albert, hope you are well. Good to see you back with great progress. Will your Hoy got the masks & rigging system? I found the rigging plan for the bowsprit in this kit is very different from David Antscherl.

Hi Jackie. It's good to be back indeed. Early today I've scratched and glued on the two fashion pieces which required a tricky notch each to embed the extra beam (a bracket for the rear end of the cabin floor I added accordingly to Antscher's monograph). It was a bit of a damned job.
I'haven't made any decision on masting and rigging the model yet. Just in case, I will be following the monograph, although almost the entire pattern is a (qualified) guess of the author. Cheers.

 

[Albert Mary]

Honorable Members,
What's your valuable guess on that kind of "porthole". I've been puzzeling about it since I began the Hoy, but I still have no clue. I don't think it's a garnish, as it's believed by Wuxiaomeng (some siplified sort of those laurel wreaths on fashion untill the early decades on XVIII century). At some point I have been convinced it could be a round gunport without its lid, so I provided the deck beneath with an extra lodging knee and a couple of study carlings (see the piks obove) and I purchased two guns and carriages suitable as 3-4 pounders at 1:48 from Vanguard. But then I had to face two problems: the width of the deck (a bit too narrow even for a couple of those pop-guns, also due to the fact kit frames arrangement results in some 5 o 6 mm narrower model if compared to monograph) and the discontinuation in the wale inner spirketting.
I woke up this morning with a new theory: Considering the was just above the bench guessed by Antscherl, could have this been a kind of head (toilet), for peeing, vomiting, etc. ? @AllanKP69 ?
Thanks in advance for your opinion!
Regards,
Albert

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[kuba91nt]

Hoy is a typical harbour ship. These are probably portholes for ropes to float tree logs. That's why hole is near the capstan.
At least, that's my guess.

 

[Jackie Wolf]

Hoy is a typical harbour ship. These are probably portholes for ropes to float tree logs. That's why hole is near the capstan.
At least, that's my guess.

I think this make sense. it looks like kinds of fairlead that allows the line to get through. Laurels are too luxurious for a working ship.
Antscherl’s guess of that bench, suggests this could be a passenger ship. hoy are multi purpose ships.

 

[Albert Mary]

Hoy is a typical harbour ship. These are probably portholes for ropes to float tree logs. That's why hole is near the capstan.
At least, that's my guess.
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Thank you!

 

[Albert Mary]

I think this make sense. it looks like kinds of fairlead that allows the line to get through. Laurels are too luxurious for a working ship.
Antscherl’s guess of that bench, suggests this could be a passenger ship. hoy are multi purpose ships.

Thanks mate!