I present to you the first published pages of the Pirate Ship document.

[AllanKP69]

I think you might be surprised at how low the ceiling height was below deck on many ships of that time period.

For a crew walking the worst case is from the deck surface to the under side of the beams above which are shown on the drawings. The height between the bottom of the deck beam above and the surface of the deck below varied. Below are two fifty gun ships, Litchfield 1695 and Portland 1770 with the dimensions on the various decks. In the Portland drawing the legend at the top gives the distance from the beam on of the QD to the top of the beams of the round house. (Underlined portion) Both drawings were scaled to 1:1 then the measurements taken.
Allan

 

[UVSaturated]

Hi UVS
As you are still in the drawing stages are you open to changing anything? Some things in your drawings are very different than actual construction practice on the ships and contemporary models such as the joints of the keel, cannon pattern and carriage pattern.
Cheers
Allan

I would consider anything anyone points out, however I am not drawing this to be completely historic or authentic. I've tried to adopted different joints and ways of fastening things with more modern connectors, and criteria in woodworking that a regular joe could conveiveably do in a small woodworking shop, by limiting the overall sizes of the lumber they would easily be able to work with and sizes for each piece which would not be too expensive or rare to find. Large timbers are expensive and not as available as smaller pieces. Steel bolts and connectors, plates, etc is much easier to produce and buy off the shelf than back then when they had to manufacture everything in forges. I pretty much know every aspect of both woodworking and machining, so I am trying to basically make a hybrid design of old techniques and new ones. I am not so closed minded to look at something and say "hey that is a reasonable and meaningful or more efficient design"