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mike5555

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Hello all!
I am looking for a set of plans to the "Lou Chandler" tugboat Survey number 16-71 from the HAMMS book collection. The only place I have found a set can be purchased from the Smithsonian
VERY costly! I am kind of a collector of plans from the late 1800's thru the early 1900's mostly the Old runabouts from John Hacker and other similar like Chris Craft, Ditchburn most of the barrel back type.
I have designed a few boats and built a few and would really love to build this tug I have a few similar sets but there is something about this one I really need to build. Digital or other would be just fine I can even work from offsets. Please let me know and if anyone has any thing they may need.
Thank you for looking.
Mike
 
I have a copy of HAMMS... Are you looking for a copy of those plans? I could scan them for you on the large format printer/scanner at Kinkos.
 
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Wow that would be excellent I have been looking for a set for a few years now and recently found them on the Smithsonian sight.
Please send me a message on what I can do for you.
Thank you!!!!
Mike
 
I am a retired Mechanical Engineer and since I was a kid I have always had a thing for boats. My father was a Pattern maker, model maker and did work for the Lans Corporation "later becoming the owners right hand" out of Lansing Michigan and would take me to work with him on weekends. I was always fascinated with the lines drawings of whatever the engineers had on their desks and walls. One of the engineers had a drawing that was very similar to the Lou Chandler and I really wanted it. Over the years I have kept my eyes open for my White Wale and have found the #21 and #22 Crowleys and the Marie L. Hanlon but when I saw a picture of the Chandler I knew that was the one I had to have. I1 really love the OLD HIGHLY detailed boat drawings of yesteryear and am always looking for what ever I can find. Thankfully I have a couple kids that share my enthusiasm for these prints so they will be passed down and kept alive.
 
I looked up the Lans Corporation and it seems that they were professional pattern makers. Foundries making castings would subcontract the patterns to them. This was highly skilled work requiring the ability to translate an orthographic (2D) drawing into a three dimensional carved wooden pattern.

We have a local company named Superior Lidgerwood that makes winches, mostly for naval vessels. They have donated a number of patterns to local museums. The University of Michigan operates a large tank where ship models are towed to determine hull resistance. When I was a student there back in the ‘60’s, they had a model shop that built the models. These were carved from laminated blocks of “pattern makers pine. Beautiful stuff!

Today the models are subcontracted and are made from fiberglass.

Roger
 
Hi Roger
That in fact is what they did. On weekends my father would take me to the plant where when he was done doing his administrative work he would take me down to the wood shop and teach me how to use the wood working equipment. Wow the amounts of MAHOGANY was overwhelming, to this day I have never seen so much in one area. I built my first pinewood derby car in that shop in 1972. of course it was built from a cutoff of laminated mahogany.
 
Hi Jeff, I'm an Italian model maker, I saw the plans you scanned, I like them a lot, would it be possible to have them?
Please send me a message on what I can do for you. Thanks Roberto
 
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