MSW USS Constitution

I had no idea that the USS Constitution had wooden fenders at the waterline. I looked for more information and found out it's a modern contrivance being installed the first time during her1973-1974 dry docking, and they were replaced with new ones during the 2015-2017 restoration . I bet they would have been hated by any captain if they tried that when she was a fighting ship as these would have appreciably slowed the ship down. :) The below is a great photo and the attached explains how they were made. https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2017/07/07/finishing-touches/ Scroll down to "Fenders"
Allan
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AllanKP69 said:
I had no idea that the USS Constitution had wooden fenders at the waterline. I looked for more information and found out it's a modern contrivance being installed the first time during her1973-1974 dry docking, and they were replaced with new ones during the 2015-2017 restoration. I bet they would have been hated by any captain as would appreciably slow the ship down. :)
Allan
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Makes sense. But I thought long and hard about the whole red stripe thing too and came to the conclusion that I wanted to see that on the ship.
That is the way that it is presented in the Lauck Street Shipyard instructions as well.
 
Jack Sparrow said:
Well, as expected, the poly reduced the amount of verdigris on the hull. I like the look better than just verdigris because it shows the copper as a brown with a little bit of verdigris. Now onto the port side. I must say that I am not really enjoying this step. It's boring

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Kudos Jack. I promised myself never to copper a hull…… Cheers Grant
 
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