Schooner JACINTHE, Kgdm. of France, 1825 Scratch 1/64

[Iterum]

Dear Friends,


a healthy and merry 2025 for all of you!

As I want to start my YouTube channel "Berlin Card Yard'' this year I looked through all my projects - what ship to show in the build?

Most of my boats and ships do need a plenty of nerdish reconstruction. So I decided not to start with those as this is too complex and unshure in it's results. It is needed something "straight foreward" to show it in a series of short lifestreams (as I am unfit to cut and render online) on YouTube, so I was told in a lot of tutorials about starting a YouTube project.

So I leafed through my libary and was uncertain with a plenty of drawings I found made by MacGregor, Underhill, Marquardt and certainly others:


So I leafed through books with drawings about Pilot Boats, Cat Boats, Sand Baggers, Fishing Luggers, Baltimore Clippers, small merchant vessels and a lot of them kissed my mind as ST.HELENA - GB,1814 nicely reconstructed:


With a nice cut through in a seperated plate:

But without of a plenty of details as always!

Then I turnt into my jewel of my shelfs into Ancre part of my libary and bumped into the following passage:



Jean Boudriot gives this as his starter monography for modelbuilders and that single sentence was the very hook that took me! I dealt with her years ago I do know - but my stroke has vanished any reliable memory. Here a WL-type with full sails and the Pure White Royal Flag (1650-1789/1815-1830) of the Kingdom of France showing her real beauty:



So I figured out my copied English version was in a removal box (but what box between "Ships N°1" and "Ships N°33" !?), but I was lucky this afternoon on "Ships N°9" - and now I am nearly able to start:



But why this small French schooner from the Restauration Era with it's oppulently pictured monography?



At first I do think, the decorative parts are very limited on the stern surrounding the transom easily light and lovely:



Due to this the figurehead is not too complex to construct being a snake:



JB made a plenty of suiperbe drawings for us without any CAD-errors in it:



There are a plenty of details given in the monography and it's drawings - as the precise layout of the planking of JACINTHE here above.



The scale of 1/48 is easily reduced by 75% on a Xerox to get the 1/64 drawings I do need. By this the hull length becomes 360mm/14" and I can deal with this hull in my 800×600mm card yard space in my Ikea Ivar shelf (even the 1/48 scale would be able with a managable 480mm length of hull).



As I looked into the monography I figured out there are very detailed instructions on the masting...



...and the sails and it's riggings:



Here the drawings of all stentions needed for the handrail (or is it called bulkwalk instead?) in very nice detailling (on the left):



As JB says a lathe is a crucial pice of equipment for JACINTHE so I am following His advise to build a stump masted hull model as a first step:



By this I could "legally" avoid the pair of 12 pounder carronades on my first deck.

So this will be my start - tomorrow JACINTHE's plan set will have it's journey towards the copy shop and be reduced from 1/48 down to 1/64 for the first. It's clear to me I do left behind a plenty of other projects - but sometimes it is like this:

"The good's enemy is the better."​

as we do say in Germany.


Thanks you very much and have a great first day in 2025, friends!

 

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Hello from my drawing table working in the 1/64 copy of JACINTHE - fitting absolutly into DIN A3 sheets of paper I do show my material to you.

But let's start with the beauty of the ship in Detail - we will come to the big Sheets in a moment.


Here the spinned off DIN A4 sheets of the bow and transom and in detail from plate 2 for easier handling:


Something not too big called "transom" I do think about the wreath surrounding in thick aluminium foil (to be cut out).

As I promised the big sheets all in all there are three of them for the planed hullmodel.

Plate 3 does hold the placing of the stanchions and detailling of the deck's furniture:



Plate 1 does deal with the hull's lines and the bulkheads by tbis including the exact placement of any single plank, too:



Here some further details for the interested ones:





I may avoid the carronades but I am not really shure (also Wolfram zu Mondfeld argiued to think about the ready model at the very beginning of the planing - otherwise you have to do some rough planning ...)

So thats the first step done - let's look foreward to the cutting of the (mirrowed) parts over the weekend.

 

[Iterum]

Hello and good evenig from Berlin!

As always something is Missing - I forgot to mirror one Plate:


So tomorrow I will have to redo this! Also I do need to enlarge the ribbon band to work in it toblater adding it reduced onto the transom:


So I do think about the detailing and the build.

@Ab Hoving Dear Ab I found this picture of your Fleute -



and dealt with it in my programm and it now it does look like this:


You told about _"Decorative Self-Adhesive Film, Whitewood" - what colour you did use two paint these - and is the wooden texture in/close enough to scale? Did you use ink for weathering?

Could you kindly help me with this question?

 

[Bill-R]

I really like the lines of schooners. I will be following along with great interest.

Bill

 

[Iterum]

I really like the lines of schooners. I will be following along with great interest.

Bill

Thanks a lot, Bill - but it will be a rocky road to a simple pice of a model - nothing like Ab Hoving's wonderful artwork! Sorry for this!
If you like schooners here an interesting pice of source:

 

[Bill-R]

The LA JACINTHE is on my short list for my first scratch build.

Bill

 

[Iterum]

Dear Friends

tomorrow I will start my first Video from the BERLIN CARD YARD workbrench after the findling the twin gauge ruler in my collection of drawings materials:

"N°1 - Presenting The Project"

 

[Iterum]

The LA JACINTHE is on my short list for my first scratch build.

Bill

That's great - I love to see you starting, Bill.

 

[Peter Voogt]

A interesting scratch paper/cardboard build of this nice schooner, Chris.
Regards, Peter

 

[Iterum]

A interesting scratch paper/cardboard build of this nice schooner, Iterum.
Regards, Peter

Thanks you, very much Peter.

There are only two good tasks for this year:
• Rebuild of my flat
• JACINTHE,1825

Hopefully it will work.

 

[Peter Voogt]

Thanks you, very much Peter.

There are only two good tasks for this year:
• Rebuild of my flat
• JACINTHE,1825

Hopefully it will work.

Aai, now I see in your signature it’s Chris.
And good luck with the flat.
Regards, Peter

 

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Herro Friends, my rial with the YouTube Channel ended in a disaster - not a second was recorded, I will have to rearrange the hole thing.


On the other hand I figured out I will need 3 mm thick card for the center(line)board - so I ordered a pile of sheets online - 50 pieces will be enough...

...hopefully.
A smaller sized DIN D3 (272×385mm) sized board was much cheaper than typ A3 (297×420mm) - so I ordered thes being long enough to do the job of 332mm length.

Sorry Ladies and Gentlemen.
That's all for today!

 

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This morning I couldn't find any sleep - so I invented an idea to get the spaces between the bulkheads filled (cheaper than by Balsa Wood).

As the bulkheads thickness is 3mm I can use the purchased cardboard.


I pointed out every 2nd "WL" and have them Roman numbers to distinguish them from the bulkheads:


After this the bulkheads we're drawn in in blue and...


...the horizontal layers to place between the bulkheads are added- to give you some first idea I coloured WL-IV in pink and WL-VI in brown. By this we die get the Mosaik parts WE do need to fill the gaps between the bulkheads AND coming close the hull's shape:

I do know that Ab was able to work without such pices (but as I prefere to look on the bright side of life) to support the outside layers from softer cardboard. I hope to be able to support the soft cardboard not to sink in between the bulkheads as my scale isn't his 1/77 but my stays with 1/64 due to this the gap is a larger one.

That's sadly all I have to show on my progress to you this morning.

 

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And as far as I do remember there was a plank nailed below the keel as a bumper to protect keel and copperplating from damage in case of sea floor contact.

Looking at this picture I do see a plank along the downside of the keel:


So when cutting out the centerboard - I have to cut off this plank (Here coloured in Graphit Grey)?


Thanks for you intrest and support.

 

[Iterum]

Dear Friends for the Schooner,

during my preparation for the filming I certainly had had a look onto the deck and it's furniture:


By this I figured out there are not any capstains in the drawings - not even holes or any fixing structure!

Here both types (main one laying and smaller one standing) luckely in one picture; found in the "DREIMASTGALLIOT FRIEDERICH -WILHELM DER 2TE von 1789" by Geyer/Lexow/Sohn - (Rostock,1990) as a reference picture:


First I do think about a rainy wet sail being lifted with an incredible weight of water in the canvas - and certainly the anchors (her together with Monsieur Isidor de Échelle for scale) of wrought iron:


So could Jean Boudriot really have had forgotten such an important feature in the plan?

So I looked in the original and contemporary plans given to us in the monography:

But nor the bigger LA BÉRNAISE of 1832

here the deck and side view in detail:



Not the more progressed LA MUTINE do show

any capstains or even fixing points for the massive construction:


So what to do about this mess?

 

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So I looked for any other sources and bumped into a replica of the IRIS-class schooner "still alive and kicking" at Brest...



As LA RECOUVRANCE of Brest do have working sails there must be made able to be handled! So I looked into the photos on Wikipedia and there it was:


It is an imposing piece of equipment being driven by a forklift:


And the view over the deck shows the placing right in the bow:


And exactly here it is placed as it should be:


But in the original drawings by JB we do not find any hint to this important feature in the plan:

...but the galley is given to us in page 47 of the English monography very detailed:



and due to this you have to buy your next monography...

 

[Iterum]

Leafing through my Lennarth Pettersson "RIGGING PERIOD FORE-AND-AFTER CRAFT" Istopped here - is this of any good for JACINTHE?

 

[Iterum]

BREAKING NEWS:



Hello my dear friends,
the very first humble YouTube footage on my channel is online for you and public. The link is to be found in my signature.
Hope you do like it!​

 

[Iterum]

And as far as I do remember there was a plank nailed below the keel as a bumper to protect keel and copperplating from damage in case of sea floor contact.

Looking at this picture I do see a plank along the downside of the keel:
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So when cutting out the centerboard - I have to cut off this plank (Here coloured in Graphit Grey)?
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Thanks for you intrest and support.

As this lowest "bumper plank" is running along the hole keel without any pomp and circumstances

I decided to left it away from the center board - to add it above the copper plating later on. One of the easiest decissions to make...

 

[Iterum]

So I looked for any other sources and bumped into a replica of the IRIS-class schooner "still alive and kicking" at Brest...

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As LA RECOUVRANCE of Brest do have working sails there must be made able to be handled! So I looked into the photos on Wikipedia and there it was:


It is an imposing piece of equipment being driven by a forklift:
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And the view over the deck shows the placing right in the bow:
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And exactly here it is placed as it should be:
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But in the original drawings by JB we do not find any hint to this important feature in the plan:View attachment 494186

...but the galley is given to us in page 47 of the English monography very detailed:

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and due to this you have to buy your next monography...

I did find an incredible building block in here for the Pinky Schooner DOVE based on the Chapelle planset built by @polydoc on a Level of Detail I hopefully can follows:

Dove - A pinkie Schooner in 1/48 Scale [COMPLETED BUILD]

In his book “The American Fishing Schooners” (AFS) Howard Chapelle devotes a chapter to the development of the double ended pinkie as a fishing vessel. He also writes about this design as a pleasure craft in “American Sailing Craft”. Chapelle obviously thought highly of the sea worthiness of...

shipsofscale.com

in this I found an interesting little detail to Deal with the very same problems of lifting heavy items aboard:



The laying capstain in the stem end of the deck - I will Look into my Chapelle's "The Fishing Schooner" and try to copie the structure...

What is your opinion to this idea?