String in the waist

[Don Case]

On the Discovery1789 the gunports come right up to the caprail. This means that there is nowhere for the string in the waist. Do you think that the caprail may have been made a little more robust in order to take some load or would they just ignore it? Sorry for all the questions, they just pop up

 

[Uwek]

On the Discovery1789 the gunports come right up to the caprail. This means that there is nowhere for the string in the waist. Do you think that the caprail may have been made a little more robust in order to take some load or would they just ignore it? Sorry for all the questions, they just pop up


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Which loads do you mean?
the forces by the gun tackles and breeching ropes?
If yes - the bolts for the tackles were going trough the frame top timbers and were fixed there. So in my opinion there were no additional forces transfered to the caprail

Take a look at my Coureur - here the caprail was interrupted at the gunports




or The Granado where only the caprail is going over the gunports

 

[Don Case]

The Discovery is like the Granado. The loads I'm referring to are the longitudinal loads on the ship to help minimize sagging and hogging. Goodwin mentions it on pg 43 of English Man of War.