YUANQING BLUENOSE - Peter Voogt [COMPLETED BUILD]

dockattner said:
I haven't really posted recently Peter, but this seems like a good time to share how astounded I continue to be by your work product. What is especially impressive is that there is no drop off in the 'excellence factor' as you move across mediums (wood, textiles, metals). Really, really nice work my friend!
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Hi Paul. Thank you very much for these fine words and compliments. At this stages, working on the front deck, I am often puzzling for hours to find a (for me ;)) acceptable solution. And now, installing the anchors, the space is limited and the parts became smaller and smaller. It's driving me to the limit.
Regards, Peter
 
Some interesting quotes from the Sage and Chapelle’s book (sometimes contradictory):
Fishing or Banks anchor:
This anchor & hemp cable used on the Fishing Banks.
Iff the anchor & cable had to be slipped for any reason, the loss was less expensive then the loss of the Club anchor & chain cable.
The large banks anchor was used only on the banks. This anchor was taken apart and stowed on deck forward of the windlass. The stock was lashed alongside the anchor, which was secured with flukes aft, crown forward. The anchor divit was unshipped and secured underneath the anchor.
Club of Harbor anchor:
The iron anchor, used in harbors, was usually stowed on the rail abaft the anchor davit, if it were to be used often, with the anchor davit in place.
Davits of Catheads:
The iron anchor davit always had its brace on the foreside, out of the way when the anchor was being brought to the rail.
Chain cable:
Chain cable was not used on the banks, but only for harbor service, so only a relatively small amount was carried, usually in a (bottomless) chain box on deck, abreast the foremast.

These 2 pages from “The American Fishing Schooners” from Howard Chapelle gave me a lot of information about the davits and anchors:
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(Source: Pages 319 and 399 form Howard Chapelle book, as quote above.)
With accompanying text:
Catting and stowing anchor:
The anchor was raised and brought to the hawse with the cable. The hawser ring was hooked with the “fishhook” and the tail of this was spliced over a thimble of to a large ring, into which the hook of the jumbo top lift tackle was hooked.
With this the anchor was brought up and aft (the cable being slacked simultaneously). Then, when the fishhook was within reach, the cat stopper was passed through the hawser sing, thence up and over the cathead sheave, then under the snatch and belayed on cleat of rail stanchion.
Now the anchor was hanging for the cathead. The fishhook was disengaged and used to snatch an anchor fluke, and with the jumbo top lift tackle the crown of the anchor was brought to the top of the rail. The anchor could now be lashed to the rail with a shank painter to a ringbolt centered at the padding of the bulwarks. If to be stowed on deck, the anchor was pried over the rail with the anchor spoon, so that it could be brought inboards.

And after a lot of hours, this was the result. With some AL-FI: The Banks anchor is on the railing and the Club anchor is on the deck:
(To Rich @PT-2: ready for fishing, no racing.)
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To which I added:
-anchor pads of the Buffalo rail to prevent damaging when the anchor is hanging there;
-cleats and snatches on the bulwarks;
-rail plates at the top hinge point of the davits;
-belaying pins;
-eyebolts and rings;
-cat stoppers on the davits;
-chains to secure the anchors on the railing;
-bank anchor with wooden stock and Manilla cable, the stock bolted and served with 2 ropes of hemp cable;
-club anchor (3D printed) with a chain, secured on the deck;
-chain box.
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And 2 overview pictures from a lower point of view:
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The front deck is now well equipped. Another chapter closed.
Perhaps the 'Fish hooks' comes later. ;)
Regards, Peter
 
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This is simply spectacular attention to detail. Your Bluenose is way beyond the point of a model per se - it is an amazingly constructed miniature which affords it audience a rare glimpse back to the halcyon days of the famous fishing schooners. If I were the head of a Canadian maritime museum, I would not rest until I have this ship as part of my collection! :p
 
Read up again!

Ongelooflijk hoe mooi je deze details hebt gemaakt. En dan te bedenken dat het geheel bij elkaar niet groter is dan een wasknijper.

Incredible how beautifully you made these details. And to think that the whole thing together is no bigger than a clothespin.
 
Heinrich said:
This is simply spectacular attention to detail. Your Bluenose is way beyond the point of a model per se - it is an amazingly constructed miniature which affords it audience a rare glimpse back to the halcyon days of the famous fishing schooners. If I were the head of a Canadian maritime museum, I would not rest until I have this ship as part of my collection! :p
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Thanxs again for your very kind words, Heinrich. :) The planning was this time not always correct. Installing the eye-pins, cleats and snatches at the and ……. Less of space, even with the tweezers.
For now, I keep it in my own ‘museum’. ;)
Regards, Peter
 
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Steef66 said:
Read up again!

Ongelooflijk hoe mooi je deze details hebt gemaakt. En dan te bedenken dat het geheel bij elkaar niet groter is dan een wasknijper.

Incredible how beautifully you made these details. And to think that the whole thing together is no bigger than a clothespin.
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You also thanks for your compliments Stephan. Next time again a reference within a picture. ;)
Regards, Peter
 
Canoe21 said:
Hello Peter, Great work and a lot of detail, you never fail to amaze me in just how easy and quickly that you achieve such wonders.
Regards Lawrence
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Hi Lawrence. Also thanks for the nice reply.
Easy and quickly…….. It took my almost a month ;) and stopped counting the hours:) and I have not mentioned the hits with the tweezers on the tiny parts.
But at the end, the result counts. :cool:
Regards, Peter
 
Not that much to report. When installing the anchors, it was a bit difficult to work on the inside of the railing.
It is normal that also in the YQ manual the preparation and completing of the hull is first and then the deck construction.;)
But Oh Oh Oh ........, those 3D printed parts just kept looking at me. :)
That's why I now first installed the belaying pins, eye bolts, snatches and the oval haws pipe at the back.

The YQ kit only provides standing rigging and operation of the booms and gaffs. Because I also want to install the running rigging with all the blocks and perhaps a few furled sails, I was already looking for more information.
To complete this, I have a set of drawings by P.F. Eisnor bought. And this one came in last week:
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Those for the frames and hull are not needed anymore, but besides the rigging there are also drawings of the masts, trees, gaffs and the fittings that are attached to them. The drawings are 1/4"-1', that's 1:48. Matter of all x 0.6667 and it's 1:72.
The Saga by L.B. Jenson is more focused on the BN-II, with a few minor drawings of the originals, while Eisnor's drawings are handling the original.

An overview of the applied small items:
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And the stern with the oval haws pipes:
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Yet again drilling and filing in the hull....... ;)

Everything still needs to be cleaned and updated. But I have yet to attach the chainplates and dead eyes, with drilling and dust. For that I want to use other dead eyes than YQ supplied. Only the intended supplier @Dry-Dock Models & Parts is now on vacation. :rolleyes:
Then see what I'm going to make in the meantime ......
Regards, Peter
 
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Sometimes you have an idea in your head for a long time .......... and then you have to get it out. :rolleyes:
With this support as a result:
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I build my BN as a yard model and then she must also be displayed like this:
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The uprights are secured to the connection with the beams with hex bolts. Will I soon be able to exhibit her at a meeting in the Netherlands.

Then the question may arise, why are the front and back not supported further. Keep this display stand in mind... --> Display Stand <--
Regards, Peter
 
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dockattner said:
Brilliant and fitting! But making it fit...what an accomplishment!
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Thanxs, Paul. The fitting was a bit of a problem. How to put the BN on the leveled base and adjust all te uprights to its length? Measure, cut, fit, cut, throw away, cut, fit, file, glue. After the first 2 on the back, I got some stability and it goes on ........ By fitting another, hitting a previous :mad: etc etc.
But now it's a solid base.
Regards, Peter
 
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