The Dories:
The next notable deck items are the dories. The small rowboats that caught the fish.
First I went looking for the color. Especially for the outside.
The Saga: Buff (a light yellow);
mod. Shipw.: Yellow Buff or Orange Buff;
Smith & Rhuland: Buff of Midtan.
Searching for Buff then comes up with: like a brownish undyed leather, possibly in name coming from Buffalo leather. In terms of current tables, RAL1014 comes closest to this.
With the help of the Schmincke mixing tables, this is what it eventually became:
With the inside gray, partly as an accent for the white inner beams and shelves.
The walls of the dories in the YQ kit are a kind of 0.4 mm thick veneer. The planks are lasered on it.
If you paint this, it pulls it around almost evenly. Fortunately, it is on the grain that runs in the longitudinal direction. Then paint the inside fairly quickly and everything pulls almost flat again.
I modified the dories 'a little':
-the width of the top rail is almost halved;
-3 seat boards / thwarts instead of 2;
-so also 3 sets thole pins;
-deck planks on the floor;
-a rope/becket at the bow and stern;
-block on the sharp point of the bow;
-oars/oars home made, from YQ a bit too coarse, adjusting would be more work;
-on an old photo I saw that the dories at the bow were numbered;
-ends of the long frame beams are attached to the raised deck beam with small angle brackets.
The 'Boom Buffer' can now be seen just behind the dories, in the middle on the edge of the raised aft deck. Scratch made. At the very back of the aft deck the other 'Boom Buffer'.
PS for the 3 thwarts: on the Model Shipways drawings: 2 men per boat - the 3rd thwart permits another rowing position to trim a loaded boat.
YQ supplies material for 2 dories. A schooner usually has 8 or more, which are in 2 stacks on the deck.
The Bluenose has "two sets of six two-man 16-foot dories, enough for the Bluenose to cover a dozen square miles of water in one pass.", as quoted by Mark de Villiers in his 'Witch in de Wind (pag. 122).
Since my starboard side is 'open', I stacked the 2. And lashed to the frame.
Regards, Peter
