Brief History 2
Introduction and Credits
4
Before You Begin
5
Tools Needed to Start Construction
5
How to Work With Plans & Parts
6,7
Painting and Staining
7
Stage 1: Framing the Plank-on-Bulkhead Hull
8
1.
Bending Wood
8
2.
Center Keel Assembly
9
3.
Installing the Keel, Stem and Sternpost
9
4.
Cutting the Rabbet
9
5.
Installing the Bulkheads 10
6.
Installing the Transom Framing 11
7.
Installing the Bow and Stern Filler Blocks
11
8.
Covering the Mast Slots
11
9.
Installing the Waterway, Planksheer
and Bulwark Stanchions
11
10. Installing the Knightheads
and Forward Timberheads
11
11. Installing the Main Rail and Lashing Rail
11
12. Installing the Topgallent Rail 11
Stage 2: Planking the Hull
12
1. Getting
Started
12
2.
Planking Battens and Belts
12
3.
Planking Butts
12
4.
Spiling
13
5.
Fastening the Planks
13
6.
Planking the Outer Hull
13-15
7.
Planking Inboard (Ceiling Planks)
16
8.
Deck Planking
16
Stage 3: Completing the Basic Hull Structure
17
1.
Correcting and Sanding
17
2.
Coppering the Bottom
17
3.
Natural Wood, Double Plank Option
17
Stage 4: Mounting the Hull
18
1.
Baseboard with 2 Pedestals
18
2.
Launching Ways 18
Stage 5: Adding Hull Details
18
1.
Locating Deck Furniture
18
2.
Deck Structures 18
3.
Skylight
18
4.
Hatches and Gratings
20
5.
Tryworks and Workbench
20
6.
Grindstone
20
7.
Ladders
20
8.
Galley Stack
20
9.
Main Fife Rail and Bilge Pumps
21
10.
Chain Pipes
21
11.
Windlass
21
12.
Catheads and Anchors 21
13.
Deck Bitts, Fluke Pipe and Belly Chain Chock
22
14.
Port Rail and Whaleboat Logger heads 22
15.
Mooring Chocks and Hawse Pipes 22
16.
Open Chocks, Starboard Rail Chock,
and Cleats
22
17.
Eyebolts
22
18.
Rudder and Steering Wheel
23
19.
Cutting Stage
23
20.
Whaleboat Davits, Bearers
(Lashing Posts), Cranes and Slides
23
21.
Whaleboats
24
22.
Ship’s Name
25
23.
Miscellaneous Boxes
25
24.
Stern Eagle, Stars, and Billet head
25
25.
Sea Ladder and Portlights
25
26.
Channels
25
Stage 6: Mast and Spar Construction
26
1.
Shaping and Tapering Masts and Spars 26
2.
Building and Installing the Masts 26
3.
Building and Installing the Bowsprit
and Jibboom
27,28
4.
Building the Yards
28
5.
Building the Spanker Gaff and Boom
28
Stage 7: General Rigging and
Sailmaking Information
29
1.
Rigging Options
30
2.
Using the Detail and Rigging Plans
31
3.
Rigging Lines and Block Sizes 31
4.
Treating the Lines
31
5.
Belaying Pins and Their Lines
31
6.
Rigging Tools
31
7.
Blocks and Deadeyes
31
8.
Sailmaking
31
9.
Rigging the Model Without Sails 32
Stage 8: Standing Rigging
33
1.
Shrouds
33
2.
Backstays
34
3.
Fore and Aft Stays
34
4.
Bowsprit Rigging
35
5.
Spanker Gaff and Boom Topping Lifts 35
6.
Footropes, Furling Stops, and Fixed Lifts
35
7.
Manropes and Bow Netting
35
8.
Running Lights
35
Stage 9: Running Rigging
35
1.
Head Sails
36
2.
Staysails
36
3.
Spanker and Gaff Topsail
36
4.
Fore and Main Yards 37
5.
Mizzen Crossjack Yard
37
6.
Fore and Main Upper and Lower Topsail Yards
37
7.
Fore and Main Topgallent Yards 38
8.
Royal Yards
38
9.
Braces
38
10. Miscellaneous Rigging
38
Final Touches
39
Bibliography
39
Scale Conversion Table
39
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