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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