by JerryTodd » Sun Oct 26, 2025 5:00 pm
A few years ago now, Historic Ships Baltimore moved the ship off her dock to build a new visitor's center/museum.
In the meantime, the ship's main-yard was replaced, and her head ornamentation was removed for restoration.
The museum's been completed and the ship moved back to her dock, with another dry-docking in between to go over her seams under water.
She's at her dock and a major rigging refit's been planned. It appears down-rigging's commenced, and the company hired to do the work's been advertising for help.
Additionally a company the Navy got to 3D scan the Macedonian figurehead at the Naval Academy which was used to CNC a replacement in wood so save the original, was hired to do the same for Constellation's head ornamentation, with, I assume, the same goal in mind; to replace the originals with exact reproductions, and save the originals from further deterioration.
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- 3D scan of Constellations intricately carved fiddle-head
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- 3D scan of Constellations intricately carved fiddle-head
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- 3D scans of Constellations intricately carved trail-boards
A few years ago now, Historic Ships Baltimore moved the ship off her dock to build a new visitor's center/museum.
In the meantime, the ship's main-yard was replaced, and her head ornamentation was removed for restoration.
The museum's been completed and the ship moved back to her dock, with another dry-docking in between to go over her seams under water.
She's at her dock and a major rigging refit's been planned. It appears down-rigging's commenced, and the company hired to do the work's been advertising for help.
Additionally a company the Navy got to 3D scan the [b]Macedonian[/b] figurehead at the Naval Academy which was used to CNC a replacement in wood so save the original, was hired to do the same for [b]Constellation's[/b] head ornamentation, with, I assume, the same goal in mind; to replace the originals with exact reproductions, and save the originals from further deterioration.