Apologies to all, who visited this log over the last few weeks and did not see any progress ... again real life with various obligations and diversions got in the way.
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Completion of the BoatsThere has been a lot of correction work and making small details that are not a lot to show, but take time.
https://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/m ... ss-462.jpgI adjusted the colour of the seats etc. somewhat and also worked on the rubbing strakes. For this I got myself a couple of markers with acrylic pigment paint (Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens with fine hard tip and soft brush-like tips) in various ‘wood’ colours, which really turned out to be useful for touching up etc.
Then I turned my attention to the oars and with a bit of trial and error managed to produce relatively reasonable laser-cut parts. Each oar is lacquered together from three layers to simulate the shaping. The round was build up with more varnish and they were finally painted in wood colour and the iron band around the blade simulated with my 0.1 mm marker pen. Not sure, whether they should be black though, as the original specification called for copper bands. There are a lot of unknown details. I know from the sources that the oars should be stowed ready for use in order of the benches, the outer pair for the first bench in the bow and so on. However, I don’t know how they would have been secured for the sea, probably with a rope around the benches. However, laying out the oars like that would have meant that there would have been no space for the men to step into the boat when lowered. So, I arranged them in bunches alongside.
I also realised that I forgot the spur for the heel of the mast, so this was added.
While arranging for the hoisting chains on the covered boats was easy, here it is a rather flimsy affair and I am not sure that it will work, as they are only glued. Likewise, the stays. The chains were simulated by drilling together two 0.2 mm wires until the pitch was about (without measuring) the length of a ring in the chain. Two of those drilled-together wires were drilled together. The overall appearance is roughly like a twisted chain.
Boats need rudders, so I drew one and cut it from Canson-paper in the usual way. When hoisted, the rudders are unshipped and stowed in the boat. However, I don’t really know where and how.
Stowage of various items is another uncertain point. There are a lot of items in the surviving inventories, such as an anchor, a small water-cask, a compass and a boat-hook, but I do not know how and where they were stowed. So I will omit them from the already quite crowded looking jolly-boat. The only thing I made were four fenders that are hung inside the boat.
With this the jolly-boat is complete.
In parallel I worked on the second cutter that also will be shown covered. As this is the same process as for the other covered boats, I do not show the process again. Just a couple of shots of the collection of finished boats.
To be continued ....
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... I am currently editing a set of manuscripts by some colleagues who have undertaken several decades of research. This will become eventually a book on the Prussian/Imperial Germany Navy's ships' boats 1852-1918 published by our association. However, we have not been able to find useful information on the boat covers for this period. Later it seems that triangular patches with underhull-ties were used, but on photographs from the 1880s covers are visible, but no triangular patches. Therefore, I assumed that it would be a drawcord in the seam that would pull against the rubbing-strake and hoping that nobody would ask this question ...
