Hi Bob,

Good morning for the forum! Blowing a hooley down here in Kent, and they haven't given it a name 😀 looks like Victory took a lot of hits, interesting that a record of the damage to the sail was kept.

Regards Ray

Ray. Yes a lot of hits (or moths?) but shows the damage resilience of a big sail. The whole suit of sails could take that sort of damage and still provide propulsion, assuming the masts weren’t hit!

Ashley

Hi all,

The old period sailing ships have always been the final frontier for me to build, maybe when I can afford to stop working, I have the Underhill drawings for a 74 gun ship of the line, which I will build eventually the woodwork is complex to do proper scale job 😯

Regards Ray

Crickey, maybe I'll stay with motor boats !! That's a lot of string 😀

Regards Ray

Ray, the actual sail from Victory has been preserved at Portsmouth. It was on display for a while during the events to mark the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar.

Colin

A very Happy New Year to you, too, Bob

Well, yes, I am currently building summat, but not anything at all boat or ship shaped, I'm afraid, as right now I'm busy making a small table to use as a sharpening station in my workshop, based around two old offcuts of Corian that I saved from a kitchen renovation some 15 or so years ago; they will of course make up the top and shelf, being nice, smooth, flat, water proof and very easy to wipe clean.

This is my sketch for the project (all measurements in mm):

Apart from giving me a dedicated sharpening station (which is handy, as it can go next to the workshop sink, and have the most frequently used stones permanently set out and ready), the project is also a test of my own mettle against American hard maple as a timber, as that is what I'd like to use for an upcoming work bench build; I thus started this particular job by ripping and cross cutting a couple of raw planks of 8/4 and 6/4 hard maple …

… to break the stock down to rough size …

… before hand planing it smooth, to thickness …

… to width and foursquare.

Right now I'm chopping out the mortises in the legs …

… after which it'll be time to saw the tenons on the rails.

As I just said, this is, as it were, a warm-up and training project for what I plan to do next, which is to build a 7' x 24" x 4" work bench; I have already bought all the hardware, and sometime in March or April I plan to travel up to Arnhem in the Netherlands, where there is a first class timber yard, and buy the timber I'll need for that.

However, given that I will then want to give that timber a fair amount of time to acclimatise to my workshop, my thinking right now is that once the timber had been laid in, it would not be a bad moment to finally get on to the Fairey Huntsman that is next on my model boat build list … We'll see about that, but if I do, I'll be sure to post about it here

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Edited By Banjoman on 26/02/2020 20:14:24

Banjo – yes, lovely workshop, and good to see something being built from some nice timber and using hand tools.

Looking forward to your Huntsman build.

Chris

Hi Bob,

She definitely did have some shear, as per the drawing from The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships by Nepean Longridge,

When she was a training ship, I imagine they put a flat roof over her decks hence the look in the photo, interestingly the gun ports on all decks are level with the waterline.

Regards Ray