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My latest sail plan drawing, completed today.
Bob
 

My latest sail plan drawing, completed today.
Bob
 

In 1982, I obtained some wood (part of a mahogany frame)  from the wreck of the old East Indiaman Jhelum, (Completed in 1850 of mahogany) that had been hulked in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands in 1870, after being damaged off Cape Horn, and condemned at Stanley.       Years later, I made a diorama showing how the ship might have appeared lying beached in Stanley harbour in 1870 with storm damage on the foremast.
I incorporated some original mahogany in the model, including the deckhouse, and upper spars.    Attached is a distant picture of Jhelum, myself in the forepeak sitting on the windlass, that had fallen in when the deck collapsed many years ago, and the resulting model.
Bob
 

My latest sail plan drawing, completed today.
Bob
 

My latest sail plan drawing, completed today.
Bob
 

In 1982, I obtained some wood (part of a mahogany frame)  from the wreck of the old East Indiaman Jhelum, (Completed in 1850 of mahogany) that had been hulked in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands in 1870, after being damaged off Cape Horn, and condemned at Stanley.       Years later, I made a diorama showing how the ship might have appeared lying beached in Stanley harbour in 1870 with storm damage on the foremast.
I incorporated some original mahogany in the model, including the deckhouse, and upper spars.    Attached is a distant picture of Jhelum, myself in the forepeak sitting on the windlass, that had fallen in when the deck collapsed many years ago, and the resulting model.
Bob
 

In 1982, I obtained some wood (part of a mahogany frame)  from the wreck of the old East Indiaman Jhelum, (Completed in 1850 of mahogany) that had been hulked in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands in 1870, after being damaged off Cape Horn, and condemned at Stanley.       Years later, I made a diorama showing how the ship might have appeared lying beached in Stanley harbour in 1870 with storm damage on the foremast.
I incorporated some original mahogany in the model, including the deckhouse, and upper spars.    Attached is a distant picture of Jhelum, myself in the forepeak sitting on the windlass, that had fallen in when the deck collapsed many years ago, and the resulting model.
Bob
 

In 1982, I obtained some wood (part of a mahogany frame)  from the wreck of the old East Indiaman Jhelum, (Completed in 1850 of mahogany) that had been hulked in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands in 1870, after being damaged off Cape Horn, and condemned at Stanley.       Years later, I made a diorama showing how the ship might have appeared lying beached in Stanley harbour in 1870 with storm damage on the foremast.
I incorporated some original mahogany in the model, including the deckhouse, and upper spars.    Attached is a distant picture of Jhelum, myself in the forepeak sitting on the windlass, that had fallen in when the deck collapsed many years ago, and the resulting model.
Bob
 

I recently drew up this plan for the tiny topsail schooner Julia.    It was a  real ship that I had researched.   I did not draw it specifically for ship bottlers, but it ocurred to me that it may be suitable for beginners as it is fairly simple, and steered by a tiller rather than a wheel.
Bob
 
 

I recently drew up this plan for the tiny topsail schooner Julia.    It was a  real ship that I had researched.   I did not draw it specifically for ship bottlers, but it ocurred to me that it may be suitable for beginners as it is fairly simple, and steered by a tiller rather than a wheel.
Bob
 
 

I recently drew up this plan for the tiny topsail schooner Julia.    It was a  real ship that I had researched.   I did not draw it specifically for ship bottlers, but it ocurred to me that it may be suitable for beginners as it is fairly simple, and steered by a tiller rather than a wheel.
Bob
 
 

I recently drew up this plan for the tiny topsail schooner Julia.    It was a  real ship that I had researched.   I did not draw it specifically for ship bottlers, but it ocurred to me that it may be suitable for beginners as it is fairly simple, and steered by a tiller rather than a wheel.
Bob
 
 

I recently drew up this plan for the tiny topsail schooner Julia.    It was a  real ship that I had researched.   I did not draw it specifically for ship bottlers, but it ocurred to me that it may be suitable for beginners as it is fairly simple, and steered by a tiller rather than a wheel.
Bob
 
 

I recently drew up this plan for the tiny topsail schooner Julia.    It was a  real ship that I had researched.   I did not draw it specifically for ship bottlers, but it ocurred to me that it may be suitable for beginners as it is fairly simple, and steered by a tiller rather than a wheel.
Bob
 
 

I recently drew up this plan for the tiny topsail schooner Julia.    It was a  real ship that I had researched.   I did not draw it specifically for ship bottlers, but it ocurred to me that it may be suitable for beginners as it is fairly simple, and steered by a tiller rather than a wheel.
Bob
 
 

Here is a link to the belaying pin layout plan of Preussen, that I found today on the internet.    It enlarges very well.
Bob
http://www.jans-sajt.se/contents/Navigation/Modelling/Patterns_Rigg_Windjammers.htm

Hi Jeff,
I doubt if the masts were black.   I made mine brown which is what they appear to be in all the photographs I have seen, mainly in the book
Konigin de See Funfmast - Vollschiff Preussen by Horst Hamecher.
Bob
 

Hi Jeff,
I doubt if the masts were black.   I made mine brown which is what they appear to be in all the photographs I have seen, mainly in the book
Konigin de See Funfmast - Vollschiff Preussen by Horst Hamecher.
Bob
 

Here is a miniature I built years ago.   Not particularly good, on detail, and a funny colour as well!        It was that colour in real life!     My wife's grandfather was an able seaman in the Persian Empire in the late 1890s.     The rigging is a bit too thick, but it is often admired more than my better efforts!
Bob
 

There was a sailing ship company that had pink hulls, but they described the colour as "crushed strawberry!"     The Empire Line had yellowish-green hulls.      One Welsh sailing ship company solved the problem of unsightly rust by painting their ships rusty brown
I have sailed in ships with hulls of various colours:   black - white - lavender - yellow - blue and green!
Bob

Here is a miniature I built years ago.   Not particularly good, on detail, and a funny colour as well!        It was that colour in real life!     My wife's grandfather was an able seaman in the Persian Empire in the late 1890s.     The rigging is a bit too thick, but it is often admired more than my better efforts!
Bob
 

Here is a link to the belaying pin layout plan of Preussen, that I found today on the internet.    It enlarges very well.
Bob
http://www.jans-sajt.se/contents/Navigation/Modelling/Patterns_Rigg_Windjammers.htm

There was a sailing ship company that had pink hulls, but they described the colour as "crushed strawberry!"     The Empire Line had yellowish-green hulls.      One Welsh sailing ship company solved the problem of unsightly rust by painting their ships rusty brown
I have sailed in ships with hulls of various colours:   black - white - lavender - yellow - blue and green!
Bob

Here is a miniature I built years ago.   Not particularly good, on detail, and a funny colour as well!        It was that colour in real life!     My wife's grandfather was an able seaman in the Persian Empire in the late 1890s.     The rigging is a bit too thick, but it is often admired more than my better efforts!
Bob
 

My latest U-Tube presentation:
https://youtu.be/KtVrtCvKeqs
Building the barque Caithness-Shire.
Bob