THE HULL STERN MODIFICATION

Hi Team I have arrived at this Mod through looking at the way the hulls of ships are formed I am going you show you photos of three of the ships I am building, so you can see what I want to achieve with the SOTS:-

1) The ENDEAVOUR, the planking sweeps up to meet the stern cross planking

THE HULL STERN MODIFICATION

The final ship is the

3) SAN FRANCISCO 2

This is a ship that predates the SOTS, THE VICTORY and THE ENDEAVOUR, but it does not have a shallow stern hull, and you can see the side arch shape, which is shown on the poster of the SOTS, which I want to recreat

THE HULL STERN MODIFICATION
That is how I came to want to change the Hull shape, next time

I will cover next time how I started to modify the SOTS.

Questions and comments welcome Kind regards Mike

Hi Alan, always do what your comfortable with you are doing a very good job of your build. Kind regards Mike

Hi Hans thank you for the encouragement, much appreciated Kind regards Mike

Glad to see more from you mike, sounds like a good modification you got going there, cant wait to see more!

THE MODIFICATION OF THE HULL STERN

Hi Team the first thing I did was take measurements from my other models and came up with a size which I thought was acceptable.

The balance of the keel had to be my priority, I prepared 2 pieces of Balsa wood (6mm thick)in a triangle shape 6cm x 4cm x 1cm,and fitted them 3mm back from the stern cross section planking. These are the Photos of this Stage, more to come later Kind regards Mike

I agree, that looks better already. I've been troubled by that lower stern profile, plus the sweep that the planks would have to take, for some time. Your modification looks like it could well be the answer. Looking forward to more

Thanks Andy, I am able to do the mod easily because of the balsa infills I fitted to the Hull.

I will put these questions to the Team:-

1) Where does it tell you in the instructions to thin the keel on both sides of the bottem stern edge. My calculations estimate the Keel should be no thicker than 1mm to accomodate the plank thickness either side of the Keel of 2mm we also have to fit the second planking on top, an interesting challenge?

2) If we fit the Bow sprit (not the Stem) in the centre, it would hit the foremast, I believe it should be fitted to one side, therefore missing the foremast.
On ships of this era the foremast was fitted very much closer to the bow,and the Bow sprit offset, than ships that came later.
On my Model of the SAN FRANCISCO 2 the Bow sprit is offset. I would suggest a `Starboard` (right) offset, what do you all think?


I have other observations which I will share with you as the build goes on. you comments on the above would be appreciated

Kind regards

Mike

PS more photos of the Hull Modification tomorrow.

Hi Alan, its mentioned in issue 11 that 16th-17th century ships usually had the bowsprit set to the right as Mike has stated, i believe it should probably be set to the right as the magazine suggests, though im not sure how this would effect the rest of the build at the bow, good luck with your choices!