Very important now are the two holes up thru the keel to take the
pedestal mounting screws. Since the model will be mounted with its
waterline level, drill these holes perpendicular to the waterline, not
square to the keel, Fig. 10.
The
machine carved hull will have its thick, end-grain transom.
We recommend your knocking this out and placing on a sheet of wood,
thus avoiding the fragile end'grain when the hull wood is cut to scale.
Also, the wood sheet will provide for the transom wings, the rounded
extensions which backed the quarter galleries, Fig. 11.
Up to
and during the 16th century, large vessels had their gunports and
decks parallel to the sheer, which was considerable, Fig. 12A, but
later and up to about the early part of the 19th century the deckline
and gunport line were made to much less sheer than the external wales
and mouldings, and the ports crossed over them as in Fig. 12. The sheer
of large vessels during the 19th century was much reduced and the
gunports in their later days were again parallel to the wales and
mouldings. Fig. 12B.
With the smaller class of flush decked vessels however the deck and
gunport line was usually parallel-to the sheer of the wales and
mouldings throughout the centuries, Fig. 12C.
