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PIN
RAILS are set just below the caprails Fig. 38 В & С, or at Mainrail
level when a topgallant rail and bulwark is fitted Fig. 38A, to carry
the belaying pins. They are made of wood strips. Pins may be run
through them and into the bulwarks to reinforce, Fig. 38D. Once in
place they may be shaped and the belaying pin holes drilled. Do not
make the holes too large, or rigging tension on the pins will pull them
askew.
CAVELS, or Kevels, were found in numbers on the inside of
the bulwarks, sometimes with one or two sheaves fitted in them. The
earliest types during the l7th and 18th century were shaped like two
horns of heavy timber set into a horizontal member which was bolted to
the inside of the bulwark. Fig. 39A represents an early Dutch type and
39B an English one. 39C is the type fitted on the VICTORY of 1765.
These 3 were tor making fast the fore or main sheets which led in over
a sheave set in the side of the ship and were situated in the waist
bulwark about amidships, and in the quarter deck bulwark. 39D is a
horizontal cavel with or without sheave, placed at the forward end of
the forecastle bulwarks (see also 35C) and used to take the end of the
catfall tackle from the cathead sheaves.
39E is a vertical kevel with sheave used to take topsail
halliards or lower yards lifts. For the halliards it would be situated
about opposite the ends of the channels, and for the lifts, opposite
the masts. Keep these types as a general rule for before, say, 1800. A
heavier type, 39F, with two sheaves for yard lifts would also be
opposite the masts, more common after 1800.
39G is a simple cavel cleat common to schooners, fishing
smacks and such, 39H a type on English fishing luggers and 39I a
somewhat larger type with a hole opposite the mooring port in the
bulwark.
The
heavier cavel cleats would bolt through two timberheads; some light
ones for small craft might bolt and cross over only one timherhead
either horizontally or vertically.
Cavels are best made in wood and glued in place.
GANGWAYS
on frigates and larger ships were platforms, often portable, joining
the poop and forecastle at the same level, each side of the waist, Fig.
40A. They came into general use about the middle 18th century although
occasional centerline grating platforms were known before this time.
The supporting knees were either wood or iron. Fig. 40 С У D, and if
the bulwark height wasn't enough to work the guns the platforms were
raised slightly above rail level Fig. 40E. Portable spar beams (skid
beams) lay across the open waist resting in crutches each side formed
on the tip of the supporting knee.
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Contents
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Model
scale
Ship lines
The hull, woodworking
Holes in the hull
Gun ports
Decks, laying of
Rails and channels
Wales
Stern and galleries
Head and its rails
Figurehead
Rudder
Steering gear
Deck furniture
Windlass
Capstan
Hatches
Skylights
Hammock nettings
Painting the model, colors
Waterline
Rigging:
 The spars
Tops,
crosstrees, cheeks
Mast,
boom, gaff, yards
Lower
and upper yards,
halliards
The
double topsail
Lifts,
footropes, sheets, braces, clew garnets
Yard
bands
Making the spars
Ironwork
Bowsprit, dolphin striker,
the doublings
Top, construction
Shrouds, deadeyes, lanyards
Books & Tools,
recommendations
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