Nautical Research Journal 99


1. Maine river-driving bateau at the Maine Maritime Museum. From Greenhill & Morrison, T e Archaeology of Boats and Ships.


Scratch-building a Maine bateau: An exercise for wooden kit builders who wish to build an accurate model using the same methods that were used in full-sized boat and ship construction. By Dan Brummer


Wooden ship model kits of today oſt en have laser- cut wooden parts, complete sets of cast-metal fi ttings and details of photo-etched metal and molded plastic. Assembly has become more simplifi ed. Sadly, the modeler is moved farther away from the


basic skills and knowledge of the boat builders and shipwrights of the past, the very ones he or she seeks to emulate.


Ship models have been made since at least 2000 BC and probably before that. (Lavery 1995, 9) Scale models are closely linked with scale plans, which became more common in Europe aſt er 1600. (Lavery 1995, 25) A scale of 1:48, or ¼-inch to the foot, became the most common. Beautiful wooden models built from these plans, known variously as Navy Board, Admiralty or Dockyard models, set the standards for the modeler of today, and the concept of the fully-framed model. (Lavery 1995, 72) John Franklin’s model of Egmont and Robert Lightly’s model of Captain Cook’s Endeavor, both now in


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