Nautical Research Journal 329


14. Storkyrkan, Sweden. Both Protestant and Catholic churches display nave models in their sanctuaries. T ere are hundreds of nave models throughout both European and Latin American houses of worship. Wing-Chi Poon photograph via Wikimedia Commons.


poles positioned over the pews that can be raised and lowered with, of all things, proper nautical stainless- steel sailing tackle with reliable nylon ropes leading to belaying cleats! I should not have been surprised at the sailing rig, but I was. The poles are used regularly to display religious banners on various occasions throughout the year. Godspeed needed just one centrally located horizontal pole from which to hang as long as I could fi gure out a secure way to utilize it.


I was confi dent that the weight of the model could be suspended reliably with very thin, clear acrylic fi shing line once securely attached to both ends of the model’s hull. On each side of the hull I drilled small pilot holes to accommodate four 1/4-inch diameter screw eyes that were secured into fore and aft points on either side where there was solid wood to mount them. Once all four screw eyes were in place, I then


unrolled a length of the thin line, attached one end, and then wrapped the line several times around the 1-inch diameter suspension pole. I subsequently pulled a length of line down to the screw eye on the opposite side of the model to tie it off. I repeated this simple suspension lashing fore and aft. To secure the lines at each eye I looped each end of the line through the screw eye’s opening and then back up and through a 1/2-inch-long piece of 1/8-inch diameter brass tubing previously slipped onto the line. I then tightly crimped the brass tubes with small pliers. After crimping (and for additional security) I squeezed cyanoacrylate glue into the openings of the brass tube’s ends to secure the acrylic lines into their terminations. Since the model would be in a permanent home once attached to the pole that suspended it, I did not need to be concerned about how to dismount these acrylic lines that now were fully captive around the horizontal pole.


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