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and its sails are extremely large, I was not inclined to add them, but then decided to experiment with furled sails, which would be less intrusive.


Aſt er trying a number of diff erent materials, I settled on a Japanese tissue paper used for old-school model airplanes (think balsa frame covered with tissue coated with “dope”). It was the only product that presented a full, fl at surface (various types of Silkspan have open spaces and visible fi bers), and that would tolerate the folding and pressing needed for furling. Once that was resolved, the rest was fairly straightforward: I laid the tissue over the sail plan for each sail, drew the seams for the 18-inch wide cloths with a light pencil, glued the various foot, head and bolt ropes along the outside edges, made pin holes for the lacing and cut the outline. Each sail was fi rst tied to its yard with the lacings (fi ne thread) and then carefully furled and tied to the yard. (Figures 21 and 22)


References


Boudriot, Jean, Historic Ship Models - T e Musee de la Marine Collection. Nice: ANCRE, 2004.


Boudriot, Jean & Hubert Berti, Le Requin – Xebex – 1750. Nice: ANCRE, 1987.


Frolich, Bernard, T e Art of Ship Modeling. Nice: ANCRE, 2002.


Richard Simon is a commercial trial lawyer, now semi- retired but still keeping his hand in a few interesting cases. He recently moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where at 7,000 feet and many miles from navigable water he was surprised to fi nd at least one other ship modeler. He has been building various models for most of his life but migrated to ships aſt er making dollhouse furniture for his daughter and fi nding that he most enjoyed working with ebony and other fi ne woods.


Neptunia No. 299 Table of Contents


Villefranche, a port and dockyard of the House of Savoy By J. Bracq


Seventeenth-century Dutch ship design drawings. Real or counterfeit?


By Ab Hoving


The history and technology of feathering paddle wheels for steam vessels.


By Cl. Wick


Maritime archaeology and research model making: the example of the wreck of a mid-fifteenth century coastal trader.


By J.-L. Gaucher and E. Rieth


Building a model of a 60-gun ship from material in a manuscript by Bigot de Morogues


By G. Tournier


A different design process used by so-called “old shipwrights”: the midship frame, midship bend, and ribbands


By E. Rieth


A model of an eighteenth-century Dutch galiot in the collection of the Musée de la Marine


By O. Quiquempois


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