RESTORING AN ANTIQUE SAILING MODEL OF THE SCHOONER SADIE MORSE In the “ON THE WORKBENCH” section of the site, I’ve always highlighted a new project, L. A . Dunton. Emma C. Berry, Kate Cory. But I thought since I have been doing a lot of repair work lately, why not chronicle …
SAILS, SPARS AND RIGGING I will discuss my findings in the order above and try to address them from fore to aft, top to bottom and port to starboard, as needed. SAILS When The client and I discussed how the repairs would be carried out, he mentioned that he might …
Just finding out what needs to be done took quite a long time with this model. Here, we continue the findings, moving further on with the spars and the aft cabin. THE FOREMAST had sustained some damage a long time ago. The broken section was at the top of …
PART TWO From this point on, the actual repair work begins For ease of transportation to my studio, all of the temporary rigging was removed, the model was dis-masted and it was packed into my car. Once in the studio, many “before” photos were taken and there was much poking and prodding. Although …
THE SPARS The majority of the time repairing this model was spent on the spars, sails and rigging. As I did earlier, I will outline the repairs from fore to aft and port to starboard. THE BOWSPRIT AND JIB BOOM were in good condition and needed no repairs. There was …
In Part One of this report, I outlined the damage discovered on the MAINMAST. The repair for this mast and the foremast are very similar. After determining how much needed to be cut away, a diagonal scarf was cut into the sound part of the mast. Again, using a …
The November-December issue of Ships in Scale magazine has the first part of the article I wrote about building the Kate Cory. It’s also the cover story (my first)! It seems they plan to publish the rest of the article over the next two issues. So, January-February, then, March-April will …
Hull and Deck Details Here you’ll find some of the “whys” and “hows” of scratch building this sweet little whaling brig. …
Whaleboats Kate Cory carried four whaleboats; 3 active and fully equipped boats which hung from iron davits and 1 spare boat carried on the “featherboards” off the stern (Kate Cory, Boats 3 and 4 from alow, astern). I chose to model boats of the type made by the James …
Finishing Things Up In Part 3, I talk a bit about how I dealt with filling the gaps in historical information. It will also conclude this series on the project. Many people ask me how I feel about human figures on ship models. My answer is I really don’t …
