After visiting the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD, I was quite excited about designing one of the Chesapeake style boats. Because of the simplicity of the design and the elegant appearance, I've settled on the skipjack. After searching the internet for a while I found the National Historic Landmark Nomination form for the Kathryn--and it included the lines and drawings of the boat. SCORE!
I hope the simplicity of the skipjack construction will lead to a simple to construct model. However, the Kathryn is atypical. Most skipjacks were V-bottomed, with a hard chine (a sharp edge where the sides and the bottom meets). Hull planking was typically in a herring-bone fashion and the boats were primarily constructed of pine. While still a V-bottomed vessel, the chine on the Kathryn was rounded and the hull planking is fore and aft. (Though, I think I will design it as hard chined to ease design and construction--I'm not sure at 1/100 scale it makes that much difference anyway.) Additionally, there is evidence of a much greater proportion of oak used in construction of the Kathryn.
The builder of the Kathryn is unknown. She is one of the earliest existing examples of the skipjack, though, being constructed in 1901. The construction techniques and materials suggest (to me) that she was built by a more experienced boat builder than other typical skipjacks.
I have a question for the boat folk here. How do you pronounce 'chine'? Is it 'chin' like the forward most part of the jawbone or does it rhyme with 'chime' like the sound a bell makes? Maritime words don't have much logic in their pronunciation. For example, 'dredge' (as to rake oysters off the sea bed) is pronounced 'drudge' (as in hard labor). And a 'sprit' is (apparently) a 'spreet' though I'm not precisely certain in which situations to use that pronunciation.
Attached is the first screenshot of my Kathryn.
--jeff
I hope the simplicity of the skipjack construction will lead to a simple to construct model. However, the Kathryn is atypical. Most skipjacks were V-bottomed, with a hard chine (a sharp edge where the sides and the bottom meets). Hull planking was typically in a herring-bone fashion and the boats were primarily constructed of pine. While still a V-bottomed vessel, the chine on the Kathryn was rounded and the hull planking is fore and aft. (Though, I think I will design it as hard chined to ease design and construction--I'm not sure at 1/100 scale it makes that much difference anyway.) Additionally, there is evidence of a much greater proportion of oak used in construction of the Kathryn.
The builder of the Kathryn is unknown. She is one of the earliest existing examples of the skipjack, though, being constructed in 1901. The construction techniques and materials suggest (to me) that she was built by a more experienced boat builder than other typical skipjacks.
I have a question for the boat folk here. How do you pronounce 'chine'? Is it 'chin' like the forward most part of the jawbone or does it rhyme with 'chime' like the sound a bell makes? Maritime words don't have much logic in their pronunciation. For example, 'dredge' (as to rake oysters off the sea bed) is pronounced 'drudge' (as in hard labor). And a 'sprit' is (apparently) a 'spreet' though I'm not precisely certain in which situations to use that pronunciation.
Attached is the first screenshot of my Kathryn.
--jeff
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