USS Syren 1803 by Dubz

[Dubz]

First double, double stropped block ... double stropped because the right block would not have the right orientation ... damn that is small ...







Atm I'm not sure what I like more, light or dark sized blocks ...




Rudder pendants

Chains were shackled to eyes in the rudder, coming up each side of the rudder to under the transom.

To the end of the chains large rings were fitted and into these rings were hooked the rudder pendants.

These pendants had a thimble in each end with the hooks set round the thimbles.

The hooks were moused.

The pendants were seized to eyes or hooks set under the transom — one by the side of the rudder post, one half way along, and one under the quarter gallery.

The end of the pendants were seized to the after end of the mizen channels.

When required, a long tackle was hooked in the ends.

The fall hooked to an eyebolt in the mizen chains and led in through a port
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Hey guys, atm there is a bit of deconstruction going on. Related to the rudder there will be some changes.

As a short quote of my thoughts:

"Steel is exactly describing this. A chain connected to eyebolts left and right the rudder post. First task for this chain is securing the rudder in a e.g. ground contact sit. Connected to the chain are the rudder pendants, their task is to be able to rigg an emergency rudder via the rudder tackle. I think - even a lot of contemporary models contradict me - that this sounds the way to go, why a longer heavy chain if not neccessary for the emergency rig? . Keep it simple stupid, KISS."

As a result of this discussion:



Another part that needs more attention is again the steering rig. Unfortunately there is a mayor problem about the positioning of the aft blocks in Chucks plan (sorry mate!). It can't work this way because of a matter of geometry

A good source for the problem is the NMM plan of the rig of the Hind 1814, check here: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections...83775.html



Adapted to the Syren it will look like this:



The orange dotted line is the max angle the rudder can have (I think it was about 32°), I think the rest is self explanatory, if not don't hesitate to ask


I already made it a bit more this way without clear thinking weeks ago:



But still not enough. One solution might doing the tiller longer than now to get the right angles.

And now we are in even bigger trouble related to the chasers ...

Anyway some changes are needed

cheers,

Dirk