Back in the 60's when I was about 12 years old, I would build model ships directly from plans scaled up from one of H. Chapelle's books. For coppering, I would cut out paper shaped like copper sheets, glue them on, then paint them with copper paint. The paint had copper dust in it, so I then mixed hot water and table salt. Painted that solution on the copper painted bottom, and it turned green like I hoped it would. Rope making: four or five strands of sewing thread in my father's power drill, and the other end attached to my Tonka Dump Truck. Once wound up with lots of tension, I would hang it doubled up with a fishing weight outside my parent second story window, and that weight kept it taught as it wound itself up. Worked great.

Thank you Mr.Botchvarov for another interesting video , it surprise for me that copper sheets where different in thickness depending from the part of the ship's haul, it reminds me medieval plate armour that also have different thickness in different parts of body for weight reduction, and modern tanks armour as well. Can't wait for another video!

tyvm for posting !!

Interesting to note that in antiquity lead sheating was extensively used, with copper nails instead of iron ones. They either did that because copper was much more abundant and easier to work with than iron, therefore much more widespread, or had learned through bitter experience what funny things galvanic corrosion does to a hull. One of the various things that gets lost to time and later rediscovered. Thanks for the interesting video as always.

As I recall, around 1850 or so, some ships were sheathed with muntz, which had a brass color. Several of Donald McKay's clipper ships in the 1850's were sheathed with muntz. What is the advantage of muntz over copper? Is it cost, better resistance to corrosion, or some other reason? Another very interesting video. Thank you.

How thick were the copper sheets?

This was very informative. Thanks!

Another fantastic video! THANKS!

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Sacrifice a zinc block lol

Kroum, Do you know what color the copper alloy used for gudgeons and pintles might have been? Coppered models seem to show them as black like iron, or painted black. Is there a more accurate color?? Thank you and warm regards!!👍👍

Interesting, thank-you. Thinking about scale modelling, I wonder if copper leaf would be a way to go. It is a different skill-set, but the copper is very thin (thicker than gold-leaf, but still needs delicate handling).

Very intersting. Has the original builder of the Boreas revealed themself to you?

Where did the copper come from ? There doesn’t seam to be sufficient domestic production after the Bronze Age to support that level of industry. By the time of Pythias of Marseille 300 bc’ish , England had more tin than copper. Your storing ammunition for later gave me a good chuckle. My wife would bean me with a copper pot if I tried something like that.

Would the copper plates have been re-used at the end of the ships life?

Go ahead and measure, and you'll be sleeping on the couch!