Are you familiar with the works of Harold Hahn? Lloyd McCaffery? I so appreciate your lessons.. every one.

Extremely interesting as always. I am currently building the San Bartolome. Which I knew was a real ship, but the one by Pavel Nikkitin is what he calls retro style. My question is, do you think that ship had Tree nails or iron nails when it was built? I am just about to start that process and curious what you would do if you were building that model?

Always some new morsel. Hope your diving season is going well and you get to bring back pictures!

Thankyou.

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Very informative like always and useful information for ship modeling, keep posting such helpful information.

Why were pegs used vice wedges? Was it thought that they held better because a peg expanded the treenail in all directions instead of two?

This video ist still shown as being about "Stealer and drop planks" (last week's title). Maybe it can still be corrected? And thank you very much for the interesting video!

I recollect being enamored by fanciful paintings of HMS Resolution, listing over in a heavy squall. The ship did exist. Sources told me drawings were not available, anywhere. Has anything been uncovered as to historically accurate plans for this vessel? I think it's date was early 1600's. (See "Resolution in a Gale" by Willhelm van de Velde, the younger)

I sure would like to hear sometime about gunnery on a "Bomb Ketch".. massive mortars, of the 18 Century. Siege guns, firing through and around rigging and spars..

Who the hell gave this 4 thumbs down already???

The only thing I know about clinker-built hulls is that they are way more noisy. Have you ever tried to sleep on a clinker-built boat? One small wave makes a slapping noise on every single plank as it moves up the hull.

Safe travels and great adventures, Kroum. Sundays will be a bit different for a bit.

Thanks.

Good stuff a usual. I find it mildly ironic that working underwater is “in the field”. That aside , were you issuing a challenge or an open invitation to join you in your work ,1:51 ,(come with me in the field)?

Kroum, as always, a pleasure to learn with you. I have yet to be bored or unsatisfied. Thank you!

As someone who has struggled not to use stealers and drop planks, but failed and felt bad about it, I certainly appreciated this video! As for appropriate plank width, I try to study surviving ship contracts for the era and area the ship was built, ideally from the same yard. That of course is no guarantee the vessel was built the same way.

Wonderful little video, thank you! Did you see the new video-series over att the Wasa museum cannel, featuring (of course) Fred Hocker? Nothing new to you, but very nicely done. Kind regards from Sweden

Thank you for another informative video. Do you know of ships that used planks coming to a sharp tip during the 17th and 18th centuries? How old are the ships you witnessed such a method of planking? How did they fix the thin part of the plank to the hull?

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Thanks, I wasn't aware that stealers were used in real vessels.

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Models need to reflect real practices at scale. I admit this subject has baffled me to the point of switching back to WWII aircraft. Nevertheless, still a ship modeler at heart..

How thick were the copper sheets?

Sir, loving your lectures! I have not missed a one and plan on never doing so. Enjoy your field work.

Cool video and information! I myself live on top of the shipyard in Zaandam that used to build these ships. And this shipyard was visited twice by Tsar Peter the Great to learn how to build ships. He stayed at the carpenters house that can still be visited behind my apartment building.

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great informatioon thanks

Hi sir. Its been a lot of years since i saw the particular book on viking ships called viking ships or something like that, it was late 70s, and the book was probably from the middle 60s. Anyhow, as i remember, viking ships apparently had a number of rules for their construction. I thought that the strakes were tapered from one side to the other Iknow that I've seen references to the logs being split like really thin pieces of pie. I also remember the strakes being tied together at the edges with rivets used only near the ends. And, rivet washers had to be round, with a few exceptions. I imagine that strakes were scarphed together and riveted, rather than butt joined. So. How much of this is wrong? Thank you. Rich

Thankyou.

Good luck in the field.

Thank you very much, it is really appreciated!

Illumination of HMS Prince and HMS Royal William would be appreciated. Reality from fiction..

Thank you, Doctor. Interesting as ever. I'd like to hear your views on the reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo ship, currently being built at Woodbridge.

Dr. Bachtvarov, I love this series! If you urn out of topics perhaps we can get your feelings in regards to the mystery of Oak Island.

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I learn something new every single time , and I'm not young, thanks mate.

We have been quite aware that your research season was happening soon; maybe something about how one goes about preparing for such and expedition would suit better just now. I certainly hope to hear about your work after as well. Here's hoping our increasingly busy weather still leaves you plenty of time to get your feet wet!

I remember an article in Wooden Boat Magazine ,decades ago, about joints that the romans used to set up their keels. The one that stuck most in my memory was a horizontal half-lap that locked on its ends (“hooded” might be the term) and was cross keyed in the middle. It looked very like a joint that the Japanese still use in timber framing houses. Another good episode . I have no gripe with it at all. I am looking forward to a discussion on how widely misused the term keelson is .

Thank you for this video, I learned a lot! (And I've been semi-casually studying period ship design for the better part of 4 decades!) Related question: in Western European traditions, were the stem, keel, and sternpost planked over? Or were they left exposed as bare timbers? I ask because I've seen planking called for in many a kit, but have never seen a reference to this practice in the literature. Thanks and take your time responding if you so choose to, I am aware you're in the field. Good luck to you and your expedition!

Note that the Medway Longboat model in the video, consistent with the kit instructions, has her tiller mounted ABOVE the mainsheet horse, rather than below the mainsheet horse. I noted this and had occasion to point this apparent error out to the kit's designer who maintained, correctly, that this was exactly as the contemporary model in the RMG's collection upon which the kit was based had her tiller mounted. (In fact, there are at least two ship's boats of this period in the RMG's catalog that have their tillers mounted above the mainsheet horse rather than beneath it.) While the model's designer apparently did not have the actual sailing experience to realize that mounting the tiller above the sheet horse entirely defeated the purpose of the sheet horse and necessarily would cause the mainsheet to foul the tiller every time the boom crossed the tiller when moving along the sheet horse (or he otherwise declined to admit this,) we were at least able to agree that the kit was an accurate model of the contemporary model upon which it was based. I cannot for the life of me understand why a tiller would ever be mounted so as to be above a mainsheet horse under any circumstance and can only presume that the longboat models in the RMG's collections may have been at some time conserved by a conservator who didn't know the correct tiller mounting. I cannot, however, categorically exclude the possibility that there is some explanation for this depiction of the tiller mounting, particularly considering that it is to be seen in not only one, but at least two longboat models in the RMG's collection. Do you have any idea of why these longboat tillers were rigged as they were on the prototypes? (We know, of course, that they were so depicted by the kit designer in reliance on the originals, but without any explanation of why such an apparent error would be evident.}

Are you familiar with the Onrust? You may want to look into it if you are not.

Hello: very good information that you have brought with your illustration, I wonder if you know of any company that is very precise in the construction of models like Nikiti. Thank you.

Thanks again.

Thanks for clearing that up; I've worked Merchant Marine long ago, but not quite into your area, and wondered a bit. My motto then was "if the Captain or officer said so". I hope your other academic endeavors are going well. Hope the phrase "Feet Wet" finds your in an "internet free world" for a few hours!

Thank you for another enjoyable and accurately informative conversation, Dr. Batchvarov! I've only recently discovered your interesting series of videos and greatly appreciate your efforts producing them. As a long-lived life-long avocational maritime historian and consumer of maritime archeology, albeit primarily focused on the quite narrow subject matter of American small working craft and yachts, and, correspondingly, as a modeler of similar subjects, I find in you a kindred spirit. I haven't the time left in life to acquire another doctorate, but your video presentations cause me to fantasize about what my life would have been like had I been able to spend as much time in your classes as I did in those of my law professors. Certainly, I wouldn't have dozed during your lectures! Too often I've felt like a salmon swimming upstream in waters polluted by the current "kit modeling culture" and, I might even say, "reviled" by some for criticizing the sacrifice of academic standards of historical inquiry, research, and analysis on the altar of the Almighty Dollar by all too many kit marketers. I believe I am in good company, though, finding reassurance in Jean Boudriot's observation in his foreword to Bernard Frolich's "The Art of Ship Modeling," where he observes that to be a good ship modeler one must thoroughly immerse themselves in the historical maritime milieu rather than simply competently assembling parts according to a set of instructions. Your videos provide those who were not taught how to "access" that antiquated "information platform" called a "book" in an accessible digital format a valuable exposure to the academic consciousness of the maritime milieu Boudriot found prerequisite to serious ship modeling. This is not to say that ship model kits cannot serve as the "gateway drug" to what may for some become an excusable addiction, nor that well-executed high-quality kit models cannot be things of great beauty, but, to my way of thinking, the highest value of a ship model is in the history we can learn from studying it. Regardless of how many steps it may take to produce it, there's a world of difference between a "paint-by-numbers" version of the Mona Lisa and the real thing! This is, of course, a philosophical issue best further explored over a strong drink or three. With reference to your instant video, I thought a quotation from L. Francis Herreshoff in his book "The Commonsense of Yacht Design" regarding the origin of the conventional "east facing" orientation of naval architectural lines drawings might be of interest to you: "It is customary to draw the bow facing the right hand, or east side, of the drawing, and this custom came from making a model first with the stations laid off on its centerline reading from left to right, but when the model was turned over and laid on the drawing (to draw the pencil around to get the sheer and profile) then the station numbers read from right to left. Some designers have the yacht facing either way; my father (Nathaniel G. Herreshoff) did about as many one way as the other."

I loved this presentation! We should call this "Information Sunday".

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