Help, please - what joins a topmast to a mainmast?

[Hydrozoan]

Might a post in the Classic and Wooden Boats sub-forum have produced a quicker and/or more copious response?

 

[Robert Wilson]

It most likely would have done. But I thought it was such a simple matter that everyone's grey matter would instantly come to my aid...............

One lives and learns. And I've learnt quite a lot by investigating the various references! :encouragement:

 

[Hydrozoan]

It most likely would have done. But I thought it was such a simple matter that everyone's grey matter would instantly come to my aid...............

One lives and learns. And I've learnt quite a lot by investigating the various references! :encouragement:

Well perhaps it might not – it depends how many of the Classic and Wooden Boats sub-forum folk visit this forum!

But thank you for raising it – it has been on my mind because I am restoring an old model ship and am beginning to think about the connections of masts and topmasts.

More on wooden caps here: http://www.hnsa.org/resources/manua...nd-practice-of-rigging-and-seamanship/page-1/

 

[Robert Wilson]

Another interesting and useful link.
Pics of work in progress; and completed project, please.

 

[KINGFISHER 9]

What are they called? ... If you're talking about new ones I think they're called 'expensive'! ... :encouragement:

 

[Hydrozoan]

... Pics of work in progress; and completed project, please.

I’m no modeller, and it’s but an old hull found >60 years ago by Mrs H in her childhood home (which we think had much earlier nautical connections). About 65cm LOD and 13cm beam, it is carved from a single block of pine, hollowed to form three holds with spaces for two masts between. I even wondered if it might once have been a shipbuilder’s hull model, converted to a child’s toy, and I could not put it for firewood. My aim is not historical verisimilitude, but simply to get it neat and sailing under r/c. Given its weight even after enlarging the holds, that will require a deep ballasted detachable keel, gaff rig, a long bowsprit - and topmasts. It will still be a slug, but I hope the younger grandsons may enjoy it – until they see skimming dish models whizzing about, anyway.

The historical accuracy of many ship modellers is very impressive, but here is something a bit different that I came across; don’t blink at 1:29.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9axJlCredqk

 

[Robert Wilson]

A few protests to be lodged with the race committee!
Great, thank you.
Good to see the helmsman wearing a wide-brimmed hat in those sunny days!
Good luck with your resurrection of the "Auld Tub".