Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Tugs and Towing => Topic started by: rfurzer on April 20, 2014, 08:09:48 am

Title: Bulwark supports (stanchions?)
Post by: rfurzer on April 20, 2014, 08:09:48 am
On a turn of the century era steam tug, did the vertical stiffener/ support pieces for the bulwarks remain vertical as the deck angle changes with sheer at bow and stern, or were the perpendicular to the decks/ gunwale tops (ie raked forward at the stern and rearwards at the bow)?
Title: Re: Bulwark supports (stanchions?)
Post by: BarryM on April 20, 2014, 09:14:50 am
From memory, the bulkhead brackets remained vertical and did not change with the sheer.

Barry M
Title: Re: Bulwark supports (stanchions?)
Post by: Neil on April 20, 2014, 10:24:41 am
quite right barry. neil. :-))
Title: Re: Bulwark supports (stanchions?)
Post by: rfurzer on April 20, 2014, 10:37:37 am
Thanks mates
Title: Re: Bulwark supports (stanchions?)
Post by: rfurzer on April 22, 2014, 12:14:13 pm
I have no local steam tug to look at, but have been looking at wooden trawlers in hobart harbour today- they have stanchions/ brackets following the sheer.

So confused!
Title: Re: Bulwark supports (stanchions?)
Post by: BarryM on April 22, 2014, 02:43:30 pm
You may have found a local anomaly there or a design peculiar to the Hobart fishing trade. I have racked my brain such as it is but would still put money on the brackets being vertical to the keel and thus parallel with the hull framing.

Barry M