Ship Models by Charles Davis

Author:Charles Davis [Charles G. Davis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2014-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

Fig. 103

A heavy piece, like a waterway, was raised around the edges on top of all the houses (the small, skylight tops and the cuddy or companionway tops were made flush) and fitted at the lower corners with lead scupper pipes. This prevented the rain from leaving streak marks down over the clean, white, painted sides and also made it handy to put a barrel under to catch the fresh water — often a priceless necessity at sea.

In the tropics we used to plug the main deck scuppers and collect about six inches of water in which all hands would flounder around and have a good bath and then spread out our blankets in it, soap them and wash them by treading on them. Such days of luxury were but few at sea.

The deck being only about four inches thick, while the waterways along the side of the ship were ten to twelve inches thick and composed of three pieces, twelve inches wide, quite a puddle could collect at the scuppers. When it became deep enough to flow over the top of the waterways there were places where it could leak out.

The bulwarks fitted down fairly snug on the waterways, but there were three or four of the squares between timber-heads where the bulwarks had been cut out and hinged sections put on, hinged at the top and lashed fast in ordinary weather, that were not altogether water-tight. When a ship got well below Rio, on her voyage around Cape Horn, and bad weather was about to be encountered these lashings were cut, allowing these “freeing ports,” as they are called, to swing open when a big sea flooded the decks and so help to relieve the ship of this weight of water which the small two inch lead pipe scuppers could not begin to drain away. The main deck scuppers were flanged and nailed down flat to the ship’s side planking, but the deck house scuppers stuck out a few inches so that the water dripped clear of the side of the house and would not leave a disfiguring, slobbery stain below it.

To build the “Sea Witch’s” forward deck-house, take two pieces of ⅛ inch pine, ⅞ of an inch wide and 2¾ inches long for the two sides and two pieces 1⅞ inches long for the two ends.

The forward end has no windows or doors and the after end a door only, leading to the galley.

The top of the windows lay off ⅛ of an inch down from the top edge and the bottom 3/16 of an inch below it. The windows are ¼ inch in length, fore and aft, and a sliding shutter should be represented aft of each window, sliding in a batten at top and bottom (Fig. 104). This batten can be chiseled so that it stands out in relief about 1/32 of an inch. The edges of the shutter can be scratched in but the grating frame in the window will have to be carved or notched down a sixteenth of an inch and then the window cut clear through.

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