Schooners

[T Donily]

How do you begin in modeling Schooners? Is it anymore difficult than a
regular sailboat to build and operate? Thanks,

T Donily

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

Plans, plans, plans.

I got my Hull lines from a book at the library by
Howard I. Chappelle, The American Fishing Schooners 1825-1935.

Then it's just typical scratch build construction techniques
I have yet to finish my schooner, It's mostly rigging that keeps me hesitating to continue. Deadeyes, and climbing ropes and such.

I increased the depth of the Keel by 200 percent below the scale keel depth.

You can see part of the construction here.
http://groups.msn.com/ModelersAndHobbyForum/typicalshiphullconstruction.msnw?Page=1

[Henry Springer]

It all depends on what sort of schooner you mean. The true gaff
schooner is a two-masted vessel, gaff-rigged on both masts, with the
mainsail set on the after mast which is the taller of the two.
Schooners with more than two masts always have their title pre-fixed
with the number of masts they boast, as in '4-masted schooner'. A
'schooner' has just the two. If she carries squaresails on her
foremast she becomes a topsail schooner, but if one of these were a
course (sheeting to deck level and set from the lower yard), she would
be a brigantine, and not a schooner at all (this is English
terminology, American may be a bit different)

I have just built a Fuji Magic schooner which is cat rigged (just the
one sail) on each unstayed pivoting mast. I modified it a bit to have
two sail servos, one for each sail. It is a pleasure to sail and was
easy to build from the MM plan www.traplet.com

A more complex schooner rig would have jibs, staysails, topsails etc
so would take more setting up, look prettier on the water but as
complex sail rigs are not so efficient generally performance would be
a bit poorer I suspect, particularly to windward.

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:49:07 GMT, "T Donily" <tdonily2@comcast.net>
wrote:

>How do you begin in modeling Schooners? Is it anymore difficult than a
>regular sailboat to build and operate? Thanks,
>
>T Donily
>

[Rob]

Victor Models is selling a neat little schooner kit, or ready-to-sail
- look'em up! I've got a Robbe Atlantis that I dearly love - it's the
boat at the pond that draws attention, if only because when it runs
another boat down, it wins (at 45 pounds).

Old Sterling kits were available of the yacht America and the
just-forgot-the-name, but about 4 feet long.

Go to www.amya.org and then to the Vintage Model Yacht Group and THEN
to the Schooner group...they've got lots of ideas.....