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New project: Model of second german steamship "Courier"

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Hankwilliams:
Hi friends and neighbors,

as I wrote in heading research some weeks ago, I now began a new project: Sidewheeler "Courier" of 1817. The original made the first far steamboat connection on the continent between Berlin and Hamburg.
She was working from 1817 probably to 1821. Some informations and parts of plans about this boat are preserved.
First picture shows a model in the german museum of inland navigation in Duisburg. My model will have some alterings, because after the museum model was finished some previous unknown plan fragments and documents were found. Scale is 1 : 25, which gives a lenght of 1600 mm, a breadth of 144 mm
and a depht of 90 mm. Like the original, I will installate a functionable one cylinder side lever engine with boiler.

Thomas

Hankwilliams:
Planking of hull now is nearly finished. Next job will be to grinder and work with spatula until the surface will be fine and even.
Planking goes rather fast, as you can see, the hull is simple and box like except bow and stern.

Thomas

DamienG:
Looking good Thomas :clap :clap

andy:
Hi Thomas,

did you already calculate the possible weight of the ship? These slim hulls sometimes get some problems in weight and stability. And the windows so close to the waterline? I think, you will have to save much of weight. For example: My PD DIESSEN is 2m long and maximum 16kg ready for go. Including boiler and steam engine.

Andreas

Hankwilliams:
Hi Andreas,

the hull - except bow and stern - is block like. The block coefficient of the complete boat hull therefore will be approximately 0,78.
This gives a deplacement of (16 x 1,4 x 0,3 x 0,78)  5,28 litres. Not very much for a model with boiler and steamengine indeed, but sufficient.
The harder woodwork of the model now is nearly complete - I will post some pictures in the evening.
Next job will be to paint the hull in and outside with resin, G 4 by Voss Chemie gives excellent results. This one component resin get deep into the wood, it hardens the wood and will result a watertight and very stabile casco.

Thomas

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