somehow the scales do not agree, or they have many tiny windows on it.... ;-)
It is MUCH larger in real life, that must be a 1/16 scale model...
Leslie.
;-)
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From: Edd Schillay <e...@schillay.com>
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: Stus-List MAST STEP MATERIAL
The USS Enterprise was built with titanium….
http://mirzmaster.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/star_trek_2009-enterprise_construction1.png
All the best,
Edd
Edd M. Schillay
Starship Enterprise
C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B
City Island, NY
Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log Website
On Aug 7, 2013, at 1:16 PM, cenel...@aol.com wrote:
The USS Constitution was built with pine and oak, including "live oak". Her 21
inch thick wooden hull helped her defeat 5 British ships in the War of 1812!
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>The name Constitution was selected by President George Washington.[14] Her
>keel was laid down on 1 November 1794 at Edmund Hartt's shipyard in Boston,
>Massachusetts, under the supervision of Captain Samuel Nicholson and naval
>constructor Colonel George Claghorn.[15][16] Primary materials used in her
>construction consisted of pine and oak, including southern live oak, which was
>cut and milled near St. Simons, Georgia.[16] Constitution's hull was built 21
>inches (530 mm) thick and her length between perpendiculars was 175 ft (53 m),
>with a 204 ft (62 m) length overall and a width of 43 ft 6 in (13.26 m).[2][4]
>In total, 60 acres (24 ha) of trees were needed for her construction.
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>Presumably a mast step could be constructed with considerably less than 60
>acres of trees!
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>Charlie Nelson
>Water Phantom
>North Carolina
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>cenel...@aol.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Knowles Rich <r...@sailpower.ca>
>To: cnc-list <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
>Sent: Wed, Aug 7, 2013 11:51 am
>Subject: Re: Stus-List MAST STEP MATERIAL
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>"Live oak". Do you have to plant it in the bilge and wait?
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>Rich Knowles
>Indigo. LF38
>Halifax
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>On 2013-08-07, at 12:36, cenel...@aol.com wrote:
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>If you really want to use wood, and can find it, live oak is probably the best
>wood for strength. It was highly sought after for knees, etc. of the wooden
>sailing ships of the 1700-1800s.
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> Live oak was widely used in early American butt shipbuilding. Because of the
>trees' short height and low-hanging branches, lumber from live oak was
>specifically used to make curved structural members of the hull, such as knee
>braces (single-piece, inverted L-shaped braces that spring inward from the
>side and support a ship's deck). In such cuts of lumber, the line of the grain
>would fall perpendicularly to lines of stress, creating structures of
>exceptional strength. Live oaks were not generally used for planking because
>the curved and often convoluted shape of the tree did not lend itself to be
>milled to planking of any length. Red oak or white oak was generally used for
>planking on vessels, as those trees tended to grow straight and tall and thus
>would yield straight trunk sections of length suitable for milling into plank
>lengths.
>Live oak was largely logged out in Europe by the latter half of the 19th
>century, and was similarly sought after and exported from the United States
>until iron- and steel-hulled commercial vessel construction became the
>standard early in the 20th century. Live oak lumber is rarely used for
>furniture due to warping and twisting while drying.
>It continues to be used occasionally when available in shipbuilding, as well
>as for tool handles for its strength, energy absorption, and density, but
>modern composites are often substituted with good effect. Dry southern live
>oak lumber has a specific gravity of 0.88, among the highest of North American
>hardwoods
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>Charlie Nelson
>Water Phantom
>C&C 36 XL/kcb
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>cenel...@aol.com
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>Sent: Wed, Aug 7, 2013 11:15 am
>Subject: Stus-List MAST STEP MATERIAL
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