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I was down at Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco yesterday and a fellow ship modeler had asked me to take a couple photos of the rudder. I was happy to help him out and…
I just received my copy of this book today and decided to write up a little review.
Last week, I broke down and bought my copy of this new book directly from the author’s website. That’s a nice way to get it as more money goes directly to supporting Mr. Brooks’ efforts. The hardbound book, published by Floating World Editions, is 320-pages, all in English, in a roughly 9″ x 11″ format.
Photo courtesy of Douglas Brooks
My copy arrived today and, naturally, all my ship modeling efforts and other tasks have come to a complete standstill as I read through it. This is an absolutely beautiful book, full of information about the subject.
Photo courtesy of Douglas Brooks
I was thumbing through it and had to stop and read through the section on the “ro“, which is the Japanese sculling oar. The author goes into a fair amount of detail on its construction and how it actually works in practice, based on his own…
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Long time Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights member and president Paul Reck shares a slideshow of a model he built in 2010 of the 60′ yawl-rigged yacht Good News. The original boat was designed by Sparkman and Stephens. The plank-on-bulkhead model was scratch built at a scale of 1/2″=1′ using white pine with sugar pine hull planking and deck planked with Alaskan yellow cedar.
The model features wire rigging and many parts that had to be built from scratch. Paul put together a nice little slide show of his build, which you can access on his Dropbox account here:
Good News Slide Show Note that it’s not necessary to have or to create a Dropbox account. Just close the window that asks you to sign-in.
The model was built for the St. Francis Yacht Club, where it now resides. It is one of 70 models (many of which were built by Paul) featured in the recent publication, The Models of the St. Francis Yacht Club, which is available only through the yacht club. Ω
Anyone thinking about attending the next meeting of the Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights will have to wait for the September meeting. In lieu of our regular August meeting, members will be spending a lovely afternoon in the backyard of our hosts Paul and Nancy Reck in Mill Valley, enjoying an afternoon of good food and good company.
The barbecue is this Saturday, August 15th. I hope all of our members have been paying attention and will be attending. It’s a great chance to meet members and their significant others without talking entirely about ship modeling and related topics. Though we can’t help ourselves and there will be a lot of that too, I’m sure!
Our meeting schedule will be back to normal next month with our next ship model meeting aboard the Eureka being on Saturday, September 19th at our usual 9:30am start time.
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