Charles W. Morgan in San Francisco- research for future build

For everyone's edification.........These were taken during an 1850's overhaul I belive.

The bow looks good, except that I think the vertical sides of the beak are sucked in too deep, but haven't focused on that. Probably other minor stuff. The O.A. length checked out pretty well I thought. The chainplates are kind of pathetic and on the fore and mizzen sets seem a little out of place. Those will be easy to replace.

One other thing is that the masts are all raked on the drawing, but on the model, just fiddling around, it seems like only the mizzen is (???). But they at least seem to be in pretty correct locations.

There's also a short stout horizontal cross tree sort of thing on the mizzen in some of the later photos just below the crosstrees proper. It seems to be for the ends of the main sail braces- to keep them out of the way of the boats and davits etc. Here I expose my lack of knowledge of rigging, but if any of you can offer some insight, much appreciated.

GM,

Thanks for the PM, all I can say is amazing.

I agree that replacing the transom would be the way to go; you could even take the eagle off the model.  From what I can see, the drawing is more accurate than the model at least in the stern section; how does the midship and bow look? The model is pretty close except for the length and possibly the chain plate.  Will you also have to move the window?  It looks like a stove vent towards the fore part of the hurricane house but I'm not sure what the structure/pole behind it is?

It also looks like there's a sink hole, are there many of those on your model?  Surprisingly, there were no sink divots or holes and very little flash on mine.

Thanks again,

Steve

Here's a detail I find laying the kit hull on a scaled drawing- the one in "Leavitt" and also in the Mystic book.

Looking at photos of the ship, the drawing seems more correct than the kit.

I plan to replace the entire transom with a blank one, so it shouldn't be too big of a deal to extend the hull sides and hurricane houses. That latter may be the most work.

Amen to that. Steve, unfortunately I cannot post the images without prior permission, but I'd be happy to send you the ones I have by email or PM.

Rob,

I know it would help my build if you would post them.

Steve

I have quite a few old images of the Morgan when she was hauled out on the railways, images of her wheel configuration, Masts, channels, hull...even her fiddlehead or billet.  You might be talking about the same images........

Rob

GM,

I really miss living in the Bay Area, especially in the summer here...... It was a "pleasant" 111 today while in Alameda it was 72.

I also spent many an hour at the Bancroft Libary in my undergrad days at Cal as well as the Maritime Park.  I would especially like to tour the sub there as I have a 1/72 Gato calling  to me from my stash.

Was the picture of the Morgan out of the water the one showing her stern?  If I remember correctly she has the stern configuration that is presently on her.  Also, are you going to post some of the pictures that you have found?

Steve