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Figure 3.11. Inside the hull, the ceiling (inside planking) is applied; the keelson is placed above the keel, followed by the bilge ceiling in the turn of the bilges and finally the deck clamp on which the deck beams come to rest. As soon as the ceiling, as far as necessary, has been finished, the outside is planked. The ship is then ready to be launched and will be finished afloat. (Courtesy A. J. Hoving)
Figure 3.12. The finished model
of the pleasure yacht, displaying the specific features of the Dutch shell-first building method: a nearly flat bottom, an angle where the turn of the bilges starts, frame timbers that are not joined to one another, and (only faintly visible) traces of the chocks with which the planks were held together in the first stage of construction. The inside was finished insofar as the scant contract data allowed. The rigging specified in the contract is a “lateen yard rig,” the oldest type of rigging for this type of vessel; it seems to have been imported from Asia shortly after the first Dutch expeditions. The hoops and halyard that I fitted onto the model at the time are probably incorrect. (Courtesy A. J. Hoving)
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