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Shallow Draught

Royal Barge

Pleasure vessel for Rowing

The Barge

Built: 1750; Europe
Length: 26 5/6 ft.
Beam: 6 1/3 ft.
Draught: 1 2/3 ft.
Pairs of oars: 8

The Model

Scale: 1:24 (1/2 inch = 1 foot)
Plans: from Architechtura Navalis Mercatoria
by Fredrik Henrik ap Chapman,
Plate XLVII, No. 5.
Originally published in Stockholm in 1768.
Length: 19 1/2 in.
23 1/4 in. (case)
Breadth: 2 1/4 in.
6 1/4 in. (case)
Height: 3 1/2 in.
7 3/4 in. (case)
Construction: "Dockyard" style construction.
Scratch build entirely from home-milled timbers of madrone, pear, apple, cherry, and boxwood.




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