Sunday, December 14, 2008

Attempt to get original plans

I spoke with George Schwartz of the Peabody Essex Museum; he promised me copies of the following plans:
  • Construction Plan
  • Detail of Masthead
  • Detail of Binnacle
  • Detail of Centerboard trunk
  • Detail of Rudder
Note: RUNE was designed by the well-known Danish naval architect, K. Aage Nielsen. His papers, including the originals of many of his designs were given by his heirs to the PEM. They control the use of the construction drawings , and so one is in the strange position of owning the boat and trying to repair it without access to the plans. For reasons of their own, PEM refuses to part with the files into which the plans have been scanned with very high resolution, and forces the outsider to work with inferior, pseudo-photographic reproductions. The authors of the recent book on Nielsen are the only ones I know to have been given access to the high-resolution scans.
Because I can't get access to the art work, I won't be able to do a good job of updating it to the current configuration.


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