Can anyone help me find plans to build a pirate ship (about 25 ft in length).?

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I would like to find plans or a book on ship building. I would like to be able to make a pirate ship with an engine in it and sails. Thanks

Answer 1

Yikes !! An interesting and ambitious project !!

Check out THIS link for plans on various sailing ship plans from the "Golden Age of Pirating" including Blackbeards ship, and other Privateers. : http://www.modelexpo-online.com/cgi-bin/sgsh0101.exe?UID=2007103113574257&T1=&FNM=08&SKW=PLANK,ON,BULKHEAD@&PGN=2&PAGLEN=20&GENP= The scale is obviously ALL wrong, but it would get you plans and pictures you could change the scale on.

I'd actually hunt around through a local boat-magazine, find an old sailboat with the approximate hull-shape you want, and then modify the boat with the rigging you want.

My Brother bought an old hull 27 ft, and modified it into a privateer sloop back in the 1990's... it was amusing to sail it in regatta's, we lurked below deck and ran the sails via complex rigging to protect the illusion it was a bigger boat.

GOOD LUCK

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Can anyone help me find plans to build a pirate ship (about 25 ft in length).?
I would like to find plans or a book on ship building. I would like to be able to make a pirate ship with an engine in it and sails. Thanks

Answer 4

Hi:

The following might interest you :

Books:

The Pirateology Guidebook and Model Set
by William Captain Lubber, Dugald A. Steer, Dugald Steer (Editor)

Ship Modeling from Scratch : Tips and Techniques for Building without Kits

Ship Models : How to Build Them
by Charles G. Davis, Langdon Davis

Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern
by Milton Roth

Modelling Sailing Men-of-War : An Illustrated Step-by-Step Manual

Building and Detailing Scale Model Ships
by Mike Ashey, Terry Spohn (Editor)

Scale Model Sailing Ships
by John Bowen (Editor)

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Isn't a pirate ship just any boat that has been captured and patched up? I think you would just pick a boat from your favorite era and get plans for that. Avast ye!
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