Ned Loe Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Yacht 'Golden' This ship has many names as follows "GroBe Yacht", "New Yacht", "Great Yacht", "Golden Yacht", or "Doro Yacht". The found the following info about it on the web. Quote: The Great Yacht which is also called New Yacht or Gold Yacht was built by G. Peckelhering in 1678 - 1679 in Kolberg per sample of sea yacht of prince William III. The length of Great Yacht was 70 feet (according to another source - 72 feet). The width was 21 feet and the draft - 5 feet. The Yacht had eight cannon ports. The crew consisted of 12 persons; during wartime it increased to 50 persons. The Yacht was a good sailboat. Since 1680 it was based in Pillau, in 1693 it navigated to Amsterdam, in 1694 it made a voyage from Emden to London conveying the Branderburg ambassador T. von Dankelmann. At the end of the 1690s and up to 1700 it was in Berlin, then again in Emden till in 1721 it became worthless. --------------------------------------------------- * Type of craft - Yacht * Length along the waterline - 21.18 meters from end of rudder to keel * Breadth - 6.5 meters * Draught - 1.5 meters * Armament - 8 @ 6 pounds 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nornica Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Goddamit, that title is soo easy to missread diferently ;d first what i thought was "omg, that small patch included new ship!"Ship looks super pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Found some pictures of wooden models of the ship. And I thought of giving this little thing a go in blender. I'm still a bit of a rookie so it will take long for me I got as far as the hull today =) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 There's even a replica currently active it seems, called "Sehnsucht": Website: http://www.goldene-yacht-oranienburg.de/fotoecke.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 This is what I have concocted so far: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeRuyter Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Nice work - beautiful ship. I saw this replica when I was visiting in 2013 - alas no time to sail on her! I was in Muiden near Amsterdam going to see the Muiderslot (castle). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 (edited) Thanks! Did you do/visit anything else besides het Muiderslot ("the Castle of Muiden")? Interesting that the Sehnsucht visited the Netherlands. It's a German replica. This is the second time for me actually doing something like this I modelled a Dutch intercity train carriage for Rail Simulator (now Train Simulator) once, but didn't finish it, 'cus my 3dsmax expired. Also nice reference material I found in these photos of this model: http://www.historische-modellschiffe.com/index.php/grosse-jacht Edited August 28, 2015 by Wicked Mouse 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Been working on the stern a bit, all still WIP: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Not being a naval historian I have to ask what the tear shaped things attached to the side of this vessel are and what they are used for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeekoning Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 I forget what they're called, but they stabilize the yacht by providing extra buoyancy on the side that needs it the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Thanks for the info. I was thinking that maybe they served the same purpose as a daggerboard and it turns out I was mostly correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Yeah, those are lee-boards. The one on the lee side should be lowered, which would require unique coding (although similar to whatever they use for the spanker booms). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BungeeLemming Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 These ships' hulls were designed as flat as possible to give them as less draught as possible. In consequence they have really bad leeway. So what could one do against it? In germany we call them "swords"(a direct translation). And as Maturin points out the lee-board is beeing lowered. It acts like a keel we have on modern sailing yachts. "digging" deeper in the water it reduces the ship's leeway considerably. I was once sailing on a "Plattenboat" (netherlands pronounciation) gaff schooner. 20m +bowsprit in lenght. Those lee-boards are massive and weigh several tons. Requiring quite some manpower to get them up. ___ about the model: comes along nicely! keep the good work up! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueEagleGER Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Additionaly the "Plattboden" (flat bottom) made it possible for crafts to fall dry in a level position during low tide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 (edited) BungeeLemming is on the right track here. This yacht is of the Dutch type "platbodem" ('flat bottom' as BlueEagleGER correctly corrected). As mentioned these ships have a relatively small keel. This allows them to sail through very shallow waters or even on low tide rest on the sea bottom, but the downside to this is that with winds coming from the side the ship will drift far more than desired. To battle this the boards on the side, as said before are called "zwaarden" ('swords' literally translated), were lowered into the water on the leeward side of the ship. One of the most famous examples is the Frisian (a northern province of the Netherlands) "Tjalk". Edited August 31, 2015 by Wicked Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 about the model: comes along nicely! keep the good work up! Thanks! I'm still fairly new to 3D modelling and learning new things along the way, which sometimes results in me removing some stuff and redoing them from scratch. I'm dreading the UV unwrapping though xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueEagleGER Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 (edited) Just to add: The german Schwert and the dutch Zwaard , both meaning sword, are known as centreboard in english. Although the dutch ships have two that are not in the centre at all and those are, as BungeeLeming said, leeboards. Edited August 31, 2015 by BlueEagleGER 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 A status update with a shot with natural perspective. Added flag pole, curved the curl at the top and added another strip =) Oh and the windows on the oriels and the oriels themselves have gotten an extra frame. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackjack Symons Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 So this is essentially the present yacht with two more guns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 (edited) It's a bit different. But yes, it's a yacht, a luxury ship. Not a ship of the line. EDIT: oh and two less guns. This one has 8, the yacht currently already in the game has 10. And I don't know if this one will even be added to the game eventually, but here's hoping Edited September 2, 2015 by Wicked Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 (edited) I've found a 'standard' female figure, as I'm not pro enough to make my own, so I think it's allowed to be used in creative commons I've clad her and gave her some hair and posed her in the same way. I hope I won't go over the poly count too much This is the model I use for reference: Overview shot: Edited September 7, 2015 by Wicked Mouse 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Never thought it would be so addictive to make 3D models 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 (edited) Added the boys ontop. For which I've used the child figure from b2przemo @Blendswap Edited September 8, 2015 by Wicked Mouse 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackjack Symons Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 Looking good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Mouse Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 Thanks a lot! Really starting to enjoy it and learning a LOT, thanks to YouTube Here's another overview shot. Added the lamp, have yet to do the statues on that: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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