Offsets
When I said one sunny afternoon, my son and I with the aid of his girlfriend took Peggy’s lines, it was not strictly true. What we did, was to take a series of offsets at five stations, one at the centre of her waterline and others spaced evenly fore and aft. These were enough to reproduce her lines on a drawing of about a metre in length and a width of 22cm from the list of offsets which had been transcribed from the girl friend’s notes to my pocket book.
I was asked, a day or so ago, for the offsets by someone who is interested building a copy of this historic vessel, she was a hundred years old this year and sadly it appears that the list of offsets was discarded once the drawing was complete.
We know that Peggy had a beam of 2.38m and that was reproduced in a drawing of width 0.22m so the offsets can found again because the horizontal and the vertical have the same scale and they can be recalculated for nine stations that were on that drawing because the first and last sections are located on the waterline.
The profile of the stem and slope of the transom can be gleaned from the drawing of her in the post for Clootie which was been given in the introduction to this post.
Mick Dawson
12-Dec-24
While I was waiting to get a place on the slipway for a major rebuild with the last wooden vessel restorer on the Tyne, Mr Fred Crowell, Peggy had been lifted out of the water and it occurred to me that it would be quite easy to take her lines and while it could be done by one very determined person it would be relatively easy to do with three people and when Tim and Shelly visited me in South Shields, one sunny afternoon it, was accomplished in a couple of hours.
I was aware that Peggy had a twist, i.e. the stem leaned a little to starboard when she was sat fair and square on her droughts but that could easily be corrected by making them square when drawn but I had not taken any account of the fact that she had dried out, many of her nails had become loose and she had probably settled a little and lost some of her midships’ depth.