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Code 8149
EUR 700.00
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1746528414Code 8149Half hull of an English schooner from the 1950s in mahogany and pine wood. Good condition, dimensions cm 86 x 4.2x10 – inches 33.8x1.7x3.9.
The half hull, used to design boats, was the tool for shipwrights to see in advance the shapes of the boats or ships that they would later have to build. Once the block of wood had been shaped into the various desired forms, it was broken down and the parts became geometric elements from which the water lines were drawn that represented how the boat would become as a whole. Based on the arrangement of the volumes and the relationships between the various parts of the hull, the table with the dimensions needed to set up the structure of the boat was obtained.
Ship modeling was born for religious reasons. Not content with the banality of his own life, man wants another and moreover eternal, but the soul - by definition immaterial - needs a means to reach the afterlife; it must cross a river, and to do so it needs a boat. The oldest model is a silver boat of about sixty centimeters found in the excavations of Ur in Mesopotamia, today's Iraq, and dates back to 2,000 BC. Modeling was reborn in the 15th century, again for religious reasons, but this time as an ex-voto, even if the most important and precious models were those built by shipyards: in fact, until the 17th century, ships were not designed with a drawing; length, width, masts, armament were decided and then the ship was relied on by a trusted shipyard that "by eye" built the ship according to the instructions received. To convince the sovereign or the minister who had to finance the construction, however, it was necessary to show him something, and to show him what the ship would be like, a model was built, often of large dimensions, and the better it was made, the better it responded to the marketing of the time; often the king fell in love with the model and kept it for himself, and this is why many of these models - true works of art - have come down to us and are all jealously guarded in the various naval museums.
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