{"id":1043,"date":"2014-10-02T20:12:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T00:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2014-10-02T20:12:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T00:12:56","slug":"position-of-thwarts-and-thole-pins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Position of thwarts and thole pins"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a copy of W. E. May’s book Boats of Men of War<\/em>.\u00a0 It is an excellent book that I recommend.\u00a0 Amongst other items in the book are a fair number of reproductions of draughts of ship’s boats.\u00a0 One showing an 18′ cutter seemed to have a very small height between the top of the thwarts and the bottom of the chocks for the thole pins.\u00a0 Out of curiosity, I measured each of the draughts where I could identify the chock-to-thwart distances reliably.\u00a0 Here is a summary of my results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Boat<\/td>\nYear<\/td>\nLength<\/td>\nBeam<\/td>\nNo. of thwarts<\/td>\nDouble banked?<\/td>\nThwart spacing<\/td>\nVertical height between thwart and chock<\/td>\nHorizontal distance from chock center to aft edge of thwart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barge<\/td>\n1809<\/td>\n32′<\/td>\n7′ 6″<\/td>\n7<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n3′ 0″<\/td>\n9.9″<\/td>\n7.5″<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pinnace<\/td>\n1815<\/td>\n37′ 6″<\/td>\n8′<\/td>\n9<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n2′ 11.5″<\/td>\n10.5″<\/td>\n10″<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yawl<\/td>\n1799<\/td>\n26′<\/td>\n6′ 6″<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n2′ 7.5″<\/td>\n9″<\/td>\n10.6″<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cutter<\/td>\n1764<\/td>\n28′<\/td>\n6′ 7″<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n2′ 2″<\/td>\n8.2″<\/td>\n9.8″<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cutter<\/td>\n1786<\/td>\n28′<\/td>\n7′ 1″<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n2′ 3″<\/td>\n9.1″<\/td>\n10.6″<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yawl<\/td>\n<\/td>\n21′<\/td>\n6′ 5″<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n2′ 4.5″<\/td>\n7.9″<\/td>\n11.6″<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cutter<\/td>\n1800<\/td>\n18′<\/td>\n6′ 6.5″<\/td>\n4<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n2′ 10″<\/td>\n6.2″<\/td>\n9″<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Launch<\/td>\n1779<\/td>\n29′<\/td>\n8′ 7″<\/td>\n7<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n2′ 10.8″<\/td>\n7.2″<\/td>\n9.2″<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Launch<\/td>\n1804<\/td>\n33′<\/td>\n9′ 10″<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n2′ 9.2″<\/td>\n8.4″<\/td>\n9.7″<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Launch<\/td>\n1815<\/td>\n35′ 10.5″<\/td>\n9′ 8.5″<\/td>\n9<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n2′ 11.6″<\/td>\n10.2″<\/td>\n10.5″<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gig<\/td>\n1815<\/td>\n25′ 4″<\/td>\n5′ 7″<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n2′ 7.3″<\/td>\n6″<\/td>\n9.8″<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Having only 6 inches between the thwart and chock seems too small, even if the rower is sitting on the far side of the boat.<\/p>\n

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I have a copy of W. E. May’s book Boats of Men of War.\u00a0 It is an excellent book that I recommend.\u00a0 Amongst other items in the book are a fair number of reproductions of draughts of ship’s boats.\u00a0 One showing an 18′ cutter seemed to have a very small height between the top of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebigrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}