billmaca
30th January 2009, 22:23
Can any Faroe or Norwegian members enlighten me on how the line from the harpoon ran to the winch on the smaller wooden whalers that worked around the north o Scotland in the 50's, on some of the photos I've got it looked like it leads through a roller set in the stem then down to a lead roller on the deck, then up to some sort of tackle rigged up the mast then down and on to a special type whale winch.I'm attemting to build a model at the moment and would like to get it as near right as I can, I used to work in an engineering firm back in 1955, that were agents for the whalers ,used to get the job of straightning out the twisted harpoons.
bill
bill