Le Cerf
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War Cutter (1779 - 1780). A cutter is a moderate dimensional ship (Le Cerf is smaller than thirty m. long), wearing a particular rigging, with only one mast, but a huge surface of sails: three jibs, great spanker, main sail, main topsail, to gallant and top sail. Le Cerf is a war cutter commissioned with 18 guns (16 of 6 pounds caliber guns, 2 of 8 for the hunt chase port holes), built at Saint Malo in 1779 on the draught established by engineer Denys. Her short career will finish in 1780 at La Martinique. One of the characteristics of this ship is to be boarded with non joined boards, that is to say with non free boards but overlaping one another according to a techniques frequently used in England, and in the northern countries of Europe. |
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The here presented model has been realized according to the monograph of Jean Boudriot. She is at a scale of 1/48. The particular rigging of a cutter demanded that sailing be represented on the model. As well, I have felt the desire to represent the membrure, and a non free boarded one, was for me a new experience. I have had to restore this frame according to the few elements provided by Jean Boudriot in his monograph. Accordingly the port side of the model shows the frame of the hull when the starboard side is fully boarded with a closed hull which justify the presence of sails. I have chosen to install the kitchen on the deck, after the mast, possibility proposed by Jean Boudriot in his monograph, but its bulkiness obliged me to realize a smaller jolly boat to be able to install it between the kitchen and the rear companion way.
The construction of this model lasted from august 2007 and the first days of 2010, and has needed 800 working hours ( No! pleasure hours!)
The cote of the model are: length: 106 cm, height: 88 cm, width: 38 cm.
This model is for sale for 25000 euros.