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  1. druxey
    Looking very nice indeed!
  2. druxey
    Despite your paint issues, looking good!
  3. druxey
    Finds keep turning up! Thanks for this, Mark.
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    Well, that worked out! Looking sweet, SJS.
  5. druxey
    I agree with Greg, Kevin: the port side outer timber appears to be (in the photo at least) too vertical. This throws the spacing of the inner timbers and will affect the stern gallery lights. Best check this before you commit to further construction.
  6. druxey
    Perhaps this style of wheel was never actually used! The model was, after all, only a proposed one.
  7. druxey
    Well done, Derek!
  8. druxey
    A curved spoke would provide a little more shock absorption over rough ground.
  9. druxey
    Thank you for clarifying the early date for reef points, Steven. Why then, I wonder, were bonnets in use until so much later?
  10. druxey
    Reef points back then? I thought that this was a later invention and that a bonnet or bonnets were used.
  11. druxey
    Congratulations, Giampiero! Another fine model.
  12. druxey
    I had coffee with a friend for the first time since covid this morning. He quoted from a T.S. Eliot poem that I thought was perfect for you: Bowsprit cracked with ice and paint cracked with heat. I made this, I have forgotten And remember. The rigging weak and the canvas rotten Between one June and another September. Made this unknowing, half conscious, unknown, my own. The garboard strake leaks, the seams need caulking. The poem is called, appropriately, Marina.
  13. druxey
    Just as well. It would probably have sat here as well, giving me guilt as well as stress! There's more than enough on my plate....
  14. druxey
    Makes more sense to have a protective metal sheet where swivels mount, rather than under deadeye straps where the forces up and down are balanced out.
  15. druxey
    Pretty tricky at that scale! What happened to the aft cross-piece, though?
  16. druxey
    I understand that conserving the wreck will take years.
  17. druxey
    My understanding is that plate along the side to prevent wear was a single strip, not separate plates. Also, it was on the inner timber with square holes for swivel guns, not the outer strip slotted for the shroud plates. (See Steel, Plate 5. Volume I, Rigging and Seamanship.)
  18. druxey
    Excellent find! This will help us understand early transitional building techniques better. Thanks for posting.
  19. druxey
    The method that works for me is to make the cutter profile in a softened piece of hacksaw blade. As you discovered, you can't do undercuts, so any angle on the molding needs to be shaped afterwards, but is usually not necessary except for entry steps. I pre-cut strips the width and maximum depth plus a whisker of the molding to be cut. I then either rubber cement (larger strips) or white glue (smaller ones) to a flat, hard surface. This will act as the depth stop. Cut until the cutter rides along the base surface and you have a nice, even molding. The trick is not to use too much downward pressure on each pass. Many light cuts are better and there is less chance of the cutter digging in. Your method is far more sophisticated!
  20. druxey
    I doubt if a boat was on board. Hoisting it in and out would be problematic with only one yard to suspend anything from! If anything, it would be towed.
  21. druxey
    Usually scarph lengths were three times the width of the plank. Generally speaking, the direction was such that the wood that planks (or framing elements) were being cut from were as long as possible with minimum waste. So, on a curved piece, the tip of the scarph would usually be to the concave side.
  22. druxey
    Looking very nice indeed, Matiz!
  23. druxey
    A fresh eye in the morning helps!
  24. druxey
    Your theory that the eyebolts were for hoisting the capstan for repair or maintenance seems a reasonable one.
  25. druxey
    Stretch the SilkSpan on a frame and paint it with dilute acrylic first. The number of coats will control the degree of transparency or opacity.

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