Landlubber Mike Posted September 29, 2013 Share #1 Posted September 29, 2013 (edited) Hi everyone, I am researching adding furled sails to my Badger build, and am trying to figure out how to add the jib and flying jib sails. I found a copy of the sail plan for the Badger online, which if I remember correctly, is taken from the Chapman book: Flying jib: From the sail plan, it looks like the flying jib is attached to a separate stay that runs from the fore topmast to the jib-boom. This is a little different from what is in the Lennarth Petersson book where the flying jib stay runs from the fore royal mast to the jib-boom - then again, the Badger doesn't have royal masts. So, I guess the question I have is should I run a flying jib stay from the fore topmast to the jib-boom like in the plans above? If so, would the flying jib stay be of about the same caliper as the fore topmast and fore topgallant stays? Jib: The sail plan has the jib attached to what looks like the fore topmast stay. The kit's plans only show a fore topmast stay, and no fore topmast preventer stay. On a brig like the Badger, would the jib sail be attached directly to the fore topmast stay? Or would the jib be attached to a separate jib stay? The Lennarth Petersson book is not too helpful here in that it shows the jib stay running from the fore topmast to a point midway or so along the jib-boom, but the Badger is a smaller vessel and the sail plan above indicates that the jib is attached to a stay runningfrom the fore topmast to the end of the bowspirit. It looks like I'll also have to figure out how to create travelers for the two sails as well (thanks Frank for the tip!). Hopefully this wasn't too confusing. Thanks very much in advance! Edited September 29, 2013 by Landlubber Mike Quote Mike Current Wooden builds: Amati/Victory Pegasus MS Charles W. Morgan Euromodel La Renommèe Plastic builds: SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48 Five Star Yaeyama 1/700 Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32 Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72 IJN Notoro 1/700 Akitsu Maru 1/700 Completed builds : Caldercraft Brig Badger Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700 Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350 F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72 Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48 Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48 Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16 Terminated build: HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn) On the shelf: Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits Future potential scratch builds: HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riverboat Posted September 29, 2013 Share #2 Posted September 29, 2013 Hey Mike ....... you might want to pm DanVad as to the 2 travelers, I only did one on my Supply and I too used Petersson's book to help me on the rigging. I'm sure he can give you some good advice. Frank Landlubber Mike 1 Quote completed build: Delta River Co. Riverboat HMAT SUPPLY USRC "ALERT" in progress: Red Dragon (Chinese junk) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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