clearway
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Ty very much Daniel, not sure how right or wrong i have got the rigging but it is certainly more accurate than the instructions! Well the local T.V. weather forecasters kept harping on about how dry September was so it's basically hardly stopped raining in October so far!!! with the dark nights and poor weather comes shipyard time though😜. Have finally finished the running rigging on the mainmast sails (bar the braces that is) final jobs were the t'gallant lifts, clewlines and the topsail yard halliards (also nice to have the funnel, compass table and capstan back in place though still not glued in place yet). earlier in the week took my son, daughter and mother in law for a daytrip down to the steam railway and aquarium at Lakeside, Windermere. Take care all and have fun Keith
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Welcome back, as an aside the tall ship Auf Chapman in Stockholm harbour was formally known as the Dunboyne and was built in my hometown 😉 Keith
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myself i would go with sewn set of sails, i think ships like this always look a bit bare when modelled with bare poles/ furled sails as not much going on up top compared to a full rigged ship (i sew the hems but get my mother in law to stitch the "sail panels" on her sewing machine though as she is now in her 80s she has said no moreeeeeeeee!!! Keith
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looking good and nice advise to yourself regarding gluing spreaders in place! when i am about to permanently glue things in place i always move the ship back a little and scan everything in that area to make sure i don,t have to "tweak" anything (still sometimes get caught out though)! Keith
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welcome back my fellow terrorite 😁 - Matthew Betts book has been delayed in the U.K. too with a 2022 release date announced! ......Looks around to find Keith S so we can get our threesome going again😜. Keith
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OMG just when i thought you couldn't surprise me anymore with your sublime detailing you maniac- keep up the good work😀 Keith
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starting to look nice and busy on the decks- this is the bit i like when all the small details start gathering momentum after the slog of making the hull. Keith
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work continues on the topgallant with the sheets and halliard rigged (still need excess thread trimmed and coiled at pin rail). the piece of dowel in the bows will be the foreyard. Keith
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love these old steamships they have soooooo much character (even the workaday ones). Keith
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She is evolving nicely and yep the hammock netting is a nightmare (was bad enough in 1/75 scale)! i would leave the davits off till as late as possible because they will deffo get snagged endlessly while rigging the mizzen mast. Keith
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back in the shipyard and the topgallant yard is hoisted, though the halliard still need rigged as well as sheets, lifts etc.once the halliard is rigged i will rig the topsail halliards and backstay (not rigged yet to allow easier access to pinrails). take care everyone. Keith
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thanks as always for the likes and looking in everyone, with shorter days and not much needing done in garden managed a little bit of time in the shipyard (to quote a famous T.V. series "winter is coming") The rubbing strakes and the timber above the stern/rudder are in place along with a bearing in the sternpost for the prop shaft. have fun all and keep up the good work everyone. Keith
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Many thanks Keith- that's not the words i use to describe it at the time though!😜 You will be noticing like me that the nights are starting to close in and winter is creeping up on us- though thanks to gulf stream we can get some nice but shorter days up to November time. Keith
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thanks for all the likes and looking in as always everyone, managed a little more on Terror this weekend with the clewlines rigged on the main topsail, the ropes on the main mast pinrail all belayed and coiled and the main topgallant yard ready for the footropes and sail to be added. Take care everyone. Keith
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work slowly progressing with the stem and keel pieces attached. Also fitted a brass bearing for the prop shaft in place from my spares box. There is a nice pic of her stern in dry dock showing a two bladed prop (spares box the the rescue again)! Also looks like the prop shaft went through the prop and into another bearing on the sternpost so will add that to the sternpost before gluing it into place take care all Keith
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Thanks for the likes and looking in everyone. have got the truss pendants, main yard lifts, main tops'l sheets and main tops'l lifts belayed (not coiled yet), rigged as per Lees masting and rigging. Note i havn't glued the chimney for the steam engine in place along with the skid beams to ease rigging in this crammed space! take care all Keith
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While my Grandfather was a coal miner he had a small fishing smack at Whitehaven harbour for when he was on his time off (i bet the open irish sea was a blessing after hewing coal in a 3 foot high adit)! - a lot of the old sailing smacks were altered and fitted with diesel engines and wheelhouses and plenty were still around till about 20 years ago. Keith
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Nice to see Vicky back on the workbench phil- wow i forgot about the insanely small buckets of doom😁. Keith
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that looks better- i was wondering why the original set up didn't look right (i am building Snowberry using the Matchbox 1/72 kit with the Great little Ships upgrade set) though that build resembles the speed of continental drift! Keith
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Moving along nicely 😉 On the fore tops'l she was fitted with roller reefing gear- a quick google search will show the idea - which is why it looks thicker on the pics of the real Endurance. Keith
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Thanks for likes and comments everyone, little bit of progress in the shipyard with the decks / bulkheads now all planked. take care all, Keith
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