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What do you plan to apply along the top edge of the copper (where it reaches the wooden hull)? I've seen some people keep it rough, some use a piece of copper-painted rope, some use thin strips of copper. Just curious what options you've used and what you're planning. I suppose it depends on how clean the edge is.

For simply attaching a block to an eyebolt, Olha simply ties a knot at the bottom of the block (adding some thin CA, and later some shellac, and cutting the loose ends flush). She does add seizing between the eyebolt and the block. I found this as another (likely more challenging approach thanks to @Thanasis. Maybe someone like this would work allowing for a becket (loop) below the block, adding seizing between the block the the loop at the bottom and a seizing between the block and the loop around the eyebolt at the top.

Olha Batchvarov has a nice demonstration of attaching a block to an eyebolt (I see now that I should have added the block to the eyebolt before adding the eyebolt to a mast or yard or bowsprit). It’s Ep. 17 of her Lobster Smack build (yeah it says “PAINTING” but she also dies masts and blocks) starting around 1:13:16.

To attach the main gaff it says to secure using just .25mm thread. Wouldn’t a gaff use parrel beads? I have some that I bought before for another model that I could use. I’d think on a real ship ropes would pretty quickly fray, wouldn’t they?

Working on the mast.

I realized I didn’t tie the (single) block on the bowsprit properly. I forgot the loop under the block. I’ve attached the drawings of the block placement from the plans. I’m puzzled as to how to create this. I also don’t know if this has a name to be able to search online. It looks like one continuous line that forms the loop under the block, then wraps around the block, then loops around the eyebolt. I’m guessing that since the is a piece of standing rigging the loop at the bottom (under the block) would not have a thimble since the line that loops through that bottom loop is static (thimbles are supplied with the kit). I looked in Ashley and in Petersson but could not find a sample of this. Does this have a name? Would I start by forming a loop (that goes under the block) and then adding a seizing to tie it up off, the loops around round the block? Would there the be a seizing above the block? And how would I attach to the eyebolt? I know I could just tie a knot. But is there a more realistic way to do it at scale? I suppose that the line that connects through the loop under the block (labeled as “B - 500mm Long” on the plans) would be tied off with a seizing right?

Had to reduce the end of the main mast from 6mm to 4mm and add the part to mount the top half of the main mast.

The main mast is created from a 6mm dowel and a 3mm dowel. Note that while the plans say 6mm dowel, and the part is a 6mm dowel, the part list at the end of the instructions erroneously lists a 5mm dowel.

Added the bowsprit.

To tie the block to the ring, I kind of followed the approached described by Modelkit Stuff (building the Sherbourne): Rather than use a 0.25mm line between the eyebolt and block, which seemed far too thick, I used some ultrathin 16/0 veevus (fly tying) thread. .

Starting the rigging. I missed in the instructions what thread to use to rig block to eyebolts. I checked the instructions for my Sherbourne and it says to use 0.25mm black thread.

Looks right. I like it when people have links to their build logs in their signature at the bottom - sometimes people reference their own builds, sometimes it's nice to see what else someone builds when you like what you see. To add something to the signature (bottom) go to your account settings (under your user name at the top) and then select signature.

When you find a Bluenose build log, at the top there should be tags (in the case below I pasted in, "bluenose", "model shipways", and "finished" because it is finished). Click on the tag and you'll bring up other builds that used that tag. When you create a build log make sure you add tags yourself so others can find your build log later. There will also be "bluenose ii" build logs that I think are from Bluejacket (different ship, different model). Some build logs of that model might use "bluenose" instead of "bluenose ii". I'll sometimes also search on google (for builds and topics), adding "site:modelshipworld.com" to the search since google search often works a bit better than search on the forum itself. This is true for most web sites I've found. Did you check out this video series? The guy building the Bluenose isn't (by his own admission) an expert model ship builder (or at least wasn't when he build this) but he can maybe point out some issues he had along the way and how he dealt with them:

iPhone users know that the iPhone has a feature that records a couple of seconds of video when you take a photo. I know some people have had trouble uploading photos because the HEIC format of these short videos cannot be opened on this site by other users. I'm guessing that's because some people transfer photos from their phone to their computer and then upload the HEIC photos - to get around this they need to convert the HEIC photos in JPG photos. When uploading to this site from my iPhone, the phone automatically converts from HEIC to JPG for the upload thankfully. While I like the feature when looking at snapshots on my phone, I found another problem with the "Live" feature when taking macro shots to upload to this site. Yesterday I snapped a photo of a small part for a post I was making. It certainly seemed to be in focus when the photo was shot. Unfortunately, because it was taken with the "Live" feature, while it seemed in focus, the JPG that was created from the HEIC file was blurry. It was late in the evening and my brain was also blurry so I didn't check the photo and by the time I realized it was blurry I had already installed the part. You can turn off "Live" on the iPhone camera in the camera app (you might be to turn it off permanently in settings too). At least for my version of iOS, in the upper right corner there is bullseye-looking icon. If you click it, it'll turn "Live" on and off. Hope this helps someone else.

Lashing the small boat to the deck. I just attached using a couple of half hitches.