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ccoyle
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Well, I got the Shroud from Hell fixed, but it took not one, not two, but THREE ties to get it done! 😜 On the first try, I got the lanyard laced up incorrectly. On the second try, the stopper knot came undone. But the third try succeeded. Kinda reminds me of the Swamp Castle scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. At least my boat hasn't burned and then fallen into the swamp -- yet.
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These should be indicated on the plans.
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You're right about that. It probably won't take long to fix -- it's was just so flippin' annoying when it happened! 😉
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Well, at the moment I am just pissed off beyond all belief. I just finished the backstays, the last pieces of standing rigging, and then I noticed that two shrouds on the port side are wrapped around each other. I have no idea how this happened, but I am pretty darn sure that I didn't set them up that way -- that's something I would have both noticed and taken great pains NOT to do. I guess it's just my luck to run into at least one colossal disaster per rig per model (remember the infamous "disappearing sail & yard" on the cannon yawl?). I am just sick, sick, sick about this -- it's the kind of thing that saps all of the fun right out of a build. 😡😡😡
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Shrouds are done, and thanks to some help from Jack in steering me to an old thread on shroud twist, I managed to get the lanyards set up with only a slight amount of twist -- far better than what I was originally achieving, which was like a half-dozen twists each. Now, as far as the shrouds themselves go, sharp-eyed observers may notice that I made a bit of a mistake on them. If you know what it is, don't say anything!! My target audience for this model is extremely unlikely to notice that anything is amiss, and I had to weigh that knowledge against the tedium and inconvenience of completely redoing the shrouds. I chose the easy option -- so shoot me! 😉
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Beautiful boat! Don't know the design, but she's sporting a cat-ketch rig.
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Brilliant -- domestic harmony demands compromise!
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It will be in the third section down on the home page, Member's Build Logs, in the 1501-1750 kits section.
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Looks pretty good so far. Is it your intention to add updates to this topic? If so, then I can move it to the build logs section for you. Cheers!
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Thanks, Jack. I knew we had a thread on this topic somewhere.
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Which I would do -- except this ship pre-dates the use of sheer poles. Believe me, I thought about using them anyway. Who but the experts at MSW would notice? 😏
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Seems like I've seen this question come up before, but darn if I can't find it. The shrouds on my Wuetender Hund want to twist terribly when I attempt to tighten their lanyards - like 3-4 complete turns. Yikes! Tips, please?
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Today's progress. Shrouds installed, but still need to finish tying off the hearts. The funky white string in front is a temporary forestay to counter the tension of setting up the shroud lanyards. After shrouds, it's the single forestay and two backstays, then off to running rigging.
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The Golden Age of Piracy was before 1750. Definitely put your build log in the 1501-1750 area.
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Very convincing gear, as usual. Now all you need is a trawl's worth of fish dumped on deck with a crewman picking out the bycatch! 😉
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Great forum links, Yves.
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I'm very pleased to see this build log started. I have enormous respect for David and, despite my near complete absence of any real sailing experience, love the lines and general appearance of a good sailing pram.
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Withholding digital plans from a former colony seems a mite petulant. 😅
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Okay, this won't go down as the greatest accomplishment in the history of ship modeling, but I'm pretty happy with it. The kit provides brass belaying pins, but instead of the necessary fifteen pins, it only came with eight. Whoops! So I dug around in my spare parts stash and found some leftover wooden belaying pins -- the chunky, over-scale kind. I turned these down with my Dremel tool, a file, and some sandpaper to get something more similar to the brass pins -- not exactly the same, but most of each pin will eventually be hidden under a rope coil, so close enough. They're black because I used Blacken-it on the brass pins and painted the wooden ones to match. What can I say? The captain went with iron pins. The main yard is also turned, but not in the picture. Next up: setting up the shrouds!
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Mainmast completed and stepped. Considering that there is only one other spar to turn, plus a couple of flagstaffs, I'm hopeful that the rigging will go relatively quickly. My card model stash in the background grew by one addition today -- but I'll reveal that in the "what have you received today" thread.
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Welcome, Bradley, and good luck with your project! I lived in Santa Rosa (Rincon Valley) for four years as a kid. My dad taught at Santa Rosa High School.
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I finished the crow's nest and turning the mainmast last night, but as I stained the mast, I noticed that there were obvious sanding scratches left in the wood. So, no picture until after I get a chance to fix that little boo-boo. Cheers!
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