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Thank you Phil / Mark I will take on board your comments. I have now made the fore and main masts, the fore and main top masts, the fore and main booms and the fore and main gaffs. None of them are actually complete as sundry strops and sheaves have to be added. That left 3 more spars to be made i.e. the spinnaker boom and the 2 main top sail spars. I started with the spinnaker boom which was turned to diameter and then tapered each end by sanding it in the lathe. Turning down long thin dowels requires the support of a steady. Rather than mount the steady I improvised by putting a piece of wood in the back of the tool post. I then mounted a drill in the chuck and bored a hole in the wood slightly larger than the required boom diameter. I then turned the boom to size using this arrangement. I the proceeded to make the gooseneck fitting for the boom. The boom part of the hinge was much the same as previously described. I then discovered a problem. The mast bracket was of insufficient width. This meant that the boom fowled the mast hoops when in the vertical stowed position. I had to remake this. I then needed to make the beak. I don't have any details of this so I used a typical example from and internet search. The latch doesn't work. I then made the topsail spars. These are simple tapered dowels with end fittings and eyes. That's about it for the masts spars and booms, at least for the moment. Now on to something else - a change is as good as a rest.

Hakan - You do remarkably well, i admire your fortitude.

Interesting - more "suck it and see" than I might have expected.

Lovely boat, look forward to seeing her come to life.

I wish i had learned CAD. Too late now though for this old dog. It hurts my head trying to work out what they are doing?

Michael. In these woke days I'm not sure that I should worry about buying a slinky leather skirt - beautiful travellers. Druxey, Eberhard, Hakan. I have asked my wife to go through her gloves draw but failing that I will try paint.

Thank you Druxey, Keith and Mark. I don't think my wife would wear it which is the most telling test. Michael - thank you. I don't really have photos that show that detail but there are a couple of fuzzy shadows that suggest the inside of there saddle has some form of covering so I guess that will be leather. I may try lining the face but it will depend finding something suitable to do it with - perhaps a visit to my wife's glove draw?

Phil - Thanks - I had thought that I might take Dremel brushes and soak the subs in CA glue to see if this would reduce bristle loss. Toni - thanks - if the above doesn't work I will give them a try.

I finished off the other ends of the gaffs before moving on to the saddles. I started the saddle with a strip of 1/2" wide x .040" thick brass. This was milled along its length to a depth of .020" I marked out the ovals for the saddle on a piece of card and then attached it to the brass strip with double sided tape. I then cut out the ovals with a jewellers saw before finishing with a file. I then annealed the brass and bent the ovals around scrap lengths of steel bar of the same diameter as the masts. I then made the attachment brackets for the gaff out of strips of .020" brass. These were bent to the correct radius with the ends turned out to form the hinge brackets. The piece of aluminium is a spacer to get the brackets correctly positioned. The brackets were then soft soldered to the saddle. The stirrup for the gaff lift was then made. A piece of 3/32" tube was part turned to mark the cutting locations. Holes were then drilled and a piece of shaped .040" wire was bent, inserted and soldered. Finally the small bridging piece was soldered to form the eye. The tube was then cut away. The saddles were then mounted on the gaffs.

Druxey, Gary, Bill and Jon, Thank you all for your kind comments. It seems amazing that I started this build 3 years ago - how time flies. My hope is that some time this year I will get started on another build. As I get older I find myself rejecting long duration projects!

Mark -, preferably steel or brass - for removing excess solder.

Great project. I must have seen her while visiting the museum, but don’t recollect. I look forward to seeing her develop.

So now we know, it was you who was responsible for initiating Chinese world manufacturing dominance.

The internet is festooned with small wire brushes for Dremel type drills. My experience is that most of them are rubbish. They either disintegrate or wrap themselves into a tight ball. Can anyone recommend a source of high quality small rotary wire brushes? By small I mean up to 1" diameter.

Very nicely done Rob - I must remember that.

Jon - In Scotland the wind always dies about 5 miles before the anchorage which inevitably means that the hook only goes down as dusk descends. Just as the last rays of sunlight fade the wind starts blowing at about 25 knots directly into the mouth of anchorage. My sailing pal says it is due to diaurnal variation but I just think winds are perverse. Jon - That's not too bad. I find it much worse when i leave the model all ship shape and then turn up the next morning to discover all the failures.

Brett - alternatively look up Gerald A Wingrove - he has written an number of books and you can find some of his work on MSW. Sadly Gerald is no longer with us. RIP.

Brett - this would be a good start:- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Model-Building-Brass-Ken-Foran/dp/0764354949

Arrrrgh! You have all shattered my dreams. I thought Valeriy had discovered some way of only making the solder go where he wanted it to go. I am a broken man!

The crew are obviously a bit pedantic about sanitary cleanliness. Don't you think that a bit of realism in the pan might add to the overall effect?🙂 Perhaps the door should be slightly ajar, with a glimpse of the seated occupant smoking his corn cob pipe.😀 You can see that I am very taken with your Bogs. Your work is beautifully neat as always.

Jon - I always struggle with making the sails look full. In the end I convince myself that its the end of a perfect day, the wind has failed and the crew have decided to partake in a round of gin and tonics before taking the sales down. This makes the set of the sails perfect.

Remarkable!!!!!!!

Valeriy - your soldering is always very neat. You must tell me how you keep it so clean.

Mysteries are the best bit. Great work.

Eberhard. Yes I agree, it is a bit odd.