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Glad things went well, Frank. We've missed you!

Thank you, Augie! Appreciate that! Poor guy has had a rough life - actually my grandson that lived with us until he was 6, then moved out with his mom to live with the father of his 2 siblings, but spent most weekends and vacations with us. Had a very tough time about 3 years ago and came back to live with us - has been showing continuous improvement ever since. When he first moved back, I couldn't be out of his site - he would even sit outside the WC waiting...now, he is able to stay home alone for several hours at a time without any problems (other than periodic phone calls when he needs to get his lunch etc - just to have someone on the phone). Looking more and more like he and the Admiral may be working together on the Phantom kit I bought him for Christmas - she has been doing a lot of transcription work for the MSB group working on transcribing some of the Joshua Humphreys papers, and also helps edit the MSB journal. ! Thanks, Bob - it's small but as long as I keep stuff separated well it works for now! The Admiral is getting quite interested in ships, and now she is giving some serious thought to getting into model shipbuilding. Think we need to get a larger apartment so we have room for a proper shipyard Anyway, probably more than you ever wanted to know! Off to do some work today on the main mast for the HL - hope to have some photo's up tonight!

Augie - what can I say? it gives me something to work on when the rigging on the Harriet Lane gets to be too monotonous. Still procrastinating, though, on planking the hull on the Detector...really need to get back to that as practice for this one! Keith - my 13 year old is on the spectrum - diagnosed when he was about 9. We have our moments with him, but overall it is just a uniqueness for him that makes our lives richer! Fortunately, my 19 year old is both his "protector" and his best buddy, so that makes our lives much easier. I did get the keel glued up last weekend. I am now pacing the deck, so to speak, and looking at other builds to figure out how to do the rabbet. Does it get carved in between the bearding line and the rabbet line on the plans?

Bet it felt very strange working on those massive timbers for the canoe! It came out very well!

Sarah - good luck on the ratlines! I am just about ready to re-do mine (the original foremast shrouds got replaced when the topmast snapped, so need to retie those several hundred boogers...). I wound up shifting to an embroidery thread for mine - a dark brown, spool says embroidery thread 768 by (I think) Molnlycke. It is much finer than the shrouds and the knots don't look large when tied. Easy to work with and stays well with a dab of dilute PVA. I may have missed the photo, but how did you do the mainmast shrouds - did you wind up drilling the sponson for the chainplates?

That is one impressive looking model - thanks for posting the picture! I see thousands of tiny knots in your future...

VERY impressive work, Danny!

OK, Sjors...I'll give you a break. Take your time fitting those masts - getting them right will make all the difference! Want me to give your boss a call and see if he can install a building table in your bus for you????

Congratulations, St. George! L. Snow & Co., Rockland, Me., launched the three-masted schooner Wawenock in 1907, built for themselves to ply in the coal, stone and lumber trades. Her dimensions are as follows: Length 135.9 ft., breadth 34.3 ft., depth 9.8 ft. She has a gross tonnage of 325, her net tonnage being 258. The story of the wreck is well told in Bertram G. Snow’s The Main Beam, published in 2005 by the Rockland Historical Society with massive contributions of research and photographs by Doug and Linda Lee. The 325-ton Wawenock was loaded with granite curbing stone and was sailing from Sullivan, Maine, towards New York in December of 1928. After temporarily snagging on a ledge in Jericho Bay on the 30th, Capt. Anders Anderson stayed in the area, waiting for better weather. The morning of January 10, 1929, anchored east of Isle au Haut, the crew woke to a southeast snow storm, blowing hard. Capt. Anderson decided to raise the anchor and sailed up the Bay in extremely poor visibility. The schooner struck the ledges on the west side of Fog Island and the men could hear water pouring into the vessel. Not waiting for the captain’s orders, the crew lowered the yawl boat and left the schooner. Soon after, the vessel (still under full sail) freed herself from the ledge and continued on her way, with the yawl boat following. Eventually the crew could see that the schooner had run on the rocks on McGlathery Island, and they continued on to Stonington to report.

Nope, not the Thayer. Wrong coast. Here is a shot of the poor beast meeting her fate...

Jan - Correct on the sub, and close on the ship.

LOL!!! Certainly narrows it down, Kevin! I promise, my next one will be a sub. Do you know which one this is?

Good evening, Anja (hope I got it right this time!) It is not the Sunset Glow either. Right part of the world, though! This one was built for the Coal, Stone and Lumber trades and met a most disagreeable end.

No, sorry, not the Victory Chimes.

Welcome - look forward to watching and learning as I start on my ECB.

Good morning, Anja - sorry, not the James Postlewaithe.

Looked at hundreds of 2 masted schooners and sloops! Here's the next one

Took a danged lot of searching to find this one! The Warspite, Anguilla's most famous ship. 75 feet long, built in 1902.

Goodnight, Mobbsie! Safe travels!

I found it on the Model expo website via a search - shows as none in inventory so not sure if they can supply them any longer. http://www.modelexpo-online.com/product.asp?ITEMNO=MS107 It is also on the Modelshipyard website at http://www.modelshipyard.com.au/product.asp?id=2048&pid=129

Popeye, you are a true Renaissance man! Artistic, creative, poetic, and you can cook! Dang - what a package!!! Looks like a great cake, boss, and glad you all enjoyed! please wish Phyl a belated Happy (number not disclosed) Birthday from me & mine!

Bingo. Your turn, David!

This one seems to be presenting a challenge...the vessel in question is also in this photograph.

Would have to agree - selling the original a second time doesn't infringe on copyright, else libraries, thrift stores and used book dealers would all be in court all the time! Distributing copies of the copyrighted work is where you cross a line. The royalty issue applies to first (initial) sale only, not subsequent sales down the food chain. The next area of interest will be how they handle the resale of e-books such as those on the Kindle...right now, very difficult to do, but who knows down the road.

Thanks, Danny - I have to say that for most quick conversions, I use the quick reference tables as well - it takes me longer to dig out my calculator, think through what I want to do, and then plug it in than it does to look at the chart. I work in both sets of measurement, depending upon what I am working on. When my plans and instructions are in Imperial I tend to stick with that. It is also much more intuitive for me to think in terms of inches and feet than in terms of mm and m. I grew up with the imperial system, and can visualize the dimensions much better than i can metric. I do, however, use the metric system extensively in my work life (but that is another story).