trippwj
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Waiting and waiting...where have I seen that line before???? Making masts and spars would definitely occupy your downtime shipboard....
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Sarah - Here is a photo of a similar main gaff rig lowered with sails removed showing what happens with the mast rings. The halliard and sheets would all be belayed to appropriate locations on the deck. On the foremast, the topgallant and topsail yards would be lowered down on the lifts with the sails furled onto them. Based on the rigging diagram, the topsail on the mainmast would likely lower onto the gaff rather than furl to the mast itself - a bit odd, but it appears to be "fixed" to the gaff at both ends and haul up/down via the halliard at the peak, rather than having method to furl to the mast. Note the mast hoops for the sail on the topmast for moving up or down. Hope this helps! Coming along quite nicely!!!
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Le Mirage is looking very pretty, Sjors. The bow decorations certainly do make her look fancy! The longboat came out well - nice job on the interior. Don't sweat the planking - looks good when I look at the picture from a short distance!
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Good time to find that, Sjors! Nice recovery. Shall sit back now and enjoy the next scene whilst sipping a green beer in honor of St. Patrick's Day...corned beef and cabbage cooking and the wee folk (actually, both are now much taller than I) are reminding me of their Irish ancestry. Ah, well...another quiet day at the shipyard!
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That is one huge model - great job on the planking.
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Well, have gotten a little further on the ol' girl. Still working on the deck furnishings - have installed the handlines on the walkway for the starboard paddle wheel housing, working on the same for the port. Still need to finish the wheel house and install it aft and install the ladders from the deckhouse to the paddle wheel housings. Have completed the main boom and installed onto the main mast, now working on shaping the gaff and carving the jaws. Next up is assembling the gaff, fitting it out with blocks and the getting both installed on the main mast. No pictures for this update, but I promise to get some up soon!
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Here is one clove hitch done. I can make 5,000 copies on the copier if that will help....... Good luck - that promises to be a time consuming task!!!
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I have scads of syringes (about the only benefit from having a hemophiliac for a grandbaby), and can run down to the corner pharmacy or big box store to buy more. Needles, on the other hand, are almost impossible to come by around here. For the needles, you need the prescription - throwback to the old injectable illicit substances days. Refuse to re-use the sharps out of an infusion set. I used to have 2 or 3 of the old screw-on needles (12 bore if I am not mistaken) in my first aid kit for removing splinters.
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Depends what season - here is a photo of a slightly older vessel heading out early in the season to set traps. To see what could be a sister vessel to the Denny-Zen, see http://bellaremyphotography.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/20120725-img_0443.jpg
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Will give this one to Barnacle Bill to choose the next ship since he had the right name! Here is what is likely a final view of the USNS Mizar in 2005 enroute to the scrap yard in Portsmouth Virginia
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I think Bill got it with his edited post - USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11)
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Nice work, as always! Typing doesn't appear to be too badly impaired by the keyboard (although we only see the final output, not the growling revisions Dinged and scratched liner ought to work out fine on a working boat - thanks for the update!
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Excellent job on the gratings, Sjors. She is looking mighty fine! Look forward now to the le Mirage! Have a great weekend!
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Geesh...he takes one day off from posting and his ship becomes a smorgasbord of food and beverage!
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Wow, Popeye - each of your updates is amazing! I know you have to shovel snow on occasion, but do you sleep?
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Those came out very nice, Sarah. Good job! I guess i really need to crack down and carve out some time to actually do some building and rigging so I can try to stay at least even with you (after all, I have been working on the HL for 10 days shy of a year at this point...guess i am a danged slacker!!!)
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The mutterings seem to be true...http://www.greatlakessteamshipsociety.org/ The Great Lakes Steamship Society is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the 1904-vintage Great Lakes steamship J.B. Ford. In a career that lasted over a century, this grand old lady of the Lakes carried the goods that fed the industrial might of our nation, hauled the raw materials that helped to win two world wars, and survived some of the Great Lakes’ worst storms, including the infamous “White Hurricane” of 1913.
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For the Goodle versions, Click the "cog" to the top right when you open the document online - there is a drop down menu with download pdf as one of the options.
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Well, durn. Is it bigger than a breadbox? Wish I could remember that site you had mentioned on the old game.... Mutter...mumble...old laker...freighter....mumble...
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Any chance this is the Neptune - built in 1901 by American Ship Building Co. at Lorain, OH?
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I'm guessing it's an older laker.....
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Buck - That is some really nice work on those teensie bits! I hear you about the bright LED flashlight - I keep a headband one on the bench since i spend so much time searching the floor for the rascally bits and pieces...
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Dang - I must be getting old...I used to use LORAN!!!!!
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