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Thank you Mark. Everything is so new to me in ship building it keeps me motivated.  It's like reading a good book.

  Walter

Jacek, Thank you.

Walter

Hi,

Thank you S.Coleman.  It never occured to me to paint them black, but what a great Idea.  Yes I will be painting them black.

Thank you Toni.  I have been having fun and learning a lot.  I guess I'm lucky because I don't have the instructions only an addendum to the instructions.  I gave up even looking at the addendum some time ago.  My prime reference source has been this great site.

 Walter

Thank you Mark.  Yes, one of my major goals for this build is to understand the why's, and purpose's of the parts and lines of these ships.

I spend about as much time  reading about these things as I spend  building.

  Walter 

Thank you Mark.  I'm looking forward to the next phase and all the new things I will learn.

  Walter

Thank you Charlie.  The length of the hull 22 inches not including the cutwater, including the cutwater 24 inches.

     Walter

Thank you Mark.  I will definitely check into the Magnus hitch.   What I’m doing now is using a spacer made from a 4/5 card to locate the knots (see the first photo below).  I tie the knots on top of the spacer and adjust them up and down with tweezers if needed.  I check the shroud tension when the first half of the hitch is in place and redo it if I’m pulling the shroud.  The second photo below shows a rat line in progress with three shrouds tied. When I’m finished tying knots I pull the spacer out.  Make any adjustments pushing the knots with tweezers.  If everything looks good  I hit the knots  with a PVA and water mix.

I redid the first set because for me they were too loose.

Walter

Hi,

Finished the shrouds.  I removed the rat lines I started last week and started again.  In between working on the rat lines, I started working on the first yard and just had to see what it would look like on the ship.

Walter

Thank you S.Coleman.

The HMS President should make an interesting project.

Yes I would think the rigging plans are pretty much the same.  One sheet contains the standing and running rigging,  and I have another sheet with the sail plan.  Some of the details regarding the rigging are on the sail plan sheet.  Neither sheet is to scale so I end up doing a lot of eye ball adjusting.  

   Walter

Hi,

The standing rigging is moving along.  I’ve started the rat lines.

    Walter

Hi,

This week, I installed more of the standing rigging.

    Walter

Hi,

The masts, shrouds and stays continue to grow.  The futtock shrouds on the fore mast have been tied down.

  Walter

Azzoun, Yes another Jerseyan,  I try to get in an hour or two after work everyday. Thanks for the kind words.  Walter

Hi,

The masts are growing and more shrouds and stays have been added.

   Walter

Thank you, S.Coleman.  Walter

Hi,

This week I've made some progress on the fore mast and main mast;

   Walter