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  1. Looks like only the eyebolts for the jackstays are mounted.  Moot point, actually, as jackstays weren't used in 1812 (the time I'm portraying).  And the large yards were stored on the channels.  I think the shorter yards would come up through the main hatch.  (Not really a hatch, but the big opening in the spar deck amidships).  

  2. I'm finishing up my USS Constitution and I want to show spare yards stored on the forechannels.  A while ago I asked if the necessary blocks would be attached to the yard in anticipation of its being needed and the general consensus was "no".  Well, how about footropes?  How about the mounting hardware for the studdingsail booms?  Neither of these items would seem to be quick to mount to the yard if the yard was needed. 

     

    What do you think?

  3. In some of the tables of rigging sizes, based on main stay size or mast diameter, he sometimes says things like ".016%" when he really means "16%".  Or he sometimes isn't clear whether he's specifying diameters or circumferences of ropes or spars.  It's usually circumferences.  (Obviously, if he's talking about relationships between two spars or two lines it doesn't make a difference). If you work through some of the examples it usually becomes obvious.

     

    In sail rigging he's not clear whether some lines are on both sides of a sail or just fore or aft.

     

    Otherwise most of the book is very useful.  Mine is worn out after only one build!

  4. Sometime in the past I came across a diagram that showed the rigging necessary for launching a ship's boat from its stowed position on the main hatch amidships.  It consisted of tackle rigged to the main yard and other spars but now I can't find it.  I'd like to do show a boat being prepared for launch from my USS Constitution.  Does anybody have such a diagram or a link?

  5. I bought that big box of drill bits from ModelExpo the last time they were on sale.  I measured all of them when they arrived and found a HUGE discrepancy between what was supposed to supplied and what actually was received.  Some sizes were missing completely, some had double the quantity,  Don't tell anyone but when I emailed them with the results they sent me all the missing sizes and didn't tell me to send them the ones that were excess!  Pain in the neck to measure all those drills but it worked out in the end (for me)!

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