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1944 - American amphibious landing on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands 1961 - Lieutenant Commander Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes first African-American to command a combat ship, USS Falgout 1981 - Era of Enlisted Naval Aviators ends when last pilot retired

1944 - American amphibious landing on Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. 1961 - Lieutenant Commander Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes first African-American to command a combat ship, USS Falgout. 1981 - Era of Enlisted Naval Aviators ends when last pilot retired.

The more contributors, the more historical information. Cool beans. Marc

On this day the 29th of January: 1914 - U.S. Marines land in Haiti to protect U.S. consulate 1943 - Beginning of 2 day battle of Rennell Island after which U.S. transports reached Guadalcanal

Duff, Thanks for the tips. I had the same thought about worming and parceling. Not on the scale I am working on. Too many bumps. Happy building.................Marc

01-28 1915 - In the country's first such action against American shipping interests on the high seas, the captain of a German cruiser orders the destruction of the William P. Frye, an American merchant ship. 1915 - Congress passed legislation creating the U.S. Coast Guard.

I find this an exceptional built. Awesome, drooling over the detailed work you put into her. I am picking up some ideas and tips. Thank you for sharing. Marc

To Banyan and Popeye2sea; Thank you both for the description. It is very clear and the reason for doing this. Also, after I created a thread on this I looked it up in the book, "The ships of Abel Tasman". In the book on page 68 it clearly shows that the first leg of the forward shroud is served. Even though, the Mary is a yacht and her sails do not really touch any of the rigging, I thought of doing it anyway as a practice, once I start on the ships of Tasman. First the war yacht - Heemskerck and then the fluyt - Zeehaen. This will be a couple of years away. Before all this, I will do my first scratch which is the Statenjacht - Utrecht. Marc

Pat; I have done the serving where they fit around the mast. Shrouds: most forward leg of each pair I understand. Other question. On the Mary, I have 2 pairs of shrouds. So 4 total. From left to right | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | no. 4 is the leading leg of the set (3 | 4), I serve that all the way down. Would no. 2 also be a leading leg of the set (1 | 2)? The book is on my wish list on Amazon. Marc

1900 Hyman Rickover, American admiral who is considered the "Father of the Atomic Submarine." 1671 - Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City

Sir Samuel Hood was a busy man.

On January 26, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip guides a fleet of 11 British ships carrying the first 736 convicts banished from England to Australia land in Botany Bay. Over the next 60 years, approximately 50,000 criminals were transported from Great Britain to the "land down under," in one of the strangest episodes in criminal-justice history.

http://www.hnsa.org/doc/steel/ This is David Steele's book on line or you can get it here: http://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Rigging_and_Sails/Steel1796-TheArtofRigging.pdf http://www.modelboatyard.com/stropping.html This one is really good as it shows it step by step in color.

Very nice, This boat is on my future build list and I am always interested in anything VOC. Marc

Thank you for the info. I have Steel's and Peterson books. My models are all Dutch so I look under Continental. Presently building the Royal Dutch Mary which is a yacht and I have been looking at the plans from the Statenjacht Utrecht and they are very similar. Not much changed from 1600 to 1700. Steel's book can be difficult to read so I will give it a try again. Thank you Marc

Military History - 25th Jan. On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress authorizes the first national Revolutionary War memorial in honor of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, who had been killed during an assault on Quebec on December 31, 1775. The Israeli submarine Dakar, carrying 69 sailors, disappears on this day in 1968 and is never seen again. The exact fate of this vessel remains a mystery to this day. 1579 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic (VERY important) 1775 - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx) 1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1856 - Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians 1865 - CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia

Several Questions: 1 - What are the rules of the amount of serving a line/rope? 2 - How do you know which vertical line on a ship needs to be served, and how much? 1/2? 3/4? I know it depends on the type of ship, what country is it from and what century. But are there some general rules and are there any books available. I looked in some of my books but there is no details. Several people on this site mention Steele (sp). I have looked at many models on this site and others and it gets confusing. I like to be accurate about all the models I make. Thank you, Marc

Beautiful, and your attention for detail is superb. Love the basket (something I need to try). The diorama looks great and the brown reed grass almost looks real. Thank you for showing your excellent work. In general I like diorama's as they complete the environment where the ship is. Boats on or in cradles look naked to me. I have to learn how to do diorama's as well. Anyway, awesome work. Marc

01-24-2014 On this day in 1781, Patriot commanders Lieutenant Colonel Light Horse Henry Lee and Brigadier General Francis Swamp Fox Marion of the South Carolina militia combine forces and conduct a raid onGeorgetown, South Carolina, which is defended by 200 British soldiers. German naval forces under Admiral Franz von Hipper, encouraged by the success of a surprise attack on the British coastal towns of Hartlepool and Scarborough the previous month, set off toward Britain once again, only to be intercepted by a squadron of British cruisers led by Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty on the morning of January 24, 1915, near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea.

I was looking at the block which will be located at the bow. I re-did it and created one from Popular in shape of a heart, or that is what they call it (I think). The Statenjacht - Utrecht has it as well and some of my other models from the same era too. View of the heart/pear shaped block. Measuring how wide. Made it 3mm wide. Finished product on the right and a picture of what it looks like on the "Utrecht". Marc

It is a decent kit. I have redone many items that are historically incorrect. This is after reading and looking at my pictures of Dutch boats and the building of other flat bottom boat kits. Marc

The website WackoWolf is talking about is https://www.drillbitcity.com/ . He mentioned this elsewhere on this site and I bought some bits from them and they are worth it and I will do business with them again. Marc

Finishing up the main mast and the spars. Did many different things as the instructions did not look real. There are a lot of things on this boat that are not correct. The tan rope I got is flimsy. So I purchased some rope from Chuck P. Syren ship M. Co. I am waiting for that to start the rigging. Made a small jig to line up the deadeyes. Also, some of the deadeyes are a joke. There is a large one that is supposed to have 5 holes and only has three. Tried to drill 2 more and the piece just fell apart. It was brittle. I created a new one. It is not the same as the machine made one but I still need to sand it down a bit. Mamoli has decent Dutch kits, but I am afraid to purchase any of them in the future, knowing that they are not accurate. It is a shame. I spent a $120.00 on the Mary and about 20% of the material is worthless. Plus the drawings are all by hand. This company never heard of CAD drawings? Constructo had all CAD and there were large sheets with an excellent color booklet and description. The following pictures are of the mast and spars. Some of the spars have a metal "U" attachment in the middle of the spar. I researched that and the jachts from that era and the Utrecht (100 years later), Use this to tie a rope to it, instead of tying the rope directly to the spar. Last but not least. I am going to donate the Mary to the hand surgeon Dr. Nagel who did my wrists. I had acute carpal tunnel on both my wrists. He loves talking about ships so why not give him a boat. He will see the intricate details on building and he understands what it takes, as he does wrists. He mentioned that on both my wrists it wasn't a simple cut with the laser, he had to get out the tiny saw and put that in the scope to cut the ligament. He said that I have thick and muscular wrists but common for a person that works a lot with there hands. Marc

I wonder who came up with that name for a ship Marc

So I am about to start rigging - I am waiting for the line I bought from Syren Ship Modeling Co., from Chuck P. - and read this thread again and reviewed many finished ships on this site and on other's as well. Then I looked at paintings from Bob Hunt and some others. I checked ANCRE site where Boudriot and Delacroix have there boats and also modelshipbuilder.com. There is a similar question on that site and there was a member by the name of "aew" who said, "If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, tar it!". All I can say that it is rather confusing. One does this and the other does that. Not sounding too harsh in my next comment. Either the builders don't care, want to do whatever the kit provides, be creative in the color combination or just don't know. On many sites I see boats with black rope shrouds and the rat lines are tan. I will go with what aew said: "If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, tar it!" Marc