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    My sympathies for you as well Michael. Rob
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    Thanks everyone for the fine condolences Added some bobstays this evening...I'll clean up the joints and add paint next time around. Rob.
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    I wasn't trying to cause a fuss. Rob
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    Ed...magnificent work for sure. I did, however notice a discrepancy in the location of some of your brace blocks on the topgallant shrouds. The second blocks location (On the shroud) will surely cause line interference with the topgallant yard as it is hoisted up to its top resting place just beneath the futtock shroud band. I would think they would need to be raised to the uttermost footrope.
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    Spent a few moments this morning working out the bobstay arrangement, and blackening some chain for the head gear of the bowsprit. Not much time spent today in the yard...I have to attend a dear friends funeral today. Clear skies and thanks everyone for the fine likes and comments. Rob
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    Yep....looking fantastic Ed. To think how much block involvement that is necessary for the braces is wild. I've planned it all out for my GR and it is very complex. I do not have the bulwark to sheave through for the main braces...so everything I do is run through blocks at the channel head and then off to the purchase blocks and belay. Great images too.... Thanks for the report. Rob
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    And it grows...thanks for the fine compliment. Rob
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    As mentioned earlier...before I finish the last backstay for the foremast, I believe I will do some counter action work and begin on the jib stays... I concluded that I will probably focus now on the bowsprit/jibboom rigging and stays. It looks like a simple small project in of itself....making the entirety of the build go by much faster. Once the jib stays and head gear are finished....I'll refocus and again begin working on the mizzen mast again. It just seams as the build evolves, to be the most logical direction to go. It's funny, with this particular build, the off model techniques I have adopted have actually reestablished the approach I have taken to what was once a routine process of progression....and made it more flexible, far less typical. One process, leads or distracts from the next needed move. Rob
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    A few more with a white background to help identify the backstays.
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    Some pics of the addition of some backstays.......just a few more to go...but before I add the last one I will begin to add the jib stays...since I finished the mods to the bowsprit/jibboom.
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    Spent a little time tonight adding some backstays to the fore mast...and finishing up the royal halyard purchases.
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    Very true indeed Bob. My father owned several old railroad lanterns that used blue lenses such as you depict and he explained it to me as the very reason you just explained. The light omitted was green. Yellow flame + blues lens= green light. Smart folks back in the day..... Rob
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    Pawel...how did you achieve the rolled eye on the end of the zinc strap....wonderful work! Rob
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    Thanks a lot Popeye..very much. I too have traditionally rigged the standing rigging first, but because I added sails...I needed to install all the sail rigging first(running rigging). Once installed, I then began to add the stays and halyards/purchases. It has proven to be a very successful way to rig, both running and standing rigging. Small jobs are easier then one big gob. Rob
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    Indeed.
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    The Victoria is a magnificent model. I recall saving an image of her bow off line (google probably), because she has such clipper like bow proportions, long before I even knew her build log was on MSW. I enjoyed her lines. It is so true....once you begin to run the rigging and *feel* the direction and motion of each line....locating her winches will become far easier...especially when you have known deck furniture you have to work around. Secondly...once you know the function of the line and the mechanical/geometrical confines of that line...deducing its proper purchase and belay point will become quite evident. Smooth sailing. Rob
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    Wonderfully done...very well done. Rob
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    Wonderful work. I appreciate the ruler for scale purposes. You know....after searching the entire thread...I can't find the scale you are building her in...what scale is she? Rob(slow to catch a clew)
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    Yes....Pat, sometimes images we have are not clear enough and tend to lead us in directions that were not factual. I too have seen images that made backstays look as if they ended in double block-n-tackle purchases. When through more study of the actual practice on board...it was made clear that the downhauls and halyards associated with topsail yards and topgallant yards was more apt to be the rigging that was causing the confusion. From knowledge of ship rigging structures it only took simple deduction to definitively recognize what I was looking at. In your case, you can deduce, by contrasting your vessel with other known vessel types. Also, it is not a stretch to gather that only one winch was indeed available for each mast..seeing that she was limited in her spar numbers. Knowing that the winch retained its cable, and used a shackle to connect to the halyard....it can be further deduced that these particular winches were dedicated to topsail and topgallant sail yard hauling. Rob
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    Thanks Pat You have any images of your Victoria? Love to see
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    A few more pics...
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    Similarly....the main topsail yard needed to have its halyards and purchases added as well in similar fashion...with one difference. I chose to represent the port main deck winch involved with the lift of the yard. All of this detail had to be added before the backstays were installed. It would have been a nightmare of the highest caliber, if these details had been overlooked and attempted to be added later.
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    Prior to the addition of the backstays....I needed to finish adding the fore topsail halyard and the topgallant halyard and their purchases. With the addition of padeyes and blocks to accompany them.
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    While I manufacture additions to the bowsprit/jib boom....I continued along with the addition of the backstays that will support the masts as new stays are added. (Like I said....it is a back and forth process between addition of stays and backstays.
  25. rwiederrich
    Today was a slow day for progress...lots of thought had to go into my next moves. It first began with removal of the bowsprit from the hull. Before I begin to add so much to the bowsprit and jib boom...I needed to add parts to it and many blocks and bull heads. so off she came. It would have make these additions go waaay easier. I know she looks weird without it but it is the best move forward.

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