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    Looky there………..
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    Doing a little work on the forecastle.
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    You can also clearly see that the stern and stern railing was/were nearly a complete circle. Lots of little details I will be incorporating into my model and further modifications. Rob
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    That was built for steerage. The helmsmen could not see through all the construction...so they jury rigged a house and gear in the mizzen tops. If you notice...the large boom like appendage coming from the mizzen, extending back over the top of the helm house....that is the wooden fairlead used to channel the ropes and blockage from the rudder post to blocks at the base of the mizzen. Weird but doable if you didn't care about rigging and sailing impediments. Rob
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    Yes...Rich. What a treasure of an image...you can see the large excavated exit port where her once proud fore channel was....so men could evacuate canary and other equipment. You can see her fore mast is slightly vertical compared to more raked main and mizzen. I just wish we could see into the bulwark cutaway or over the rail and see if there was a Kevel installed on the starboard gunwale. What a beautiful hull.... Rob
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    Began the sail on the topgallant yard Rob
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    There are none because I didn’t install any. Cavils are old school , I know Mike drew them on his drawing, but I’m not sure they were on the ship. This is another of those convince me if you can items. No photographic evidence. Boy…….I’m a pain in the rear. Rob
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    Pat, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your encouraging words. Thank you very much. I figure if I’m going to replicate Glory’s details accurately , they had better be clean, sharp, and reflect the emotions, her every photo induces in her admirers. I’ve been studying her and researching her for over 15 years and I want nothing more then to do her right. Having the best researcher and historian on the planet (Michael Mjelde) as a personal mentor in all things Glory has made the adventure possible. Not forgetting my co conspirators Rich n Vlad. The 50 years of acquired God given skills helped bring it to reality. I just hope I can negotiate a deal to get her public exposure. She needs to be seen and not tucked away in my library. Rob
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    Royal yard all blocked up now. Ready to add the sail. Ill get to that later. Running to the beach for a bit of family time. Rob
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    Yes indeedee…….. Everything is scratch built…..and all those finer details take time. Design, construct, finish, install, weather. That’s why so much time is required. Thanks for the compliment. Rob
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    Well I’ll be dipped……I measured it and it is 5ft 9” at scale. I’ll take everyone out for seafood and steaks. Thanks for the confirmation. Rob
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    Royal yard ready for blocks. Rob
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    Finished up the upper topsail yard/sail. Now I have 2 yards done. Rob
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    Ya know, that new forecastle actually balances the ship far better then before. The aft carriage house is elevated, the main cabin is elevated and the original forecastle was not and it just looked unbalanced. Now it looks symmetrical. I like it. Good job remodeling crew. Rob
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    Moved everything out of the way to get ready to begin again on the fore yards. Rob
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    Added the fore main stay shackle boots and irons. And secured the starboard anchor tackle with a lead belayed at the forward bitt . Rob
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    Finished up the cat head details and the anchor release mech. And secured the anchor. Rob
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    “Fair”……….just to be fair……..not requiring any fare for askin. I will be putting in some quality time today on Glory……hope to get some stuff done. Rob
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    My dumb phone keeps auto correcting me and half the time I keep missing it.
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    Thanks for keeping me straight……when I go astray. Rob
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    Those large black ones mounted on the splash rail are called, mooring fareleads. And the eyelet ones on the cat head are called, stay/jibsail fareleads. Rob
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    Thanks Rich. I’m talking about the stay sail and jib sail brace fairleads that are mounted atop the cat head body on the deck, that direct the braces to their appropriate cleat. Rob
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    Working on the port anchor release mech. And finishing off the cat head. Just a few more Additions, the fairleads. Rob
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    Thanks Vlad......and I completely agree...what were we thinking? Personally, I think, we were so concentrated on replicating her stem(bow) and her stern, that pretty much everything else was a second thought. We both had originally only planned to build *HULL* models. But where do you stop? It just kept getting bigger and bigger....until nothing short of a full reconstruction was in order. One thing about that Crothers drawings of Great Republic and Lightning. They had no real forecastle deck...GR was originally built with a complete *Weather* deck....which included stem(forecastle) to stern(poop)...one big long, uninterrupted deck. Lightning's main deck dropped down and her forecastle and poop were at the same level, with a gangway connecting them. Both requiring railings. However, on most clippers the raised forecastle height was probably 6ft. That is where the crew bunked in most cases. So it had to be tall enough for them to get around under it. We both fell for the old magicians trick.....*look over here, while I distract you from what I'm doing over there*. I'm glad you are looking in from time to time......and I hope you can find time to get back to your glory. Rob
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    Thanks Glen. I truly don’t know what I was thinking. The image of the cabin boy sealed it and after noticing how shallow the forecastle deck truly was by seeing men standing on it………well, that is all it took. I’ll finish things up tomorrow I think, then back to rigging yards. Rob

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