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    Records.......once the cargo is in your hold...and you set off your pilot you have the clock running. Rob
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    Spreaders had a 2 fold employment. They, like Nic pointed out, enact more leverage against the natural flex of the mast under stresses(spreading it out), and acting (Like a bowsprit martingale)....AND they stabilize the backstay from whipping in the strong wind and from entangling with the others. Rob
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    Add all the padeyes and rollers.....they were still present even though they may have not been in use during lengthy periods at pier side. Sometimes the leach and buntlines were brought down and even their blocks...and at other times the lines were brought down but the blocks remained. It all depends on the length of your stay and how fast you want to rig and bend sails to the yards for getting under way. While the gear was down, ropes were mended and blocks were repaired/repainted/varnished or discarded if beyond repair. Saving the gear and tackle from the weather was paramount if it was going to be a long stay. They would even rig and unrig stunsail booms and rigging often during a voyage. Sometimes often even during a single days sailing. Rob
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    Rigging generally is paired...unless you are talking about lifting yards and certain haulyards. But in general if it happens on the port, it happens on the starboard. A brace is a line at the end of a yard(and its blocks) used to pull a yard aft(back)...to position it to catch the best wind. You pull on one side and slack on the other. There are of course two types of rigging....standing(the kind that holds the masts stiff)(black), and the running rigging(used to move the yards and sails around(Tan). Standing rigging is always paired(shrouds and backstays), the *stays* are the standing rigging that goes between masts and holds them from shifting back and forth relative to each other. If you are only interested in rigging running rigging that controls the yards...that is the easiest. If you are not rigging any sails.....you can eliminate lots of rigging...such as the bunt lines(used for raising and lowering the sails on the masts....sheets and tacks for controlling the ends of sails, and then the downhauls and haulyards for all the stay sails. If you're real ambitious...all the stunsail rigging can be added or as mentioned...... not installed if you are NOT installing stunsails. If you break it all down into the least component or function...it isn't all that difficult. Rob
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    Thanks for stopping in Vlad. Yeah...I just had to do it. With my own conscience nagging me...along with Rich's continual prompts to stay true to her design....I had to act and break out the demo hammers and saws. The pain is over now...and all that is left is to finish up the port cathead mods with its anchor release mechanism and glue a few things down. Still have to add the fore stay anchor bolts/fixtures too. Have to gotten the bug yet to begin the final masting and rigging of your Glory? Rob
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    “Fairleads”. The splash rail is opened up and the metal failead is inserted………giving the ropes protection from marring on bear wood. I wanted them to look intentional and detailed……something different. The little details make all the difference. Thanks for the compliment. Rob
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    Now I’m adding a new railing that more closely mimics the one in her photograph. Rob
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    Thanks Keith. Just couldn’t live with the error. Break it up now with a little pain or live with it wrong, for a lifetime I’m replacing all the iron bits for wooden ones too……..while I still can reach them. Rob
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    Thank Rick…….doing the best I can. Here are some more changes and additions to the forecastle. Rob
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    Began to add the starboard cat mods. It is clear her cats are not square, nor without equipment appendages. I’m replacing the other type of anchor release mechanism I used previously. Evidence shows she had a latch and chain mechanism. Another issue, I find, is that the bottom edge of her cathead is resting nearly on the main rail trim and the upper portion is roughly resting at the height of the splash rail edge. And with the angulation of the cathead, it would appear that very little of the body of the cathead was actually exposed on the forecastle deck. this would in essence clear the decks of unwanted structures and *tripping* hazards, that is why I reduced the exposed cat body to a thin sliver. Of course this is all based upon an educated evaluation of the existing structures in many images of Glory's catheads. I had to slightly modify this arrangement to accommodate the pre-existing catheads and their associated bullseye lanyards for the bowsprit guys/shrouds. I wasn't going to remove and remake all of those structures. Rob
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    Adding decking and some trim. Rob
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    Beginning to work again on the forecastle. I’ll be laying decking soon. Rob
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    I’ve read this before. My own expedition was a low minus 3.3 tide on May 18 2018 were I acquired relics for my collection. Thanks for posting………. Rob
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    Rich…..have you considered my pm? Rob
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    Adding the front cabin walls and overhauling the windless. Rob
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    Several other images show her cat head just below the edge of the splash rail. Meaning, as you say….. very little of the cat head body will be on the forecastle decking. Hear the decking being laid. I have the paneled cabins in too and the windless rigged, but I left for a birthday party before I took an image. That will be later. Rob
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    Wow...time flies Rich. Congrats! Rob
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    Great job....just about the way I do it....cept I use a plier and a stainless hook in a pinvise. You'll need to make *millions* of these in various sizes...so do so as quickly and effortlessly as possible. Rob
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    Fortunately the aft wood bits are replicated at the bumpkin junction on my model. However, I am having issues with several points. I see no evidence of large wooden bits that are 3ft tall, forward or aft. However, I do see large iron chocks aft for mooring. I'm still wrestling with the notion that, "McKay spared no expense", in her construction, and by 1869, iron bits were in popular use. If I I see photographic evidence, or read of first hand accounts to the contrary, I will then humbly make alterations, until then, I am hesitant to make those corrections. It is clear....I bumbled the forecastle construction, and that I will happily amend. I'm not trying to be problematic or argumentative. Too many *Other* issues cloud the validity of the evidence. It is clear, on Earlier McKay vessels, he did, indeed use wood type bits....From what I have seen....but Glory of the Seas, was his final masterpiece and to opt out of the most modern fixtures and construction techniques....kinda flies in the face of What McKay was all about. Progressive improvements of his designs and the use of the most modern of material and industry. Rob
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    It is so clear to me now. This correction will heighten the forecastle deck(to mimic the photograph), and it will provide ample room for the addition of the store lockers, beneath. The cat heads will need alterations to fit the correction. Rob
  21. rwiederrich
    Thanks Bob. I knew I would always regret not correcting this error. If I’m to be extremely particular about so much correct detail……..I couldn’t be a hypocrite concerning this error. You’ve always been an accuracy buff where I’m concerned and I know you wouldn’t have me act any differently. Now I can see clearly the correct forecastle deck location. As it should be. Rob
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    Now a little construction. Rob
  23. rwiederrich
    Well here we go. …….. demolition time. First to remove all the furniture and hardware.
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    I answered this earlier but it must have gotten sent to the nether regions. I pondered this issue for years. If the sheer of the deck is equally translated to the rail, and if the rail or bulwark is 6.5ft to include the monkey rail at 18". Then the forecastle floor is located at the planksheer and its decking is somewhere around the height of the rail. If Duncan MacLean says the forecastle height was 8ft....then the extra feet must have been derived from a sunken floor in the forecastle. If the sheer of the deck is uniform with the height of the rail...then is can't be 8ft. Photographs show the rail is consistent....except for the addition of the 18" splash rail on the bow. If the Forecastle decking is at the monkey rail height, that adds an additional 18" or a foot and a half more height. This means there is only the splash rail above the forecastle deck. but external images show the cathead deeply recessed within the monkey rail. Not knowing the exact height of the forecastle deck from any good image...it was determined from external images. Knowing were internal things are by external landmarks....such as the planksheer,, rail cap and monkey rail cap. It's too late to make any changes now, but it is food for thought. UPDATE: TO BE ADDRESSED.... I'm going to edit this post with further information: Upon further review of the men standing on the forecastle deck in this image ..it is clearly apparent that the splash rail is roughly 18" above the decking...this, by noticing the man standing by the anchor and measuring the distance from the deck to his knee...where the splash rail ends. It can be concluded that the extra height of the forecastle decking can be accommodated for by raising the deck to meet the top of the monkey rail and NOT the main rail (AS WHAT I AND VLAD DID). Adding 18+ inches to the height of the forecastle deck...thus, then provides the correct space below, as shown in the photograph with the boy. With this new revelation...it appears I have no other choice, but to redo the forecastle decking and raise it to its correct location.....and at that time....add the for storage lockers too. This is a significant error correction...one that needs to be made, if total accuracy is to be achieved. I will suspend my rigging operations........and proceed directly to rectify this profound oversight in perception and construction. The catheads will also be enlarged. The image of her at pier side demonstrates large catheads. I'm going to change the anchor release mech. as well. Demolition will ensue. Rob
  25. rwiederrich
    I have this booklet in my library....for the reason of that painting. I just forget who the artist is.....and more significantly though, is the drama in the paintings. The artists depicted Glory of the Seas quite well actually...and roughly during my modeling time period...too. Rob

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