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    Rich...I have full confidence in your preparedness.....I'm simply saying the completeness of the models lends the article to possibly having a part 2 at some later date..when the models are complete. Not that you you need to add to what you have already achieved....for this first article deadline. Rob(feeling the need to get more work done.....soon)
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    Now onto the back stays. Rob
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    Making some purchase eye hooks for the yard halliards……..not bigger then 3/32”. Rob
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    I mentioned earlier in my comment that a second or third installment might be nice to follow up with the builds. I hope to spend more then one day a week on her...hoping to expedite her finish date. A date established to cause me to a closer completion date make me get off my toosh. A *due-date* is motivating. Thanks again for your efforts in this matter. Rob
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    Thanks for the intro and reviews Sam.....I hope you find the material you are looking for...your project sounds amazing. Rob
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    Rich...sounds like you are preparing a very detailed account of our research and the results...within our builds. Wonderful. I'd like to know about Ron Haug's corrections and Mike's critique if at all possible. I hope to have more completed by your July 1st deadline....possibly I could take a much better...*As-is* image for you at or close to that time frame for your submission. Possibly there could be a follow up after She is completed. Great job....I hope the publisher accepts your article. It will be wonderful to see and read. Keeping Glory's history and legacy alive. Rob
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    Thanks everyone, I appreciate it immensely. All I can do is my best and what I think will look best during this period in her life. I plan on adding the monkey boom (pennant boom) next after I finish up with the yard halliard’s and their purchases. I’ll probably move to add the port back stays as well before I flip her and then finish all these elements on her starboard side. Then and only then will I proceed to finish up her main mizzenmast yard. So much to do still. Rich, that last image you posted clearly shows the location of the forward davit…..just aft of the main channel Rob
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    Druxey…….my last two builds, I did the same as you. I wanted to build in small steps, to fool myself that I am working faster by finishing smaller projects. Small projects finished gives me motivation in the short term. Verses the long term exhausting idea that I still have so much to go. Rob
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    Lower top mast halliard purchase. Keeping things in line and to scale. Rob
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    Getting all the bunt lines belayed. Now that the minor rails are in ,I will have ample belay room for the yard halliard’s. Rob
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    After much though and tripping over myself…..I chose to add small pinrails to the rail. After rigging the sail control lines I needed more belay points and after reviewing images again……I opted for this route. It’s a minor deviation. Rob
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    Finished up the topping lift and boom guys. Now I’m going to untangle all the bunt and halliard’s lines and belay them to their control points. Rob
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    Spent a little time working the Spangler boom and sail. Now I’ll running the gear and rigging. Rob
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    Another of the deck. Rob
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    Decks can be tricky for sure. Especially since they *grey* with age. Dependent on the vessel, you were dealing with yellow fir, pine, and even teak on some vessels. My own Cutty's I greyed the deck on my award winning 1/96 Cutty....and on my award winning Ferreira...aka Cutty Sark. Rob
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    That is why the detail is so good Rob
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    Beautiful model...what scale was it in? Also he chose a unique method to display the fairleads as one large fairlead, instead of individual fairleads mounted on each shroud. From this example is is clear the rail could have been the belay point for the pins. I'm probably sticking to the shroud rails myself. Rob
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    Sorry folks....not much happened over the weekend...I had bad pipes to tend too. I hope to work on the monkey gaff(Pennant gaff) and the spanker gaff and boom next. Rob
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    Yep...you just respond and add more content....ie...pics, graphs....comments.....etc. Rob
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    You are correct Rich....not in one image do I see evidence of rail pins. Is it possible and most likely probable.....possibly. but since Glory's running rigging in all her contemporary images is devoid and only the remnant of her buntline fairleads are left.....I'm going with the shroud pinrails myself. The painting you provided only shows the bunt lines coming down to the fairleads....but not to where they belay. Personally I'm not sure putting that much stress on a stanchioned rail makes good sense. On smaller coastal rigs that might have been the case, where the rail was closed....much like a bulkhead. Those blocks you mention could be for stay sails...because the main, topsail and topgallant yards all find their braces and their purchases rigged back at the bumpkin A similar triad of large blocks can be seen in this image of Glory...and these most likely were her foremast main, topsail, topgallant yard brace points. Rob
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    Welcome and great clean job thus far.....she's starting out fantastic. Rob
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    The rail extension that you pictured is of a closed rail....and you and I are tackling an open rail. The open rail only permits belay pins to be within the space between stanchions...causing a particularly odd pattern. In my unique situation...I have no data that Glory actually used the rail as the pin rail...though I have seen this practice on other ship models.....(The Lightning comes to mind), and particularly on my last build...Great Republic...where all I had was a complete weather deck rail to affix all belaying pins too. There was no other option there, and I'm sure that had to have been the practice on the GR. Here I see no clear depiction.....and the rail is quite short as well....hitting the average man at the mid thigh. By placing the auxiliary belaying pin rails to the shrouds...the pins are just about at mid chest level......mimicing the height of the main bulwark pin rail down on the main deck. One thing is clear, from images, especially Glory's fitting out image. Just below each shroud fairlead the bunt control line is belayed and neatly coiled at the shroud.....probably awaiting direction for the final belay point...or final touch up finishes to the main rail. Its only speculation. The fairleads are relatively high within the shrouds...so the bunt line belay points could have even terminated on the house rail. Decisions, decisions...... Best part is...there is no true expert who can lend any true criticism of any decision I make. I have the same data they have....and the most notable expert on Glory of the Seas is Michael Mjelde and I'm fully confident he would concur with my decision. Again...thank you for your fine compliments...there are many fine examples of exquisite clipper models, I would never include myself on the list of standards to attain. I'm generally a hack builder too apt to compromise on fit-n-finish. Again...thank you. Your own build of FF is noteworthy of much acclaim itself. Rob
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    Spent some time finishing up the mizzenmast futtock and main shrouds and rat lines. Rob
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    Looks like he is just test fitting it and evaluating its symmetry. Great job Nenad. Rob
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