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  1. michaelpsutton2
    The fair american is part of the rogers collection. I've seen it.
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    I got the latest update from Purple Dot!
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    I get the purple dot emails as well. But I actually ordered,or attempted to order it, way bak in the early days.
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    Near as I can see they are similar to the practice loader for the 5" gun on the USS Kidd here in Baton Rouge
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    thanks guys
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    I have seen a number mostly dutch vessels with these. It obviously spreads the strain across a broader area at the head of the sail. A small spar like that can be found on the clue of some Grand Banks fishing schooners on foresails that were sometimes called jumbos. The A J Meerwald pictured here has a club footed jumbo
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    At what point did the Royal Navy begin to paint the sides with yellow ochre as opposed to the "paid" pitch and varnish? I realize there was an overlap.
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    That painting looks amazingly like the Endeavour ex Earl of Pembroke 1764 of Cap'n Cook fame. Right down to the 3 ports in her side, shroud arrangement and knee gammon head. Rig generally matches Endeavor as well. Endeavor was smaller 97 x 29 x 11. The ship shownin your painting could only have mounted a few light caliber guns at most, certqinly not 18. I would be careful relying on that pic being accurate. Earl of Pembroke 1764
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    I presume this sail plan, and so many others show the square sails full width, shoulder to shoulder on the yards, where as in actual real world practice the sheet blocks would be seized on the shoulders and therefore the sails themselves could only be stretched a little less than the full width. To state it differently... the sail plan does not allow for the blocks. These are the kinds of thoughts that trouble me late at night when the house is quiet and I am hesitating to make an indelible mark in exactly the wrong place
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    I am currently working on a portrait of the brigantine Pandora of 1831 as shown in paintings as a packet. Two questions: 1.) How is the fore gaff hung? Jaws around the mast similar to the main or some kind of swivel like spencer gaffs? Not sure it would even show at 12'/inch. 2..) the sail plan shows the main topmast staysail on it's own stay. Might this sail have been set "flying"? The red numbers on the sail plan are my own additions to remind me of the size drafting curves I used for those particular lines.
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    I would love to see the Kearsarge plans! How did you get them?
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    I had always hoped as well for a follow on volume to include up to the end of the Napoleonic period as well. This is obviously the moment for someone to step up[ in collaboration with the esteemed Mr McLaughlin and the new proprietors of Sea Watch Books. One wonders if a more general reference work might find a larger readership than a work on a single vessel. I swear with Bob as my witless if I were a younger, smarter, more affluent man, and lived within drinking distance of the NMM, I would at least pretend to try it myself.
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    Close enough for government work: about 12"
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    Can anybody give me the dimensions of the reducing stake above the wale for this ship sloop. She was 96' on the gundeck, 313 tons, 16 guns.
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    Deciding on the arrangements of the cloths linings, reef bands, gussets, et al is a major head scratcher on my drawings. I will oft as not, make a separate drawing for each sail before attempting to do it on the final piece. Unlike you model guys I cannot make a new piece. Very little is correctable. Prior planning can be a worthwhile investment of you time.
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    Every time I see a new comment on this post, my pulse races thinking that it is an announcement for the release of the third volume of the Rogers Collection by Grant Walker.
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    I do not think that the model in the picture was an accurate depiction of any of the several USS Peacocks. It would fall into that category of decorative models. Looks good in the water with the sails drawing though.
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    All the plans for the Pride of Baltimores I & II have caps and trees parallel to the water line. The plan of the Palgrave Barque of 1894 has tops perpendicular to the masts top parallel to the waterline.
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    I have seen them both ways. You can look on the internet but just a word of caution... only consider actual original plans, discard modern reconstructions and model plans. They could lead you astray.
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    Thanks all. I think I undersatnd now. Most plans are not detailed enough to show those. So I have seldom encountered them.
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    This is the main channels of the Andromache of 1781. There are several eyebolts in the hull below the chanel between the chain plates (red arrows) and to rather sturdy looking solid plates not associate with a deadeye (green arrows). The fore chanel is similar. Anybody out there who can teach me about these?
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    what was the publication on the yachts?
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    This months newsletter from Seawatch says thet the next volume of the Rogers Collection is at long last under way again!
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    I want know about the fold in the gaff foresail. I gather this is a Bekens photo
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    If Sam visits with Don at Annapolis... The last time I was there he had Donald McNarry's 16'/in model of the USS Constitution as originally built, in his office downstairs. It is the full hull, static version, and not on display. It is on of the most spectacular miniatures I have ever seen.

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