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    I will have a chance to the visit the maritime museum in Newport News at the end of May
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    Great resource!!
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    I would like to apply my coupon to the long unfinished next volume on the Annapolis volumes please
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    How does that gun class as a 32 pounder? looks like a 3pounder or less
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    Yeah, I think it looks just about right
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    I do not know of any documentary information other than "a lady in a riding habit". No color mentioned. "Riding habit" certainly implies more than a bust.
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    I am wondering what colors you will use for the lady in the riding habit? Really admire the build and will be watching.
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    I would imagine there were netting or weather cloths or something. Especially when attempting to round the horn.
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    As a painter who attempts,rather crudely, to reconstruct the appearance of old ships from fairly inadequate sources, I understand that there are two paths for the maritime historian. The first is just reproduce the original data and let your readers work it out for themselves. The 2nd, which is in all fairness what I do in the end, is to present a more complete picture, albeit hypothetical, that is informed by merging other lines of research. H I Chapelle noted the reconstructions on his plans and told where he found his info. It is only recently with the rise of CAD do I see many plans being reconstructed to equal or exceed his work. Of the thousands who have red his books what percentage have taken that next obvious step and sought the archival documents he worked with to evaluate for themselves. It does have to be admitted that there were varied and strongly held opinions on that Constellation mess. I think most of those involved at the time have either been broken up or rebuilt by now.
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    After Bligh and his crew arrived in Batavia from Coupang onboard their schooner "Resource" both the schooner and the launch were sold on October 10 to raise cash.
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    Gentlemen ! Thank you. Positively perfect.
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    The only contemporary picture I have found is in "Great Ships" Frank Fox: a Van de Velde "Capture of the old prince. The sprit topsail is luffing around but appears very deep.
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    Now a second question on the same vessel. How deep were sprit topsails? Deep enough to reach under the bowsprit and sheet down on the spritsail yard arms or just deep enough to hang staight down level with the height of the spritsail yard above water? It would take some might long "sheet pendants" or such. Until you start looking there are very few paintings from the 1600's with sprit topsails set.Most if not almost all show them furled on the yard.
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    I do have Endsor's book. He doesn't really say. I was just hoping that somewhere,any where there might be a source which gave the size for a third, fourth or fith rate of a reasonably close date. Just as a bsae line. I'll bet it was not standardized. There is of course the well known entry in Pepys diary where he claimed to have lured /dragged a women into the lantern of some naval ship and groped her at lunch on launching day. Certainly not acceptable behaviour today. He was notorious for demanding sexual favors from married women in order to advance their husbands careers. Not much use though he does not mention how tall the lady in question may have been
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    I am beginning a painting of the HMS Mordaunt 1682 or at least using the data from the 1682 survey. It lists three poop lanthorns and one top lanthorns. The Van de Velde drawings show them to be of the circular type.Are there any extant sources from the period which will give some guidance as to their sizes?
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    A lot of the details show the ship as he would have seen her in dry dock in 1982. Not really as she is believed to have been configured in 1805
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    To my untrained and age compromised eyes there is a similarity of style.
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    I'm sorry but I did not get enough protein as a child to find Lot 20 on the link. Can you help?
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    The texture of the paper is very like "watercolor paper.s
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    $2017 is an interesting number. Why not an even $2000
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    There is no dot pattern even under my grandsons hand held microscope. And yes I got a fine deal
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    As you all know I am a painter. Last week I came across this beauty in a thrift/consignment store. Naturally the subject caught my eye. On closer examination I began to develop the delusion that it is an original, an idea that becomes ever firmly rooted in my feverish brain as time has gone on. I can see faint pencil lines under the wash. I can see the tips of the oars under the white gouache of the sea foam. The name is certainly hand lettered on the matting and the gold stripe is a thin piece of something glued on. I have not removed it from the frame. It seems somewhat more detailed than other works by this artist. I thought it could be a hand tinted print, but I do not see any other copies of thus composition for sale. Anybody know anything about this painting or about this guy? Anybody know how to tell if it is real/original?
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    Check out Doris's models of the Royal Katherine and the yacht Caolina
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    I included them on several drawings without really thinking about it. But recently perusing old photographs I noticed there were none. Of course old photos mostly showing these vessels laid up in their old age lack many of the finer bitsof rigging they catrried when active. There are several photos of the 1840's sloops taken when they were training ships in the '70's & 80"s and I can't see any.

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