Shirtninja

Great build, looks really good. Thanks especially for the pics, they've been of serious help as my model, built 10 years ago, met with an accident and I had to strip the rigging to repair the damage. Now reassembling with whatever plans I can lay my hands on. Again, thanks.

let me know if you need any more pics, always happy to help

Thanks for the comments guys, it means a lot to get complements on something I have spent so long working on, I dont even care to think how many hours went into it, the sails alone took months.

Yeah no comment on the molded bow.....i pretty much carved it down with sandpaper and a exacto knife, turned out surprisingly well.

Finally finished 8 and a half years after I started.

Pretty happy overall, glad to be finally finished, somehow it survived 3 moves during that time.

Almost Done now, last sail finished and in place.

Put all the rigging in place but ran out of time tonight, will glue/set them tomorrow night and then work on the final touches of making rope coils and trimming all the loose ends.

THE END IS NIGH!

final sail set

set rigging

Another Couple of sails done, one to go, the end is near!

Nothing is fixed in place yet.....but the rigging is there will be a fun job to get it all tensioned.

Slowly plugging along, 3 more sails to stitch and a few dozen other little things and she will be done!

How long that will take is any mans guess, the next few months will be hectic with my shooting competition schedule.

Another night of work and one foresail is in place and rigged, spanker rigging is complete and the main backstays are rigged, not much more I can do in terms of rigging, so now its on to sewing the next two foresails.

On a side note I really need to find my camera as phone images do not really show any rigging detail.

It's been nice for the last three nights doing some work that is not so repetitive a.k.a sail sewing or ratlines.

Finished off the spanker this weekend, I had a gaggle of ladies over working on various craft projects and I figure it was motivation to get it sewen.

20-30 hours to hand sew a sail, next ship I'm learning to use a sewing machine. That being said I like the hand sewen look.

Have started to rig it into place, an interesting juggling act. Particularly when the furbaby want attention and knows just how to get it

Restarting my Build Log of my AL Le Renard

Started this build in 2005 have been slowly plodding away at it when I have time, pretty near completion at this stage just need to finish the sails and rigging.

Attached a good chuck of the old photos in no particular order.......