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I was thinking Jessica Watson who sailed around the world at age 16 but yes. You are way to good at this.

Ok let me see. You know I thought of this one since it has such a cool story so since I didn't do it before I'll do it now.

There's a lot of interesting similarities but no it's not nearly that old. Wish I would have thought of that one though it would have been more fun.

oops your right. I made it quick and posted the URL. All well it's any ones game at this point.

Great now what am I going to post hmmmm..... We need something with sails but not to obvious. Here we go.

Paul Gauguin? Maybe?

I use this book a lot for the plans but Story of Sail does have some great insight as to the history of ships as well. Great thing is that it spans from the earliest branch on a log sail to the latest yachts and cargo ship sails. I wouldn't say it's in depth since it's mostly plans but maybe a good place to start.

You know come to think of it their are wild lobsters in Colorado. They're called crawdads. Quiet a bit smaller then your Maine lobster but still edible. Also fantastic work Popeye. The sails look great. You must have planned this well to have the America sails and these sails all coming together at the same time.

Thank you. Your advice had been most helpful. I haven't actually made it out to get cigarette paper though I will eventually. It's highly recommended on the SIB forums as well. I used the same technique as my British Cutter the Fly and glued two pieces of tissue paper together then created the sail after it dried. It creates a great thickness and the off white gives it a good aged look. Thank you again. Thank you.

Thanks!

Have to admit I did the same thing to up the power of a home made rubber band gun and used it as a long range fly swatter. Any ways incredible work! It looks tedious but extremely consistent.

Just reading up. Good to know I'm not the only one with this problem. Oh and did some one say Sjors was buying?

Take your time there's no rush...but hurry up with those pictures will ya!

Wow these posts come in quick. Thank you. Thanks for having a look. I'll be starting a new one soon. I have a friend in Anaheim that wants a pirate ship in a bottle. Think I'll try my hand at the Satisfaction. I love the novelty as well. It's a ton of fun. I always recommend people try SIB building.

Wow those look great! Is it the white glue that gives it the slight off white color or is there something else mixed in?

I'll post pictures when I get it. I'm sure she will be very happy with it. I was going to give it to her today but she wasn't there. Must have been to tired with the daylight savings. Wow didn't think any one would notice the fish. Thanks. Well let me see.....There you are a smiley in a bottle. Thanks. Yea you can't blink with SIB builds they go quick which works for an impatient patience bottle builder like my self. Thank you for your compliments. Thank you.

Thanks John and Augie. I think your right the slight distortion and the old look of the symbol do add to the overall look. It's not the crisp clear look I'm used to but it works. Took some better photo's in the day light. Thank you all again. This has been a fun project. It turned out great. I think the "spanish lady" will highly enjoy it.

John you aren't even kidding. It had better be a nice Bonsai or I'm going to want my ship back. Thank Augie that means a lot coming from you. Your work is incredible. So I went to post pictures and all hell broke loose. My own fault really. Here's my initial pictures. Let me preface with had this bottle not been given to me for the project I wouldn't not have used it. It doesn't have amazing clarity and the cap is so huge it makes it hard to see the ship. What led to trouble though was not the bottle but the sea and the position of the ship. There was so much sea that the ship was being pushed towards the enormous cap and making it hard to see. I didn't want to go from "spectacular" to blah so I knew it had to be fixed. The lines had been cut and glued there was no getting the ship out so I pulled it up from it's clay base and started digging clay out around the ship. I do no recommend working the sea with a ship in the bottle. It's mind numbing stressful work. I got a little clay on one yard that took ten minutes to clean off. Worst of all the line between the mizzen lateen mast and the main mast came off. Needless to say words were said. I managed to get it back together good as new. Had this bottle opening not been so gigantic that would have been even more stressful After the clay was dug out I positioned the ship again with a slight angle so the crosses on the sails could be more readily seen. Here's how she turned out. Despite the ending craziness she turned out well. They only thing I wanted to work out better was the touch up of the symbol on the bottle. The more I painted the worse it got. I may recommend it be taken off all together though it was the inspiration for the Santa Maria in this particular bottle in the first place. We'll see. I'll post pictures of the Bonsai once I get it. I'm already making plans for my next build I just haven't found a bottle I'm particularly fond of yet. Thank you all for reading and commenting. Your support is greatly appreciated.

I was hoping this log would come back. Great work! I look forward to seeing more.

Thanks Matt. The fact that you are even attempting the victory is pretty incredible. That's a very intensive ship. The Santa Maria is completed!!! Except for bottling.

Well I was hoping to bottle it today but my nerves have had it. You can only work with this small of a ship for so long. I got one more sail to do and then I just got to get her in. Should have her done tomorrow with any luck. Sorry Augie you'll have to stand by a little longer. Thank you John for your compliments. Molasses I tried putting in ladders but it's just to darn small. I managed to get the stairs in but I can't seem to get a solid picture of them. Seem's like there's always some rigging or other in the way. Through the process of learning thread ladders though I found a new way to glue on ratlines. I really like the back stay method where the lines are threaded back and forth to they really are one continuous line. With a pin drill I managed to get holes small enough to be thread through the chain plate and up another hole in the chain plate back and forth until the back stays were in. I then created a thread ladder just over the width and height of the stays where I would be threading my ratlines. Once the ladder was done I glued it onto the stays and cut off the outside parts so only the ratlines were left. This helped me get good spacing between the lines as well as allowing me to do them all at once instead of one miserable piece of thread at a time. With the Bounty it took at least a week to get the rat lines in. With my new method it took around an hour.

I've said it before but I love the detail your putting into your ship. I have not ventured into making oars for life boats as of yet. Very well done!

Thanks John. Hyposphagma I gave that a try but it's super glue so no such luck. A little sanding and a little paint and I think it will be ok. Here are the updated photo's I just need to get the sails done some sea done and she's ready to bottle. I was trying to get in with my macro lens but it seems this project my be to small even for that lens. All well that's what makes it so fun. The forward stay is a bit loose. This is because it needs to flod back to get into the bottle. With as wide as the bottle neck is the other sails don't need to fold so I was able to get the lines nice and tight.

That is something I would consider. I need to get a log up of the Elsie kit I recently got. I'm totally lost with it.

Perhaps it's to make them feel less steep? They are steep anyways but I imagine if the went straight down they would be all the more.