Katoom

Did you try matching up the sail to the plans at the clews and foot rather than the head? You might be able to get away with just reworking the head of this particular sail. Just a thought from the peanut gallery...... Good luck!

5 hours ago, Peta_V said:

Still not sure what I will use, if clean brass or black (leaning little bit more for black version). Here is the comparison. What do you think?? 

You asked for opinions so here is one! I like the black much better and I imagine that you will too once you hang some rope coils around it. Perhaps if you had more brass fittings elsewhere the brass would look good but...

17 hours ago, Peta_V said:

But I really needed rest from rigging.

Ahh, but at your current rate of progress with Avos you will soon be doing nothing but rigging! 😂

5 hours ago, Bedford said:

I needed a quicker way to apply it so I made a glue syringe,

Oh my, of course you made that little beauty instead of buying one! I cannot remember where I came across a quote that seems relevant but I shall paraphrase. "Buying things is for suckers!" Well done, indeed.

That is impressive manual control to make those spirals look so good! 

(and steel wool is absolutely the correct term)

@Peta_V

 You seem to be having great fun and I hate to be a nag but somebody has to be an adult and remind you that the Royal Caroline is not going to rig itself! 😁

More seriously, you are doing an excellent job with this kit and doing a great service to Master Korabel but something similar can be said with your Royal Caroline build.

P.S. These comments are very ironic coming from someone who has not completed a build in more than 30 years....

I am sure that his passing is a great loss to those closest to him and I wish them the very best in difficult times. He was notably generous with his knowledge and experience on this forum and he will be missed.

Congratulations! I hope that you are able to find the Syren a good home, it deserves a place of honor. Hopefully you will be able to tell/show us where it will live! 

An impressive effort! It is also very cool that you gambled on the configuration and won so handsomely. Thanks for taking the time to document your success with the video,  there were moments that were really beautiful and graceful.

OK, I have a confession. I have been following this build for some time and while I knew that it was a xebec I knew little else. The build is obviously terrific but is it based on a real ship? Are the plans Daniel's? etc... Just in case there is someone else like me following, I finally answered some of my own questions although I invite corrections.

  This build is of the (very famous although unknown to me!!) French xebec Le Requin and there is a contemporary model in the French maritime museum. The plans appear to be those from the Ancre monograph of Le Requin by Jean Boudriot & Hubert Berti available from Ancre's Le Requin web page  where there is also a nice brochure for download. I am sure that a search will turn up much on this ship but I found a concise summary on

Michael Czytko Web site along with links and photos. A very interesting ship and Daniel's build promises to be a very special one.

23 hours ago, luponero said:

(when I retire, I take an English course)

luponero (black wolf) 

Funny! When we retire next year we are moving to our house in the Maremma and are really going to need to improve our Italian!

Congratulations! This model truly deserves to be called art. The first time that I saw photos of it I was so amazed that I was disoriented.

Google Translates claims that the German for this is:

"Herzliche Glückwünsche! Dieses Modell verdient es wirklich, Kunst genannt zu werden. Das erste Mal, dass ich Fotos davon sah, war ich so erstaunt, dass ich desorientiert war. "

Yet another congratulations on a job well done! You have much to be proud of so take a moment to enjoy the praise from all of us that have admired your efforts for quite some time.

I have been reading this log from the very beginning and am currently on page 49 (November 2015) but I saw that it has been tagged as "Finished" so I just had to jump ahead and add my congratulations to the long list. Well done!

That is one beautiful manual! You have put together a great kit to tempt all of us that have sworn off further purchases until the current backlog has been cleared, even if only a little cleared up.  Does it count if I clear the backlog by selling off execss inventory rather than building?

Che magnifico!

It is really fun to see this super interesting hull take shape!

14 hours ago, JerseyCity Frankie said:

Take my advice and scrap this nonsense.

😂😂😂

  This is very likely the best advice but I am not confident enough in my knowledge of any rigging subject to know that something is wrong even if I am suspicious. I am glad that someone else has encouraged you to find an alternate solution for the period/type/locale of this ship.

   Consider this just a comment from the peanut gallery as I have no knowledge of this type of shroud layout. However.....

It does appear that on each side of the ship that you have three "doubled" shrouds with one end fixed to a "stretcher", 114, while the other end is fixed to a pair of blocks, 113/115. The sequence of attachments to the hull, starting at the fore end, would be Shroud-1 fixed, Shroud-1 blocks, Shroud-2 blocks, Shroud-2 fixed, Shroud-3 blocks, Shroud-3 fixed. The free ends of the blocks are belayed at rack B or C which I am guessing are port and starboard racks. Presumably this arrangement is used so that the block attachments are "inside" the first and last shroud.

   Another interesting question is about the ratlines that seem to be attached only to the fixed run of the shroud. This sort of makes sense because as the blocks are tightened the ratline would be pulled higher while if the ratline was also attached to the block end it would be pulled lower. But it would be interesting to hear about how this all worked out in practice and see other shroud arrangements like this. Perhaps someone can enlighten us?

Holy thread resurrection, batman !#!

I believe that I spent about a month going through this build log trying to understand everything that I could. It was hugely educational in so many different ways so I felt that I should send along a note of gratitude. It was very generous to put the effort  into making it available. Both the model and the log are masterpieces.

Howdy!

  Although obviously not a primary source, here is a drawing from the AOTS Royal Caroline - 1749 by Sergio Bellabarba & Giorgio Osculati with drawings attributed to Osculati.

GunTackle.pdf

  The area around the cascabel is a bit ambiguous but seems to maybe some kind of woven eye that is seized?

JerseyCity Frankie is heading you in the right direction, these waterways should not require you to do any significant bending. From the instructions it appears that Model Shipways intends you to form the waterway from a piece of stock 3/16" thick (the height of the waterway) but considerably wider than the 3/16" width on deck. This "extra" width of the blank allows you to account for the curvature of the ship bulwarks and, very importantly, the fact that in some places the bulwarks splay out so that the top surface of the waterway is more than 3/16" wide.  The piece of stock may not be wide enough to account for all of this over the entire length of the waterway in which case you will need to choose a point to create a joint or use a wider piece of stock.

  Good luck!

Very nice blocks! Well done, Woodeater!

    This build log should be of interest to you! Amalio might be able to supply you with some good information.

2 hours ago, Oliver24 said:

 

But what about the San Juan Nepomuceno, the San Ildefonso or the Montagnes?

2 hours ago, paulsutcliffe said:

my cheerful hull below after a year in the garage the wood is holly and was dry and seasoned but has obviously swollen after fitting and painting with watered down acrylic 

  Ah nuts, that is really disappointing to see the damage after all of your efforts to produce a nice hull. I have no doubt that you can sort it when the time comes but still....

Howdy Keith!

   I believe that there were at least two versions of the Swift and your deck furniture appears to be that of the earlier version like mine in this photo:

   The box art has a copyright of 1982 but I was unable to find a copyright on the plans and instructions. I bought this one sometime in the second half of the 1980's, I believe. The later revision has different furniture and a "dropped" section in the deck to allow a partial reveal of the hold.

 P.S. Thanks for posting this as it gave me a chance to pull out the box and think about finishing this little model.