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Preventer Stay (Part Three) – lower end attachment.

 
For the Preventer Stay Steel indicates 9” deadeyes and 3” circ lanyards. (0.4mm ø at scale)

THE PREVENTER-STAY sets up with a laniard, reeved through the holes in the dead-eye in the lower end of the stay, and another dead-eye in an iron-bound-strap, bolted on the fore part of the stem.

 
I was surprised to see Steel referring to deadeyes for the Preventer stay in his 1794 work, as all the cutters I have seen either have hearts or thimbles.

 
The Alert book shows hearts, and the Kit instructions a thimble and lanyard arrangement hooked onto the stem.

Hawke model
The Hawke model shows the stay secured to a single thimble strapped to the stem.

 
Not least because I happen to have them, I have opted for Chuck’s closed hearts, but also hearts had been widely used for stays on ships of this period.


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5mm Syren Hearts, spot on.
 


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For the Lanyard I have attached some 0.4mm Morope.


Can’t get them to look completely right until they are pulled taut and seized.

 

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The lanyards won’t be tied off until the Bowsprit has been fitted and the yards raised.



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Moving on to that tricky business of yards.


 
 
B.E.

06/02/2020

Cheers, Rusty👍
 
Post 65
 
Main-Stay (Part Two) – lower end attachment.
 
 
The Mainstay at its lower end is attached to the stem using a large five-hole deadeye.
In the kit this is provided by a three- part self-assembly wooden version.

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I would suggest that a simple jig using steel pins is made to ensure hole alignment during assembly.
 
It would have been nice to have this deadeye made in a nice wood, Box or perhaps Pearwood, but it hasn’t come up too badly with a coat of wipe-on.
I was tempted to use the very nice Boxwood version produced by Chuck for the Cheerful model, but it was just a tad too large.
 
In setting up the Mainstay, this is how Steel describes it.
THE STAY Sets up with a dead-eye, turned into the lower end of the stay with a running or Flemish-eye, and with a laniard, reeved through the holes in the dead-eye, and through holes bored through the head of the stem.
 
This looks like the arrangement shown in the Alert Book.
The kit instructions show a simple seizing.
 
 

The Hawke model
Not particularly clear but there seems to be throat seizing atop the deadeye with the running end loosely taken around the stay and presumably seized again.
 

The Science Museum model shows the usual deadeye stropping arrangement with a throat seizing and with the running end seized to the stay.
 
I note that Chuck has also opted for this arrangement on his Cheerful model.
I also opted for the arrangement as shown above, if nothing else the seizing is an easier job than forming an eye and seizing to the deadeye strop.
 
Lanyards.
 
Steel lists a 4” circ line for the deadeye lanyards which scales to 0.5mm ø line.
The kit indicates a 0.25mm line which does look a little thin for this jumbo deadeye.
 
I tried two options to check what suited my eye best.
 

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Lanyards rigged with Morope 0.6mm line
 
Morope is very fine line with great definition to show off this prominent feature of the cutter rigging.
 

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Lanyards rigged with Syren 0.45mm line
 
Syren is excellent natural fibre line but it doesn’t have quite the pure definition of the Morope but is perhaps a little more in scale.
Syren. Morope, Morope, Syren, decisions, decisions, I used to be decisive but now I’m not so sure. 
 
When it comes to rigging the lanyard the kit arrangement is straightforward, but it seems a bit odd to me that the standing end is secured by a knot at the stem rather than the deadeye.
I have opted for an alternative method whereby the lanyard is knotted at the deadeye in the usual way and having passed thro’ the sequence of deadeye and stem holes and will be hitched around the stay and seized to the standing end of the lanyard.
At this point I thought I would test fit the Bowsprit to check that there was no fouling of the Mainstay lanyard, fortunately not, but I did have a panic moment thinking whether the Bowsprit would fit thro’ from aft given that I hadn’t checked it since fitting all the deck clutter.
 
 
Part three will cover the Preventer stay attachment.
 
 
B.E.
05/02/2020
 
 

My deepest condolences for you loss, and sincerest gratitude to a very beautiful detailed USS Missouri build.
We are like a big family, sharing what has been lost but also gained, like new friends.
We are all here for each other, to support no matter the issue.
 

I dug up more photos of the last 2 weeks.

there’s 52 of those guns. Instead of making them all at once I’ve decided to make them as I need them. 

same with these,  as I need them. 

One is slightly weathered. One is not

that just about brings me to where I am now. 

Glad you're back!
Been there and did similar when my oldest brother passed away. Just needed some time to sort out my thoughts and didn't feel like doing the same old things, but eventually the pain eases and life returns to normal. Hang in there, we're all pulling for you.
What you've done on the model looks super! 

Hey guys, sorry I’ve been gone forever. My dad died then a good friend died. I withdrew from everything.   
I’m back now. Better late than never right? 
so I started back up on the Missouri 2 weeks ago.  Here’s a few pictures of what she looks like now.  Not much progress, sorry.

Today's progress

paint chipping effects on the bullwarks
 
 
 
 
 

Spent a bit of time tonight on the spanker port shrouds......

Photos of the process described above. I used yellow to mark the suggested line in the plans and then overlaid the blue tape and 'felt' for the bump of the overlap and marked it in pencil.  
 

Then I removed the blue tape and laid it on the wood to cut, added an offset then cut.

Check page 7 - my post of Oct 9th about 1/2 way down - shows the template included in the kit to set the mast rake. It's not much, but was different for each mast.

Making a template for the breast hook on chalk paper.

Beast hook sawn and into place.

Marking the positions of the carlings to support the riding bitts on the deck beams.

Making the riding bitts.

 

 

Sawing and cutting the notches for the carlings.

 

 

The carlings.

The riding bitts into place. nothing is glued definitively yet. I will probably have to  remove the whole deck structure to varnish the inside of the hull.

 

 

Sawing the mast partners.

 

 

 

 

 

I make an improvised bevel gauge to measure the angle between the transom and the deck for the after deck beams.

Gluing the after deck beams.

My modeler friends get to see the model for the first time in this stage.

 

 

 
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Thank you for your constructive comments
 
Till next week

Good morning.

Update - hull sanded & gunports lined & opened up & painted.  The last 3 on the lower deck will be finished up after the main wale is in place.  I probably should have waited do line the last few ports on the upper gun deck, but will just work around them.
 

 

 

 

 
Mark 

the loss of the Boyne in Plymouth harbour on the 1st of May 1795

if you weren't getting shot at there was a fortune to be made...

Part 2...

This post is in two parts.
 
War is Hell.
This story was related by a young man to his parents about a 'skirmish' with the French fleet.
We jump into the letter in the midst of battle. well after the transcribed opening following directly...
 
Kentish Gazette - Friday 20 June 1794
Copy of a letter from "William Knight, of the Brunswick, to his Father and Mother at Sandwich, dated Spithead the 12th of June, 1794
               "I here send you the proceedings of Earl Howe's fleet...."

Being anywhere near ships not a sea was dangerous.  (1787)
Broken collar bone
Broken leg

Actually, the people he upset were the corrupt officials and landowners and members of the New South Wales Corps - the so-called Rum Corps, supposedly tasked with maintaining order in the penal colony but effectively gathering all power to themselves and their friends -  "under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, deposed the Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh. Afterwards, the military ruled the colony, with the senior military officer stationed in Sydney acting as the lieutenant-governor of New South Wales until the arrival from Britain of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie as the new governor at the beginning of 1810." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Rebellion)
 
The Rum corps and its ex-officers (such as Macarthur) had a very cushy position, having pretty much monopolised all the good land, kept the population in subjection, and bribery and corruption were rife. In the absence of a proper currency, rum (the production of which was under their control) was used as a medium of exchange. Bligh tried to stop the corruption but was was overthrown by a conspiracy of the Rum Corps.
 
When Macquarie came out from England he brought in his own Scottish regiment, disbanded the Rum corps, introduced a silver currency taken from Spanish coinage (a disc was cut from the centre of each coin - the central disc being one value and the remainder, called a "holey dollar" was a different value. It was in his term of office that the colony really got properly established on a firm footing.
 
Steven 

Not the only time that a salute caused a death and injuries.
http://frogstorm.com/daily/2016/12/12/john-kendricks-final-salute
 

It is in the thick of the fight, the Battle of the Nile (1798), guns booming, smoke and fire all around you, wood exploding and splinters fill the air.
All the Officers around you on the quarterdeck are killed, the Captains wounded and taken below.
What do you do.....
 
Assume command until an adult shows up of course!

Ship returning home fires a salute to the town and takes off one mans arm, opens another's chest, and kills one other.
I wonder what happened to that Captain?   1798

And the battle continues. Another mutiny? As far as I can determine it is still not completely resolved in 2020.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/descendants-of-bounty-mutineers-defend-their-island-home-from-au/
 
While I am not familiar with the ship Jud, I have seen what a couple of pods of 2.75 rockets can do. Impressive firepower for a short time. Definitely capable of wrecking someones day, even though a couple of M-61 Vulcan's may have been even more impressive. All they would have had to do was drive a couple of M-113s with Vulcan mounts on board and light them up when it was party time.

Much newer copy. Roll your own.