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  1. Tony Hunt
    Shouldn't the green boat be on the starboard side and the red one on the port side? 😀 Just kidding, it's looking really good Rob.
  2. Tony Hunt
    Coming along VERY nicely!
  3. Tony Hunt
    I agree Dowmer. At 1:96 they are really fine pieces of work.
  4. Tony Hunt
    Like Glenn, I'm a big fan of satin Wipe On Poly. The trick, as Glenn says, is to put on just enough, you don't want to form a surface layer, it should all be soaked into the wood. You then get a durable "oiled-wood" finish.
  5. Tony Hunt
    Wow, that's looking really good. I'm really looking forward to seeing how the castles go onto the ends of the ship in practice
  6. Tony Hunt
    That does seem like the only arrangement that would gel with the gear listed. Two separate halliard tackles seems odd, but maybe that provides the lifting power that the absent winch was supposed to provide?
  7. Tony Hunt
    "Tony, I've seen your very informed comments on other people's builds, but haven't seen your own log. Am I missing something?" No, you're not missing anything Steven. I'm all talk and no action! 😀 I don't have a build under way right now, I'm running out the last few months to retirement and then I hope I'll have the headspace to do some serious model building. Although I have a lot of competing projects to deal with too - a half-written book on pearling luggers needs to be finished, for one. I do have plenty of modelling subjects lined up though. So watch this space!
  8. Tony Hunt
    I've thoroughly enjoyed watching this build come together, and I am really impressed with the finished model. Add another wow to the tally.
  9. Tony Hunt
    Fast progress!
  10. Tony Hunt
    It looks just like the real one. Nice work.
  11. Tony Hunt
    Nice idea - the hull is pretty much what I imagine the Ringle would have looked like.
  12. Tony Hunt
    You're good at it, too. ☺️
  13. Tony Hunt
    Steven, your model building efforts provide such a fascinating and practical guided tour through the maritime archaeology of this period. I love it.
  14. Tony Hunt
    The guys sitting on a suspended plank servicing the engine with the rotating prop about a metre from their heads have some very steady nerves.
  15. Tony Hunt
    Succeeding admirably, I'd say!
  16. Tony Hunt
    My gosh that looks good Rob.
  17. Tony Hunt
    Great, I'll claim a 1/3 share of the victory. 😁
  18. Tony Hunt
    Pat and Jim, three fathoms of 1½ inch hemp rope (½ inch diameter) is surely just a length of lashing line, it's too light to be part of the rigging of a ship this size. Since the blocks are hook-on, perhaps it is just for securing them in the top if/when they are not rigged?
  19. Tony Hunt
    First paragraph on Page 68 of the edition Eberhard linked.
  20. Tony Hunt
    Hi Pat, re the sewing of the hoops, I think Eberhard is referring to the two overlapping tapered ends of the hoop being sewn together, not the spaces between hoops. Re how the sail was attached from the reef bands down, I wondered the same thing. I assume the absence of hoops is somehow associated with the reefing process, although I can't see how. All the yachts I've sailed on have track runners evenly spaced all the way up the sail, they don't get in the way when reefing. More to understand, definitely. I'll have to track down some more of Kipping's treatises, they're really good.
  21. Tony Hunt
    Thanks for the link. This is what he has to say (with regard to the Driver): Cringles for the lacing are made above the upper-reef on the mast- leech, 30 inches asunder : the one next the nock ought not to be less than a yard from the nock. These cringles are stuck two high in the strands. Based on that, the 32 inch spacing looks more like it than the 60 inch spacing.
  22. Tony Hunt
    Do any of Robert Kipping's mid-19th century texts on sails and sailmaking have anything to say on this subject? Unfortunately I don't have any of his volumes in my library.
  23. Tony Hunt
    Hi Pat Five feet apart does seem to be a lot for the eyelets, although Victoria was a fair-sized ship and the sailcloth and boltrope would be reasonably heavy grade materials, I'm sure. I'll have to take a look at the photos myself 😀.
  24. Tony Hunt
    Light it up and start cooking!
  25. Tony Hunt
    Hard to believe that's a kit. Fabulous.

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