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  1. Tony Hunt
    You're good at it, too. ☺️
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Tony Hunt
    Succeeding admirably, I'd say!
  5. Tony Hunt
    My gosh that looks good Rob.
  6. Tony Hunt
    Great, I'll claim a 1/3 share of the victory. 😁
  7. 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?
  8. Tony Hunt
    First paragraph on Page 68 of the edition Eberhard linked.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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 😀.
  13. Tony Hunt
    Light it up and start cooking!
  14. Tony Hunt
    Hard to believe that's a kit. Fabulous.
  15. Tony Hunt
    Making gratings - the eternal challenge!
  16. Tony Hunt
    There's also a 1:400 card model available https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/221896517945
  17. Tony Hunt
    I believe Chief Mark is referring to the plans for the steam frigate USS Minnesota when he refers to the plates from the US National Archives.
  18. Tony Hunt
    That's looking really good Steven. It looks to be about a foot long? It will be a very striking model when it's finished.
  19. Tony Hunt
    That's a nice drill set up you have Pat. Which piece of tubing did you end up using - looks like the thick-walled one?
  20. Tony Hunt
    That's really interesting. It looks like gains might be a relatively recent innovation.
  21. Tony Hunt
    That is looking REALLY good JD.
  22. Tony Hunt
    Thanks Dick, interesting. It does look there aren't any gains on those planks, although it is a little hard to be sure from the photos, as you say.
  23. Tony Hunt
    Fascinating! That's going to leave a nasty mark when it hits the side of your ship!
  24. Tony Hunt
    Vladimir, your model is looking really impressive. REALLY impressive!
  25. Tony Hunt
    Druxey makes an interesting point about the "gain" at the ends of the plank making the overlap of the clinker planks disappear as they approach the stem and stern posts. It raises the question about when the practice of using gains was first developed? Did the Vikings use it on their ships? It's way outside the date range that I'm familiar with for shipbuilding practices, but someone must surely know.

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