capnharv2

Thanks for the support.  
 
The idea of a second build is working.  I finally got my head wrapped around how to convert the plans to wood as basically it's just the equivalent of Navy Board drawings.   After staring the light finally turned on.   I'll be opening a build log once I get into sorting out my method...  POB, POF, POB with balsa fillers?  Decisions, decisions. 
 
The stress hasn't subsided but it's manageable at this point.  So I'll be continuing on Licorne while lofting what I need for Belle Poule.   

Young America - extreme clipper 1853
Part 319 – Running Rigging Continued
 
I keep looking at the model and thinking that it doesn't look a lot different than it did last month - considering the amount of time being spent on it.  All these pictures were taken today after a fairly major cleanup of the work area.  The first picture shows most of the model.
 
 
 
In the picture the rigging of the foremast is essentially finished except for the lower braces which are deferred for access reasons.  On the main mast all the lines are run and belayed at least initially, again except for braces.  The mizzen still lacks its four upper yards but these have been made and are ready for rigging.
 
The next picture shows the fore course sheets that were installed this week.
 
 
 
Again, these were deferred until now to permit access.  These large, 5" lines run from a shackled eyebolt on the outside of the sheer rail, then forward and up through the large block ganged with the clue garnet block, the tack and the lazy tack.  Finally they pass back through a bulwark sheave and are belayed to cleats on the deck.  The next picture may be clearer.
 

 
Without sails, the lines drape across the lower shrouds.  The tacks are the lines running forward to cleats on the catheads.  The lazy tacks angle aft and belay on the first pin on the main rack rails.  These were used to control the tack of the sail when the yard was being braced around – between the casting off of the sheet and the belaying of the tack – or vice versa.  The starboard tack may be seen belayed to its cleat on the cathead in the next picture.
 

 
This picture also shows the new lashing between the bullseyes on the martingale stay where it is shackled to the cathead.  This outer bowsprit standing rigging suffered damage during nearby work.  It should have been deferred.  The jibboom guys are still scheduled for replacement.
 
Further aloft, work on the fore upper yard braces has progressed.  The next picture shows the topgallant brace tackles between yard and stay pendants.
 
 
 
Tension on these will be relieved to normalize the stay.  Below this, the fore upper topsail braces have been run except for the falls, which are delayed to permit access to belaying points below.
 
The main spencer gaff has finally been mounted and rigged and is shown in the next picture.
 
 
 
 
The rigging on these consist of one standing lift and two vang pendants with tackles.  The tackles and belaying points on the side rails are out of this picture.
 
Rigging of the fore braces gets complex at the heads of the stays as seen in the next picture.
 
 
 
The tackle falls run through blocks seized to the stay then through blocks on the shrouds to direct them downwards without fouling.  Two sets of braces attach to this stay.  One level up it gets even more congested with the two upper sets of braces as well as the staysail halyard block.
 

 
Finally another view of the full model.
 

 
The two broken jibboom guy chains may be seen dangling from the boom waiting for replacement in this picture.
 
Approaching endgame.
 
Ed

How much did you get Rob? We got about 16-18".
 
We're lucky that we never lost power. A lot of people (including you) have been less lucky.
 
So, you've been watching TV by candle light??🤣

I used to have a vise like that too. I don't know why I got rid of it . . .
 
Harvey

The Belle Poule plans are at the printshop being reduced to the size I need.  Once I get them back and examine how I'll build her (bulkhead or frames) I'll start a log.   Nothing like having two ships in the stocks.

Fig-170- the complete project, together with the tool set, required to create it - and a most rewarding one.

Fig-163- All fitted and ready to go. - view of the font of the Wallace & Sons Bulge Pump as originally fitted the the Falls of Clyde.

Hi everyone,
 
I apologize for not answering these recent many great comments. We traveled to Virginia and North Carolina this last week, and I forgot to take my password for the website; I could read the comments on my phone, but not post!
 
I will address these in the morning, and also post a couple of interesting things I saw at the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, as well as at Colonial Williamsburg.
 
Mark
 
 

Once again, love those sails. That's how I like sails on a ship model, she looks like she's going to shoot off the end of the workbench at any second. Maybe you should drop a few taut anchors from her to the model base, to help explain to viewers what's stopping her from busting out of her display case.

I have a 6000watt generator so I powered up the freezers and the fridge and also the TV.  I was able to get power to the coffee maker and microwave...but nothing else.  I also have lots of oil lamps which lit the house and gas stoves.
No internet...no hot water...and worse...no exiting the hill drive to/from the house.
 
I'm back to work today after shoveling my way out of the drive.  I have a Jeep, but my sweetheart is still stuck and can't get her car out.
 
I do hope to get back to the GR on Saturday....I'll have a few hours then...I hope.
 
We had 18~20 inches....my wife has lived hear her entire life and has never seen this much snow...and it lingering so long.
 
Good day everyone.
 
Rob

Reviewing some of my detailing...I owe an explanation to some why I use so much paint on rigging and such.  From my own experiences and from that acquired by way of serious study...it was made clear to me that much standing rigging was coated in a heavy preservative.  I've even assisted in its removal on the real McCoy.  So, I've adopted the practice of coating my seizing's with ample preservative (paint).
I hope my lazy, quick-shod technique of covering a multitude of sins is not a deterrent for the more ardent discrete of you.  I truly am standing(or sitting at the work bench), with some of the most skilled, detailed acute, modelers ever assembled in one forum, and to have as many likes and positive comments about my build is truly amazing to me...I am deeply  humbled and moved.
 
Thanks MSW friends.
 
Rob

Thank you for your comments, Michel and E.J., and also to you all for the support and "likes".
 
Today I have finished nameplate, its base and letters are made out of card, the frame is wooden. I tried to do it in the style of English Restoration approx 1670 (the frame and small ornaments) and you can also find there initials of authors - me and Captain KL who helps me to achieve more realistic results and gives me professional advice how to do things correctly and better.
That's why you can watch here a completely different build of the Royal Katharine than those that are based on modeling plans - unfortunately, in many ways, fictional.
 

 
So enjoy the pics and have a great time.
 

And here are other photos in real daylight colours:

 
Best regards
 

Dziadeczek:  Thank you very much for your praise, I am pleased you like my work.
 
Now the pedestals are finished and placed under the huge hull of the Royal Katherine. Enjoy the pics and have a great time.
 

 
 
 

Rounding up a few more finishing details...like rope coils and paint touch up and adding the lower topsails reef points....then its time to move onto the main course.
This is the largest sail ever bent on any clipper's main yard....no wonder her original crew number was well over 110 able seamen and 30 boys.
With the size of these sails...you needed lots of hands.
 
Pretty soon there will be three masts on her.......
 
Rob

I've had some luck with annealing the wire before stretching it. Heat it till it turns red, let it cool, then try pulling on it.
It's possible the wire on the the roll is already work hardened, and will hold its current (bent) shape.
 
Hope that helps.
 
Harvey

I've had some luck with annealing the wire before stretching it. Heat it till it turns red, let it cool, then try pulling on it.
It's possible the wire on the the roll is already work hardened, and will hold its current (bent) shape.
 
Hope that helps.
 
Harvey

I've had some luck with annealing the wire before stretching it. Heat it till it turns red, let it cool, then try pulling on it.
It's possible the wire on the the roll is already work hardened, and will hold its current (bent) shape.
 
Hope that helps.
 
Harvey

I've had some luck with annealing the wire before stretching it. Heat it till it turns red, let it cool, then try pulling on it.
It's possible the wire on the the roll is already work hardened, and will hold its current (bent) shape.
 
Hope that helps.
 
Harvey

I've had some luck with annealing the wire before stretching it. Heat it till it turns red, let it cool, then try pulling on it.
It's possible the wire on the the roll is already work hardened, and will hold its current (bent) shape.
 
Hope that helps.
 
Harvey

I've had some luck with annealing the wire before stretching it. Heat it till it turns red, let it cool, then try pulling on it.
It's possible the wire on the the roll is already work hardened, and will hold its current (bent) shape.
 
Hope that helps.
 
Harvey

While building the sail I opted to simulate the addition of repaired panels on the sails...to give some realistic perspective.
 
Still have lots of control lines to run along with the belaying of buntlines and sheets..not to mention the downhauls.
 
Once sail down and the main course left on the main mast..
 
Rob

After this task...I built and set the lower topsail.......once done I had to rig more blocks for its control.

Next, I rigged blocks for lifts and sheets for the lower topsail.

Spent some time today wrapping up some belaying of roya/topsail control lines before I begin to work on the lower topsail.