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Very nice work on both Toni, a very complimenting build. cheers Pat
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Hello again Piet, it has been a while since commenting but I have been watching this marvellous build - she looks great! cheers Pat
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Great to see an update Mark and to hear all is proceeding well with your wife's recuperation. Mk IV deck, now that has to be some form of record huh - seen plenty of action by the sound of it cheers Pat
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Sorry Popeye, I see where you are coming from, but that was not the intent - you're a braver man than me if you wish to train snakes to do anything but scare away any unwanted visitors - most of them are far scarier than the spiders cheers Pat
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Hi John, that little beauty is coming along magnificently - great work! Now that you let the cat out of the bag re the spiders; who are you going to scare away when they find out about the snakes (and the ....) cheers Pat
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Drunk or not Danny, them there spiders would probably produce better ratlin's then me cheers Pat
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Very nice work once again Danny, very clean and well defined edges and bevels. Now, when you finish with those spiders, reckon they'd survive air transport down my way cheers Pat
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Brian, are you thinking of cheating on your scratch build cheers Pat
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BANYAN replied to marius's topic in Discussion for a Ship's Deck Furniture, Guns, boats and other Fittings
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Nice work Danny, they look good. You may have opened yourself up here mate; what's the next challenge going to be cheers Pat
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Danny, that is some very nice work mate; looks great despite the issues you experienced. Be interesting to hear how you go with different turning and feed speeds. I have avoided turning ebony to date as I don't have alot and did not want to ruin the bits I had - so i have been saving it for those 'special' projects. Thanks for doing the research and trials for me cheers Pat
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Jay, further to John's post, in the navy (well Aussie Navy at least) they were also referred to as 'manropes' and had the additional purpose of being a 'safety' rope for any crew that were in the boat when it was lowered to allow it to be 'released' from the falls when it met the water. If something went wrong and the boats/falls broke/gave way (yes I have seen it happen), these rope which were attached independently (much liker a safety harness these days) were used for the crew to grab onto and stop their fall (they were held loosely by the crew as the boat descended). The ropes usually had knots (overhand) in them at regular intervals to provide a purchase when being used for climbing - not sure if the merchant navy followed the same practice of knotting them though? cheers Pat
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