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I believe that the medium blue-gray would fade to a more pale gray as the ships aged. So if you want a brand new look, I'd go more with the medium blue-gray. But if you want a more aged or weathered look, I'd go pale gray. My 2 cents. -
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I think they should be called Flemish Longhorns rather than horses. But what do I know! As far as the crow's feet, the BlueJacket plans don't call for those so I didn't install them. Thanks, Keith. My goal was to make them look as good as yours on your Tennessee.
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Well, I took another look at the mast and spar diagram and realized the lower 3 yards on each mast have these little mini-foot ropes on the ends. I did a quick search and found that they are called Flemish Horses. Hmmm. Had not heard of them before. So I did a quick add.
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Well, I got to the end of my rope on this project. Literally. I ran out of cord for the stays, so I had to order more from BlueJacket. While waiting for the new line to arrive, I circled back to the yards and installed all the foot ropes. I've seen some people use thread for the stirrups and others use small eye pins. I particularly like the way the foot ropes look on @Keith Black's Tennessee so I decided on eye pins.
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The engine room looks great, Keith. Well done!
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I think that's good advice, Ian. The even trickier thing, which I did not mention above, was drilling tiny holes in the deck for the eye pins inside the fife rails at the base of the masts. Even my small pin vise was really difficult to position and work inside those tight confines. I guess what I should have done is read the instructions backwards at the start. Then I would've known where all those tie off points for the rigging are and could have put the eye pins and lanyards in place first. Too late now!
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Having none of Keith's eloquence, I can only recite song lyrics to show how I'm feeling doing all these stays "Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive. Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin', And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive, Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive" OK. Enough of that! I finished off the topmast stays by rigging the main topmast stay and main topmast preventer stay, followed by the mizzen topmast stay and mizzen topmast preventer stay. The main topmast stay and preventer stays run from the main topmast to eyebolts on the foremast above the fore mast top, down the foremast to bullseye lanyards inside the fife rail. Here's the mizzen topmast stay and preventer stay rigged basically the same. The only difference is the stay runs through an eyebolt above the main mast top and the preventer stay runs through an eyebolt below the main mast top. Again, both are tied off to bullseye lanyards inside the fife rail. It was a bit tricky tying the lanyards inside the tight confines of the fife rails, backstays, shrouds, etc. Had I know more what about I was doing, I might have done some things in a different order.
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OK. Now I am really impressed! You have some remarkable talents, Keith.
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Enchanting words, Keith. Where did that passage come from?
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This part of the build reminds me of an old Gospel song by Cristy Lane called, "One Day at a Time, Sweet Jesus", with the lyrics adapted to fit ship modeling: "One stay at a time, sweet Jesus, that's all I'm asking of you. Just give me the strength to do everyday what I have to do Yesterday's gone, sweet Jesus, and tomorrow may never be mine. Lord help me today. Show me the way. One stay at a time" Today's focus was the fore topmast stay and for topmast preventer stay. They are both tied off with a loop at the fore top mast above the layers of loops from the breast backstays, topmast shrouds, etc. The fore topmast stay runs from the topmast to the bowsprit, is reeved through the starboard bowsprit bee, and travels the beside the bowsprit to where it's tied off to a bullseye inside the bow head. The fore topmast preventer stay does the same thing on the port side. Here's how they look after installation. Lots more stays to go!
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Nice work on that sail, Bryan!
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I assume that is the voice of experience I'm hearing? Thanks, Bob. Based on the answer I got from the question I posted on the Masts, Rigging and Sails forum, I tied off the block rigging for the breast backstays above the double block similar to how deadeye rigging is tied off. Here's how they look starting with the blocks being stropped. Here are the breast backstays in place. The breast backstays kind of blend in with the shrouds, but they are the block rigging with a double on top and triple below. The stays run from the double blocks to the junctions of the top gallant masts and the royal masts.
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Tell your niece not to feel bad. Broken horns happen from time to time. My young (but large) steer Shiloh, got thru the fence and had a little confrontation with his daddy. Not sure what they were arguing about, but daddy bull ended up with both his horns broke off clean at the skull. Here's daddy bull, afterwards, and he is not in a very good mood. At least the horns on yours can be fixed. This poor guy got polled the hard way and the horns ain't coming back!
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Just found your log, Gary, and I'm on board. Looks like you are off to a nice start!
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