Theodosius

Such an impressive work! Masterclass in wood, paint and rope 🙂.

Thank's for taking the time to create such detaild explanations about your rigging process! Comes in quite handy for me now :-).

Doesn't it feels good, if you found your own working approach? And I respect your decision to stop a more complex build and squeese in something that promise faster success to gain more skills!

Thank you all for your thumbs up, much appreciated 🙂 @Thukydides: thanks again for your advice! I read again through your log, full of good stuff regarding my rigging problems! I think I need much more practice, and I need also to try out more different approaches to find what fits to my skills. I struggle a lot to get a good and small serving aroung loops, blocks, etc. Still not found what works for me on that front. Most of the time I endet with a normal knot, done with the small Guterman string aroung whatever. And then I can not expand this knot into a good Looking serving-loop. Thats then allways the Point where I ask myself if it is worth trying with the small extra rope, or, just make a normal knot with the initial rops. You can see in my examples, that I still try and don't go the very easy way with just knoting the initial ropes. But, it is so poorly executed, that it Looks always quite messy. Well, I close the loop with: need more practice here and need to try more different approaches :-). Then, after finishing all the blocks on the masts and bow-sprit, there was the question: start the standing rigging now, or, finish all the blocks on the spars first. Well, I'm not feelin 'ready' enough to start the bigger tasks, so, at least, I will do the spars for the bow-sprit and the gaff(s)(?) first.

Thanks for all the thumbs up 🙂 @Thukydides: thx for your comment and help! I'm (again, :-)) reading through your magnificent build log of Alert! Will look carefully into your description of your rigging! And yes, twist and tension needs more praktice! If I understand it right, then you seal the whole length of a served rope with dilluted matt varnish, is that right? I will try this also on my ropes. Didn't do this till now, because I thought the rope would become to stiff to bend it properly with the hardened varnish. In the meantime, I replaced the 0.6mm rope of my bow-sprit gammoning with 0.4mm. That looks much better. In the end, I should have done less circles, but I think it will work now.

Puh, dusty here, isn't it? 🙂 Thanks a lot for all your likes, much appreciated :-). I see, that my old picture host doesn't exist anymore. I still have all the pictures, and I will reupload them on this side, but that will take some time. Well, I found some motivation and went into this 'rigging'. And it is much the same as it was with the hull when I started this projekt. What I would like to achieve, and what I'm able to achieve are just two worlds. Here is a full new set of skills required and to learn, so it feels a Little bit like start all over again. My respect for some of the shown projekts here on this forum has risen tremendously :-). Some of the main Problems I run into: Serving the ropes is much more difficult than it Looks like. Especialy serving the lowest diameters of ropes. I buyed the smallest Guterman ropes I could get my hands on and started to serve this for the blocks. It needs so much force in the Twist that very often it just open up again after I pulled the finished Produkt from the serving mashine. It becomes easier when the Diameter of the ropes grow. I did not look into the description of the plan Sheets carefull enough, so I started with to small ropes in case of the Diameters. And even then I found it hard to get a smoth and evenly served layer onto the ropes. When I finished the blocks for both of the masts, I run out of served smallest ropes, and for the remaining blocks of the bow sprit I made new ones, but now with the 0.25mm ropes as the core. This was much easier to serve, so I think I will stay wiht this, even if I have now different sizes for the same purpose on the model. And, as the plan sheets suggest to use the 0.25mm rope to tackle the blocks (at least the smallest ones), now the served 0.25mm ones are to big. To help me not to loose my mojo to fast, I keep my inperfektions to achieve a little bit more Progress. Another big Problem is, that during rigging the blocks and eye-bolts, often enough my serving open up again. Of Course most of the time when it was allready have build onto the masts or anything other. I replaced the worst, but kept some of the imperfekt ones because of reasons mentioned above. So my conclusions at this Point: just take your time to learn the new skills. Found a way that is working for you. And, I can now understand why there are a lot of builds out there that uses brown ropes instead of the classic black ones. When there is all black on black, you won't see much of the effort of served ropes. And, the brown ones might be more accurate from an historical Point of view, but I do not participate in that debate, for me it is just personal preference. At the end, the black rope overall helped me to live with more errors, than a lighter and more prominent color would have allowed. Ah,and before I Forget it: another big mistake I made: I used a to thick of a rope for the gammoning of the two spars of the bow sprit. I enter now just a bunch of photos with no furhter description. There are examples of the better and of the worse stuff. Hope, you enjoy it.

When it is grown up, what will it be? 🙂 But it looks very interesting and promising 🙂 Like!

Good job on your first planking! And that 24'ers look massive! I like!

Very good start on the second layer of planking! 🙂

This looks like a good start! 🙂

I am amazed about your rigging! Incredibble for this size!

Milestone reached: all the spars are ready from a wood working point of view. That means, the 'building' is finished, but the complete rigging is to do next. Some inbetweens: Some spars taperd and the 8-sided, äh, 'things' are worked out: Two points about the next pictures. First, I ran out of PE-cleats(?). A short email dialog with Chris brought clarity to my fault: he very politly pointed out, that the use of pe-parts at this point was overhoult, and I should use the plenty of wooden parts. Damn! The wooden parts looks much better than the pe parts, and I could not figure this out by myself. Only excuse I have is, that in the plan sheets I only found references to the pe and not the wooden parts. Well, to much use of blinkers on my side :-). Second point: I lost one of the holsters for the additional smal spars on top of the main spars. Sorry for my lack of propper nautical terms. I made a new one out of the black paper and stiffen it with ca-glue. It is more bulky than the orginial pe-part, but if you don't know, only on the second view, so I hope I'm ok there. All spars ready for rigging in front of the boat: To give me an idea of how it might look in the end, I put all together, but only with the pins and no glue, so all is still wonky:

Phantastic! 🙂

Thanks for the detailed unboxing and sharing your building experience! Looks good so far, IMO 🙂

Missed tha one. Good job! Will follow along! 🙂