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So glad it was a help! James does make the prototype builds look effortless. Enjoy and do post some photos of yours when she’s complete.
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Thanks Chris and Bob, I’m very glad Chris W included them too. I’ve really enjoyed making them. Although my wife is asking me where all these boats (now 8 in just under 2 years) are going to live and she may have a point…. Having swapped messages with Chris, my next build will now be Adder, not Speedy. Chris assures me that despite the bluff bows the planking isn’t too difficult on Adder with all the planking being under the white paint and below the waterline and only 12 planks per side with the rest pre-cut. I think Adder is such an interesting looking boat, but the main reason for switching now is that Chris has left off some elements of Adder’s running rigging which makes her more straightforward to rig than Speedy which has everything included. So Adder is probably a better intro to square riggers for me than Speedy. My pre-order of Adder is in.
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Thanks Jacques, Essentially she’s very similar to Nisha, just bigger. Planking particularly straightforward on Ranger and rigging a little less fiddly by virtue of being more accessible due to her size. Rigging is much the same except for the topsail which has an additional yard on Ranger whereas it joins onto the topmast on Nisha. Overall, Ranger is bigger boned and more robust than little Nisha, although that didn’t stop me breaking lots of the MDF parts and stepping on the resin boat - but that’s more to do with my clumsiness!
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Ranger is welcomed to the fishing fleet. The fleet. Note how much taller Ranger is. Overall length and hull volume are considerably smaller than Zulu. I haven’t included Alert or Grecian as the risk of a breakage getting them out of their cases is too high. With Erycina, similar hull sizes but very different rig. Both have very graceful lines. With Saucy Jack. The shape of the two boats’ bow and stern are very similar, but whereas SJ is short and tubby, Ranger is long and graceful. I’ll be taking a few weeks off boat building. My next build is highly likely to be VM’s Speedy which I have waiting unless I’m tempted in the meantime by something more bite size such as VM’s Sherborne (not promising to build all the VM armed cutters as I have done for the fishers!) I do really want to build VM’s Adder too, she looks great, but I’m a little daunted by planking those bluff bows. I think Speedy before Adder.
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Ranger is essentially finished… I may yet decide to add some barrels that came with the kit if I can drag the paint to give a good enough approximation of wood to include. I also may add rope coils, but it’s one of my least favourite jobs and I still haven’t done so for Alert. Lots of photos below. Thanks to Chris for the superb kit, James for the excellent build log. Thanks also for the advice and likes on MSW - much appreciated. My thoughts on Ranger are that this is yet another extremely high quality, well thought out kit from Vanguard. Highest quality materials, superb instructions, etc. …. Everything I’ve come to expect from a Vanguard kit. She builds into a stunning boat too. My build closely followed that of the prototype, I’ve only erred on minor details such as painting the channels white. Having now built all six Vanguard fishing boats, this is also one of the easiest and most suitable for beginners. I thought the hull and planking the easiest of the 6 fishers. Of the 3 cutters and the ketch Erycina, she is the easiest to rig by virtue of just being bigger and less fiddly. The two luggers are by far the easiest to rig, but if you’re not so keen on the less ship-like lugger rig, then I’d recommend Ranger as an ideal first boat. I’d also add that the luggers, and Zulu in particular, are a little trickier to plank. The resin boat is a nice touch in the kit, which only Saucy Jack and Ranger in the VM range include. I’m slightly in two minds whether to include these boats though as I find the interior of the boat very difficult to look like wood. There’s less going-on on Ranger’s deck as she’s a fish carrier, not a fishing boat so fewer winches and other fishing gear. I guess I do need those barrels, and there’s a resin anchor too (also broken when I trod on the launch). I really like the photo-etch detailing on the stern and gunwales.
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Sails complete. Still a few lines to tie-off. I still need to add the port backstay. She is very pretty this boat with lovely lines and full spread of canvas. Despite being an 1864 vessel and older than the the other Vanguard fishers except for Saucy Jack, she feels more modern and yacht like. I managed to step on the resin tender when I first opened the kit. I have painstakingly glued the little boat back together plus some filler. Not looking terrible, but if you look closely some of the breaks are visible as a dent in the port gunwale aft that I couldn’t repair with filler. I’m planning to try to drag some oil browns on the interior to give a more wood like appearance than the current matt Tamiya Red Brown paint.
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Thanks Rick. Ratlines complete. Stays, except for backstays added. Left backstays off whilst I’m setting the mainsail so they’re not in the way. Topsail added too. All fairly straightforward, just followed the excellent Vanguard plans. The most challenging element is adjusting the lines to achieve as uncreased sails as possible - this boat has big sails compared to the rest of the Vanguard fleet. Most of the lines are not fully tied off or glued as I’m still adjusting for position. My sails are a paler, pinkier colour than most fishing boat builds on here - I’ve avoided the RIT dye Wine colour and tried to mimic the trawler Vigilance’s sails which I saw and photographed in Brixham in 2022.
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Just a quick update. Decided on a colour for the sails, RIT dye tan (mixed quite strong) and after that the sails dipped for a minute or two in weak RIT dye scarlet mixture, the latter to give the sails a less bland brown colour. Fitting out below. First two shrouds on each side being added. The instructions say add the main topsail to the first first, I’ve decided not to as it will be in the way for the shrouds and ratlines and I’ll risk breaking the topsail yard.
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Simon, She looks super, I really enjoyed building this one too. Such a great kit. you’ll enjoy Nisha too, similar size and rig and I thought a little bit easier to plank. I’ve done a log on all six Vanguard fishing boat builds (Ranger still under construction + Alert and Grecian as my skills have slowly improved) as a relative newbie to boat building it’s been wonderful to have such a wealth of experience and advice available plus some encouragement - so i’d recommend a log if you can face the work! Also we get to enjoy reading it. Dan
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Beautiful model and case. I’ve really enjoyed following your build!
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Ranger’s hull and spars are now complete. I can’t do anymore until I make a decision on what colour to have the sails. I had originally intended the undyed white straight from the packet. Is that just too white? It’s a starker white than the photos convey. I had some spare Saucy Jack sails so I dyed one of these with tea. Not sure I like the faintly orange tinge that the tea gives them? Or do I stick with the red / pink sails of the rest of the fishing fleet despite having promised my wife I wouldn’t? Alongside Nisha to give an indication of how dark red sails would look. Or the paler sails Saucy Jack has. I reached this colour by accident and may well not be able to reproduce it. I’m thinking this last might look the best and also be a bit different from Nisha and Erycina. For the sake of completeness here’s some photos of Erycina with Ranger. She’s an almost identically sized boat although with a different rig. Incidentally, Erycina started off life with a cutter rig before being cut down to a ketch and the mizzen mast added. Any thoughts welcome! I’m stuck on Ranger until I can make a decision on sails. Thanks
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Thanks Rick, this is an easy boat to make and look good thanks to Chris’s excellent design. I’d like to think I’m getting better at building them, but in reality this is by far the easiest of the four non-lugger rigged fishing boats from Vanguard.
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