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HIPEXEC

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  1. I'm nearing the end of the road in building my Connie, so my Admiral keeps asking m, "is it done yet...is it done yet?" Well, it isn't even though it looks like it's finished. So, I put the ship in the living room when not working on it. What can I say?
  2. I'm rigging the spanker. Wow...there's a lot more there than meets the eye. I put up the ships colors, also including a pennant on the tip of the main. I made the pennant out of an old flag from my last (first) model.
  3. Anybody know where to get 90mm longboat kits? Inexpensively?
  4. Believe it or not....I now know....and will forever know....where all those braces, sheets and halyards go. A month ago I was plain stumped!
  5. I was measuring the ship for a case when I got this bird's eye view of her and took these pictures.
  6. Bill, Do the port and starboard whale or jolly boats hang in between the rows of upper and lower guns?
  7. Bill, Can you shoot some pics of how you hung coiled lines to your belaying pins? I did what you suggested and ran the lines through the pin holes then re-inserted the pins. Now I want to give the impression of neat coiled lines hanging from each pin.
  8. The chain is prettier than plain rope. Besides, a hank of chain helps set the anchor.
  9. I finished all the mizzen braces except for the mizzen royal which is braced back to the spanker gaff. When I started this rigging thing...I had no idea how the square rigged ship sailed. Now....fixing each brace one at a time....it now makes good sense to me. This model ship building is an amazing learning experience. Without my long gripping tools, I could never have rigged between the main and mizzen, it is such a spider web of shrouds, ratlines, halyards and braces.
  10. Here's my rigging tools. Thank goodness I have a surgeon friend. He gave me those surgical tools which allow me to reach into the tangle of shrouds and ratlines to fasten lines to the rails. I finished the braces on the main mast. Mizzen next.
  11. The foremast braces have been installed. My thick fingers kept doing damage as I progressed all of which had to be repaired as I progressed. This is the time for stiletto fingers. The main braces will be twice as difficult. The amazing thing is these braces actually work. I can adjust the sails to any angle!
  12. I temp installed the spanker to see how it fits. I'll take it down to work on the main rigging.
  13. I've rigged the boom, gaff and luff "pole" so all I'll have to do is slip the luff "pole" into a small hole in the deck I made at the aft base of the mizzen mast and slip the top of that pole into a slot I made under the mizzen fighting top and rig the halyards, etc. I'll keep it off the ship until I finish all the other rigging since I need access to the deck area where the spanker will hang
  14. I'm still distracting myself from completing installing all the braces, halyards, sheets, etc of which I still have very little idea how to proceed while I study all the info you have sent me as well as many rigging books, .....by building the whole spanker sail rig. I do this everytime I get stuck not knowing how to proceed. Instead of being paralyzed by the lack of knowledge....I just jump ahead to something I think I can do. It's the only way I've gotten this far. Full speed ahead...dam the lack of skill and knowledge...is my motto!
  15. I'm working on the boom and gaff for the spanker while I ponder rigging braces, etc.
  16. I can't wait to get my flashlight and "explore" my shipyard floor. Half my ship should be there.i
  17. You're right....Both ships were fighting the tripoli pirates.
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