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Der Alte Rentner
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Man - oh - man! I wonder how many days it would take me to clean and organize my shipyard. I love your, a place for everything, and everything in its place approach to your workspace. In particular the small hand tool organizer you have on the wall above the bench. I'm tempted to take a few days off to follow your lead. Thanks for sharing and the inspiration.. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
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Gregg, Was the wow because I was baking Christmas cookies for the Admiralty? 😁 Thank your! and Merry Christmas to one and all, Peter
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The old gray cells, they ain't what they used to be. It wasn't until I was looking for the cleat to tie the anchor rope to, that I realized I didn't have any. Somehow, I only installed cleats at the stern half of the model. So, yet another delay in finishing up the hull. I did sort of enjoy stropping hooks to two triple blocks, nothing like a stroll down memory lane.. But, I'm calling it quits for now, going home to bake Christmas cookies. (In part, because I also learned that I forgot to stain the bulk of the cleats. I remedied that just now. Since it will take a while for those to dry as well, I'm off to do help the Admiralty with holiday preparations.)
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Greetings Mustafa, I returned to my post of April 30, 2024 after someone “reacted” to it today. I was reminded that it was with your encouragement I chose to paint Conny. Thanks again for the nudge in the right direction.
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What a wonderful Christmas tradition! Thanks for sharing, and of course, Merry Christmas to you and yours as well. Best DAR
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Hi Jon, Shifting my attention to the anchors, and having overlooked your methodology on the installation of rudder chains, I perused your build log first in my research on rigging ideas for the anchors. I seem to remember in another conversation, that you plan to employ three methods of displaying them. Will one of them be XKen’s approach for the bow anchors - lashing them to two brackets just forward of the channels? There seem to be as many options as builders on this. I’m not keen to strop hooks onto Syren triple blocks, so there is some appeal in omitting these altogether. just curious..
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Now that I’m looking at the photo, I think I’ll remove a few links from the chain on the port side to even things out. Thanks, Jon
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Found the chain, and used copper wire to fashion links with which to affix the chain segments to the eyebolts.
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It's academic now, Jon. I just finished rigging the anchor chains. I did revisit your posts 757 through 760, and saw that you tried to stick with the plan. I didn't see me trying to squeeze 5 eyebolts into the inch and a half or so on either side of the rudder. Also, I did like the look of the copper chain after all. I chose to cut the chain into shorter segments with open links at either end and used copper wire to reconnect the segment after passing the wire through the eyebolt. Not too dissimilar to your attaching the chain with thread. It beat the Hunt method which relied on glue to hold the chain into place on the eyebolts. It's amazing how many different ways there are to skin this cat. Tom, I would still appreciate seeing how you skinned yours. Thanks all.
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After you’ve completed your state of the Constitution assessment, might I prevail upon you to provide some photos of your rudder and rudder chain assembly? I can’t find a single photo of the aft end of Conny - at least not since you constructed the galleries. (By the way, once again, kudos on your truly excellent workmanship on those). I think I have my general approach thanks to Usedtosail’s build log, but I’m curious how you tackled this. Especially details around the outboard ends of the chains. Did you bury them in holes in the hull? Or just end them at the outboard eyebolts? Thanks
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I had to search high and low for a method to deal with the rudder chains, so, once again fired up the way-back machine and found this post from over a decade ago. I had the same issue as you, but hadn’t thought of cutting that skinny chain until I read the above. Fiddly doesn’t begin to describe this process, (I know from attempting to thread copper into the end loops), but I have my direction now. Thanks for posting this little detail. and kudos for providing the index at the beginning of your build log. Merry Christmas.
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I know this comment come waaaaaay late, but I think yours is the best example of canopy frames I've seen anywhere at MSW. I love that you managed all of this without solder. Magnificent! I may yet reconsider introducing these to my spar deck, (maybe the icing on the cake after spars and rigging are done.) the small font is my way of weaseling out if I don't.. 😁
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Maybe I'll yet find it sitting behind Conny on the workbench ala Jon. I will renew my search on Monday, when I return to the shipyard after being sidelined - yet again, this time by the flu. (shoulda got that shot in November..) This is something I thought I could easily find on Amazon, if I decide I want to pursue it, but nooo! I'll have to order the exact replacement from Model Expo. and that's only in copper. Boy, would I love to get this in gold! I do like shiny things..
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