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Mowzer
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This is all great news. I’m already clearing my schedule for 2029. Credit card at the ready, I’m Royal George order no 0001. In the meantime, we can hone our skills ready for the flagship build with Surprise, Agamemnon and Ty- I mean, “mystery Restoration Era warship”.
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Has everyone else picked up on the most exciting thing from the interview... the prospect of a Royal George? I'm sure I'm not the only one who's disappointed that Chris's Amati 1/64 Victory never made it to market- I hardly dare bring the subject up- but it feels like Amati shelved the project in the manner of the store manager who bangs his fist on the counter and yells to the customer, "for the hundredth time today! there's no demand for it!" But if we all want a project for the future to aspire to, I'd guess a Vanguard Royal George might make the even the best current Victory model look like a coracle. My credit card trigger finger is getting itchy already.
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In my defence, I think this next photo puts the pinrail more into context (ie it can't really be seen). I still wish I'd been able to belay all my ropes properly though. I'll keep avidly following your build log here, so I can see how it should have been done. Still more work to do on mine, however.
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You've made a beautiful job of that pinrail, you'll be glad of all those pins later on. To be fair, when the rest of the deck parts and rigging are in place- it's quite hard to see that rail. However, with only the recommended 6 belaying pins, my Beagle's "Captain's Choice" ended up being fixing the ropes wherever he could find a fixing, and maybe just glueing some excess ropes onto the belaying pins. I took a photo which was intended to show that you can't really see that pinrail once you've added the mast and sails, but, in fact, a bit of macro photography with a flash clearly shows my Captain's Bodge Choice of CA glue- along with the remaining fuzz on the Occre ropes (which beeswax didn't fully resolve) and an unexpected number of cat hairs on board too.
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Can I offer a suggestion to head off a future problem with occre’s plans? You’ve made a beautiful pinrail near the mast to hold the six belaying pins as per the plans. However, later on, occre will want you to put fourteen (!!!) rigging ropes on those six pins… but your upgraded rail has room for more pins….
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I'm coming to the end of my Beagle build, and I can only confirm that the instructions get worse the further you go. When we get to the rigging, the paper instructions are completely wrong and omit essential connection points, the video instructions for the same ropes don't make it clear what goes where, but firmly contradict the paper instruction, but at least there's an option on the box photo showing a third way to get it wrong. As an "entry level" model for Occre, I'm amazing anyone ever buys another of their kits after their experience of this one.
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