Jim Lad

Ready for wood chips, Tim.  If you add the rudder as a separate piece there'll be a nice joint line marking the division between stern post and rudder.

John

Well, they must be moose antlers, Mark - wombats don't have antlers.

John

Coming along very nicely, Toni!

John

Just like a bought one, Danny!

John

Danny the blacksmith!    Nice job, mate.

John

Slightly different colour, Bob!

John

When I saw the photo of the stern I winced, but you've make a very good job of the repair (repair, what repair?).

And yes, the Science Museum has ditched its shipping collection if favour of a display of mobile phones!!!!

John

Tom,

The Vinal Haven looks really sweet with the extra deck added - and that's a great photo of you and your daughter.

John

Tom,

This all happened while I was away on holidays.

That model has loads of character - what a great project.

John

A dragon class yacht with cannon?  

John

Looking really good so far Augie.  How are you going to protect those antlers (sorry, uprights) from potential damage?

John

Glad to hear that you're having such a good time in Pommyland, Grant!

John

Aha!  The spiders are at work at last!

John

Take your time, Andy, we'll still be waiting patiently (well, most of us will be patient!  ).

John

Jay,

Pig iron billets in the bottom would definitely help!  As the Revenue cutters were only supposed to come into port for stores or repairs, their crews would certainly get a lot of sailing practice.  The square sails were rigged so that they could be brought down very quickly!

John

One tug coming up!

John

Augie,

Keeping her in the water was probably pretty easy, but I still don't know how they kept he upright! 

I found a newspaper report that said that Stag had won the annual cutter race again.  The tone of the report sounded a bit like - well, what else would you expect! 

For those who didn't see it in the original log, here's a re post of the painting of Stag under sail and chasing what looks to be a French lugger.

John

Very realistic ratlines, Ilhan.  I tried using the 'card behind the shroud' method for the ratlines on my Stag model and found it works like a charm!

John

Hey, Mobbsie, I forgot to tell you - in more refined circles we don't say, "Bob's your uncle," we say, "Robert's your parent's sibling."

John

Popeye,

I haven't had a problem with archive quality markers - it should be fine.

John

PS.  If there is a problem we can all blame Danny - I'm pretty sure it was originally his idea!  

Hello guy, and a very warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'.  Sounds like you're a big fan of JRR Tolkien!

If your hull is sound and the planking hasn't opened up, why not continue your Bluenose from where you left off?

John

So do we assume that the next one will be 1:96 Ed?   I'm looking forward to seeing you going into full frame production.

John

Hamilton,

Bit of a pain to do, but you probably will need to make a grommet (continuous loop like a quoit) considerably larger than the diameter of the bowsprit and then seize the four eyes into it.  If you form each eye in turn with your fingers and then clamp the eye while you seize it, it should be doable.

John

There you go, Popeye!  Nothing to it (well, almost)!

John

Jay,

Stag was built in a private yard at Cowes on the Isle of Wight for the Revenue Service.  She was the fastest cutter of her day and in 1839 the Royal Navy took her into Portsmouth Dock and drew up a set of plans for her - I'm guessing they wanted one the same because of her speed.  It was just a happy accident that the cutter that they drew up such detailed plans for was the one I wanted to build.

John