Jim Lad
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Very neat job of that complex stern area, Popeye. She's coming on well!
John
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Sorry to hear that you've run into so much trouble, Hank.
I'll be here waiting for updates when you get it sorted out.
John
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Yes, a masterpiece!
John
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That's a very nice grapnel!
John
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Tom,
I don't think it matters that you can't actually read the lettering on the telegraph - the effect is still there!
John
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Beautiful work on the dyke, Wefalck - it's very realistic!
John
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Another Danny expert fix coming up!
John
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Absolutely delightful work, Danny!
John
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Ummm, Michael, can you get her out of the door of your workshop, or will the topmast be sent down for transportation?
John
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Great shots of your horse in the great outdoors, Andy!
John
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Popeye - yes, mate. The straight side of the stock should be at the top.
John
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An interesting looking 'thingy', Lars - I have no idea what it is!
John
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Looking good so far, Grant. As Augie says, watch the tighter bends - you may have to do a two stage bending process as you get towards the ends of the boat.
John
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Mobbsie,
Take care mate - you only have a limited supply of fingers!
John
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Andy,
Memo for your next model; according to Lees the deadeyes would be correct, but the hearts look good anyway!
The rose lashing is merely a little short of rose. if you were really demented, you could try making a rose shape and just tucking it under the seizing.
John
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Nearly done with the planking, Mario! She's looking good.
John
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Very nice, Michael!
John
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Steaming (or sailing) along, Popeye. Just remember to turn the stocks of the anchors over the other way before finally fixing them!
John
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You just can't help yourself, can you Popeye! I blink and you have another fishing boat half finished!!
John
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HKC,
For a modern square rigger with wire standing rigging,
some of the main sizes (diameter in millimeters) would be as follows:
Lower shrouds: 0.33
Topmast shrouds: 0.3
Stays: 0.33
Topgallant stays:0.24
Lower braces: 0.33
Topgalland braces: 0.27
Lower lifts: 0.44
Topgallant lifts: 0.25
Other lines in proportion.
Hope that helps.
John
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Hey, Mobbsie, there seems to be a lot of talk about coppering here, but not a lot of yer actual copper plates fitted!
John
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Great stuff, Michael!
John
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A privateer was a person licenced by his Government to attack capture enemy ships and to then have them 'condemned' for sale by a marine court. If the privateer was from your own country then he was a brave and patriotic hero harrassing the enemy (for profit, of course). If the privateer was from your enemies country, then he was a 'legalised pirate'.
Of course if the colonists had lost the American Revolutionary War, then their privateers would have been hung as pirates as the British Government would have seen their licenses (called letters of marque) as worthless, having been issued by an illegal revolutionary committee.
It's all a question of where you stand!
John