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Hello Jakob, and a very warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. One of your problems may be that your planks are too wide for your scale. For true to scale plank widths, your planks should only be about 1.5 mm wide at as scale of 1:200. Have you read any of the articles on planking in the articles/downloads section? there are several articles on planking to choose from. You can find them here: http://modelshipworldforum.com/ship-model-framing-and-planking-articles.php John
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She's looking very neat and tidy, Popeye, as befits a top class yacht. Good on yer, mate - nearly there! John
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Bruce, I've been having a look at Kipping, Biddlecombe and Lever and none of them mention your boom (that's easier to write than bumpkin)! I've also had another random thought. If the booms were where they would presumably have had most effect in spreading the mainsail when running free, then where were the lower studding sail booms? They should have been in the same area - if she carried them. John
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Frankie, Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not trying to say that you're wrong or to put you down. The information that you've provided on Bruce's thread is quite correct, but the source that he's found is talking about a bumpkin being used in a very different way to what we're used to, and is of an earlier period than Underhill's particular area of expertise. I find that the mid 1800's is a bit of a 'black hole' with regards to rigging as it was a time of very rapid development in rigging practice and is not nearly as well documented as the periods before and after. I think it would be really helpful to Bruce if you could use your expertise to help us to understand this apparently particular and unusual use of a bumpkin to spread the foot of a sail when running free. I, for one, have never heard of this use before. Do you know of any other examples? John
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Andy, I remember many moons ago our chief engineer sailing past our anchored ship in his dinghy, shaking his fist at us and yelling, "Those newfangled stink boats will never catch on." Strange people, engineers! John
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Just catching up, Ilhan. She's really looking beautiful. The subdued colours you've used really set her off well. John
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So, as you say that your fleet has expanded by one, we are to assume that you still own the 'stink boat'? John
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Ho, hum, just another bulkhead! Sorry, Danny, but you make it look so easy to come up with that beautiful wotk. John
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Jim Lad replied to Walter Biles's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
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Ouch! She looks like she hit an oceberg, Kats! Nice fix though! John
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Wefalck, o'm just catching up with your work after not looking in for a while. Your model is looking first class - a great job on bith the construction and painting. John
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Nice looking blanks, Mark. I hope you're going to use the one that you've marked - sort of a blood sacrifice for the model! John
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Lars, A standing gaff would usually be supported by a gooseneck and, if it had anything at all, might have a length of chain to support the inner end and take some of the weight off the gooseneck fitting; however in the case of your ship, it seems to have a standing gaff that's fitted like a hoisting gaff with jaws and a throat haliard, so I would think that the throat halliard has been trated like that of a hoisring gaff, in which case it would secure to a pin about the middle of the pin rail on the starboard side. John
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