Jim Lad

Well done, Steven.

John

The instruction re the house flag is also incorrect. House flags in these ships were usually flown from the peak of the foremast on a halliard either gigged to a small sheave embedded in the mast or a small block lashed near the peak.

John

Nice looking anchor, Nils.

John

Very nicely constructed, Keith.

John

All up to your usual standard, Chuck.

John

Good solution, Nils. Those sorts of areas aren't easy.

John

Excellent progress, mate!

John

It doesn't have to be a big ship to cause havoc. In 1975 the 7,272 gross ton SS 'Lake Illawarra' brought down the Tasman Bridge over the Derwent River, near Hobart. Unfortunately, 7 of the crew and 5 people in cars on the bridge died. The Master was found to have not handled his ship in a proper and seamanlike manner!

John

SS Lake Illawarra

The damaged bridge just after the collission. The headlights of two cars teetering on the edge can be seen.

Mark, there's an Ozzie native tree that's known as 'boxwood', because (you guessed it) it was commonly used for making boxes!

John

Nice of you to do it for him, Steven.

John

She looks like a ship now she's on her stand, Nils.

John

Thanks, Gary!

John

She certainly has 'presence'. Keither, even though she's small.

John

You've gotta love the funnels on some of these early steamboats!

John

Very nice 'blacksmithing', Keith.

John

A great idea to leave all the extraneous detail unobtrusive, Chuck.

John

Ingenious indeed! Looking forward to watching her progress.

John

Your scrapers work really well, Nils.

John

Hello Wayne, and a warm welcome to the forum from up in Sydney.

John

Welcome back, Scott!

John

Hello Robert, and a warm welcome to the forum from across the ditch!

John

I've been fiddling with making 'raw' deck beams for the past couple of visits to the museum. The model will need to come home shortly to have some finish applied to the inside of the hull, but in the meantime, I can make the beams ready to start chopping some of them up where deck structures will intrude so that things can progress after the model comes home.

This is how she looks at the moment with the beams so far made temporarily fitted in place.

John

Going really well, Nils.

John

You have the photographic proof that that's the way she was rigged, so go for it. As for the lack of shrouds on the mizzen mast, in his book "Grain race", Eric Newby describes his horror at having to 'shinny' up the stays of the topgallant masts as they had no ratlines, so evidently not an unusual thing.

John

Coming along nicely, Steven.

John