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Jim Lad

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  1. It's a long drive from Florida to Bahrain for such a small ship! Now you can relax and work on the model at your leisure. John
  2. Hello Alex, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  3. Hello Scott, and a warm welcome to MSW from 'Down Under'. John
  4. Welcome home, Bug! John
  5. Nice to see you back. As a struggling would be watercolourist, I love to see these. John
  6. So she's not even commissioned as yet. No wonder she looks so well maintained! John
  7. Hello Peter, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  8. Hello Len, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  9. You've made a very nice job of those railings, Rob. Well worth the effort. John
  10. Kevin, according to Underhill, the multiple backstays are treated in exactly the same way as shrouds. John
  11. Hello Richard, and a warm welcome to the forum from down in Sydney. A beautiful and a tragic ship! That looks a very fine model you're building of her. A mate of mine was master of the Lytellton ocean rescue tug at the time of the Wahine disaster and they were on standby to sail up to Wellington to assist if required. I remember him telling me that his wife was begging him not to go because of the severity of the weather and he saying that he told her that they were a rescue tug and their reason for existence was to rescue ships and people. He also said that they were actually very relieved when they were told they weren't needed - he said, "I'm not sure we would have got as far as Wellington in those seas." John John
  12. Hello, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  13. Hello Ugo, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  14. Just found your log, Cyclops. That's a very nice job of planking you've done. John
  15. Is there anything that says that the tackles have to be singles, Patrick? Could one of them be a gun tackle? jOHN
  16. Hello John, and a warm welcome to MSW from 'Down Under'. John
  17. Hello Reg, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'. John
  18. Pat, could those blocks be rigged a la 'Stag's' running backstays? An arrangement I've not seen anywhere else, but confirmed by a contemporary painting? John
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