Jim Lad

My revenue cutter 'Stag' has four ports on each side plus the bow ports.  While researching for the model I found a newspaper report from several years after she was built stating that the 'Stag's' armament had been increased to six guns.  So as Druxey says, the number of ports doesn't necessarily indicate the number of guns.
 
John

Thanks, Bob.
 
John

Take care of that shin, Michael - not a lot of depth of skin to aid healing around there!
 
John

Take care of that shin, Michael - not a lot of depth of skin to aid healing around there!
 
John

Back from some time in England looking after my ailing mother-in-law and back at work on the 'Pritt'.  Not much more done at the moment, but at least the upper deadeyes have been seized in so I can really go ahead with the rigging now.
 
ne disappointment on returning to the museum was to discover that the staff had decided to clean the model makers' display cabinet and on moving the 'Pritt' out to clean the cabinet they managed to lose the boom crutch that had been completed and was sitting on the cabin top awaiting fitting.
 
The photos show the minor progress that has been made.
 
John
 



 

Now that the boats for the 'Herzogin Cecilie' are finished, I can finally get back to work on the 'Pritt'.  I've finished the iron work for the masts and the masts are now fitted.  When fitting masts I use a tiny dab of glue on the mast coat that touched only the mast and the deck, so that removing the masts (if ever required) is just a matter of cutting away the mast coat, while in the meantime the masts are held securely.
 
I had held back on fitting the masts as I hadn't been able to figure out from the photos the form of the spreaders that support the topmast shrouds, but a close ponder over a very highly magnified enlargement of the foremast had revealed that the spreaders are iron rods with holes in the end that are fixed to an additional mast band, so these have now been fitted.  By the way, I'm not quite sure why the 'Pritt' had these upper shrouds.  They're attached right at the top of the mast, but that's not really very far above the main shrouds and the 'Pritt' is the only pearler I've ever seen that has them fitted.  She's also the only pearler I've ever seen with the running stays on both masts, as well, so perhaps she was sailed very hard at some time in her life and needed the extra support for the masts.
 
The photos below show the model with the masts fitted and some of the standing rigging over the mast heads.  The third photo is a close up of the mainmast with the spaghetti of partially installed rigging and the spreaders.
 
John
 

 

 

 
 

Take care of that shin, Michael - not a lot of depth of skin to aid healing around there!
 
John

Back from some time in England looking after my ailing mother-in-law and back at work on the 'Pritt'.  Not much more done at the moment, but at least the upper deadeyes have been seized in so I can really go ahead with the rigging now.
 
ne disappointment on returning to the museum was to discover that the staff had decided to clean the model makers' display cabinet and on moving the 'Pritt' out to clean the cabinet they managed to lose the boom crutch that had been completed and was sitting on the cabin top awaiting fitting.
 
The photos show the minor progress that has been made.
 
John
 



 

Back from some time in England looking after my ailing mother-in-law and back at work on the 'Pritt'.  Not much more done at the moment, but at least the upper deadeyes have been seized in so I can really go ahead with the rigging now.
 
ne disappointment on returning to the museum was to discover that the staff had decided to clean the model makers' display cabinet and on moving the 'Pritt' out to clean the cabinet they managed to lose the boom crutch that had been completed and was sitting on the cabin top awaiting fitting.
 
The photos show the minor progress that has been made.
 
John
 



 

Back from some time in England looking after my ailing mother-in-law and back at work on the 'Pritt'.  Not much more done at the moment, but at least the upper deadeyes have been seized in so I can really go ahead with the rigging now.
 
ne disappointment on returning to the museum was to discover that the staff had decided to clean the model makers' display cabinet and on moving the 'Pritt' out to clean the cabinet they managed to lose the boom crutch that had been completed and was sitting on the cabin top awaiting fitting.
 
The photos show the minor progress that has been made.
 
John
 



 

Now that the boats for the 'Herzogin Cecilie' are finished, I can finally get back to work on the 'Pritt'.  I've finished the iron work for the masts and the masts are now fitted.  When fitting masts I use a tiny dab of glue on the mast coat that touched only the mast and the deck, so that removing the masts (if ever required) is just a matter of cutting away the mast coat, while in the meantime the masts are held securely.
 
I had held back on fitting the masts as I hadn't been able to figure out from the photos the form of the spreaders that support the topmast shrouds, but a close ponder over a very highly magnified enlargement of the foremast had revealed that the spreaders are iron rods with holes in the end that are fixed to an additional mast band, so these have now been fitted.  By the way, I'm not quite sure why the 'Pritt' had these upper shrouds.  They're attached right at the top of the mast, but that's not really very far above the main shrouds and the 'Pritt' is the only pearler I've ever seen that has them fitted.  She's also the only pearler I've ever seen with the running stays on both masts, as well, so perhaps she was sailed very hard at some time in her life and needed the extra support for the masts.
 
The photos below show the model with the masts fitted and some of the standing rigging over the mast heads.  The third photo is a close up of the mainmast with the spaghetti of partially installed rigging and the spreaders.
 
John
 

 

 

 
 

Thanks Popeye.
 
Mum-in-law has early stage dementia, so no hope of real improvement, I'm afraid.
 
As for the crutch, I made it early as it's a bit of a tricky fit into the tow rail, so I did it prior to fixing the mizzen mast while there was plenty of room to play with it.
 
John

Good grief!   I assume that drawer will stay open on the completed model?
 
John

Just because it's a work area doesn't mean it has to look rough, Popeye!
 
A very nicely constructed fish box.
 
John

Back from some time in England looking after my ailing mother-in-law and back at work on the 'Pritt'.  Not much more done at the moment, but at least the upper deadeyes have been seized in so I can really go ahead with the rigging now.
 
ne disappointment on returning to the museum was to discover that the staff had decided to clean the model makers' display cabinet and on moving the 'Pritt' out to clean the cabinet they managed to lose the boom crutch that had been completed and was sitting on the cabin top awaiting fitting.
 
The photos show the minor progress that has been made.
 
John
 



 

Back from some time in England looking after my ailing mother-in-law and back at work on the 'Pritt'.  Not much more done at the moment, but at least the upper deadeyes have been seized in so I can really go ahead with the rigging now.
 
ne disappointment on returning to the museum was to discover that the staff had decided to clean the model makers' display cabinet and on moving the 'Pritt' out to clean the cabinet they managed to lose the boom crutch that had been completed and was sitting on the cabin top awaiting fitting.
 
The photos show the minor progress that has been made.
 
John
 



 

Now that the boats for the 'Herzogin Cecilie' are finished, I can finally get back to work on the 'Pritt'.  I've finished the iron work for the masts and the masts are now fitted.  When fitting masts I use a tiny dab of glue on the mast coat that touched only the mast and the deck, so that removing the masts (if ever required) is just a matter of cutting away the mast coat, while in the meantime the masts are held securely.
 
I had held back on fitting the masts as I hadn't been able to figure out from the photos the form of the spreaders that support the topmast shrouds, but a close ponder over a very highly magnified enlargement of the foremast had revealed that the spreaders are iron rods with holes in the end that are fixed to an additional mast band, so these have now been fitted.  By the way, I'm not quite sure why the 'Pritt' had these upper shrouds.  They're attached right at the top of the mast, but that's not really very far above the main shrouds and the 'Pritt' is the only pearler I've ever seen that has them fitted.  She's also the only pearler I've ever seen with the running stays on both masts, as well, so perhaps she was sailed very hard at some time in her life and needed the extra support for the masts.
 
The photos below show the model with the masts fitted and some of the standing rigging over the mast heads.  The third photo is a close up of the mainmast with the spaghetti of partially installed rigging and the spreaders.
 
John
 

 

 

 
 

Just because it's a work area doesn't mean it has to look rough, Popeye!
 
A very nicely constructed fish box.
 
John

Thanks Popeye.
 
Mum-in-law has early stage dementia, so no hope of real improvement, I'm afraid.
 
As for the crutch, I made it early as it's a bit of a tricky fit into the tow rail, so I did it prior to fixing the mizzen mast while there was plenty of room to play with it.
 
John

Good grief!   I assume that drawer will stay open on the completed model?
 
John

Back from some time in England looking after my ailing mother-in-law and back at work on the 'Pritt'.  Not much more done at the moment, but at least the upper deadeyes have been seized in so I can really go ahead with the rigging now.
 
ne disappointment on returning to the museum was to discover that the staff had decided to clean the model makers' display cabinet and on moving the 'Pritt' out to clean the cabinet they managed to lose the boom crutch that had been completed and was sitting on the cabin top awaiting fitting.
 
The photos show the minor progress that has been made.
 
John
 



 

Back from some time in England looking after my ailing mother-in-law and back at work on the 'Pritt'.  Not much more done at the moment, but at least the upper deadeyes have been seized in so I can really go ahead with the rigging now.
 
ne disappointment on returning to the museum was to discover that the staff had decided to clean the model makers' display cabinet and on moving the 'Pritt' out to clean the cabinet they managed to lose the boom crutch that had been completed and was sitting on the cabin top awaiting fitting.
 
The photos show the minor progress that has been made.
 
John
 



 

Just because it's a work area doesn't mean it has to look rough, Popeye!
 
A very nicely constructed fish box.
 
John

Back from some time in England looking after my ailing mother-in-law and back at work on the 'Pritt'.  Not much more done at the moment, but at least the upper deadeyes have been seized in so I can really go ahead with the rigging now.
 
ne disappointment on returning to the museum was to discover that the staff had decided to clean the model makers' display cabinet and on moving the 'Pritt' out to clean the cabinet they managed to lose the boom crutch that had been completed and was sitting on the cabin top awaiting fitting.
 
The photos show the minor progress that has been made.
 
John
 



 

Just because it's a work area doesn't mean it has to look rough, Popeye!
 
A very nicely constructed fish box.
 
John