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  1. captainbob
    You sure have that right. I'm trying to build a couple for the Pequot. Yours are great. Bob
  2. captainbob
    Coming along very nicely. Bob
  3. captainbob
    Great job Piet. I can just imagine that the schooner in the water has just slid down the ways and another being built. Are you going to be able to show workmen at this scale?
  4. captainbob
    Ben, I like the new interior better than the old one. From one who used to live on a boat, It seems more livable. For cutting curves, I still use a Craftsman scroll saw that I bought used some 25 years ago. Bob
  5. captainbob
    And you keep adding more detail . . . and more . . . and more . . . and Bob
  6. captainbob
    If the winch was for the lifeboats wouldn't there be one at each boat? Bob
  7. captainbob
    Thanks Ben, glad to see you're back. Bob
  8. captainbob
    Getting a PE license in a lot of hard work. Congratulations ! Bob
  9. captainbob
    I use this type of epoxy from any of the craft stores. I put a tiny drop of each on a piece of aluminum foil and mix with a toothpick. Then I apply it to the part with the toothpick and mount the part. I leave the mixed epoxy on my bench and when it is set I know the part I attached is finished. Bob
  10. captainbob
    The prop rudder area looks great. What is the white filler you used to shape those curves? Bob
  11. captainbob
    Have fun. Hope to see you when you get back. Bob
  12. captainbob
    Patrick, I love the giant wall murals. The two ladies, the mother and baby and the flowers, Fantastic! Bob
  13. captainbob
    She's looking better all the time. I hope someday to do as well. Bob
  14. captainbob
    She looks better all the time. Please finish her I've run out of words of praise. Bob
  15. captainbob
    I once saw a model off the SPRAY in a bottle where he put a globe in the glass stopper. Bob
  16. captainbob
    I agree, Steamschooner. "I's all those little details that bring it to life". Now, like you, it's time for the ships boats. Hope I do as good as you. Thanks Patrick, it was, all the "heaps of charm and character" that made me want to build this boat. Thank you all for the "likes". Bob
  17. captainbob
    Thanks Nils, I have the blades for the two props cut out but not soldered to the hub. The props and rudder may be the last things to go onto the ship. Bob
  18. captainbob
    Joel, I have a hand drill that I have used for making cable many times. Thanks. Bob
  19. captainbob
    It’s time to start some rigging. The mast is a brass tube with a wooden tapered piece on top. The boom mount is plastic as are the nav. light mounts. The nav. lights are brass tubing with clear tubbing inside and a colored stick inside that to show red or white. The foredeck parts are in place so I could mount the boom crutch and measure for the boom. The Pequot website gave good plans for the ship as made but the modifications after she was transferred to the Coast Guard were never documented. So when it comes to details most of it has to come from the pictures. I just noticed, looking at the pictures, that although the drawings show portholes (lights) in the hull they do not show in any of the pictures. Now I have to go back and fill them and repaint the hull. Ah well. Bob
  20. captainbob
    Nice workshop, nice boat. Bob
  21. captainbob
    I'm reminded of the sleeping platform in the concentration camps. Bob
  22. captainbob
    Henry, Jud, Frankie, Thanks for the answer. In the pictures on the Pequot website there are indeed turnbuckles at the bottom of the shrouds. They look to be about six feet long or twice the height of the bulwark. The ends of the ratboards are round, about 1.5 inches in diameter. So now all I have to do is make some steel cable. Thanks again. Bob
  23. captainbob
    She's beautiful and I'm getting anxious for the christening, there can't be much more to do. Bob
  24. captainbob
    She looks good. Well done. Bob
  25. captainbob
    I am building a model of the Pequot. Built in the early 1940's for the Navy she was turned over to the Coast Guard soon after her launch. What has me confused is the shrouds and ratlines. When I look closely at the pictures showing men standing in the rigging I do not see any deflection of the shrouds or ratlines and the ends of the ratlines are like the end of rods, they are not knotted. When I do a Google search, Shrouds and ratlines are only mentioned as rope no sailing ships. When I try to narrow the search to WW II steel ships, shrouds and ratlines are not mentioned in tables of terminology. So the question. Were the shrouds and ratlines made of welded steel rod rather than rope? And what were they called in the Navy? Bob

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