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druxey

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  1. Looks pretty good to me. Would the aft end of 'Deadwood 5' have a lip rather than taper to a point?
  2. There you go! Thank you so much for offering to help Steven out, Dick. This is another wonderful way in which MSW can work.
  3. Perhaps one of your Aussie model compatriots with a miniature saw could volunteer to cut planking stock accurately for you? (I know that Oz is very strict about importing wood or other vegetable matter).
  4. Another thought, Mark: how would an 'all single' framing pattern fit? The station line frames would have an air space in the plane of the station line.
  5. Jaager: Fillings between frames to the flooorheads was to provide a level surface to the limber channels and pumps. Otherwise water would pool in the air spaces near the keel and rot out the bottom. This was usual practice in British naval vessels. In merchant ships limber holes were notched into the underside of the floor frames close to the keel for water to drain to the pumps.
  6. Persistence will pay off, eventually! Sorry about your sweeping incident, though. I hate it when that sort of thing happens.
  7. I think, until marine archaeologists find Royal Caroline, that you are perfectly safe with doubles throughout!
  8. Much nicer looking catheads, Maury. Now the crew won't trip over them, either!
  9. I agree that ships of the line had the frame bends/filling frames arrangement described, but this does not seem always to have been the case with smaller vessels such as Royal Caroline. I would be cautious about projecting large warship practice on a smaller non-fighting vessel.
  10. This is a substantial model! I applaud your intention to restore her well.
  11. Lovely work, Ed. Have you tried using curved needles used for suturing?
  12. Perhaps this will muddy the waters, but I've marked some possible interpretations: 1. Fore Royal Stay 2. Fore Top Gallant Stay 3. Outer Jib Stay 4. Fore Topmast Stays (x 2) 5. Fore Stays (x 2) 6. Fore Royal Stay (starboard side of martingale) 7. Fore Topgallant Stay (port side of martingale) 8. Martingale Stay (chain) 9. Outer Jib Stay (starboard side of martingale)? 10. TBD Outer jibsail downhaul? 11. Fore Topmast Staysail Downhaul (leads aft and through bulwark fairlead at bow)? 12. TBD (x 2) Lead-in of lines 9 and 10? 13. Martingale backstays (x 2) - chain 14. Fore Staysail Downhaul - leads aft over vertical whiskers? Why two?? Are these perhaps man-ropes (hand-lines)? 15. Jib Sheets (aft via cathead whiskers - outer fairlead)? 16. Fore Topmast Staysail Sheets 17. TBD 18. Fore Staysail Sheets 19. TBD (possibly guys but nor extended forward?) I hope this is of some use, or at least food for thought.
  13. Beautifully done, Johann. Like Michael, I also appreciate your extended lathe bed idea!
  14. Amazingly fine work as usual! Too bad that some of this will be hidden.
  15. Nicely executed, steamschooner!
  16. Whoever makes your open boats does a beautiful job. Your lost wax castings are first class, Alex.
  17. It would be helpful to know how long you could make the vessel. Now it appears to be too symmetrical in side view and short.
  18. Well, Grice is contemporary and is your primary source, whereas you'd already found a problem with your secondary sources and the pumps. Now, whom do you consider the more reliable witness? I rest my case, m'lud. Even if there were catheads present, they would have been a simple inverted L shape, not Z shaped. (See the Cheerful cutter logs). As for anchor recovery, they would move and drag until they caught the anchor. At that point they would not be moving anywhere until the anchor broke ground!
  19. I think you pretty well have it, Pete. The 'mouse' is a small lashing across the open end of the hook (which is why its tip is recurved) to prevent the ring detaching.
  20. Enjoy your new spaces, Dave!
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