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  • Birthday 10/20/1961

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  1. Mark, beautiful work as usual, if the winch bases are just circular I can run them up on the lathe for you so you can tin the lot properly.
  2. You've brought her such a long way John, she'll wait, enjoy the break and I'm hoping all goes well with the treatment.
  3. Yeah, it's all just opportunities to learn isn't it? Love the lines of old tugs and I'm interested to see what this new build of which you speak will entail.
  4. Eberhard, while I have no knowledge of the vessel type you're building I have sailed on Bark Endeavour which has a skylight in the deck just forward of the wheel and while it doesn't interfere with the operation of the wheel it does have a wooden grate over it. I know a lot of ships had wooden grates for the helmsman to stand on to give better grip on a drier surface so maybe that's the answer.
  5. I hear you John but as I often say, "It's not the mistake that matters, it's how you deal with it" On my Royal Caroline build I swung around with the vacuum cleaner and broke the shrouds away from 2 dead eyes on the port mizzen shrouds. Walked away for over a year while I built my full size sail boat but recently decided the best fix was to completely remake that whole shroud assembly.
  6. This might be useless info in this case since you don't want to buy new stock but something to keep in mind. When I made the 1:8 scale Tammie Norrie I used 0.8mm birch ply for the strakes. You can cut it with a decent pair of scissors and get perfect edges. That model suffered a warped backbone too but it's the fix that matters.
  7. Another beautiful Ranger there Mark, she's coming together very nicely, but then I've seen your other one so no surprises there!
  8. Ah yes, the mindless tedium of ratlines! She's coming up very nicely John
  9. I think a lot of us have been brought undone by the water content of PVA, I know I have, had to pull the bottom off my mahogany runabout model and redo from scratch! These things keep our minds active, figuring out solutions is an important skill.
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