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    Vivian, Welcome back - !!!! Regards,
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    Excellent work with your sails especially the sewing and needle work. Scaling looks great indeed. Cheers,
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    Patrick, Thanks for sharing- interesting twist on historical fixed business costs of that day. Bottom lines, including labor costs, were even then certainly important. Would be also interesting to understand how the Dutch could reduce on-board required crews by 60% for the same type of vessels, how the English, by comparison kept their ships much more complicated to operate.
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    EJ thanks, as always, for your thoughts and analysis. The Dutch were certainly playing “catch-up” to the English and French of their time. I would also imagine that countries with royalties were not “open” to following possibly enemies’ better build protocols. And certainly these countries were also very ethnocentric as well. And as you mentioned so were the shipbuilders themselves. With regard to ship captains it reminded me of reading somewhere that certain new ships, once away from land, would be ordered by their captains to “loose” some of the heavy gilding in order to increase their speeds while on duty. This may be only a tale – but seems as if it would be a good idea. Much of these heavily gilded galleries were certainly for the “eyes”. Regarding the Vasa – it was certainly, as you mentioned, rushed near its completion in order to be available for the Royal launch; Hocker, as well as others write of this in their Vasa books as well. Certainly part of the reason she sank. So, yes these catharpins certainly were not fitted, if indeed they were even intended to be part of Vasa’s rigging. It appears as if, and Popeye mentioned this in an earlier post, “who knows how she was really fitted”. Those fore and mainmast knighthead brace pins come to mind – again –the 1/10th differs from the original in this regard, along with the catharpins. My dilemma was actually one of trying to improve my skills with rigging with these complicated looking little “things”; I thought that I would give them a whirl. I still have not decided (maybe one more pour will help!) PS: The best of these that I have ever seen were on B.E’s build log (Pegasus)– amazing work. About 150+years later in design –and much more complicated to replicate. Again thanks for your thoughts. Cheers,
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    Hi Mates, Reaching a sort of dilemma. Thinking of also rigging catharpins. So went to my files and saw these two jpg’s. Both of the 1/10th (early and completed versions) Both have lower catherpins added to main lower shrouds in different forms. So went to Anderson – it seems that the 1/10th (completed) is using an “English design” from the early 1600s. Hmmm?? The Dutch, according to Anderson, did not use these for the lower shrouds, but were limited to only English ships – or so it seems – until later. Well it would be much extra work (I would rig them English style with the blocks) Looks nicer ha..BUT--- It is Sat – so I will enjoy a Single Malt and think about it for tomorrow, or not.... Cheers,
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    Mark, Yes with work of this high quality Chuck's blocks ARE indeed "required". Cheers,
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    Anton, Just catching up - nice progress looking good.
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    Popeye, thanks encouraging indeed. Yes exclusive of the hull and its details, the rest is indeed a bit of a mystery. Certainly of most ships up to the late 1600s. Then it got all more "modern" with plans and all that were repeated over and over again. Along with technical and operating improvements with each new build. Dave - thanks as well. When I complete the rest of the standing rigging I will post some photos - I have a lot of evenings now totally open for seat-time. The Admiral knows that she cannot "interfere" during Dodger games ha ha (I do, however, go into sports hibernation when Dodgers are off season - and wake back up in April each year) (:-) Mates - as always thanks for dropping by - always appreciated !! Cheers,
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    woodo, Thanks - kind of you to say as much. There have been discussions (many) about the accuracy of the Vasa kits available. Corel is well entrenched at the bottom of the list as it fails in so many areas. For-all-intents-and-purposes I've pretty much had to "bash" this kit, and it still misses, compared to other kits available.... That said the ship is certainly very pleasant to look at (the Vasa), along with the thousands of photos available it certainly is "doo-able" indeed. I started this Corel way before I knew what I was doing and before I joined MSW - where I got my sea legs, with learning curves that were very steep (still learning) woodo thanks for dropping by and posting, very nice of you. Cheers,
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    woodo, I was actually trying to think of a proper response for the Admiral. And you are right, what's wrong with that? - indeed. In fact whatever she needed will arrive back home sooner than she could have expected. Win win - I think... Funny thanks! Cheers
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    Nice work going forward. Interesting idea of comparing Dutch and French building of the same era - Anderson, as you know, does a lot of those same comparisons as well - including the English. Fun learning all of this. Your post regarding yard rigging changes is very interesting... Cheers,
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    Mark, As always very nice work. Rudder chains nice "tweak" !!
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    Nice work - YES those scarf joints are really nice.
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    Popeye - thanks – still lot’s of learning going on – rigging is a new adventure for me. Getting it right is hit-and-miss. Patrick – Autobahn is certainly an adventure – 124 mph - nice ! Thanks for your kind words as well. From what I read that might be a speed at which you see flashing bright lights behind you – asking you to Get Out Of The Way - ha ha EJ – good use of a runway - Glad that my mistakes are helpful. Glad to share. I’ve learned so much from members here; all reciprocal indeed. ------------------ That M3 experience was super-intense. I’ve been a car nut since HS. Always drove sort of “sport type cars”. Had a Supra, two Eclipse GSXs (their only all wheel drive variant for that marque). My current is a 350Z – it will prob, be my last “real” car, prob my fave of all the cars that I have had. All of which have had standard trannies. I’d love an F Type Jag but can’t afford it. And as my wife says, “what are you going to do with it, race on the way to Wholefoods, and Costco? Cheers,
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    Hi Mates, Update in same area of work. This side took a long time. As you all know it is very repetitive work; now onto the starboard side. Though I am wanting to go “somewhere else “next. Then realized that the next work bit will be the yards (and the sewing class for the sails) –so more ratlines in my future indeed. Nonetheless I feel that I have actually really moved forward (for me) though I will never be able to keep up with some “Ferrari Speed” builders here at MSW. Mates – thanks for kindly still following along. Photos speak for themselves (what did I learn?) so I won’t add redundant thoughts here J PS: Thinking of speed my son treated me to this experience last week; BMW Performance Driving School. Sharing 2 pics. Just shy of 130 mph on the long straightaway parts of the track in a “bells and whistles” equipped M3… OK back to the 16th Century Ha ha… As always, Cheers mates
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    That was VERY funny indeed. CHEERS
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    E.J Nice catch indeed.
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    Jan, Nice to see that your shipyard is employed again. Welcome back to work indeed. Cheers,
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    Pucko, More of the same info. This from the Museum plans set. Members notices seem correct, odd that you would receive this type of template. Nice update - good luck with your "cutout" decisions ----
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    Anton, Great work, you're build is coming along very nicely. Your research will certainly also pay off as well. Excellent work on your gun deck openings. I sure wish that I had learned that before - (for my current build) - too late now. But how to do the openings correctly is now in my memory bank (:-) Cheers,
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    praise and honor received for an achievement. les lauriers I think that this is the French translation. Though in your country German is also very common as well as Dutch.
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    Dennis, Just catching up to your great build - nice indeed.
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    Patrick, Really enjoy following along- great build. Your level of research is also impressive - kudos.... Cheers,
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    OK so is it a tossup between cakes and ships xoxo
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    Anton, Just saw your current build as it came up...Nice start- looking to be very good indeed. Will also follow along from dry-dock. Cheers,

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