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  1. Hi Rowan

    I can relate to your frustration with the AL plans and the run if the wales. The AL Endeavour that I built from their plans and instructions has issues with the transom and run of the main wale, which is one of the reasons I wanted to build another Endeavour - to get the lines right. It became a bit of an obsession with my current build so I got hold of all the reference material I could lay my hands on, including the original draughts, and spent hours thinking it through and measuring and looking at all that and paintings and models from the 18th century.

    I still got the main wale a little bit wrong even though I measured its position so carefully based on the original draughts.

    It's a pity that the MSW crashed and my earlier posts were lost , I went into great detail on how I got the transom to "work"

    Anyway keep up the good work, she's looking pretty good

    Steve

  2. Today I spent a couple of hours making another anchor. I used 5/32" brass rod and some flat brass strip for the palms. Lots of filing to get the shape right and soldered together. When I finish this one I will have the sheet anchor, best bower and small bower. Two to go - the smaller stream anchor and kedge anchor.

     

    Cheers

    Steve

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  3. OOPS! made a huge mistake, well not that huge - a couple of mm.

    I spent a fair bit of time on the weekend making another one of the anchors. I bought a Caldercraft anchor that is 74mm long to use as the small bower anchor, the other anchor I had already made is the sheet or best bower anchor which is slightly larger at 76.5mm long. Then I looked at the drawing in Ray Parkin's book I have been using as a reference and noticed the diagram is of the small bower anchor. So the small bower anchor should be the one that is 76.5mm and the sheet anchor and best bower anchor should be 78.6mm long. So both anchors are a little bit smaller than they should be by a couple of millimetres. I am the only one who will notice so I will leave them as they are.

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  4. Hi Dave,

    Thanks for the compliment. It's a pity all the earlier posts were lost when this site crashed last year, so my log on here now starts when most of the hull work was done. I still have all the earlier pics on my PC so if you want to look at any of the earlier work let me know. This is my second Endeavour, I built the AL endeavour a while ago, and my third wooden ship. You will find plenty of help on this site, if you post a question on your log someone will give you the answer or helpful advice pretty quickly.

    Actually I'm a beer man!

     

    Cheers

    Steve

  5. Been busy this weekend made the rest of the futtock deadeyes, I used copper wire to make them then filled them in with solder and filed them flat and drilled the hole for the hook.

    I finished off the foremast and top, added the block for the main topmast stay. Now to finish the main mast and top.

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  6. Hi Mike

     

    I am not serving the small blocks - too much detail that can't be seen, too difficult to do properly, I use black linen thread (see pic). I am serving the larger blocks and hearts, I have a serving machine that I bought off Alexey Domanoff, it works really good. I just use hemp coloured sewing cotton for serving.

     

    Steve

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  7. Hi Mike

     

    Just found the answer to your question. Open hearts are used where the collar is above the jibboom, like on the Victory (pic of My Vic below)

    The collars on the Endeavour are not above the jibboom so closed hearts can be used, but they would more likely be open hearts so the jibboom could be slid back if it needed to be.

     

    Steve

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  8. Hi Geoff

     

    I used thin wire for the footrope stirrups on my Endeavour. Wire is only way you can get them to "hang" vertical. I used linen thread for the foot ropes. If you crimp the wire stirrup tight around the footrope you can then get the footrope to "sag" by teasing it into shape, wetting the footrope will help also. Here's a couple of pics of the result.

     

    Steve

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  9. Hi Mike

     

    I soaked the wood in hot water then made a simple jig with nails in a block of wood to keep it bent until it dried. I'm not sure now whether the bowsprit was actually curved or the curvature shown on the draughts is just the taper, the AOTS shows it as being curved so I did it like that. Its only a slight curve but it really is noticeable.

    I just saw your comments on Banyan's log. I didn't use the wood supplied by Eaglemoss, you're right its too thick. I went to Bunnings and bought some dowel the correct diameter.

     

     

     

    Steve

  10. Hi Steve, can you please tell me what size you used for your anchor and where did you get it from?

     

    cheers Mike

    Hi Mike

    I made the anchor myself out of brass, I need two bower anchors and have since found that Caldercraft have them at the right size so I bought the second one. I won't be using the stock supplied with the Caldercraft one though, its totally wrong. Here's some pics of the first one unpainted, and compared to the ones supplied with the partwork.

    Cheers

    Steve

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