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  • Birthday 05/05/1977

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    Halifax NS, Canada
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    Sailing ships, boating, sailing, canoeing, boatbuilding in 1:1 and various other scales.

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  1. Hello Richard. I'm incredibly intrigued by your correction of her hull shape. Is there a way your computer can turn the data you have in to a table of offsets? That way future modellers can get her hull shape correct.
  2. Beautiful job. How are those rivets finished on the oustide of the hull? Or do they not go right through?
  3. That riot of sweeping curves sure is beautiful but I don't envy the shipwright who had to build it. Not you replicating it at a smaller scale. But I do look forward to seeing how you tackle this challenge and your results.
  4. I was supposed to sit my examination for Lieutenant at that museum. If anyone's around Halifax, on the base where that house sits is a cemetery. In that cemetery are the remains of men form HMS Shannon after her engagement with USS Chesapeake. One of the most fascinating frigate actions of the era.
  5. Why does the deck framing have those zigzag like braces? The knees should prevent wracking and a 45 would probably be stronger so what do these ones do? Not backing for deck fixtures....
  6. Will she be in the gardens this summer? I'll stop by and check her out once she's afloat on display.
  7. Check out Master and Commander, there are at least a few scenes in Surprise's Sick berth. They'd have been laid up in hammocks slung fore 'n aft. I look forward to seeing how she turns out. Not sure there are many (any even) lego builds on the site. I think Lego is one of, if not the greatest toy ever designed. Make sure the good Doctor's coca leaves are well secured against those millers to be onion-sauced.
  8. Ian, I've heard of a few names for those metal multi-ring-shaped pieces. Monkey face plate, they often had three circles in the plate; eyes and a mouth. I've heard it called a Spectacle Iron as well.
  9. Thanks for that talk at the boat show on Saturday. Your Bonnie's looking awesome. Looking forward to seeing video of her underway in someone's pool.
  10. I was a deck Cadet in Algoma's Algomarine for about 4 months when I was training for my career at sea.
  11. Always wanted to see someone do her in pre rebuild days. Looking great.
  12. I understand the apprentices hated the spencer because Capt Woodget wouldn't use it often but it still needed to be unfurled to dry, so it was seen as creating needless work by them.
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