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  1. Sailor1234567890
    Have you tried soaking them in tea instead of using paint? Tea stains can look pretty convincing.
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    By this period in time, most tops'l sheets were chain with a block and tackle out of rope. The wear around that block on the end of the yard and then the block in the middle of the yard underneath was quite severe. Theses ships rarely handed topsails as they were the last ones to be brought in so the sheets needed the best abrasion resistance they could get and chain was it.
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    The more I watch your builds progress, the more impressed I am with your skills. Any idea what your next build might be?
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    Thanks.
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    Those little wooden structures fore and aft are properly called "poppets". I like the idea of displaying her that way. Adds an element of realism to the whole thing.
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    All the wood bending information I've read says 1 hour per inch of thickness. Seems to me for pieces the size of our ships, 1.5 hours would be much too long. I've never bent wood at this scale though, I do mine much larger.
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    Another thought... Are the blocks rove or laced? With Triple blocks, there's a process to reeve them so the last part, the tailing part, comes out the middle sheave. This will allow for you to be pulling on the middle of the block rather than one side which might tend to capsize the block. This is called reeving the block. Otherwise, starting at one end and simply filling in the sheaves, it called lacing the block. Not optimal.
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    I would tend to think having the working part come out of the lower block or at least a lead block on deck before going UP to the pin rail would be most logical. Firstly, you mention more men tailing on it which is important but also, I think it best to have tension compressing the uprights for the rail rather than trying to pry it off the deck pulling upwards. I'm designing just such a system in my boat and all leads will come up from the deck to make fast to the pin rails in order to keep everything under compression.
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    I might need that PDF, I cannot picture what you're describing at all. I'm not familiar with the intersection feature and that may be why.
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    Sorry to be keeping you up for 2 days straight Ed. It just struck me as odd how it was laid out. I've got some experience sailing square rig (not with Stunsl's though) and I quickly picked up on that little discrepancy. I Googled the Barque Picton Castle, admittedly a much later vessel. She is however extant today and has stunsl's. The gear is set up funny in that instead of a straight bar from the yard to the ring of the iron, it's a curved bar starting on top of the yard behind the jackline and curving forward so the ring is located where yours is. Outer boom iron isn't an issue as it's located outside the earing and does not interfere at all.
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    I have underhill's book. It really is a goldmine. I purchased plans to a boat last year with the intention of building her. She's a 57 footer with a number of different rigs. I would love to put the Hermaphrodite Brig rig on her and if I can, I will include stunsl gear. Underhill has been invaluable in planning her rigging work. I have a few other sources like D'Arcy's book and a couple of others. Maybe the uppers were the only ones hauled up bunt first and I was mis remembering seeing a lower hauled up that way. I know the smaller like moonsails, skyscrapers and such were often hauled up on the yard.
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    Are you including the lashing to ensure the booms don't slide out? normally they would have been lashed together at their butt ends to prevent them sliding out as the ship rolled. There's a tackle rigged to haul them out and a lashing to keep them secured together when not in use. I love stuns'ls and find the rigging of them intriguing. Sure you won't include some in your model?
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    My understanding of square rig has it done as follows. Bending sail was done, as you say by hoisting the sail up, stretching it along the yard and making the robands fast to the jackstay. It wasn't hoisted with the bunts and clews though as far as I know. The reason was that for upper sails, those lines are not even close to long enough to reach the deck. Even the lowers would not quite be long enough to reach the deck as the sail was above the deck height and having more line than necessary to work the sails was wasteful. It was hoisted by a single line made fast to the bunt of the sail. This was hoisted from well above the yard in question. In other words, the sail would be prepared on deck then folded in half, hoisted bunt first up higher than the yard then lowered as the earrings were hauled taut to the end of the yard and robands made fast. I don't see how the head of the sail could be lashed tight to the jackstay as you've got the images of your model. The booms were triced up and the inner irons were hinged as you show but how do you get the head of the sail lashed up tight against the jackstay with that boom iron in the way? There would need to be a slot in the sail. I'm better versed with more modern yards and ships like Cutty Sark where they generally had two jacklines and the boom irons were often below the yard to keep them out of the way a bit more. I guess the questions remain.
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    Looking closely, I have another question. The boom iron is shown on the forward 10 o'clock position or so in that second last image. It's significantly forward of the jackstay. The jackstay was used to fasten the sail to so how was the sail bowsed up tight to the jackstay if the boom iron was so far rotated forward of the jackstay? Or was the sail not lashed tight to the jackstay?
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    Question about how you've temporarily rigged the bridles. Were YA's sails furled to the bunt or the yard arm? I ask because you've got the bridle about mid way out the yard which would not be proximal to the edge of the sail if it's furled to the yard arm and may or may not be if furled to the bunt, depending on how the sail ends up furled. I tend to think that if the sail was struck below, she wouldn't have the bowlines rigged at all. I may be wrong though.
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    Always enjoy seeing another 74 go together.
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    It would have been more a useful move for the French than the English. The French aimed high to damage rigging. The English aimed low to damage hull and crew.
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    Thanks.
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    Picture posting skill? Check. Now you may proceed with wowing us with a build log. Aggie's a beautiful ship. Enjoy the build.
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    The balloon idea came to me when people spoke of putting weights on the fortunes. In my mind, that would create straight lines between the weights. A single weight between stirrups would cause a V shaped fortune between, two weights would give a V with a flat ish bottom to it. I picture the balloon making it as close to catenary shaped as possible. there may be issues with it though. If anyone tries it, let the rest of us know.
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    Period ships with draught marks always strike me as odd. The Plimsoll mark and attendant draught marks were not invented until the mid 1880s.
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    That's a bigger model than I thought you were building. I just walked past her sister HMCS Sackville about 30 minutes ago. She's tied up in our dockyard at her winter berth.
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    Just thinking out loud here but what if one were to install the footropes and then soak them in their favourite goo, be it diluted dark wood glue as Ed mentioned above or some other solution. After all the fiddly bits are done, insert a small balloon between each stirrup and inflate them just enough to provide the catenary desired. Once the glue dries, deflate the balloon and remove it. It should hold in a relatively catenary shape. Close enough for our purposes. Or maybe that's already been tried?
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    How would one use Sketchup to lay out say a ship's helm. I'm picturing a classic 8 spoke with a bronze hub. The hub is round and has square holes around the perimeter. I understand making spokes round but how do you get a "hole" in the outer rim of the hub into which the spoke would fit?
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    What did her stern look like originally? Does anyone have an image of a model of her with her original stern or are all models of her build with her rebuilt stern?

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