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Glad to hear she's moving forward. Any pics of progress or is summer golf season keeping the dockyard shuttered?

Exactly what Steve said. Build them to detail inside, leave the covers off and place the lifeboats right side up with the boat between them upside down. Shows off the lapstrake planking of it and the insides of the lifeboats. Also keep the other boat on the forward house upright with no cover. Make sure the best lapstrake is the boat that ends up upside down and the others all have great interiors.

I second hearing the backstory as well as continuing with her. If you don't like the results when you've completed her, you'll have the practice on a whole project and could start her over again either from scratch or from a new kit. Keep going. 

I love the idea of using wood from my land in my projects. Great for a model, not so great at 1:1 scale boatbuilding. I can use stuff that was on my dad's property for small parts though. He's got some bigger trees than I do. I do however make sure to plant plenty of trees. I have my favourite kinds of trees and planting them is something I always try to do but if not, I make sure to put in a few maples each year. They grow well where I am and even if they're not the kind of wood I will use, they will replace the ones I take as far as oxygen creation and clean air is concerned. Gotta do our part for mother earth.

Looks awesome. Question.... Why !:56 scale? 

Now we're talkin'. Looks awesome.

I have a french book about sailing ships of iron and steel from France in the 1880s-1930s. There are a few images of brace winches there as well. I'll see what I can do about that for you but I don't think Jarvis winches or anything even remotely like them was in use back then. 

The Jarvis brace winch was not invented until I believe the mid 1880s so in 1855 it was most certainly NOT included in the deck gear on board. The photo in post 64 shows a Jarvis brace winch, two halyard winches, and a pump in the back just by the mast. I don't believe any winches like either of those would have been fitted to her in 1855. I don't know what types of mechanical assistance was available in the time she was built but I suspect you have more searching to do unless the ones you pointed out for mining are close enough to what was there. 

Looking great. Have you decided on the shape of the nameplate on the transom? I find those little tabs either end are not quite right for the ship. Something rounded and shorter? Maybe something with some curlycues in it? Not sure but the long squared off ends don't quite look right to me. The font however looks pretty good considering it's Times New Roman and hadn't been invented when this ship would have been built. 

Rob,

That is a great image. It shows a solution to a problem as you mention but I'm not sure it's the problem you think it is. The reason those lines are made fast to something other than the pins is quite simply that the pins are under water. They are quite inaccessible. Doubling up on the pins was quite common but the image you show isn't an alternative solution to the lack of pins but a solution to the lee rail being awash much of the time in heavy weather. At the very bottom of the image, you can just make out the hand of a sailor holding on to the lifeline that those lines are made fast to.

She was in Halifax recently. I wanted to go see her. Unfortunately, I was away that weekend. Beautiful job on her so far.

Awesome looking model. I'd say that might be locust based on what I know of it. I'm building my boat using locust but she's a 1:1 scale so not appropriate on this forum. The locust in my shop is clean and dry whereas that has been soaking for a century so it's hard to tell. The other thing is that any ship carrying coal would be covered in coal dust. It makes one heck of a mess and if there's coal on board, there's no white paint anywhere that doesn't look like it's got a film of black coal dust on it.

First I see of this thread. Looks great to me. Surprise will be fun too once you get around to her.

I bet you do more lofting work on this model than the original designers did when building her. Very cool.

Having seen plenty of weathered ship side grey in my time, I must commend you on your rust streaks sir. Beautifully executed. Now find the bosn, it's time for a paint ship routine. 

Daunting but buckle down and it'll be over before you know it. Or.... not. Looking good so far.

Interesting to see no stuns'ls and nothing on the crojack yard. Spanker is furled I think too. There's another ship on the horizon to the right and as anyone knows, two sailing vessels automatically makes it a race. She doesn't seem overborn by her canvas as she's sailing pretty close to dead downwind. Nice painting. I like it.

There must be a fortune in Cherry there. The scale of your project is amazing.

Trying to figure out how the main jeer bits work in practice.....

Jingyang,

Your work is beautiful. Could you put up some close ups of the main jeers forward of the mast? I'm curious about what that part looks like. Maybe like the image from inside the great cabin like you put up for Gaetan? I'm trying to visualize what that part will look like once complete. Thanks,

Daniel

I love the design of those rails you've got there. What will they look like once completed? Have you a drawing of them or images of them completed? Perhaps in place on another model?

The "Link" to finding chain? Love it. Great pun. Now, back to work Ed, your adoring masses await more progress reports.

Great information here. Anyone have more to add? The imagery takes this thread over the top.

Great information here. Anyone have more to add? The imagery takes this thread over the top.

It would be my first wooden kit and my Cutty Sark done as a teenager 25 years ago or more was certainly over simplified in the rigging department as well. I think this one will be my first kit when I come to building my first kit. Sooner rather than later I hope.