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  1. Sailor1234567890
    There must be a fortune in Cherry there. The scale of your project is amazing.
  2. Sailor1234567890
    Trying to figure out how the main jeer bits work in practice.....
  3. Sailor1234567890
    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
  4. Sailor1234567890
    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?
  5. Sailor1234567890
    The "Link" to finding chain? Love it. Great pun. Now, back to work Ed, your adoring masses await more progress reports.
  6. Sailor1234567890
    Great information here. Anyone have more to add? The imagery takes this thread over the top.
  7. Sailor1234567890
    Great information here. Anyone have more to add? The imagery takes this thread over the top.
  8. Sailor1234567890
    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.
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    Does anyone know how that capstan would work with the companionway right beside it? I can't tell if the capstan bars would clear the top of it. That would certainly take away some of the muscle power provided as the men skip around the companionway to grab the bars again as they come past it on the other side....... Your hooks.... Amazingly small. Nice job. I don't think I could do that. Yes, binnacles were often lashed down like that.
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    Any progress lately?
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    Would this kit be acceptable for a first go? It's no Vanguard and certainly more involved than a ship's boat. Rigging that's not too complex (I've rigged a Cutty Sark but that was years ago) and not so simple as to be boring either. I would build her as Witch of Endor that Hornblower uses to escape the French in Flying Colours. I think this kit is about as close as one can get to the vessel described in the book. 10 gun cutter, sweeps. Leave out the swivel guns, maybe change the companionway hatch, move the holes for the sweeps forward a bit as the work described seems to be forward as described in the book. All easy changes to make to this kit. One could even build her with Bush at the tiller, Brown yelling at the freed galley slaves pulling on the oars and Hornblower and the French pilot manning the port side aft 6 pounder. Any thoughts on it?
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    French ship Ocean at 1:2 scale in his "basement"? LOL
  13. Sailor1234567890
    Oh, I'm quite surprised. I would have thought much bigger. Thanks for that.
  14. Sailor1234567890
    I have an image of me in my Tilley hat at her helm on a daysail in the harbour. She handles beautifully. You can really feel her power up as you fall off the wind.
  15. Sailor1234567890
    What would a cross sectional dimension of the keel be? I estimate somewhere in the 2x2 foot range? 2x3 even?
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    Forget impossible, it wouldn't be correct to include it I don't think. These sails were rigged when required and struck below to the sail locker with the attendant blocks and rigging only rove when the sail was to be set. You're SURE you don't want to put a few studding sails on just for show?
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    Like everything is laid out for the Captain's inspection. Looks great. Keep it up.
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    Looking forward to seeing how you manage as well Ed. I think at sea, things like stuns'ls were belayed to any convenient pin over top of whatever was already on it if that's any help. They were after all a light weather sail and seen as bonus sail area as opposed to part of a vessel's actual sail plan.
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    Exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks.
  20. Sailor1234567890
    Simply amazing. How are Spanish 74s different from French or English ones? I can't seem to find much information about them anywhere. I think I read somewhere that they are often of a better quality but in what ways? Your work is stunning, looking forward to seeing more of it.
  21. Sailor1234567890
    I tend to agree with you about how they look. I'm curious to see what she'd look like with the changes made.
  22. Sailor1234567890
    A quick question, are these AL Surprise kits designed with the larger main mast described in the Aubrey Maturin books or as the ship really was built? Beautiful build. I love the display stand so far. Going to look sharp.
  23. Sailor1234567890
    How long does the card last once the model is completed? Seems to me if you're not careful with storing it, it could deteriorate easily. Beautiful work you've done there.
  24. Sailor1234567890
    She truly is a beautiful craft. If only she could be put back to sea.
  25. Sailor1234567890
    What happens to the other half of that cow hitch? When I was rattling down back in the day, we used to put an eye splice on the forward end and seize it to the forward shroud, clove hitch the middle shrouds and an eye splice seized to the aftermost shroud always making sure not to put tension between the shrouds so as not to pull them together inadvertently. I don't see where a cow hitch is best used for this purpose.

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