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So when are you starting Stephano?  Looks awesome. Great work. 

I see you placed deck planking under the forward trucks of the guns to get them to the proper height. Is that temporary until you lay the decking or will you be leaving it open like this? Stunning work you've done. Thanks for sharing. 

Thanks. I'll have to look back through the thread to find that part. 

Cheers,
Daniel

Nice work. I have a question about Crows feet and euphroes. Anyone know what purpose they serve? 

Oh, that would be an interesting comparison to see side by side. 

Looks like the tuck for finishing off the grommet was tucked somewhere around the 8 o'clock position.  Nice job. 

Car guys call it a "rotissery restoration" as the setup is essentially a rotissery. I see no reason why that can't be done for this ship. 

Quick question....

Are you planning to build the ship that was used for the movie, or the actual Surprise which isn't quite exactly the same as the one used in the movie. I think for a start, there aren't enough guns for HMS Rose/Surprise, to be the historical HMS Surprise. 

Cool project. I suspect you can expect this log to be moved by the Admins to the CAD section. I'll follow along though. 

Glenn,

I've done some research on Scottish Maid and am led to believe there were a number of sisterships built because of her successful design. Do you know anything about this? Also saw that she was around until 1941 which surprised me. I wonder why there aren't more pictures of her....

Nice work Terry,

I can't imagine how hard it would be to create a 7 bladed scimitar shaped screw like that. The boats I sailed in (Victoria class) have a similar screw and looking up at it in dock while "sputtifying" (SPUT stands for skimmer puke under training in our navy) I couldn't wrap my head around the design work that goes into them. 

Or buy his book. I have a copy and it has all those drawings in it. 

What are the "pointers" referred to in that appendix? Anyone know? I've never heard of pointers as part of a ship. Is there another name for pointers that I might recognize? 

Dolphin 38!! Cheers brother.

Excellent resource there. Thanks for posting it. I look forward to reading through all those volumes.

Rick, 

I have been watching Lady Nelson builds with exactly that in mind. When I can finally start a wood kit, I plan to bash this one into Hornblower's Witch of Endor from Flying Colours. I think she's the closest one to her of the cutter kits out there. Looking forward to this one as well. 

James, 

Do you think there may be a way to add a filter to sort these reviews by scale?  Or is there one already there that I can't figure out on my own? 

I was going to suggest a filter to search by scale. Select 1:64 and all the 1:64th kits show up. Assuming the database still exists, I can't seem to get it to load but I'm at work and firewalls may be preventing me from loading it. 

Too bad Chris, I'd love to get my hands on your 1:64 Cutty Sark kit that died in the planning stage as well. 

No updates lately? I wonder how the project went?

When I posted that I thought that was what I wanted. After playing around last night, I realized that at this point, I'm simply trying to get Delftship to run on my Mac. Once I figure that out, I hope to loft her out completely. I have the plans which include the Table of Offsets so I think it shouldn't be too hard to do. Scale won't matter I don't think as I'll draw it 1:1 and can simply scale it down for model building when the time comes. Or just keep it 1:1 and add detail with my product being a digital model. That way I can include all sorts of details. Design the interior cabinetry down to the dovetails, hull framing, deck framing, cabin side construction, transom framing etc. 

Wow, wish I had known getting Delftship to work on my mac was going to be such a challenge. Anyone else use a mac? I can't seem to get it to work on mine, even after downloading an emulator. 

Any updates on this project? A fully rendered clipper ship would be a sight to behold indeed!

I'm about to start lofting my boat, a 57 foot schooner I have the original plans to and was planning to use Delftship. Seems like the most appropriate program for what I am doing. Looking forward to any updates if they're coming Ab. Any word on Rene getting the next bit done? You're both incredibly generous with your time and it's greatly appreciated by me (and likely a lot of others out in internetworld). 
Thanks,
Daniel

A little late to the party but yes, that circled part is the bitt which has the pinrail incorporated into it. There'll often be a sheave or two in the base of the uprights as well.