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  1. Sailor1234567890
    Beautiful.
  2. Sailor1234567890
    Incredible joinery at that scale. Great job.
  3. Sailor1234567890
    We're both model building but I'm not even close to that calibre. I'm not in the ballpark, I'm not even playing the same sport... Beautiful work. I love clippers and really look forward to seeing what she looks like once you've got a hull there. Keep up the awesome work.
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    Onward and upward.
  5. Sailor1234567890
    Beautiful job you've got going there. I look forward to "graduating" to wood. Still at the plastic stage.....
  6. Sailor1234567890
    Nice work.
  7. Sailor1234567890
    In absolute awe over this build. WOW.
  8. Sailor1234567890
    A 74 is probably one of the most beautiful sailing warships ever built. Big enough to be powerful but not so big as to be lumbering like a three decker. Fast and handy with plenty of firepower. Just what the doctor ordered.
  9. Sailor1234567890
    What a pretty little Schooner.
  10. Sailor1234567890
    I can't imagine working to that scale. Impressive.
  11. Sailor1234567890
    Deck cadet? I was a deck cadet in her for two months in the summer of 98.
  12. Sailor1234567890
    I spent 6 months of my career sailing lakers. MV JEAN PARISIEN and MV ALGOMARINE. This is 15 years or so ago now. We used to race the steam powered boats. No way we could keep up with them. Steam is such a cool motive force. I'm thankful that once I joined the navy I was able to sail a steamer. Big old diesel boilers and steam turbines. Lots of power. Tres tres cool.
  13. Sailor1234567890
    Nice work on the planking. Looking forward to seeing your progress on her.
  14. Sailor1234567890
    I spent a lovely afternoon sailing Baltimore Harbor in PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II. We had all fore and aft sails set but not the squares. I was hoping for them as well but that didn't happen. Still, she's a wonderful ship to steer. You can feel her power up as you bear off and she really starts to run. We had about 10-15 knot winds that day so it was beautiful sailing.
  15. Sailor1234567890
    I love watching these CS hulls of yours come together as something else. Still waiting for the GREAT REPUBLIC multiple hull build you mentioned.
  16. Sailor1234567890
    Very cool. Look forward to seeing her progress.
  17. Sailor1234567890
    Your pics show a project so far out of my league. It's nice to see others builds though. Maybe one day I'll do VICTORY.
  18. Sailor1234567890
    Sweet little build going on here. Love the look of her.
  19. Sailor1234567890
    Cool. Did the instructions say anything about how copper plating was originally applied? Patterns used in order to cover the whole ship while wasting as little copper as possible for instance? Or perhaps for aesthetic reasons? Just asking.
  20. Sailor1234567890
    She going in one of those 50 ml sample bottles? Wow, that's small.
  21. Sailor1234567890
    So full scale next? Beautiful work.
  22. Sailor1234567890
    Keep the clippers coming. The were the greatest sailing machines IMHO.
  23. Sailor1234567890
    Rob, Is it just me or do I recall you mentioning at some point that you'd like to build Great Republic by bashing together two CS hulls? I have neither seen nor heard about this plan since. Any news on it? I look forward to seeing Glory as well. Beautiful ship. Excellent work.
  24. Sailor1234567890
    Can't wait to see what's next. Your work is awe inspiring.
  25. Sailor1234567890
    Ed, I wanted to say that your work is incredible. I am in love with CUTTY SARK and clippers in general so I look forward to your YOUNG AMERICA build progressing. I want to see the finished model but the problem is that once it's finished, it's finished with nothing to look forward to. Not a terrible dilema. I am a professional mariner who has a very keen interest in sailing ships. Reading your build log over the past few days (At work, don't tell the boss) I have noticed that model builders seem to have a disconnect from the sailors, knowlege wise. The function or operation of certain parts of a ship that may seem straightforward or obvious to a sailor seem to slip by a model builder un-noticed. Terminology as well. The thing that struck me as most glaring was your use of the term "Roundup" of a deck. I suspect what you meant was the curvature of the deck up toward the centerline of the vessel. This is correctly known as "camber". A deck is cambered to assist in the removal of water but also to help provide strength. It hit me over and over as I read it. Other things were less obvious and I can't think of them at this time. All in all I can't wait to follow YA as you build her up. I beg you to rig her. Plank her with perhaps a 3 or 4 inch swath of planking missing from around the waterline on one side and perhaps a few inches of planking missing from the decks. Just so we can see what you've got going on inside. Cheers, Daniel

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