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  1. Sailor1234567890
    Doris, I have often thought you'd do an incredible job of some of my favourite ships, like Cutty Sark, or a 74 gun ship. But your talent lies in the fancy detailed carvings of these era of ships and I must agree with Hubac's Historian, you should have a go at La Reine.
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    What does the longer step do? Allow someone to pass down the ladder as you step aside going up? The rope's a good idea, I like that.
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    Nautical jargon is hard if you're not a sailor. I love your idea of using the character's drawings (presumably from his log book for his professional education) to explain things to the meanest lubber who may read the book. Excellent.
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    Generally the spars used for stunsls are either booms or yards. Yards are installed on the actual yard set up so they can slide outboard when they are put in use. The booms, are generally supported somewhere 1/3 to 1/2 their length from the inboard end by the end of the stunsl yards. There would be some on deck below the boats and some still fixed to the yard to answer your question.
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    I can't answer your questions but I have one of my own. Since you're asking about the dock at the time of her launch, are you building her as launched? I wish more people would build her as launched. I feel she looked much better as launched than the typical post-Trafalgar version that most people build.
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    I like the thole pins you've got on the boat there. I don't recall from my 74 gun ship books but does Boudriot show thole pins?
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    Nice to know the ol' neurons are still firing adequately.
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    I believe that would be power for stuff like nav lights, Radar, radio etc. that would be needed up the mast.
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    Something is tingling in the back of my brain that Woodenboat Magazine did an article on her a number of years back.
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    You're likely right on "we don't know enough." There's quite a bit of detail that changes depending on where you get your information. Lubbock probably got his information, like Longridge did, by visiting the ship in his day and reading tons of reports, news articles etc. I don't know how legit his research is and how accurate it might be but it's better than nothing. If one wants to model her during a given period in her career, then some of this information is essential. I'm simply interested in her beauty and I can make changes to a model to suite my tastes so the level of detail is less important for me. I too have often wondered why no more information is available about her given how important she is purported to have been.
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    Your paint job is absolutely correct, if it's during Woodget's tenure. I think it came from Lubbock's book Log of the Cutty Sark but I'm not 100% certain of that. I have a few books about her, she's my absolute favourite ship ever so I know quite a bit about her.
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    There's an interesting interaction between her Owner Mr. Willis, (no relation that I know of) and her skipper Captain Woodget. Willis asked why the boats were white and not black as prescribed by his instructions to his captains. Woodget simply replied, they look better white and that was the end of that. Willis knew to appease his good captains and not cause a stink over nothing. I'd paint them white.
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    That's the best visual description of it I've seen. Exactly correct in how it was done.
  14. Sailor1234567890
    That hollow to her bow..... Lovely.
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    I wonder if there was provision for working both at once somehow? In action I can see it being imperative to have both the capstan and the pumps going at times.
  16. Sailor1234567890
    That looks awesome.
  17. Sailor1234567890
    Wow. Stunning.
  18. Sailor1234567890
    Naah, I'd rather return to our regularly scheduled programming. Speedy is too cool to miss.
  19. Sailor1234567890
    My favourite invented word that I came up with years ago was angrifying. We had been broken into while we were away and it was the best word I could come up with to describe how we felt. I still use it. Pumps would have been used all the time, shipping and unshipping the handle would have taken a significant amount of time if they were shipped several times per day. I suspect they were left on but thought maybe someone might know for sure.
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    Are those elm tree pump handles shipped and unshipped every time they are used? If not, do they snag on lines or anything? They seem quite protrusionary if I could invent a word.
  21. Sailor1234567890
    Have you any more shots of the three of them together? She's really taken a step forward with the ratlines done.
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    That is my favourite photo of her. She looks so real in it.
  23. Sailor1234567890
    Well feel better. We'll see your nexst ship model whenever you get to her.
  24. Sailor1234567890
    Wow, you move quickly. Nice job. This has to be the biggest model of her I've ever heard of.
  25. Sailor1234567890
    Are they all the same scale?

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