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All the foremast yards now in place and the main mast yard.....progressing rather nicely......wont be long now for those infamous words.....Bellona is completed.
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good to see another corel Bellona and interesting to see how you have done things compared to mine.....it is looking fabulous....how have you found corels plans for the rigging......I don't think they are too bad just need a lot of working out..
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I really cant remember to be honest.....if you post a pic of the edge you are talking about I will try to remember exactly what I did....cheers.
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I will do Christopher...glad I could help....I had many problems with this build and to be honest I don't know how I stopped myself from setting fire to it......I have altered things on it most obviously the metal gun ports, but it was either those or the scrap yard...….will take a look at yours today.....reagards
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Corels from left to right, Greyhound, Bellona and Victory...all more or less the same scale
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A milestone on Bellona...the first of the yards being prepped for final fixing...….to think I came within a hairs breadth of scrapping Bellona because of the way it was going is a lesson to others to just keep persevering. Loads of errors and mistakes but I think they add to Bellona overall character....well that's my theory and i'm sticking to it.
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I glued with watered down PVA after every couple of snakes......I used one continuous piece of rope and secured with a clove hitch at each stage.. It has a slight distortion but I can live with it.
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more rigging completed....backstays all done for all three masts. She is slowly getting there.
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I will do some more later and post......It is the tediousness of the rats that gets me..
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cheers Hamilton...….seven short years to this stage.
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that is just what I did....dyed intense black.... along with some spare Caldercraft black rigging.....The dye doesn't get right to the centre of the rigging so I touch up any visible tan area.
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today should see the rats completed.....things will move on quickly after that I think......seems like an age that I have been doing shrouds then rats.....I see clove hitches in my sleep.
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There has been quite a few builds of this model recently and I read a book several years ago about the sailors that had been exhumed that had died on Franklyn's ill fated mission.... They took tissues samples from the sailors bodies and the results show a massive content of lead in their bodies. This was put down to the canned food they took with them on the expedition which had been sealed with lead. I have included the pictures which some may find disturbing or interesting depending on your point of view. On the trip to exhume was a relative of one of the sailors. They were exhumed in 1986 and apart from tissue samples were reinterred in the same place. It is amazing how the ice has preserved these men. They had also been autopsied by the ships doctor before being buried to try to discover what had caused their deaths.
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I would do it anyway....it is not complicated.
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I just use the "rack of the eye" when doing the rats, I don't have a gauge that I keep too or a measure behind the shrouds....just clove hitch and go...starboard side completed....Victory and Greyhound look on in the back ground.
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all the shrouds and futtock shrouds now completed …..started on the rats...….things that make me go AAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH...…..running out of single malt whisky, running out of Cuban cigars and running out of ratline before the end of the shroud and having to undo the other clove hitches and start again
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started on the dreaded rats.....a few rats then a couple of beers will eventually see me through....also bought these hooks for the rigging instead of making my own.....lazy on my part but better looking.
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