Charles W Morgan by texxn5 - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:64

[Piet]

Happy birthday John and many more!  Stay safe and in good health.  Give our best to Diana.

 

Cheers,

[mtaylor]

Happy Birthday, John.    You're south and west of me.. don't complain.  Here in Medford yesterday was about 108 deg. F.  Today.. a bit cooler... 95 or so.

[Gerald Spargo]

A bit late, but Happy Birthday John. Hoping to see you back in action soon.

[texxn5]

Thanks guys, I appreciate all the BD wishes.

[texxn5]

thanks Grant. glad to hear all is well down there. I'll try to get the log up to date again. Sounds like a painful glitch.

[texxn5]

Thanks Piet, hope you're enjoying your break from the yard.

[texxn5]

Hi Gerald, good to hear from you. Are you going to put your log on this forum also? Have you been able to get any more work done on your Morgan?

[texxn5]

Hi Mark, we might be in Oregon next week. Not sure of our route yet, probably up the coast as far as Florence, then across to the mountains. Some 90+ would feel good to this cold Texan!

[Gerald Spargo]

Already have it up John, and slowly trying to get some work done on it. I like the work you've done on yours, and ya, I would like to see those missing pictures.

[texxn5]

Gerald, do you have a link for the build you can share?

[Gerald Spargo]

Yep, in my signature now. 

[texxn5]

Alright man, thanks for the Birthday Gift......I owe you one Bro! so do a lot of others on here.

[mtaylor]

Hi Mark, we might be in Oregon next week. Not sure of our route yet, probably up the coast as far as Florence, then across to the mountains. Some 90+ would feel good to this cold Texan!

 

That is a superb trip.  When we had our RV, we went from Fort Stephens down the coast to Cresent City.  Did about 50 miles every other day and stayed is the state campgrounds along the way (they're pretty inexpensive).  If you go down I-5 for California, stay a night or two at Lake Siskiyou at the foot of Mount Shasta.  Nice campground and the lake clear water with visibility to about 30 feet or so.

[texxn5]

Hi Mark, thanks for the info. Mt. Shasta is quite a ways behind us. From Florence we are thinking about going on to Portland, then Seattle before cutting over to Mt Rushmore. We would like to go to Mt. Hood and Ranier and Mt. St Helens. What do you know about Mt Hood? Any campgrounds to recomend. We have a 22' Travel Trailer and like to have full hookups, mostly stay in Good Sam camps.

[mtaylor]

Ah.. I see... you're doing a great loop.  I'm no help for Portland or Seattle as I avoided them like the plague.  Do you have the RV'ers Bible (if I remember the title right)?  Big book that listed every RV campground in the States and Canada.  

[texxn5]

Hi Mark, yeah, we have the Woodall's/Good Sam Bible. We also look online when we have internet. We're just wingin' it up here and haven't been disapointed yet. That pie sure sounded good! My neighbor here in Crescent City lives in his RV and is a fisherman....yesterday he gave me about 6 filets of Black Snapper....yummm

[DSiemens]

Theres some great caves in the Rushmore area.  Some you can take an elevator down into.  It's pretty cool maybe worth a look.  

[texxn5]

Well, today was one of those bucket list items, and well worth it. We are camped on the Columbia River between Oregon & Washington, and drove up through the Columbia River Gorge. God's beauty never ceases to amaze! Actually in our opinion it surpasses Yosimite. Off tomorrow to Mt St Helens and Mt Ranier....we're staying in between them on a lake.

[gjdale]

Glad you're enjoying the trip John.

[Chuck]

Ok guys....can we get back on topic here.   Just a friendly reminder...this is what we have talked about before.  Please review the last dozen pages for build log content/ ship modeling content.  You wont find any.  Please take these conversations off list or to the shore leave section we set up especially for this kind of stuff..

 

Thanks for understanding.

 

Admin

Chuck

[texxn5]

Sorry Chuck, I just saw this....no problem. PM me guys if you want updates on travels....thanks for understanding

[texxn5]

Good Afternoon Boys and Girls and Ships at Sea.....we're back to the home port from our ventures along the West Coast. The RV thing seems to be longer and longer and might be a permanent full time thing in the future. Ships can be built in RV's so this could work, and all our tools are small enough to carry in a basement, so I could become a roving ship modeler. During the course of this trip, I have realized that it is difficult to communicate with all my friends here and keep up with everything. I have kept following all of you along the way, but not communicating since it wouldn't be "ship related" per the rules. Therefore, I have created a website concerning the Charles W Morgan. I invite all of you to visit frequently as it has a thorough detailed build log, tool and reference discussions, a Gallery and an email list form so that I can keep current with everyone who wants to follow along. It has a Blog and even a Ship's Store. The pictures that were lost a few months ago from this log are shown on my website instead of taking the time to try to figure out how to replace them here. The same amount of time would have been wasted. It is currently still being completed so please be patient, however, it is about 90%. I will continue to follow everyone's build and make appropriate commments as everyone progresses. I probably will only post significant changes to my log here on MSW and the majority of all other pictues and posts will be on my own site. I hope all of you will check it out, fill in the Contact form and follow along regularly. Everyone has been progressing nicely on their builds and I will be posting shortly. Please come look and let me know what you think. Please leave comments or email me.

Thanks guys, you're all the greatest,

 

John

 

Here's the link: http://www.charleswmorganmodel.com

 

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[texxn5]

My site will have in the Gallery photographs of the Restoration of the Morgan completed after 5 years and $7 million. Other Models of the Morgan, Other model ships in General, The 38th Voyage of the Morgan this past summer, My model of the USS Constitution, and who knows what else as this thing grows. I've already had a tremendous response and it's only been published Online for 2 days. I'm trying to feature tools,discussions and references with links to find them, so any input would be welcome. Thanks guys, please pass on the link and information.

[texxn5]

Hello again friends, here is where the Morgan is currently. Masting and Rigging is next. New progress will soon be reported.

[edmay]

Hi John ,sent pm ,would not go through,welcome home,Edwin

[texxn5]

Photo of deck, ready to start. I thought I would post a couple of pictures for a starting reference to this stage.

[texxn5]

Hi Ed, I tried to send out some PM's and had problems with them to. I'll try to figure it out tomorrow. Good to hear from you, hope all is well. Doing great here. Check out my site. Let me know what you think.

Take care my friend,

John

[gjdale]

Welcome home John. Glad to see a little update. If you're having problems with the PM system, check to see if your inbox storage is full - that is often the cause.

[texxn5]

Hi Guys,

I just figured out how to clear my PM messages from the storage area. I think it's ok now, so anyone needing to PM me can now do so. Sorry 'bout that! Thanks Grant for the info.

[texxn5]

The Tryworks completed. This was a fun area to add details such as tools, etc.