Hello everyone. This is my first build log and it is for the Donald McKay designed extreme clipper Flying FIsh. The ship has been described well in other logs, but the summary is here: (wikipedia and http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1851-11-04).html)
Built: 1851, East Boston Shipyard
Length Overall: 220 ft
Length between perpendiculars: 210 ft
Length at keel: 202 ft
Maximum beam: 40 ft
Tons (OM): 1566 tons
Originally owned by the fir
Progress on rigging the foremast. This photo shows the lines going up the foremast according to the plan order (generally lift pendant, shrouds, forestay, backstays). As I mentioned last time, the only place anything is anchored is on the mast, the lanyards and the line ends are all basically held in place with Tamiya tape (or in some cases, just the tension in the deadeyes.
In the next photo, I've started to anchor lines, beginning at the fore skystay. The logic here is that