Flying Fish by Jared - Model Shipways - 1:96

[Jared]

A day of celebration!  Finally finished rigging  the last of the shrouds and ratlines.  Phew!!

 

[Rick310]

Well done!!!  The way nd is in sight!

Rick

[gak1965]

On 12/7/2024 at 3:34 PM, Jared said:

A day of celebration!  Finally finished rigging  the last of the shrouds and ratlines.  Phew!!

Great new Jared. Looking fabulous!

 

George

[Jared]

Time for some holiday season fun.  My nephew who lives in Singapore gifted me a laser cut wood "sailing ship puzzle" when he visited last year.  Needing a break from rigging my FF, I had a go at it this week.  I was quite amazed by the very high quality and precision of the laser cut pieces (photo 1).  It was actually quite a fun build!   

 

While it bears only minor resemblance to a real tall ship, I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to interest a child in getting into our hobby.  Seasons Greetings!

 

 

Edited December 13, 2024 by Jared

[Jared]

Gaff & Spanker boom mounted and rigged.  Quite delicate work.  It was made much easier by not having the mizzen backstays and shrouds in the way.

[Jared]

I will begin by wishing you all a very happy New Year.  My celebration begins today as I rejoice the completion of the standing rigging on my Flying Fish.  A number of photos are attached.

 

Now the real fun begins!   I am not expecting any of the remaining modelling. work to be easy 😬.

 

Best wishes to you all for 2025.  Thanks for looking in.

[Rick310]

Looking good Jared!  You keep inching closer to the finish line!

Well done!!

Have a Happy New Year!

Rick

[ScottRC]

Really nice work Jared.  You are past the monotonous part of rigging shrouds, running rigging can be fun since every line is different which does present a challenge, but in a good way.

[Jared]

Sorry for my 2 month absence.  After completing the standing rigging I needed a brief mental rest and time to think about how I would complete the fragile yards with their fittings and tackle the running rigging.

 

This week I built the mizzen topsail,  topgallant, royal and skysail yards. 

 

 They have not yet been permanently attached.  Making and soldering together the small trusses on the topgallant and topsail yards was very challenging.  Fortunately the yards are painted black, which does a great job of hiding less than stellar workmanship 😬.  I have been following the earlier advice to apply super glue into all drilled holes to try to strengthen the spars at these weak points.  For these 2 yards I am using straight pins to help secure them to the masts.

 

The last images are of the unpainted and painted mizzen royal yard and the unpainted skysail yard. 

 

 On all of these yards except the mizzen skysail, I intentionally left a small gap between the vertical and horizontal pairs of  eyebolts at the outer ends to reduce the risk of breakage from drolling at this fragile area.  Because skysail yard is just to frail, I will omit the eyebolts altogether and simply tie the running rigging to the yard ends.

 

 

Edited March 6 by Jared