Bluenose by Fubarelf - Model Shipways - Scale 1:64

[Fubarelf]

9 hours ago, GGibson said:

Great sail work, Tim!  and I love the rope coils next to the belaying pins! Sharp looking! 

 

A question on your picture just before your "Finished Sail" text, the one with the single block right next to the fife rail.  Where is that rigging going up to on the mast?  Not seeing this in the Sheet 5 or Sheet 6 Rigging details, but am overlooking it, I am sure.

Thank you, Gregg. The blocks on either side of the fire rail are for the main throat and peak halliards.  They support the main gaff. Detail is on plan 6. 

Tim

[Fubarelf]

9 hours ago, wmherbert said:

I'm a fan of sails on a model. Yours are looking good. 

 Also nice rope coils.

Bill

Thank you, Bill!

[CPDDET]

Nice work!

[Fubarelf]

Continuing on with the sail rigging...Fore sail and fore top sail next, starting from the bottom with the fore sail.  There are a lot of blocks and a fair amount of rigging required for the peak and throat halliards.  Need to pay close attention to the rigging plan on sheet 6 to make sure all the lines run to the correct pins.  

 

I attached the fore boom and loosely rigged the sheet and topping lift so that they could be tightened up as needed once the sail was rigged and attached.  

Once the boom was in place I added all of the ties for the mast hoops to the fore sail and lashed the top of the sail to the fore gaff.

I thought I had taken pictures of the completed peak halliard before I added the fore top sail but, did not have any when I went to edit the pics for posting.  

Once I had the gaff rigged, I lashed the bottom of the sail to the boom and then snugged all of the lines up.

The fore top sail was next.  I learned from the main top sail to attach all of the clew line fairleads and blocks, the rigging line and block and the mast hoop ties BEFORE attaching the sail to the mast.  So much easier to work with the sail off of the ship, duh!  Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of this interim step and only have a photo of the sail fully rigged.  

Once again, very important to study the rigging plan, check and double check all the lines to make sure they are all routed appropriately and tied off to the correct pin prior to any permanant attachment.  I finished off all of the tie offs with rope coils.  While I was looking things over, I noticed that my main top sail and fore top sail were rigged on opposite sides of their associated peak halliards.  What I discovered is that I had placed the main top sail on the wrong side.  Both sails are set to the port side, but the bottom corner of the main top sail and tack line goes over the main gaff to the starboard side.  This is noted on the plans.

On to the stay sail...4 more to go!

 

Tim

 

 

 

[Nirvana]

Tim, that looks real good.

When I will be back at my Bluenose I will make her naked......😀, no sails as it takes away a lot of the nice rigging.

[Fubarelf]

8 minutes ago, Nirvana said:

Tim, that looks real good.

When I will be back at my Bluenose I will make her naked......😀, no sails as it takes away a lot of the nice rigging.

Thank you, Nirvana!  I considered that, but really like the look of the bluenose in full sail.  It is a lot of rigging, but I am enjoying the process and learning a ton to apply to future builds.

 

Tim

Edited April 10 by Fubarelf
Accidentally submitted before typing reply.

[Fubarelf]

Getting closer to completion, but it has been slow going.  Summer, work on the house and the yard, and other various obligations have not left much time for working on the Bluenose.  Finished the Stay Sail and Jumbo Jib, only two more sales to go!!

 

I used rings for the hanks on the Jumbo Jib.   I had originally used silver rings I had in my supply, but felt like they looked too big once on the sail and I could not blacken them.  I ordered smaller brass rings from Model Expo, blackened them and attached to the sail.  When I went to start rigging the sail, I realized that I had sewn the hem around the edge of the sail on the wrong side .  It was backward from all the other sails on the ship, so I remade the sail.  I also had managed to get a stain on the original sail, so this solved that problem as well.

Just realized I never added the parrels to the main gaff...Always more to do...

Tim

[CPDDET]

Looks great! I know what you mean about life getting in the way. I haven't made it into the shipyard for weeks.

[GGibson]

Sails are looking really nice, Tim!  Great job with the rigging.  I'm still very apprehensive about doing the sails on mine...  You are about done!  Congrats!

[Nirvana]

5 hours ago, CPDDET said:

Looks great! I know what you mean about life getting in the way. I haven't made it into the shipyard for weeks.

Hmm, thank you for acknowledging this. Because I am equally bad.... or worse, my shipyard is at stand still.

[CPDDET]

6 minutes ago, Nirvana said:

 

 

7 minutes ago, Nirvana said:

Hmm, thank you for acknowledging this. Because I am equally bad.... or worse, my shipyard is at stand still.

Well, it's a hobby and not a quest. I work on my model as time allows and when I'm in the right frame of mind to commit to quality work. And those 2 things don't always coincide with each other.

[Fubarelf]

On 7/4/2024 at 11:35 AM, GGibson said:

Sails are looking really nice, Tim!  Great job with the rigging.  I'm still very apprehensive about doing the sails on mine...  You are about done!  Congrats!

Thank you, Gregg!  Was a lot of steps to create the sails (and redo some), tie all the blocks, run all of the rigging lines (and redo some!).  Very satisfying though once the work is done. .  Still have to go back and finish the boats, deal with the anchors and a few other minor details, but I think I can see the finish line.

 

Tim

[Fubarelf]

On 7/4/2024 at 9:53 AM, CPDDET said:

Looks great! I know what you mean about life getting in the way. I haven't made it into the shipyard for weeks.

Thank you!  I pulled everything out of the shipyard, reorganized and added some book cases.  Had the models-in-progress stashed away in a spare bedroom to keep the cats away while the shipyard was out of commission.  All done now and looking forward to finishing the Bluenose.

 

Tim