Perseverance 1807 by Isaiah - FINISHED - Modellers Shipyard - Colonial Brig

[Ferrus Manus]

What have you been up to? I have been preparing for college and trying to get stable employment. 

[Isaiah]

I’m working towards a career in aviation. First trying to obtain my Private pilots licence. (PPL)

Edited July 29, 2023 by Isaiah

[Ferrus Manus]

How many flight hours do you need with an instructor? Have you completed your classroom hours? 

[Isaiah]

It depends on what you want to do,

40-1500 hours.

 

I’m still studying with books at the moment.

[Ferrus Manus]

Didn't we give you guys some F-35's in the recent past? 

[Ferrus Manus]

By the way, once i am done with the galleon, i plan on building a "small" project inspired by the Perseverance, the 1/96 HMS Botany Bay (modified HMS Beagle) 

[Isaiah]

Is it called HMS Botany Bay? I couldn’t find any info on the ship.

[Ferrus Manus]

Exactly. I made the name up because i liked it. The Revell models of both HMS Beagle and HMS Bounty are horrendously inaccurate, so i had to just make something up. 

[Isaiah]

Oh ok.

 

Will you just build from scratch using the HMS Bounty/Beagle plans?

 

Also, will that be your first wood model?

 

[Ferrus Manus]

No, the plastic Revell model HMS Beagle, but renamed.

[Isaiah]

Ran out of black cord today, this is where I got up to.

I have loosely rigged the fore topmast stay and two of the jib stays.

 

I also shortened the distance between the fore stay deadeyes.

 

Edited August 1, 2023 by Isaiah

[Isaiah]

I have the two jib stays just sitting there right now because there’s just too much strain on the bowsprit.

 

Next thing I do before rigging the flying jib stay as well as tightening the others is rigging the bowsprit stay. (See photos below)

 

One question I have is how to connect the stay to the keel. Not really sure on how to do that.

 

Edited August 1, 2023 by Isaiah

[Dr PR]

It was common to drill a hole through the stem and lead the bobstay through the hole. Sometimes the bobstay was run doubled, just looping through the hole in the stem with some small stuff seizing near the stem. The other ends were spliced around a deadeye, heart or thimble with lanyards to pull them taut.

 

In the mid to late 1800s chain replaced rope for the bobstay, and metal brackets were fastened to the stem for the chain to attach to with a shackle.

[Ferrus Manus]

I would drill a hole in the stem and a small groove for the bobstay to go through. This was a load bearing line, and an eyebolt simply wouldn't be enough. 

[Isaiah]

Ok thank you,

 

I’ll just loop it through the hole that I’ll drill. This was my vague original idea.

 

[Ferrus Manus]

By the way, nice forestay! Will you be snaking the stays? 

 

Snaking of stays:

[Ferrus Manus]

Note how the fore and main stays are snaked. This was common for ships of the era. 

[Ferrus Manus]

It's okay not to snake the stays. I didn't do that on my USS United States. However, it provides just that extra sense of realism. If i were you, i would include every line on the ship, and not skip over anything. You aren't building a first rate ship like Victory, so this shouldn't be too challenging. 

Edited August 1, 2023 by Ferrus Manus

[Isaiah]

I’ll have to think about it.

Would I just do it on the forestay’s where two of them are close together?

Edited August 2, 2023 by Isaiah

[Ferrus Manus]

You can do it on either the forestays, or the fore and main stays. 

[Isaiah]

I thought I’d share my progress since I just finished rigging the ratlines. 
 

The flying jib stays and the bowsprit stay are also rigged.

 

Rigging the ratlines sure are tedious and boring but I think they look pretty good.

 
 

 

 

Edited October 28, 2023 by Isaiah

[Ferrus Manus]

Nice forestays, and amazing ratlines! 

[Ferrus Manus]

How's it going, mate? I haven't heard from you in a while. How's the Perseverance coming along? 

[Isaiah]

Good timing mate! I just finished the top mast and top gallant shrouds with the accompanying ratlines which I prolonged because I found it so boring. I’m happy to have got that out of the way and onto the running rigging.

 

here is my progress.

 

 

 

 

Edited December 23, 2023 by Isaiah

[Ferrus Manus]

Running rigging, you say? that should be fun. 

[Isaiah]

On 12/23/2023 at 3:44 PM, Ferrus Manus said:

Running rigging, you say? that should be fun. 

I hope it will be at least slightly better than ratlines.

[Ferrus Manus]

Trust me, it will. I'm currently doing a build for the Mayflower. Would you like to check it out? 

[Ferrus Manus]

And yes, running rigging is much better and more fun than ratlines. 

[Isaiah]

I will be spending more time on the model as I want to get it done in the next few months.

 

I have just completed a few running rigging items including:

 

The boom, boom lift and topping lift, boom mainsheet, the gaff, throat halliard and peak halliard.

 

 

 

Edited January 24 by Isaiah

[Ferrus Manus]

Great! You did almost everything perfectly! However, the falls for the peak lifts for the spanker boom should belay somewhere around the mast or at the sides of the ship around where the mast is. This is so the spanker boom can freely swing just like the gaff.