Medway Longboat 1742 by bartley - 1:24 scale

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Rigging

 

For once I elected to deviate from Chuck's monograph and install the shrouds and other standing rigging before the running rigging for the boom and gaff.  I normally rig my mast from low to high so that I can fabricate the stays, for example, off the model and them slip them over the mast. A further advantage is the mast is then held tightly into the step and does not jump out as it tended to do when I installed the boom first

 

I made up the hooks stropped to the lower dead eyes.  The straps were made fro 3/32'' brass plate as suggested. 

 

The upper dead eyes were stopped to the shrouds in the usual way:

I used this simple jig to ensure that the length was the same on both sides and that the aft dead was slightly lower

 

 

The staps were nailed to the hull as shown:

The lanyards wee now laced between the dead eyes in the usual manner:

 

The shroud gang on the mast looks like this:

Once the dead eyes ere tightened and tidied up the front view looked like this:

I will install the back stays next but probably leave the fore stay so that I can still get good access to the pin rail.

 

John

 

 

 

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Back Stays

The installation of the back stays was straight forward.  The straps had already been installed earlier aft of the mast.  Two 1/4" blocks were seized to hooks to hooks  to fit these straps. 

 

After seizing the falls around the mast they were reeved to these blocks:

 

 

John