USS Constitution by Glen McGuire - BlueJacket Bicentennial Edition - 1/96 - Repair and Complete Construction

[Glen McGuire]

I spent the weekend doing yard work.  But I wasn't pushing the lawn mower in our 100 degree heat like I should have been.  Instead, I was hunched over the drill lathe making all the yards and yardarms for Connie.  That consists of 15 yards, 16 yard arms, a gaff and a spanker boom.  

 

Here's everything laid out on the mast/yard plan after the tapering process which was followed by adding the center battens, the parrel cleats, and the yardarm cleats.

 

 

Next, I carved out the jaws for the spanker boom and gaff.

 

 

Here's the completed spanker boom and gaff.

 

 

 

Here's a closeup of the main yard.

 

 

 

And here's the whole 9 yards (haha 🙄). 

  

 

 

 

I think that's a fair amount of progress for a little over a week, so I'm going to give Connie a short rest and head back over to the Flying Dutchman/Black Pearl SIB.

Edited Monday at 03:48 PM by Glen McGuire

[Ian_Grant]

35 minutes ago, Glen McGuire said:

 "  I spent the weekend doing yard work.  "

HaHaHa!

[Keith Black]

 That's a lot of work done in short order, Glen. Spar after spar after spar becomes pretty boring but populating them isn't for whatever reason. I think it's the repeated tapering. They look spot on, congratulations on getting that part of the project completed. 

[Glen McGuire]

1 hour ago, Keith Black said:

Spar after spar after spar becomes pretty boring but populating them isn't for whatever reason. I think it's the repeated tapering.

The biggest challenge for me was making those dang 8 battens that go around the middle of most of the yards.  Trying to make each set of 8 exactly the right width to fit evenly around spars of varying diameters cost me some brain cells.  But to my surprise, they all ended up fitting pretty well in the end.      

[gjdale]

Well done on sparring with all those yards Glen. You should treat yourself to a spa(r) bath!

[Keith Black]

 

31 minutes ago, gjdale said:

Well done on sparring with all those yards Glen. You should treat yourself to a spa(r) bath!

 Grant, Grant, Grant. 

Edited Monday at 09:25 PM by Keith Black

[Glen McGuire]

39 minutes ago, gjdale said:

Well done on sparring with all those yards Glen. You should treat yourself to a spa(r) bath!

Where's a site moderator when you need one?   😃