Rigging the boom

[ZhangRenWing]

Greetings all. I am a newcomer to the hobby; I have recently completed the Model Shipway's Lowell Grand Banks Dory kit and have started work on their 18th century longboat. I have finished planking and painting the ship but have run into a major problem with rigging. The kit's instructions for rigging are somewhat basic for beginners so I have no clue what knots to tie for seizing the blocks to the boom and the horse. Any help and tips on rigging would be greatly appreciated.

Renyun Zhang

[JacquesCousteau]

Welcome to the forum! I haven't built this model, but if you search for build logs of the Syren 1:24‐scale Medway Longboat, I think you'll find a lot of helpful information. Syren's kit is a larger-scale and more detailed model of a very similar vessel, and it was designed by the same person, Chuck Passaro. He's active on this forum, and has a very detailed Medway Longboat build log that might be helpful. Syren also has its instructions free for download, and it probably would tell you what you need. The only thing to keep in mind is that, with your model in a smaller scale, it will be more difficult to strop the blocks and make other parts of the rigging. There are also plenty of build logs for this exact kit, some of which may show in detail what you're after. Best of luck!

 

PS: Syren's guide for stropping blocks (available for download on its website) is also extremely helpful--it doesn't quite replicate how actual blocks were stropped, but it shows a way that's pretty easy and looks good.

Edited Wednesday at 03:47 AM by JacquesCousteau