Gothenborg by Popeye the sailor - Billing Boats - 1:100 scale

[popeye the sailor]

some call them thongs  {not to be confused with }    I'm wearing a pair right now 

[realworkingsailor]

Yeah... That's more the UK term (so I've been told)..... I'll stick with calling them flip-flops.... A confused Dutchman is much easier to deal with than the alternative..

 

Andy

[SkerryAmp]

some call them thongs  {not to be confused with }    I'm wearing a pair right now 

Where is the do not like button,  DO NOT LIKE!!!!!

 

 

-Adam

Edited July 30, 2013 by SkerryAmp

[realworkingsailor]

Thank you, Adam, for supplying "the alternative" ....

[mtaylor]

There's just TMI here...  I think I'll move along to the next log..   :D  

[gerty]

Very Nice work Popeye !

[trippwj]

Your Goth is progressing nicely, Popeye. Strange place here...Sjors reserves you a rocking chair, we digress to flip-flops, Sherry suggest you need the commode and then Adam brought in thongs. I get so confused!

[popeye the sailor]

I know what you mean Wayne.......nothing wrong with a little banter    now that I've gotten through with my work week,  I can work some more on the Goth and get some more pictures up.   I've been looking over the pictures again........mainly at the brace riggings.  I need to tie on some more blocks.....it won't too hard though.  then the mis ship needs some work.....things I want to add.   more progress soon 

 

I call them flip flops as well.........Gibbs calls them chew toys though,  so I have to keep an eye on them.  lately,  I've been having to keep an eye out for under our bed........seems to be his hide out     crazy dog!

[Sjors]

Thanks Andy,

 

Here they call it teen slippers……..

 

[riverboat]

I can see where this thread is going Popeye, and it won't be long before you're sitting at  that table with Commodore Augie and Commodore  

You Know Who,    just a quick word on the Goth......she's looking real good... your work has been outstanding!!

Frank

[realworkingsailor]

Thanks Andy,

 

Here they call it teen slippers……..

 

 

 

Hmm.....  seems kinda lame..... :mellow:

 

Must lose something in translation....... 

[Sjors]

Teen means Toe in English Andy,

 

And slippers are just shoes.

 

[augie]

Teen means Toe in English Andy,

 

And slippers are just shoes.

 

Must be Olde English!

[popeye the sailor]

comodore Sjor, 

is so much more

is so very chatty,

and could drink you to the floor

 

some folks say

he can stick it ayway

1/2 pint 'o whiskey

every day

 

Aristotle, 

Aristotle

was a beggar for the bottle

'an awefully fond of his ram

 

'an Winsdale Scott

was a drunk'in phart

I drink.....

therefore I am! 

 

{edited excert from  "the philosopher's drink song" by Monty Python}  example:  F = PH  cunningly funny!

 

 

thanks Frank...........only 188 more to go!   I'd have something on the Goth,  but I've run into technical difficulties with the Half Moon,  and I'm working to resolve it.......more on that at Eleven    I have to get the main mast in order now anyway........gotta be able to do the lower fore stays,  before I can finish the shrouds.   I'm so happy to be rigging.........thanks for the good word

 

I always thought that  'flip flop' was a universal term!   

[popeye the sailor]

After thought:     I should have done the 'ph' thing all through it..........then it would have looked really kool!

 

opps!  187 now...............Hee..........Hee        MORE WINE!!!!!!   

[popeye the sailor]

OK.........meanwhile back at the Gothenborg............and now for something completely different

 

I know I promised to get something up here last night,  but I was so full of taco...I couldn't move

     so previously,  I mentioned something about a pair of pulley assemblies that pertain to the catheads.  I had cemented a pair of blocks to the catheads to accept this bit of rigging.  the purpose for it,  I think,  is to counter the pull of the anchors {don't quote me on it}.  I tied a couple of blocks to the lower eye bolt on the bow stem.

 

 

I also created the eyelets for the futocks on the main mast top.

 

 

a piece of rigging thread was tied to the port cathead block,  and the pulley assembly was established

 

 

 

I went to do it to the starboard side,  but the block pulled out of it,  so now I'm waiting for another one to dry....for a re-attempt. 

 

I took the dog across the street,  to the field earlier........I know of a black rasberry patch that I have been raiding.   I went out picking this morning......and now I'm going to take a break and make some muffins.......never a dull moment here at the wharf!

 

 

[Sjors]

Nice Popeye,

 

But what about Skype?

Is that also on that field?

You can just have it on your computer…….

 

[popeye the sailor]

hi there Sjors.......I downloaded skype........all I need now is the web cam and mic.   it'll be a couple days before I can get it together.  bear with me......I'm a bit unfamiliar with all this funny stuff.   thanks for looking in and the good word

[Jim Lad]

Nice to see that the Gothenborg hasn't been forgotten, Popeye!

 

John

[popeye the sailor]

thanks John..........I picked back up on her right after the AmericA was finished.   I've done a bit of work on her already.....I'm going by all the pictures I have of her.   seasick worked on her for a spell and got me a bunch more,  so I have quite a few.   the sad part of it,  is there are no decorations for the stern......I'm not even going to try and carve them...never done it before.  but,  yea....she's back on the table.

 

thanks for the good word.........glad your back! 

[riverboat]

I"m not going to say it......... I'll let Sjors ask you for more pictures

[popeye the sailor]

I'll have more soon Frank.......I know  'he who has no name' is lurking........

[popeye the sailor]

on second thought Frank.......I just unloaded the camera for the night.......I'll post what I have,  adding what I already put up.   I added the railing to the main top and painted it and the cross tree.  eye bolts were also cemented in all the caps.

 

 

by this time,  the cathead block was dry enough to rig.  both sides are now done.  I won't add anything else until a bit later.

 

 

 

 

another set of blocks I should do is for the brace rigging........I'm not going to like doing them if I get too far down the road.   I still need to make yet another set of hearts for the mizzen mast.....forgot about those too!

[popeye the sailor]

I did a little more last evening........today,  between the grand kids coming over and lawn care,  I didn't get too far,  bassically,  it was just to rig the lift blocks on the main mast,  and trim the rest of the ends on the mizzen blocks.

 

 

 

 

more progress soon

[augie]

Aye, she grows taller mate!

[popeye the sailor]

thanks Augie

[mobbsie]

Are they the spiders I've been reading about Popeye, she grows ever larger and more complex my friend.

 

Looking real good.

 

mobbsie

[captainbob]

Ah, the fun of it all. 

 

Bob

[riverboat]

Loook'n  real good !! Popeye..... seems like there's a million things to do at this stage doesn't it........ it blows me away how you keep up with everything you 've got going  ,,, and, thanks for the pictures!!!  

Frank

[TBlack]

I'll second what Frank just mentioned. You must have a huge shop to be able to tackle all of these projects at once.

 

But I'd also comment on how focused we all are on the model. What I really want to know is how the blackberry muffins turned out that you made back on the 14th?

 

Tom