When you look at the sail/plan sheet 6 you will note the small oval deadeyes on the shrouds. From those laser cut in the kit you can see what is being asked for or to replace. I was not able to find any of that type and size so I hand filed slightly larger ones into the oval/triangle shape. Maybe your search for those will be more successful than mine was. The Dry Dock blocks and eyes are outstanding. Rich
Interesting idea which never came to my mind in my own model. Hopefully it will be I a true shear and hull lines as you progress. I had to do some fillers on the outboard side of my schooner to close some gaps to the backside of the hull planking. Onwards, my friend! Rich (PT-2)
Those look well placed and ready for fairing before the planking. Nice progress. Rich
As the hull and deck have a shear curve you may have to scribe that to transfer to the solid stock upon which you are gluing the station. My MS BN bulkheads extended above the deck to the proper height but necessitated cutting and filing those to the correct hull side lines. Kits are definitely different in what they call upon the builder to do. Looks like you are progressing well. Rich (PT-2)
It’s looking very good John!
I had multiple problems in the several scarfed railing sections shown on the plans and in the kit but it all worked out eventually. Maybe not as precise as a replacement single piece railing but I knew that the actual railings were in shorter sections so I followed that tack. The compound bend of the transom railing took more heated bending in my case for a proper fit which still was not perfectly tight. Rich (PT-2)
Very nice progress. I particularly like the regularity and squareness of the scuppers. Another drilling challenge, possibly, will be the numerous belaying pin holes and eye bolts around the rails. Some of mine ended up too close to stantions or the bulwarks to be able to figure-8 a line around the bottom projection so I had to cheat this and glue the line to the edge of the rail knowing that it would be covered by the faux rope hanks. The MS BN also has a few falls being directed to the same pin. If you choose to include the dory tackles there are no pins for those and the note says that the fall can either be secured to the shear rod on the shrouds or around itself. I will be adding some extra pins for those four falls but there are other duplicates shown on the pin rails around the bottom of the masts. The rigging note states the BN had fewer belaying pins than other schooners so it was a problem that I am surprised to find out about. Dean worked around this and with his omission of sails and the simplified YQ kit only had falls to pins where he placed his rope hanks and left the other pins open. It made for a very clean presentation.
The plans show a winch engine which would have to scratch built . . . Dean and Peter have an excellent 3-D one to be printed out fo which I have a hard time imagining that inside the YQ 72 scale much less our larger 64 scale but it would be a neat item to have included with the engine covers being hinged to show it. I was satisfied to pass on that challenge as there are plenty of other opportunities but I could drift back in a strong headwind and current to try and put one inside.
