Trapped cat ship wreck!

[Roger Pellett]

It looks like the lower masts and rigging are essentially undamaged. Why not just remove the damaged rigging and spars and display the model in “ordinary.”

Roger

 

[Llaut Mallorquin]

One of my pictures

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[CarlosE]

You are right there certainly is!

After several hundred hours my HMS Fly, was almost complete save for one piece of running rigging. However, fate had other ideas! Yesterday was a beautifully sunny Bank Holiday in the UK, which we enjoyed at a friends house. However, on my return I entered my garage/workshop to find my pride and joy wrecked and hanging from the handle of a vice. I never did see the culprit, but it had left its calling card in the middle of the garage floor, so there is no doubt I had apparently accidentally locked one of the neighbourhood cats in the garage and in its panic the wreck occurred. I had been looking forward to a new project, but it looks as if it has been chosen for me! Sorry about the quality of the image, but I think you get the general idea.

Well, that’s one way to add a bit of character to the HMS Fly—courtesy of the local cat navy! Typical, isn’t it?

 

[MarinerR]

It looks like the lower masts and rigging are essentially undamaged. Why not just remove the damaged rigging and spars and display the model in “ordinary.”

Roger

I have thought of that route, but I am currently attempting a repair. I have replaced the broken masts and bowsprit, but the real challenge is going to be the rigging. I might still take the 'ordinary' option, will see what I can achieve.over the next month or so. What do they say, "worse things happen at sea".

 

[Jerome]

Now, as a contrast, my cat, Mable, is a great appreciator of my ships, always inspecting the day's work, occasionally finding & drawing my attention to a 'loose end' somewhere,

Mine does the same thing!