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The Mary Rose by Caldercraft [COMPLETED BUILD]
- Thread starter Kageecanuck
- Start date
- Watchers 14
Made lots of progress today. The sides are planked with overlapping planks so that took a lot of time . 
Need to clean a polish then add ladders and hatches and then onto the masts and rigging
Need to clean a polish then add ladders and hatches and then onto the masts and rigging
Fitted the outer belaying rail brackets and channel brackets. Added the trim around the ladder waysand fitted the ladders in place. Glued the fore and aft cargo hatch boards as well as the ventilation hatches. Next up is the waist gangway board. 
Installed the outer belaying rails fore and aft. Planked the waist gangway board with the Tanganijka strips and installed it making sure that the main mast fit into it as well as the main deck. Finished off the hull construction by adding all the rigging cleats and the three rams head block tackle bitts 
Cut and initially shaped all the mast pieces and constructed all the crowsnests. Used .5mm hemp to make the fore and main mast rope wooldings
Attached all the deadeyes and chains 
Built all masts 
Spent the day shaping all the yards and attaching various blocks, stop cleats etc 
Been away for a few days but back at it now. All the masts are in place. 
Worked on the shrouds on the main mast.
Worked on the shrouds on the main mast.
First level of shrouds complete. 
On to the Ratlines. I like to print graph paper in this case 5 mm squares in order to keep the lines square and straight 
One down About 300 clove hitches later about 2000 to go Ratlines are actually very relaxing and repetitive lol
Thanks its coming along
"Relaxing" - I am usually getting nervous - very nervous 
These are such works, which I would like to "outsource" if possible - lucky you
BTW: looking very good
These are such works, which I would like to "outsource" if possible - lucky you
BTW: looking very good
More work on the Ratlines
First level completed Time to add deadeyes to the crows nest and more shrouds and ratlines
And all shrouds and Ratlines
completed
completed
Completed all the mast stays, so all the standing rigging is now complete. 
