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Building the Endurance

The Question relates to the position of the deadeyes for the front Mast, As we seem to agree they were on a side board and not the rail. I have based my assessment on an old model because I could not find any detailed photos
 
Omega said:
The stairs that come with the kit are not great. I note that some builders chose to make their own out of wood & this allowed them to install hand rails. I tried to move someway towards this by using the kit brass stairs but adding wood side pannels so that I could install hand rails. THEN :---- I discovered some stairs on ALIexpress at almost the right scale that included side rails. Cheap and not bad. I am quite impressed with them & will use them in lieu of the kit stairs

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Hi

Nice built. Soon i will start mine. Please, would you be so kind to provide the link to those Aliexpress stairs. I wasn't able to find them.

Thank you !
Daniel
 
When you get to my age, you have to be careful. whilst installing the main rigging with deadeyes I moved the main sail too much and broke the connection of the main spar to the main mast. I realize now that I should have made this stonger in the first place. I also broke the connection to the spar lights, This was fiddley and lengthy but it is now up and operating again with a strengenthed flexible connection between the main spar and the mast. Lights reconnected but some tidy up work to do.

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