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Building the Endurance

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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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Well accidents happen. I broke the rudder post (between the rudder & the Stearing gear) and I had to dismantle the stearing gear etc to repair the rudder post. Second time it happened but my previouse repair relied on a rod insert & glue of the post (was out of site). I obviousely did not do it well enough because it broke again. I will do it better this time and take the oportunity to improve some items in the stearing gear that need improving
 
Omega said:
Well accidents happen. I broke the rudder post (between the rudder & the Stearing gear) and I had to dismantle the stearing gear etc to repair the rudder post. Second time it happened but my previouse repair relied on a rod insert & glue of the post (was out of site). I obviousely did not do it well enough because it broke again. I will do it better this time and take the oportunity to improve some items in the stearing gear that need improving
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You are doing really amazing work! One possible suggestion. I am looking at your steering mechanism. Perhaps if you can find chain with finer linkage it may ease the feeding and any obstruction to the flow of the chain as the rudder is moved back and forth?

Rob
 
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Whilst repairing the steering, I also finished the dog kennels ready for installation, I have also taken advice above to seek a finner chain & I am also making slightly larger pulleys

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I have now installed a new rudder post and whilst at it I put ends on the ships wheel disk (to stop the chain coming off the end), and I also constructed some slightly larger pulleys. I won't rush to install however as my handling of the ship is what twisted the rudder and broke the post

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I have been putting off the lifeboats because it is fiddley & I know I am not very good at it. But it has to be done. As I said earlier I am not impressed by this section of the kit but I have decided to perservere with the boats

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Omega said:
I have been putting off the lifeboats because it is fiddley & I know I am not very good at it. But it has to be done. As I said earlier I am not impressed by this section of the kit but I have decided to perservere with the boats

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Made me smile … I was exactly the same until I finally got to a point that I had to build them. As you say fiddly but they have come out well.
 
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A question to those who may know. did the Endurance have running lights, ie Red, green & white at the mast head. As it sunk in 1915, I would assume it would have had ????????
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The laws of Rhodes (2nd or 3rd century BC) already mentioned the obligation for ships and vessels to carry navigation lights, both while underway and at anchor.

In 1848, with the Steam Navigation Act, the United Kingdom required for the first time that navigation lights be red on the port side, green on the starboard side, and a white masthead light for steamships.

At the Washington Conference of 1889, the basis were laid for the international standardization of navigational aids, and a second white masthead light was added for steamships.

With the publication of SOLAS in 1960, the basis was established for the current Convention for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea. This Convention, the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs), entered into force in 1977…

So, from what I understand, I think so. But I doubt that they were the three (red, green and white) at the top of the bow mast.
 
Thanks for the advice on the lights. My intention is to install navigation lights, red, green and white at the mast head & stern.
 
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