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Help with model of schooner Gertrude Thebaud

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John Bl

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Hello,
This is my first contact with Ships of Scale. I learned modeling when I worked for a few years with the Model Shipwrights team at the US Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis. I am now in Monterey, California, close to the Naval Postgraduate School.
Someone just gave me a model of the Gloucester schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud, which I learn was famous in the 1930s for its races against the Bluenose. My model is in very bad condition. I will try to restore it, and it would be a big help if I could obtain a rigging plan for it. Can anyone help ?
Jean Blondeau

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Very cool! I would suggest starting with some of Howard I. Chapelle's books, especially The American Fishing Schooners and or The Search for Speed Under Sail (at least I think he discusses the fishing schooners in the latter). I'm not sure if he has plans included of the Thebaud, but he certainly will of similar vessels.
 
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