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HMS Endurance Build . . .

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BradNSW said:
Beautiful!!! Awesome work.

Big question remains...how did the grandson react to the ship in a bottle (and did he participate in raising it or did you present it "in the bottle")?
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Thanks!!!

I don't get the see the grandson until January. Started the process today to put it in the bottle because it is about a three day process in order to let glue set up.

Only going to be visiting for two days so I will need to have it done before I go.
 
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Swabbie said:
It's looking great @Rebus.
I have a question: what is that white cylinder strapped to the top of the main mast?
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Thanks!

Here is the answer I found on the Web:
The Endurance was a three-masted barquentine (square-rigged on the foremast, fore-and-aft on the main and mizzen) built in 1912. The very top of a traditional sailing ship's mast features a masthead fitting, which usually culminated in a piece of wood called a truck.
This part of the mast typically had sheaves (pulleys) for halyards (ropes used to hoist sails and flags) and attachment points for the standing rigging (fixed wires/ropes that supported the mast). It would not have been a white cylinder.

Some one else might know a better answer.
 
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Rebus said:
Thanks!

Here is the answer I found on the Web:
The Endurance was a three-masted barquentine (square-rigged on the foremast, fore-and-aft on the main and mizzen) built in 1912. The very top of a traditional sailing ship's mast features a masthead fitting, which usually culminated in a piece of wood called a truck.
This part of the mast typically had sheaves (pulleys) for halyards (ropes used to hoist sails and flags) and attachment points for the standing rigging (fixed wires/ropes that supported the mast). It would not have been a white cylinder.

Some one else might know a better answer.
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Thank you, @Rebus, for your well-explained reply.
The only reason I thought it was a cylinder was what I saw from the overhead view photo in post #99
 
Swabbie said:
It's looking great @Rebus.
I have a question: what is that white cylinder strapped to the top of the main mast?
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I have no references with which to back this up, but I think it may have been a lookout station, intended to provide some protection from the wind for whomever was standing watch. In the photos I have seen, it looks a bit bigger.

Edit: Haha! I see Swabbie found the answer while I was typing.
 
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