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HMS Victory by Y.T.- Mamoli - 1:90 scale

Y.T. said:
I however have a suspicion that at the time they introduced the dolphin striker with its martingale lines the spritsail topsail idea was abolished,
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You are correct the spritsail topsail use came to an end on English ships of war in the early part of the 18th century.

The dolphin striker had six variations between 1794 and 1840. In all cases the striker was square or rectangular, according to Jame Lees in The Masting and Rigging English Ships of War, The number of holes, and later, slots with sheaves, varied from 1 to 5 depending on the year. And then throw in the variations we see in virtually every ship, era, nation, none of this may be correct for Victory.

Allan
 
AllanKP69 said:
You are correct the spritsail topsail use came to an end on English ships of war in the early part of the 18th century.
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Thanks Allan. So, do you think I can leave my model as I have on pictures above - Dolphin striker with its lines is present and spritsail topsail and its yard is absent?
 
Y.T. said:
Thanks Allan. So, do you think I can leave my model as I have on pictures above - Dolphin striker with its lines is present and spritsail topsail and its yard is absent?
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Based on everything you presented and from what I could find I would absolutely leave off the yard. From what I could find dolphin strikers came quite a while after these particular yards went away, at least on English ships.

Allan
 
Making jeer triple block strappings. See tutorial I just posted.

Tutorial. Stropping of Served Double-Stropped Jeer Blocks. One Continuous Thread. No CA glue.

I developed a process that I would like to document here so I do not forget how I did it. It can be useful for someone too. I use Domanoff serving machine for this work. I have quite a few pictures to upload. This will be done trough many posts. Please refrain from comments till I am done with...
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Y.T. said:
Look what a beautiful vintage drafting set I got from eBay. It cost me miserable 70 Canadian dollars with shipping. This is like $50 US. It’s Complete and in almost unused condition. It’s made circa 1945. People at the time were proud of the tools they made. I will use the ruling pens for drafting seams on my silkspan sails.

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Still have my dad's set - also from Canada. And it's well used.
 
I acquired an amazing book on Victory rigging. This is the book I was dreaming about when decided to rig my model. Instead of getting one book with pictures showing how to do the job I had to acquire four. None was sufficient to do the job but in combination I was inching ahead. This was extremely difficult task. Longridge texts deciphering appeared most difficult but essential. Many times I threw Longridge book aside having long breaks to recover. Now I finally have one proper handbook for rigging. Whole book is just 260 pages of pictorial diagrams. This is all one needs to do the job. Here it is.

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