Good morning Peter. Thanks. It was very difficult to get all the lines tensioned just right so the boat is squared off horizontally ,vertically and in the correct position above the stands on the skid beams. Got it 90% so I am “chuffed” (SA term for very happy). Cheers GrantIt’s a nice but complex rigging, Grant. But at the end: you did it! It’s hanging ….. no, it’s flying!
Regards, Peter
Good morning Paul. Thanks. I was hesitant when the idea came to me, however I am super happy with the outcome. Cheers Grant
Fantastic display Grant , fantastic
Thank you Robert. Was fun to do. Cheers Grant
Good morning Uwek. Thank you very much. Cheers GrantGreat work - a like the idea of presentation - a very good model with a special area to look at -
Very good idea
Seriously though, I feel for you - it is such a pleasure to live in a country where things like that are totally unheard of.
Good morning Heinrich. We are battling with energy at present. Koeberg nuclear station is having major maintenance on one of the reactors. This is going to take 6 months. In addition the Mpumalanga station had a large fire and is out for a while as well. I am (like so many South Africans) installing an off the grid solar and lithium battery system at home- only in Feb tho as there are no supply at present. It is hurting our fragile economy so much thoWho says that power outages are all bad when they serve as backdrop to such stunning photographs!
. Cheers Grant
I can't press the Like Button to that, but as I have said earlier, I obviously know what it feels like. I had quite a few surgeons as clients up in Johannesburg and the horror stories they tell of operating by the light of a mobile phone during power outages, still haunt me.Good morning Heinrich. We are battling with energy at present. Koeberg nuclear station is having major maintenance on one of the reactors. This is going to take 6 months. In addition the Mpumalanga station had a large fire and is out for a while as well. I am (like so many South Africans) installing an off the grid solar and lithium battery system at home- only in Feb tho as there are no supply at present. It is hurting our fragile economy so much tho
Standing end is attached to the hull. It runs up through the sheet block in the strop and back down via a block and tackle pendant and back up through the hull. It is tied off to the staghorn on the quarter deck. The pendant runs through a spider.
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Wow, lots’s critters on that ship!! Enough $$$ in the swear jar yet to buy a Vasa kit?
Good afternoon. Summer in Cape Town and so many things to do and not enough hours to do them.
I Finally got some play time with my Victory.
The sheet, tack and clue lines for the main yard are done. Pretty similar to fore yard.
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Repair : No finesse Grant broke his studding boom tie-Eish- easy to fix tho.
Tack :
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The standing end of the tack is Attached to hull. It then runs up through the tack block in the strop and back down through the sheave(fake on Grants Victory ) on the chesstree and through the hull to the upper gun deck.
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Sheet :
View attachment 346299 Standing end is attached to the hull. It runs up through the sheet block in the strop and back down via a block and tackle pendant and back up through the hull. It is tied off to the staghorn on the quarter deck. The pendant runs through a spider.
Pendant and spider:
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Tied off to Staghorn. This was near impossible for Grant. I could not get two teezers in there so all was done one handed. Eish- swear jar full!! I was going to do a Hank- no way.
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Spiders and Stags have joined Grants Victory animal farm.
Cheers Grant
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Wow! The ship is really coming along beautifully! Nice photography too!
Good evening Paul- you are 100% correct- with only getting one tweezer in there, each time I wound it, it unravel on the other horn. I decided enough is enough when I broke one of the “horns” (this was glued back). No redo here….Wonderful photo tour Grant! I love the result you achieved on the 'strop blocks'. Now the bad news: I believe the 'staghorn' tie-off that filled your swear jar should be figure of eight using both horns
I was also really concerned about damaging my backstays. Perhaps getting some extra long hooks and tweezers should be considered. Cheers Grant
Good evening Jan. Probably a couple of Vasa kitsWow, lots’s critters on that ship!! Enough $$$ in the swear jar yet to buy a Vasa kit?
. It was one of those not to be remembered modelling moments trying to get the Staghorn tie off correctly- it did beat me in the end. Ahh still looks good tho. Cheers Grant
Good evening Jack. Thank you indeed. Rigging is almost done, just some hanks and rope coils. Then there is ;
s, quarter Davits and rigging of these, one more little boat to make, finish off aft galleries. Coming down the home stretch now. Cheers Grant
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hook and tackle sling is removed. The hook is hooked onto the main anchor ring. The aft of the anchor is lowered via the chain and this is then removed from anchor.
