Good morning. Rigging “on the ship”.....

....this is Grant :
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I rigged the backstays and the main stay so I could tension all the shrouds. In my uneducated logic the shroud tension alone may change the 1 degree rake of the mast and alignment. All the backstays will be undone for the futtock shrouds
and ratlines. Clearly nothing tied off.
The Victory has the following backstays :
Blue Arrows
3 topmast standing stays connected via smaller deadeyes
A topmast breast stay connected via tackle and block
Topmast shifting stay - block and tackle
Red Arrows
Top gallant standing stay - deadeye
Top gallant Royal backstay - pendant and lashing
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Close ups:
Breast stay
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Shifting backstay
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Royal backstay
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Red arrow is for the mast top stay block however I need to make some more hooks first.
Blunders: First pic:
You will notice the standing stays dead eye lanyards are shorter than the shrouds. This is correct 15mm vs 20mm however I put the stay deadeye on the channel upside down

. Some redo coins from
@rtibbs for me.
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The good news- I got my shroud deadeyes nicely tensioned and mostly aligned


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2. Not my blunder however the standing stays touch the mast top on way down. These should not. The Mantua build does not include these, in fact only has 3 of the seven, and I only assume the channel or top is out of scale- will have to live with this:
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Lastly : sorry guys tried to keep it brief

The main stay heart block lashed to collar which runs through marine walk to bow sprit. Also not tied.
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Cheers Grant
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