The Schooner Bluenose 1921, POF Yuanqing Models 1:72 [COMPLETED BUILD]

Daniel20 said:
Sunday evening and the first nice cool front of fall has finally arrived. Not a big update but an interesting one for me. I have formed what they call 'bails', not unlike the bail you might find on a spinning reel. The first one goes on the top bracket that connects the fore main and fore topmast. There are two hooks that I braised to the bail as per the Jenson drawing shown and it was surprisingly easy to accomplish once I figured out how to hold the pieces and apply heat.

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Next up is the bail at the main mast main top connection. There is a curious starboard side ring that everybody has (I do not know what it is for yet) but have included it.

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And lastly, I have a forestay bail located in the bow over the bow sprit. Everything is dry fit for now, still need to paint and make sure I am ready to permanently install. I study Jenson, and the other masters who have placed sails on their ships until I'm blue in the face and I know there will be some important hard to get to fitting I'll leave off that a sail needs to have. I've already found two eyes to install on the underside of the fore mast trestle tree for the Jumbo sail halyard. now I have to drill upside down into the trestletree.

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Hope you enjoy and thanks for looking in.
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Hello Daniel, Happy Belated Birthday, We hope you had a great day and that you got the Biggest! piece of cake and also that you received all the new toys that you had wished for and also a few more for good luck.
Great job you are doing on your YQ-Bluenose she sure is looking very nice for sure.
Regards Lawrence
 
Canoe21 said:
Hello Daniel, Happy Belated Birthday, We hope you had a great day and that you got the Biggest! piece of cake and also that you received all the new toys that you had wished for and also a few more for good luck.
Great job you are doing on your YQ-Bluenose she sure is looking very nice for sure.
Regards Lawrence
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I sure thank you for the well wishes Lawrence!
 
Good evening, all. I've had a couple of productive days and have installed both main and fore top mast. Along with this I placed all the bails, port and starboard additional eyelets as expertly pointed out by @Peter Voogt and the rings that the sails will attach to. There are two sets of shrouds on each top mast, one inner and one outer. I set rat lines on the inner but will wait on the outer rats for now. See what you think.

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I am still waiting on my anchor order and some additional three sheeve blocks that I missed on the first go around. I will get back to outfitting the various gaffs and booms with their hardware. Before long I will be forced to start on the sails, oh boy.

Thanks for checking in on me.
 
Daniel20 said:
Good evening, all. I've had a couple of productive days and have installed both main and fore top mast. Along with this I placed all the bails, port and starboard additional eyelets as expertly pointed out by @Peter Voogt and the rings that the sails will attach to. There are two sets of shrouds on each top mast, one inner and one outer. I set rat lines on the inner but will wait on the outer rats for now. See what you think.

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I am still waiting on my anchor order and some additional three sheeve blocks that I missed on the first go around. I will get back to outfitting the various gaffs and booms with their hardware. Before long I will be forced to start on the sails, oh boy.

Thanks for checking in on me.
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Impressive: woodwork, metalwork, ropework, all of it. Stands tall in the glare of the blown up photos! Great craftsmanship!
 
Impressive work on the rigging, Dan.
If you don't mind; are you now kind of double shrouding the topmasts? First you add on both masts the "shrouds" marked with a green arrow, to the top of the lower masts, to be completed with shrouds from the tresseltrees to the top of the topmasts, red arrow. Did I miss something? Since I am following the MS drawings for the most part, I added to the front mast the shrouds from tresseltree to top of the lower foremast and shrouds from the tresseltree to the top of the main topmast.

Shroud from tresseltree to top of lower mast:
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Shroud from tresseltree to top of topmast:
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My take on the fore topmast:
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And the one for the top mainmast:
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RDN1954 said:
Impressive work on the rigging, Dan.
If you don't mind; are you now kind of double shrouding the topmasts? First you add on both masts the "shrouds" marked with a green arrow, to the top of the lower masts, to be completed with shrouds from the tresseltrees to the top of the topmasts, red arrow. Did I miss something? Since I am following the MS drawings for the most part, I added to the front mast the shrouds from tresseltree to top of the lower foremast and shrouds from the tresseltree to the top of the main topmast.

Shroud from tresseltree to top of lower mast:
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Shroud from tresseltree to top of topmast:
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My take on the fore topmast:
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And the one for the top mainmast:
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Hi Johan,
I am using the Jenson only on this detail. Since its supposed to be a copy of BN1 I can only assume the original Bluenose had this. I wish I had a copy of the MS drawings as they may very well have not had this interpretation.

Foremast close up.

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Fore and main view.

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From the material list in Jenson.

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Here there are Inner and Outer shrouds but weather the BN1 had this I really don't know. What do you think?

Dan
 
Daniel20 said:
Hi Johan,
I am using the Jenson only on this detail. Since its supposed to be a copy of BN1 I can only assume the original Bluenose had this. I wish I had a copy of the MS drawings as they may very well have not had this interpretation.

Foremast close up.

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Fore and main view.

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From the material list in Jenson.

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Here there are Inner and Outer shrouds but weather the BN1 had this I really don't know. What do you think?

Dan
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Hey Dan,
Okay, I see where you're coming from. I should have known, since Jenson's work is lying on my nightstand, but as I said, I'm fully committed (more or less) to the MS drawings and don't pay too much attention to Jenson anymore.
Having said that, I did some searching and there is pictorial evidence suggesting Jenson is right on, with emphasis on suggesting. Pictures of the Bluenose I are sparse and often not detailed enough to distinguish these details. What I could argue is that any option would be plausible, pending on the weather and/or racing conditions. In wintertime the top shrouds would be gone all together, since the top masts might have been removed, since the weather conditions during winter in that part of the Atlantic are harsh.
Adding the topmasts again would also reintroduce the necessary standing rigging.
 
Daniel20 said:
Hi Johan, I will just leave it as is. I can see the utility of having a short ladder if you will at the main mast. and the utility of a tall ladder at the upper foremast. Curious how MS doesn't show them though.
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Can't say I'd blame you, Dan. We've had this conversation on this forum on quite a number of ships.
The bottom line is we honestly don't know which, if any, configuration is correct. So yours is as good as mine, or any other builder. ( At least when we're able to show some historical reference to support our choices...)
 
I finally received my kedge anchors. Dry brushing and installation were straight forward, this finishes the deck fittings at the bow.

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I made a little progress on the booms and gaffs by adding the clappers and two pulleys at the end of the main boom.

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I'm still waiting on a shipment of triple sheeve blocks, in the meantime I'll continue rigging the booms and gaffs.

Thanks for checking in.
 
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