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Thanks. No problem Greg, maybe you didn't notice because you're new to the site.
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What a wonderful ship. I wish I had opened up the gun deck. too late for me. congratulations on an amazing job.
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Thank you so much Jack.
It would make sense to open it up if you included gun deck details, but as far as I know you didn't.
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Magnificent workmanship, stupendous model. cheers.
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No I didn`t. What I mean when I say open it up means the entire deck. not just the cannons.
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The fore top gallant/royal mast and fore top gallant yard were installed and rigged.
My advice to the guys who will be doing the rigging is this: at this stage, they should leave the external line connections that could make access to the spar deck difficult until the very end. Look at the last photo. The lines on which the clamps are hanged will be connected to their positions in the channels after the connections on the spar deck are completed.
My advice to the guys who will be doing the rigging is this: at this stage, they should leave the external line connections that could make access to the spar deck difficult until the very end. Look at the last photo. The lines on which the clamps are hanged will be connected to their positions in the channels after the connections on the spar deck are completed.
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Your ship is looking absolutely majestic, Mustafa! We appreciate the advice! Noted and stored for whenever I (hopefully!) get to this point. Thank you, sir!
Hi Mustafa,
I'm at the point where I'm fabricating the irons for the jibbooms. I remembered that you fitted the jibbooms and irons quite a while ago, but intentionally left them off so you could more easily rig the yards. I'm trying to decide if I should follow suit, or glue the irons in before the yards are mounted. I see in your most recent photos, that the inner irons appear on the main yards, but not the foremast. And that the only visible end irons on the main yard seem to be simply dangling there.
I would prefer to glue both irons in as I finish making them (for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that I don't want to loose them), but I can see that rigging the yard arms might be easier without the end irons fixed in place. Is there a good reason to leave off the inner irons until the yards are on the masts? I think I would prefer to mount the irons with the yards off the masts., but will definitely take your sage advise into account.
I'm at the point where I'm fabricating the irons for the jibbooms. I remembered that you fitted the jibbooms and irons quite a while ago, but intentionally left them off so you could more easily rig the yards. I'm trying to decide if I should follow suit, or glue the irons in before the yards are mounted. I see in your most recent photos, that the inner irons appear on the main yards, but not the foremast. And that the only visible end irons on the main yard seem to be simply dangling there.
I would prefer to glue both irons in as I finish making them (for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that I don't want to loose them), but I can see that rigging the yard arms might be easier without the end irons fixed in place. Is there a good reason to leave off the inner irons until the yards are on the masts? I think I would prefer to mount the irons with the yards off the masts., but will definitely take your sage advise into account.
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Hi Peter. There's absolutely no problem with installing the inner irons now. They won't interfere with anything.
I'm very glad to hear that. Thank you very much. It does, however, beg the question. Why are yours not installed?
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There's no particular reason, Peter. I just drilled the necessary holes for the irons in the yards and decided to mount them later. I guess the only reason was that I didn't want the area to be crowded while rigging.