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USS Constitution - Model Shipways

Before getting sidetracked in research for the acquisition or construction of a rope walking machine, I thought I'd at least try to rig one of the swifters. I don't even want to say how many hours I have invested in this little bit of rigging. Let me just say it was a very steep learning curve.

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The 1.1mm rope doesn't look bad wrapped around the 4.8mm double block. The correctly sized block (4.0mm) looked ridiculous with this rope wrapped around it. Unfortunately this means I may need to invested in a few more 1/8" (4.8mm) in double blocks.

For the sake of symmetry, I will do the starboard side next. Then shift my attention to rope making.
 
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