YQ Bluenose by Johan [COMPLETED BUILD]

RDN1954 said:
It's fun to add small, seamingly insignificant details. It also takes away the monotony of adding reef lines to the main sail...

The initial reason I started on YuanQing's kit was and still is the beauty of the POF build method. Although I do have a few misgivings about the kit, it's a fun to build kit, with a big plus being the possibility to customize one's build.
That's what I have to give SOS (amongst others) credit for: one can find numerous examples of beautiful customizations, with which you can feed your own imagination.
The scale is indeed a factor of importance; personally I am up to my limits, most of the time. I am baffled by those being able to build guns in 1:100 in great detail.
Although I have departed quite severely from the kit and it's drawings and instructions, I applaud YuanQing for developing this kit; I would buy it again in a heartbeat (and no, I don't have YQ-shares).
Most importantly though is the help I received on numerous occasions from fellow builders, when I was close to throwing the towel, either by, sometimes brutally, honest comments, but also with freely given advice and hardware. Without them I wouldn't have progressed this far.
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Love this posting Johan! The SOS community is indeed a great and wonderful one!
 
Below the current status of the main sail assembly. All reef lines are done and the gaff is attached to the head of the main sail. Also the peak and throat were attached to the gaff.
The clew and tack are connected to the boom and the foot of the mainsail and the boom are also mated, although not complete; I ran out of rope...
So now I wait for the goodies to arrive, I ordered the necessary rope from Modellbau Takelgarn, Germany.
Until then I'll enjoy the good weather. :cool:
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RDN1954 said:
Below the current status of the main sail assembly. All reef lines are done and the gaff is attached to the head of the main sail. Also the peak and throat were attached to the gaff.
The clew and tack are connected to the boom and the foot of the mainsail and the boom are also mated, although not complete; I ran out of rope...
So now I wait for the goodies to arrive, I ordered the necessary rope from Modellbau Takelgarn, Germany.
Until then I'll enjoy the good weather. :cool:
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Reef, and gaff, and peak, and throat, and clew, and tack, and boom, and foot...

What a strange and wonderful world we play in. Lions, and tigers, and bears.. OH MY!
 
RDN1954 said:
Below the current status of the main sail assembly. All reef lines are done and the gaff is attached to the head of the main sail. Also the peak and throat were attached to the gaff.
The clew and tack are connected to the boom and the foot of the mainsail and the boom are also mated, although not complete; I ran out of rope...
So now I wait for the goodies to arrive, I ordered the necessary rope from Modellbau Takelgarn, Germany.
Until then I'll enjoy the good weather. :cool:
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That is a wonderful big main sail, Johan. All the time and effort pays off. Some rigging to the boom and it can be set on the main mast.
Regards, Peter
 
Dean62 said:
Looks very promising Johan! ;)
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dockattner said:
Reef, and gaff, and peak, and throat, and clew, and tack, and boom, and foot...

What a strange and wonderful world we play in. Lions, and tigers, and bears.. OH MY!
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Peter Voogt said:
That is a wonderful big main sail, Johan. All the time and effort pays off. Some rigging to the boom and it can be set on the main mast.
Regards, Peter
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Heinrich said:
Waiting with bated breath ...
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I think it's the main sail which worries me most. It's the biggest of the eight sails, with only one free edge (the same applies for the jib, but that sail is significantly smaller and triangular in shape). Once on the ship the gaff has to be in the right position as well as the boom, plus the mast hoops have to be attached to the luff... A lot of too little things to fiddle with.
So far so good.
The names of all the bits and pieces of all which attaches to the boat is rather overwhelming and all too frequently I have to check the web to have the terms right. There are too many around who know a lot more about the right terms for all these parts to have them wrong...
The build is one of many, many little projects and side projects of its own, the sail making just one of them and again quite an undertaking, still it adds to my experiences and it increases my capabilities at the same time.
But, I ran out of rope, so it all came to a screeching halt. Please don't hold your breath, the build will continue...
 
I think learning the terminology is part of building ship models. I am still learning…sigh! More to learn than one would expect. And on the three ships I have worked on thus far, they all have different type sails and rigging! Lucky me! ROTF
First the lateen sails on the Xebec, then the booms and gaffs on the BN schooner, and now square sails on the NL war ship (tall ship). So it seems when you think you learned rigging by building one ship, you only learned how to rig that type vessel. Perhaps I should stick to one type? I may just build admiralty style ships in the future. If I ever finish the NL! ;)
 
Dean62 said:
I think learning the terminology is part of building ship models. I am still learning…sigh! More to learn than one would expect. And on the three ships I have worked on thus far, they all have different type sails and rigging! Lucky me! ROTF
First the lateen sails on the Xebec, then the booms and gaffs on the BN schooner, and now square sails on the NL war ship (tall ship). So it seems when you think you learned rigging by building one ship, you only learned how to rig that type vessel. Perhaps I should stick to one type? I may just build admiralty style ships in the future. If I ever finish the NL! ;)
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Where's that photographic memory when you need it? ROTF
 
RDN1954 said:
Below the current status of the main sail assembly. All reef lines are done and the gaff is attached to the head of the main sail. Also the peak and throat were attached to the gaff.
The clew and tack are connected to the boom and the foot of the mainsail and the boom are also mated, although not complete; I ran out of rope...
So now I wait for the goodies to arrive, I ordered the necessary rope from Modellbau Takelgarn, Germany.
Until then I'll enjoy the good weather. :cool:
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Hello Johan, Great work your sail sure dose look good, well done.
Regards Lawrence
 
Canoe21 said:
Hello Johan, Great work your sail sure dose look good, well done.
Regards Lawrence
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Ptèr said:
Hi Johan,

I had so reading up to do to your latest post. I think the hours work behind the sewing machine really shows. The main sail looks stunning. The gaff is very nicely shaped as well. It will show great for sure on your BN!

Peter
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Hello Lawrence and Peter,

Thank you both for your compliments.

I had great difficulty in getting started on the sails. Making the drawings and the templates was easy enough, but the sewing of those sails...
Admittedly, they are still rather experimental, in the sence that I deviated from the trodden path, if such a path does exist. So I gave a lot of time to consider and reconsider alternative production methods. Also finding the best settings was an adventure; pitch, thread tension, sewing speed, sequences, tracks, name it and they effect the results.
One of the main issues was that one can't extrapolate the results of small test coupons to the full suze scale sails, so I had to sacrifice some material and time, before I had it all right.
The spars formed a rather nice little project all by itself, but definitely worth the hours spend.

Johan
 
And today another milestone was reached: the mainsail installation to the boom and gaff was completed and the mainsail set.
A bit of tweaking is still required to have the mainsail positioned correctly and the mast hoops still have to be attached, but so far, so good.
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RDN1954 said:
And today another milestone was reached: the mainsail installation to the boom and gaff was completed and the mainsail set.
A bit of tweaking is still required to have the mainsail positioned correctly and the mast hoops still have to be attached, but so far, so good.
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A big step in setting the mainsail, Johan. With some new ‘after-a-holiday-energy’ you can fit the mast hoops and set this sail in beautiful line with the fore sail.
Regards, Peter
 
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