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Although it doesn't look a lot different, quite a lot of fine detail has gone on since the last image, and it is now ready for masting and rigging.
Bob

I think they are much better though!
Bob

I have now made a lot more progress, and it is now almost ready for masting & rigging.     I have now worked for a total of 62.5 hours on this one, and that includes completing the display case.
Bob
 

I have now made a lot more progress, and it is now almost ready for masting & rigging.     I have now worked for a total of 62.5 hours on this one, and that includes completing the display case.
Bob
 

Here are a couple of shots I took of the Zebu leaving St. Helena (Island in South Atlantic), in 1987.      Hope it isn't beyond saving.     I went aboard just before she sailed.  
Bob
 

Here are a couple of shots I took of the Zebu leaving St. Helena (Island in South Atlantic), in 1987.      Hope it isn't beyond saving.     I went aboard just before she sailed.  
Bob
 

Six lifeboats have now been made and fitted, also some ventilators.     The samson posts have been cut to length, but have not yet had their tops fitted.
Bob

This is how it all began:
Bob

Yes, they were good looking ships.    50 years ago today, I was sailing aboard this one, Richmond Castle, completed in 1944. (Photograph by J. K. de Vries Jnr, Cape Town).     From my diary entry that day:
 
Noon Position 16.39 North 17.43 West.   Speed 16.04 knots
Bad weather, tremendous now, roaring wind and tons of rain, my bunk is soaked, I will have to sleep on the settee tonight.   The ship is shaking right through.
 
My bunk was soaked because the porthole seal was leaking.      Very uncomfortable ship generally, but we had a very happy voyage:   Liverpool – London – Tenerfie – Luanda – Lobito – Walvis Bay – Durban – Port Elizabeth – Cape Town – Dakar – Marseilless – Hamburg – Bremerhaven – River Blackwater (UK).
 
It was all a big adventure when young, and the hardships were just accepted as normal!
 
Bob

Yes, they were good looking ships.    50 years ago today, I was sailing aboard this one, Richmond Castle, completed in 1944. (Photograph by J. K. de Vries Jnr, Cape Town).     From my diary entry that day:
 
Noon Position 16.39 North 17.43 West.   Speed 16.04 knots
Bad weather, tremendous now, roaring wind and tons of rain, my bunk is soaked, I will have to sleep on the settee tonight.   The ship is shaking right through.
 
My bunk was soaked because the porthole seal was leaking.      Very uncomfortable ship generally, but we had a very happy voyage:   Liverpool – London – Tenerfie – Luanda – Lobito – Walvis Bay – Durban – Port Elizabeth – Cape Town – Dakar – Marseilless – Hamburg – Bremerhaven – River Blackwater (UK).
 
It was all a big adventure when young, and the hardships were just accepted as normal!
 
Bob

Yes, I am pleased with the way it is turning out, but generally, there is not much interest in this type of ship as far as modelmakers are concerned.   
Bob

Deepwater Sail by Harold A. Underhill is another good book.   Quite thick and has loads of fold out plans of sailing ships in it.
Bob
PS
Here is Squirrel built from plan in Schooner Sunset.

Six lifeboats have now been made and fitted, also some ventilators.     The samson posts have been cut to length, but have not yet had their tops fitted.
Bob

There will need to be more than 150 lines.   As well as the standing rigging shown above, all the fore-and aft-stays with seventeen fore-and-aft sails (attached image), plus 30 square sails with 60 braces (one each side of each yard).       A daunting task.      Also looking forward to seeing how it is done.
Bob
 

There will need to be more than 150 lines.   As well as the standing rigging shown above, all the fore-and aft-stays with seventeen fore-and-aft sails (attached image), plus 30 square sails with 60 braces (one each side of each yard).       A daunting task.      Also looking forward to seeing how it is done.
Bob
 

Deepwater Sail by Harold A. Underhill is another good book.   Quite thick and has loads of fold out plans of sailing ships in it.
Bob
PS
Here is Squirrel built from plan in Schooner Sunset.

No, the Svaerdstad build is not featured in the book at all.   It is an e-book download devoted to the history of the Svaerdstad, plus comprehensive plans and building details.      In the early 1950s, my grandfather gave me some old books called The Wide World Magazine, and the story of the wreck of the Svaerdstad was in one of them.      I thought it a fine yarn where the writer of the article, an able seaman, saved the life of Miss Christenson, the captain's daughter during the wreck of the Svaerdstad.     Many years later, I chanced upon the plans of the ship, and produced the document.     Initially, it was sold on a CD disk and posted, but later changed into an automatic download, details of which may be found on my website.     It has proved very popular over the years.
Bob
 

Deepwater Sail by Harold A. Underhill is another good book.   Quite thick and has loads of fold out plans of sailing ships in it.
Bob
PS
Here is Squirrel built from plan in Schooner Sunset.

Thanks,
I have no idea what the music is, I just picked it from the list that U Tube offered.     The plan came from an ancient German book over 100 years old.   The plan is reproduced in the download.    There is no possibility of me putting something like that in a bottle.     I only rig in wire, and it can not be made to fold down and up again.   Even if I acidentally bend a piece of rigging, it has to come off and be repaced with a new piece!      I just could not get that sort of detail through a narrow neck anyway.     I doubt if I could even get a respectable looking sea inside a bottle!
Bob

No, the Svaerdstad build is not featured in the book at all.   It is an e-book download devoted to the history of the Svaerdstad, plus comprehensive plans and building details.      In the early 1950s, my grandfather gave me some old books called The Wide World Magazine, and the story of the wreck of the Svaerdstad was in one of them.      I thought it a fine yarn where the writer of the article, an able seaman, saved the life of Miss Christenson, the captain's daughter during the wreck of the Svaerdstad.     Many years later, I chanced upon the plans of the ship, and produced the document.     Initially, it was sold on a CD disk and posted, but later changed into an automatic download, details of which may be found on my website.     It has proved very popular over the years.
Bob
 

I put this on U Tube some time agao, and forgot all about it.   Came across it again today.    It is the building sequence of a miniature of the Norwegian barque Svaerdstad.
Bob
https://youtu.be/eNgATFUqBLA

I put this on U Tube some time agao, and forgot all about it.   Came across it again today.    It is the building sequence of a miniature of the Norwegian barque Svaerdstad.
Bob
https://youtu.be/eNgATFUqBLA

No, the Svaerdstad build is not featured in the book at all.   It is an e-book download devoted to the history of the Svaerdstad, plus comprehensive plans and building details.      In the early 1950s, my grandfather gave me some old books called The Wide World Magazine, and the story of the wreck of the Svaerdstad was in one of them.      I thought it a fine yarn where the writer of the article, an able seaman, saved the life of Miss Christenson, the captain's daughter during the wreck of the Svaerdstad.     Many years later, I chanced upon the plans of the ship, and produced the document.     Initially, it was sold on a CD disk and posted, but later changed into an automatic download, details of which may be found on my website.     It has proved very popular over the years.
Bob
 

No, the Svaerdstad build is not featured in the book at all.   It is an e-book download devoted to the history of the Svaerdstad, plus comprehensive plans and building details.      In the early 1950s, my grandfather gave me some old books called The Wide World Magazine, and the story of the wreck of the Svaerdstad was in one of them.      I thought it a fine yarn where the writer of the article, an able seaman, saved the life of Miss Christenson, the captain's daughter during the wreck of the Svaerdstad.     Many years later, I chanced upon the plans of the ship, and produced the document.     Initially, it was sold on a CD disk and posted, but later changed into an automatic download, details of which may be found on my website.     It has proved very popular over the years.
Bob
 

I put this on U Tube some time agao, and forgot all about it.   Came across it again today.    It is the building sequence of a miniature of the Norwegian barque Svaerdstad.
Bob
https://youtu.be/eNgATFUqBLA