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Well, let me add mine - exquisite work and incredible details.

Done with ratline shrouds. Doing Mast Stays, then, sign, I guess I will have to do the (Insert cuss words here) ratlines themselves. On my Pennsylvania it amounted to over a thousand knots (clove hitches). Tedious and extremely time consuming. Let me know your thoughts so far if you would like.

I am having trouble finding how to rig the Martingale stays with a double dolphin striker. What I have with regard to drawings and/or photos is not clear. DESCRIBING how it is rigged is no problem, but, I am not that sharp on how to interpret the nomenclature. I do have photos of Columbus plans that someone was kind enough to provide to me, but, the bow view is cut of just to the right where it shows the Dolphin striker. Can someone provide me with that view?

Thanks

I see no one is able to answer my double dolphin striker question, so I have gathered 5 or six photos of models that are rigged that way and I will use them to rig up something that would be at leas a close approximation.

This was the best I could find. Hope it helps.

I was forced to reduce the image so it could fit. You can find it full size here.https://www.loc.gov/collections/selected-digitized-books/?dates=1800/1899&fa=segmentof:dcmsiabooks.youngseaofficers00leve/&sb=shelf-id&sp=2&st=gallery

I do not know how I missed this one, I recognized the writing and drawing style and pulled the book off the shelf. Sure enough there it was on page 114! I did not look that far back in my first search. Nor did I look at the index at the FRONT of the book. Only checked the back and there was nothing there! LOL Thanks. It is a little out of period, but with Photos of the Franklin and North Carolina, I now know where they thread and tie off, so thanks, this is a huge help!

Slowly working on ratlines now that all the mast stays are done. Will do back stays when ratlines are finished. Slow, boring tedious work tying a clove hitch to each rope. I am working on the hull of my USS United States when I get to bored with the ratlines. Laying out the gun ports and cutting them. Lining the gunwales on the main gun deck and preparing the bow and gun deck for the first section of the bow sprit. Cutting the 32 pounder carriage sides out and the bases for the carronades. That last will be posted to my United States build in a few days. I have also cut the bulkheads for the USS Delaware and the USS Germantown. Trying to get more info on the Merrimack, but not much luck short of a cut away from wiki and a loft drawing of a sister ship. No spar deck layout so I will have to go by the cut away I have as best I can. Be different doing a steam frigate.

You are doing an excellent job.

Looking forward for your USS United States build post.

Out of curiosity. What will be the time frame of your United States?

Hard to say about the time frame for any of my ships. I am making a total of 11. Search Battle or ships burned at Norfolk 1861 or words to that effect. I want to commemorate the event by building these 11 ships and, perhaps, when I pass, donate them to a nautical museum in the Norfolk harbor area ideally, or in Pittsburgh if that is not probable. I will Post the United States photos this Saturday. I should have the gun ports done and the hull primed by then.

Just about done with the back stays. Will be turning the yards starting later today.

Yards and studding sail booms are done except the blocks and pendants for the running rigging which I am doing now. one quarter gallery is roughed in. I make the decorative rails by cutting 1/32 stock to strips of 2 widths. I round one edge of each strip and glue the side to side I shave the wider middle one down, and the result is shown by making an impression into modeling clay

oh wow, this is such a beautiful build

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Oops, looks like I included a quarter gallery photo of the United States I am building at the same time as this one. I have the studding sails on the yards, and most of the running rigging blocks prepared to go on the yards. It takes time to serve all the line I need to strap the blocks. I should be installing the yards in a few days.

The yards are pretty much all rigged. Just a few items on the bow sprit yard and the foot ropes to do yet. I am making the stirrups for the foot ropes now. I have the ropes spun. I also have been serving roughly 200 inches of 2 different sizes of rope that I will need for the block stropping on those three ships. It has taken me longer to get to this point than I figured because I needed to make more blocks. And, as long as I was doing so, I made enough for the United States, the Delaware and the Germantown. This includes violin blocks and "chocked" blocks. (regular single blocks with an added piece to the upper third on each side of the block). I think I may have made more than I need for the ships named, but, I will use them eventually. I think I have made 24 violin blocks, 60 3/16th inch singles, 60 1/4 inch singles, 40 1/4 doubles, 40 3/16 inch single and 40 1/4 inch single chocked blocks and not to forget dozens of hooks in 2 sizes out of copper wire.

I have put aside the United States until May. I need to finish this one before April 16th so I can enter it into the Pima County Fair here in Tucson, Arizona.
I demonstrate model ship building 5 hours each day of the 10 days the fair runs. I have been doing this for about six years now.

Beautiful work!
The rigging looks stunning already, and I guess you will get some enjoyment out of all those blocks soon...

Some of my scattered work areas and a photo of the Delaware skeleton. Also the ladders, I made 36 of them enough for ALL the ships I have left to build

Except for fixing gun port doors, the anchors, and making 6 ships boats I am done with this build. If you want to see how the anchors and ships boats are built you can see it in my Pennsylvania build.

Let me know what you think. I can start on my other builds soon, yeaaa!

I sure wish some of you who view this post would take a couple minutes to make a comment? I have little ego, but, what I do have would enjoy the feed back!

Hello threebs,

I find that you really need to be building USS Iowa or a Cold or Gulf War era US Navy ship that a few of the population of this forum may have served upon to attract much engagement. That's just how it is. I rarely post here myself because there are other model forums which are more engaging. If I keep my text and image tags identical I'm happy to copy a post written for somewhere else onto this board too, but I doubt if I'd bother otherwise.

Nevertheless, I have had a quick browse back through your past 9 years of work on this model which I hadn't seen until now, and would like to comment you on your achievement. I've never finished a large sailing ship yet, but I heard that with real sailing ships the say that when the hull is complete and the ship floats you're half way there and the rig takes the same effort again. It certainly appears that way from your Columbus!

Beautiful though

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Well done and great subject!

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