Model Ship Update: Fortopsail

Did pretty good this week.

The first picture shows the fortopsail is now on the ship. I was able to attach the reefing lines without glue. In fact, once I put my head to it a bit, it was rather easy to knot the lines into the sail. I wish I had done the same with the forsail. There is still a bit of squaring to do (the braces have yet to be attached), so hopefully I'll be able to get all the yards parallel.

The second picture shows one of the forward peg boards, which is now almost half full. I've decided to only coil every second line (the other just being made fast and cut off) to keep this area from getting too messy. Picture three is the back side of the fortopsail.


In picture four you can see the plans showed for lines to run forward from the sails. These lines are bogus and wouldn't exist on a real ship. They would always bug me so I scrapped them and replaced them with reefing tackle, which weren't in the plans but do actually exist. One of the reefing tackles is closest to the camera in picture five.

Finally, picture six is just a deck level view looking forward towards the forcastle. I'm pretty much working aft with the rigging, so there shouldn't be any future lines in this view, unless I decide to put tacks on the sails (something else that is missing from the plans). I haven't decided on that one yet.

Cheers

Mike