Does a sailing ship belong here?!?!

[JoeRugby]

Conversion of the Lindberg Jolly Roger to something like a sixth rate frigate of the Napoleonic Wars of the Royal Navy ( al la HMS Surprise)

It looks real rough right now but hopefully it will come out to be acceptable...the stern and quarter galleries are scratch built from stock styrene, balsa quarter round and the "crest" came off a button...

[GTX]

Just about anything and everything belongs here.

Regards,

Greg

[Martin H]

true

[Brian da Basher]

It's great to see a sailing ship here on What-If, Mr Rugby. I'm looking forward to a shot of those navy cannon.

My hat's off to you for the wonderful carving and paintwork!

Brian da Basher

[John Howling Mouse]

Does this mean YOU can teach me how to do rigging?  I'm starting easy (I think) with a 1:18 RoG "Laser" sailboat/dinghy but the destructions are very vague.  Please show whatever you can about the nasty business of rigging a sailing ship!

[cthulhu77]

Avast !  Another fellow sailorman!  Yeeehaaa !  Yep, bring on those rigged ships of old, when men were made of iron, and the ships of wood, rather than made of wood and sailing in iron.

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Does this mean YOU can teach me how to do rigging?  I'm starting easy (I think) with a 1:18 RoG "Laser" sailboat/dinghy but the destructions are very vague.  Please show whatever you can about the nasty business of rigging a sailing ship!

Barry, here are some links to web pages that have something on rigging:

• Ships Rigging http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/shipsrigging.htm
  (TheShipsList website http://www.theshipslist.com/index.html)
• The Rigging of a Sailing Ship http://www.thepirateking.com/ships/sail_rigging_info.htm
  (Rob Ossian's Pirate Cove http://www.thepirateking.com/index.htm)
• Ship Rigging (Example of Dutch East Indiaman ca 1610) http://website.lineone.net/~dee.ord/Riggings.htm
  (Ken Groundwater's Classic Sailing Shipshttp://website.lineone.net/~dee.ord/ships.htm)
• Index of articles and nautical terms (click on the subject to read more) http://sailing-ships.oktett.net/article-index.html
  (Fredrik Sandström's Sailing Ships WWW site http://sailing-ships.oktett.net/)
• YouTube - Tall Ship Model Building Sails Rigging Puako Pt.2 Barkentinehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOmXzrmrb0s
• Wikipedia entry for the full rigged shiphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_rigged_ship
• Schooner Vocabulary - Tackle http://www.schoonerman.com/sailingterms/tackle.htm
  (Schooner Man home page http://www.schoonerman.com/)
• Rigging a Sailship http://www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/k-victorian/industry/whaling/images/rigging/rigging.htm
  (Hullwebs History of Hull http://www.hullwebs.co.uk/index.htm)

[JoeRugby]

Thanks for the look guys, hope I will not let you down.

[AeroplaneDriver]

As mentioned, this place is a clearinghouse for any and all lunacy.  Does a sailboat belong?  No more than a Spitfire with spats, HMS Queen Elizabeth, an Abrams hovertank, or a Chinese Apache!

I could never build one myself, but I do love the Napoleonic era ships.  Is the name a nod to a certain officer who came up through the ranks of Wellington's army?

[B777LR]

Does this mean YOU can teach me how to do rigging?  I'm starting easy (I think) with a 1:18 RoG "Laser" sailboat/dinghy but the destructions are very vague.  Please show whatever you can about the nasty business of rigging a sailing ship!

I can get you some detail photos of my parents Lasers this summer, if you want.

[The Rat]

Actually most of us don't belong here, but it's the only place that'll have us.  Your ships are more than welcome Joe, a pleasant change!

[ysi_maniac]

Actually most of us don't belong here, but it's the only place that'll have us.  Your ships are more than welcome Joe, a pleasant change!

You are more than right!

Sail ships are always beauties.