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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    Today, 06:40
    We woke up this morning to 2-3°C, but it is sunny. The mast is freestanding and breaks down into to sections when not in use. I believe that the...
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  • Vagabond's Avatar
    Today, 02:52
    That's an interesting design, lots of freeboard. I don't think I've seen a sail plan like that before, presumably the mast is free standing like a...
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  • Bligh's Avatar
    Today, 02:25
    Bligh replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    A few of my ships have been used as sources for parts and the hulls used as wrecks, ships on fire as well. Rob.
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    Yesterday, 17:17
    Amusingly, Grace is one of the older boats in attendance, at 58. Agility is a hard dinghy of my own design. Here's a picture from a few years...
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  • Vagabond's Avatar
    Yesterday, 14:42
    The ship on the right looks to be 200 years old, although I suppose she's not. Do You have a hard bottom dinghy on Grace? or are you back home?
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  • flash's Avatar
    Yesterday, 12:33
    That looks to have been a bright day, Dobbs, and what company to keep. The rake of those masts on the left look quite spectacular. We've not seen the...
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    Yesterday, 10:29
    This might be what Chestertown looked like 200 years ago. I took this during my frosty morning dinghy sail.
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  • flash's Avatar
    Yesterday, 05:45
    flash replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    There is an inevitability about that tale, John, duplicates must lend themselves to captures, or, recreations, or, pirates, or, anything but wreckage...
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  • Vagabond's Avatar
    Yesterday, 01:48
    Vagabond replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Thanks Dave, I've got these on my radar. :thumbsup: for me the difference between ships and planes is that with the planes it's the pilots that had...
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    11-02-2024, 18:54
    Dobbs replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Has there been any motion on the 3d printing in color for ships like Wings of Glory?
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  • Diamondback's Avatar
    11-02-2024, 16:57
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    A little manufacturing-side background here: Printing new paper and applying new paint is cheap, new tool-and-die steel for sculpt rework is...
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  • flash's Avatar
    11-01-2024, 05:12
    flash replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    This is the fascinating side of the game to me, John. I have no idea about Sails whatsoever, how many actual models there are & what they represent...
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  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-28-2024, 06:26
    Vagabond replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    That was what caught my interest, I've a notion to repaint and possibly re-rig my ships and thought that as I did it I'd rename them as a new ship...
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  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-26-2024, 08:27
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    The nickel summary on Stretching is "what can these models reasonably pass for, even if it means reworking the stats?" :) Goal was an early start at...
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  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-26-2024, 08:22
    Vagabond replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    I found 3 of your stretched threads yesterday, I didn't really understand them but I only gave them a cursory glance before copying, pasting into...
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  • flash's Avatar
    10-26-2024, 06:39
    Sudden gusts are nasty beggars, scared the wotsit out of me when we were knocked onto our beam ends in my mates boat (similar to that in Dobb's pic),...
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  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 21:28
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    There's a great deal that will never be official from Ares... the closest thin you'll see to it is my "Stretching Sculpts" series of threads once we...
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  • ShadowDragon's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 18:47
    Got caught in a squall sailing a Laser 2 type sailboat. With a sudden gust, the sailboat capsized. We got it upright and to shore, but the...
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 18:30
    :drinks: I've had that sinking feeling twice too! The first was on our shakedown cruise after selling everything we owned. The evening was coming...
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