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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    11-04-2024, 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
    11-04-2024, 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
    11-04-2024, 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
    11-03-2024, 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...
    5 replies | 1903 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    11-03-2024, 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
    11-03-2024, 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...
    5 replies | 1903 view(s)
  • Dobbs's Avatar
    11-03-2024, 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
    11-03-2024, 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
    11-03-2024, 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?
    19 replies | 23992 view(s)
  • 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...
    19 replies | 23992 view(s)
  • 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...
    19 replies | 23992 view(s)
  • 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...
    13 replies | 16877 view(s)
  • 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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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 18:17
    Dobbs replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    There's nothing official from Ares about Phoebe class frigates. I'd say our admiral was just giving us more 18 pounder frigates to choose from. Just...
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  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 16:26
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    When we were first doing initial research before I had my copies of BWAS, there wasn't anything about the Phoebes on Wikipedia to start from. :(
    19 replies | 23992 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 15:12
    Well it's not a happy thought :surrender: As an ex sailor of a small ship I've had 2 occasions where she was sinking and on both of them I was far...
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  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 15:01
    Vagabond replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    https://www.sailsofglory.org/entry.php?43-HMS-Doris-(-Frigate) This is the Admirals original post, it's in a series that as far as I can tell is...
    19 replies | 23992 view(s)
  • flash's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 11:14
    flash replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Well that's ideal for a more exotic setting than the 'Ditch'
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  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-24-2024, 20:41
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Pity we're gonna lose this thread. Perseverance is fairly close to an Amazon, so that "slower but better turning" would be an excellent note for a...
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-24-2024, 19:47
    Dobbs replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Doris_(1808) Here's another one. The Perseverance class was noted as being slower but more agile than other 18...
    19 replies | 23992 view(s)
  • ShadowDragon's Avatar
    10-24-2024, 14:51
    Many thanks for the glass of 98, John. Let us enjoy the beauty of the moon together.
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  • flash's Avatar
    10-24-2024, 06:26
    flash replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Well, it did exist at least, John, though an initial search didn't bring it to the fore. Seems to have had an interesting career until she was lost...
    19 replies | 23992 view(s)
  • flash's Avatar
    10-24-2024, 04:36
    flash replied to a thread 21st of October. in Wardroom
    Been a while since I went to Pompey to see the ships, it's about an hour or so away from us now so maybe I'll get there again soon. When I went...
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-23-2024, 16:47
    Dobbs replied to a thread Alexander Kent in Reference Library
    Eric, I'll track down this Alexander Clay series at your recommendation upon conclusion of our current voyage.
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-23-2024, 16:45
    Dobbs replied to a thread Alexander Kent in Reference Library
    I have started rereading Ramage again and am enjoying the series. I like that you can hear Pope's love of sailing in his writing. I am reading...
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  • DeRuyter's Avatar
    10-23-2024, 12:04
    DeRuyter replied to a thread 21st of October. in Wardroom
    I just paid a visit to Portsmouth on September 30. An easy train ride from London for a day out ending with a pint and fish&chips at the "Ship Anson"...
    3 replies | 6414 view(s)
  • DeRuyter's Avatar
    10-23-2024, 11:57
    DeRuyter replied to a thread Alexander Kent in Reference Library
    Dobbs: I agree with you on Kent. I have several in the series, but the mistakes added up. I would recommend Dudley Pope's Ramage series. Pope was...
    10 replies | 7236 view(s)
  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-23-2024, 09:29
    I shall then take one last capture of the Medals List, unless there are more coming. Congratulations to all these last honorees.
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  • Cochrane's Avatar
    10-23-2024, 09:06
    Cochrane replied to a thread Alexander Kent in Reference Library
    Many thanks Dobbs - I shall keep that in mind. I'm managing so far but not taking in many of the foreign terms yet*. Good to know they are there,...
    10 replies | 7236 view(s)
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