• 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...
    7 replies | 2033 view(s)
  • 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.
    19 replies | 24429 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?
    7 replies | 2033 view(s)
  • 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...
    7 replies | 2033 view(s)
  • 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...
    19 replies | 24429 view(s)
  • 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...
    19 replies | 24429 view(s)
  • 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...
    19 replies | 24429 view(s)
  • 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 | 24429 view(s)
  • 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...
    19 replies | 24429 view(s)
  • 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),...
    13 replies | 17102 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 | 17102 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...
    13 replies | 17102 view(s)
  • 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 | 24429 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'
    19 replies | 24429 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.
    13 replies | 17102 view(s)
  • 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 | 24429 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...
    3 replies | 6446 view(s)
  • 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 | 7272 view(s)
  • Cochrane's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 17:20
    Cheers John - Agree with all of those sentiments. Here's to you and the eventual return of Capitaine Jean le Vagabond :drinks:
    13 replies | 17102 view(s)
  • Cochrane's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 17:16
    Cochrane replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    I have never heard of an HMS Doris. Shall have to look into it further!
    19 replies | 24429 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 12:19
    Vagabond started a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    In my efforts to read everything on the site is a couple of days I came across a blog by a certain Bligh and some of his posts revolved around the...
    19 replies | 24429 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 12:08
    Vagabond replied to a thread The Blockade in 2016 Solo Campaign
    Gentlemen you are very kind to an old sailor and your comments are most appreciated. I've spent the last 2 days going through the posts on here...
    6 replies | 3533 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 12:00
    Capn Duff, the 98 is a famous vintage brandy from the Charente region of France served at a very high price, in Martine's Bar, up a steep hill...
    13 replies | 17102 view(s)
  • Capn Duff's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 11:34
    I thank you for the glass of very weak port..... the 98 is a type of French Port is it not ?
    13 replies | 17102 view(s)
  • Cochrane's Avatar
    10-22-2024, 06:31
    Well done Dave. Mines a pint of grog if you please :beer: And hello Pete - Another ship just hove in sight then - good to see you again :rum:
    14 replies | 14364 view(s)
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In naval terms there is not much to say about me really. My father was in the RNVR during WW2 and eventually got the command of an Algerine Class Fleet minesweeper, called "HMS Spanker"!!! Spent the last 12 months or so of the war, wandering around the Adriatic blowing things up. As for myself, the closest I have come to anything naval is reading about it and playing a few SoG games. But I'm working on that latter side of things :) I was born by the sea, in Dover Kent, if that counts and I did cross the equator twice, by ship, before I was five. To Australia and back. Being in the Sydney area obviously didn't work out too well for my parents, otherwise I would have ended up as an Australian instead of a British son of a sailor.

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