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Special Lightning Sailboat
- Thread starter MM2CVS9
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Missed this update EJ, she's looking sweet!!
MM2CVS9
Active member
Thanks guys. It's falling into place now.
Bought some chrome paint pens yesterday as I'd like the cleats and chocks to look like chrome plated brass fittings. If that works out, I might do the turnbuckles eyes and rings too.
I'm gonna do a test and post the result.
The car guys at the club use them for chrome detail work and really like them.
EJ
I got that chrome pen stuff also, love it!
MM2CVS9
Active member
I made a list of terms, Just for the standing and running rigging. By comparing them to various diagrams I can visualize what they are and the purpose. It's like learning a new language. Very much different than Machinist's Mate talk - " steam pressure, saturated steam/superheated steam, condensers, evaporators, turbines, righty tighty - lefty loosey, etc".
The book has been a huge help.
EJ
The book has been a huge help.
| Backstays | Standing rigging that supports the mast from aft. |
| Becket | An eye in the end of a block to which a rope may be secured. |
| Bend | To fasten one rope to another. |
| Bight | Any segment of a rope between the ends. |
| Block | (Pully) with a rope through them is a tackle |
| Bolt rope | sewn into the edges of a sail |
| Boom | spar at the foot of a sail |
| Boom Vang | tackle secured to the boom to prevent it from lifting and to flatten the sail |
| Cable | anchor rope |
| Cheek block | a block mounted to the side of a spar |
| Clew | lower after corner of a sail |
| Clew outhaul | tackle by which the clew is hauled out on the boom |
| Cringle | circular eye of rope around a thimble, worked in the leach and clew of a sail |
| Downhaul - boom | tackle attached to the goosneck, by which the boom is pulled down after the sail is hoisted, to lighten the luff |
| Eye splice | a loop spliced into the end of a rope |
| foot | the lower edge of a sail |
| foresail | sail set from the foremast |
| gaff | a spar that supports the head of a sail |
| gasket | a sail stop |
| gilguy | a lanyard to tie off a halyard to prevent it from slatting againsed the mast |
| goosneck | fitting which secures the boom to the mast |
| halyards | ropes for hoisting sails |
| head sails | sails forward of the mast |
| head | the upper carner of a sail |
| hitch | combination of turns to make fast a rope to another rope or spar |
| jib | a triangular sail set ahead of the mast, on the jibstay |
| jumper stay | a trusslike stay on the upper forward side of the mast |
| lanyard | short line used to make anything fast |
| leach | the after edge of the sail |
| lines | ropes used for various purposes, dock lines, sheets, halyards |
| loose footed | a sail wiyhout a boom, secured at the tack and clew only |
| outhaul | a line used to haul the corner of a sail out to the end of a boom or gaff |
| purchase | a tackle |
| reeve | pass a rope through a block |
| roach | a curve in the leach of a sail |
| runners | backstays which can be set up or slacked off while underway |
| running rigging | lines used to control the sails |
| sheave | roller in a block |
| sheet | line used to trim the sail |
| shrouds | rigging which stays a mast at the sides |
| snatch block | a block with an opening in one side into which a bight of a rope can be placed without hauling the whole length through. |
| snub | check the running of a rope or line by taking a turn around a cleat or bitt |
| spars | all booms, gaffs, masts |
| spinnaker | spherical sail used in reaching and running |
| standing part | the part of a rope that is made fast |
| standing rigging | the shrouds and stays that support the mast |
| stays | rigging that supports the mast from forward or aft |
| staysail | a triangular for and aft sail set from various stays or sey flying on a hallyard |
| stops | pieces of line or canvas strips used to secure a sail when furling it |
| Tackle | a purchase composed of blocks and rope |
| Topping lift | a line or tackle from the mashead supporting the boom at its after end |
| traveler | a track that allows athwartships movement of the inboard end of a mainsheet or jib sheet |
EJ
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Great information. Thanks!
I guess those guys had nothing else to do on the long voyages than to come up with all these crazy names.
Thanks EJ!
Thanks EJ!
MM2CVS9
Active member
MM2CVS9
Active member
The sails and running rigging for this baby will be as seen when at dockside, so the sails will be furled or stored, the running rigging will be in place, ready for use when getting under way.
Got a boom support made and installed. This is required on this type of rigging as the sail actually supports the boom at the free end when sailing. When the main sail is furled it is needed to support the free end. The support is removed and stowed when sailing.
The main sail is furled to the boom with stops and a sail cover is made and ready for installation.
The boom is installed, the sail is lashed to the boom at the the tack and the outhaul, the boom is lashed down at the mast to prevent lifting out of the gooseneck, and the halyard for the mainsail is run from the head to the masthead, through a block and back to the deck. Waiting for some more cleats to use for tying off the working ends.
I cleaned up the only suitable cleat I have and used the Molotow chrome marker on it. I think it looks like real chrome plated boat fittings. I think I'm gonna use it on some of the eyes and other hardware too. I need to polish the base metal a bit more to get a smoother finish. That's a toothpick it's propped up on.
Tomorrow, I'll set the jib sail rigging. The jib sail itself is taken down, folded and put in a sail bag for storage, so I've gotta make a bag for it.
EJ
Got a boom support made and installed. This is required on this type of rigging as the sail actually supports the boom at the free end when sailing. When the main sail is furled it is needed to support the free end. The support is removed and stowed when sailing.
The main sail is furled to the boom with stops and a sail cover is made and ready for installation.
The boom is installed, the sail is lashed to the boom at the the tack and the outhaul, the boom is lashed down at the mast to prevent lifting out of the gooseneck, and the halyard for the mainsail is run from the head to the masthead, through a block and back to the deck. Waiting for some more cleats to use for tying off the working ends.
I cleaned up the only suitable cleat I have and used the Molotow chrome marker on it. I think it looks like real chrome plated boat fittings. I think I'm gonna use it on some of the eyes and other hardware too. I need to polish the base metal a bit more to get a smoother finish. That's a toothpick it's propped up on.
Tomorrow, I'll set the jib sail rigging. The jib sail itself is taken down, folded and put in a sail bag for storage, so I've gotta make a bag for it.
EJ
Skinny_Mike
Well-known member
definitely cool!
Cleat looks great, that chrome stuff is fantastic ain't it?
MM2CVS9
Active member
A bit more,
Finished the lashing of the furled sail to the boom and covered up all that work with the sail cover.
Then, made a sail bag for the jib sail. That sail was taken down, stowed in a bag when not used.
With the sail cover and sail bag.
Today and tomorrow more cleats will arrive so I'll have a better selection of shapes and sizes to choose from for different applications.
In the meantime, my new mini table saw just arrived!!
Finished the lashing of the furled sail to the boom and covered up all that work with the sail cover.
Then, made a sail bag for the jib sail. That sail was taken down, stowed in a bag when not used.
With the sail cover and sail bag.
Today and tomorrow more cleats will arrive so I'll have a better selection of shapes and sizes to choose from for different applications.
In the meantime, my new mini table saw just arrived!!
I like the 4935, seems to have more character...I like the up swept ends. 
MM2CVS9
Active member
I like the 4935, seems to have more character...I like the up swept ends.
Yeah, I'm gonna use some of those too for the smaller diameter lines. They are pot metal but finished with a bronze tone of some kind. The one in the pic is Molotoved, but only one coat and didn't cover well.
EJ
MM2CVS9
Active member
I forgot - Went to our first IPMS club meeting yesterday. We used to meet in a church basement, but they don't want us there because of the covid restrictions here. Since the first of March, we've been talking with a school called "The Aviation Academy" It's out by the airport on the grounds. There is an engineering school and an aviation school. The room we met in is a workroom with about 20 stainless steel workstations. There are two wing frames and a mini helicopter frame under construction there BY THE STUDENTS. These will be actual flying aircraft when done. I was really Really impressed with the simply beautiful riveting and welding on both the steel and aluminum parts. This school is amazing, and they seem to really want us there. There is space for us to do local shows and even a regional competition, as well as work spaces for our build-n-show day and classrooms for our regular meetings. The kids are required to do so many hours of volunteer work, so they jump at the chance to help set up for shows and such. And, all this is free! All we need to do is let any of the kids become members of the club. That's a no-brainer. Our aircraft modelers are really excited about it all. I have volunteered to mentor as a building person for bridges, towers, boomilevers etc for their Science Olympiad program. I did that at another charter school for 5 years where some of my grandkids attended.
Well lighted, spacious, very very clean, modern. The club uses the state recommended covid guidelines, wear a mask, temp taken when arriving, disinfecting the workspaces when we're done and social distancing. The workspaced had 4 stools each, so we each took one station, using 1 stool. Plenty of space. One wall of the space had a giant overhead door which they had opened. It was like working outdoors. How sweet it was. It was good to be back with our model group again.
The builds being worked on were, cleats for my lightning, a Coast guard tugboat, parts for a diorama, several autos, two armour, and a PE kit of a ferris wheel, and 3 different aircraft, among others.
EJ
Well lighted, spacious, very very clean, modern. The club uses the state recommended covid guidelines, wear a mask, temp taken when arriving, disinfecting the workspaces when we're done and social distancing. The workspaced had 4 stools each, so we each took one station, using 1 stool. Plenty of space. One wall of the space had a giant overhead door which they had opened. It was like working outdoors. How sweet it was. It was good to be back with our model group again.
The builds being worked on were, cleats for my lightning, a Coast guard tugboat, parts for a diorama, several autos, two armour, and a PE kit of a ferris wheel, and 3 different aircraft, among others.
EJ
MM2CVS9
Active member
This is what I did at the club meeting;
Cleaned up 5 die cast cleats and chromed them. I'll start on some smaller two horned cleats for the smaller lines. They are also die cast, but coated with a brown maybe lacquer, to look like wood? I'll be sanding them anyway and chroming them as well. Plus about four small chocks.
EJ
Cleaned up 5 die cast cleats and chromed them. I'll start on some smaller two horned cleats for the smaller lines. They are also die cast, but coated with a brown maybe lacquer, to look like wood? I'll be sanding them anyway and chroming them as well. Plus about four small chocks.
EJ
Total win EJ! Everyone learning from each other. That's fantastic.
Cleats are looking good.
Cleats are looking good.
