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Re: In praise of the Red Beard Runner (6290)
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Date: 
Mon, 21 Jan 2002 04:10:51 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin writes in praise of RBRs and rightly so.

Its a lemon of a ship, a sodden, gap jointed, high riding, under-gunned,
badly strung tub, destined for Davey Jones' Locker on her first encounter
with anything more auspicicious than a drunken monkey in a leaky barrel, but...

a most excellent collection of parts for the building of more worthy ships.
If I was looking for a design though, use the RBR bits, and see how one
might give effect to some of the glory of the SES or BSB designs.

Richard
Still baldly going...



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  In praise of the Red Beard Runner (6290)
 
Ahoy! I noticed TRU Chatswood still had a few of these left at the pre-Christmas price of $A109, and after umming and ahhing for a while I decided to purchase one. I knew its reputation as the worst of the large ships, its dinky battle damage (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.reviews)

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