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Hello, again:
Ben Pegler wrote:
> That's amazing - gee you'd be happy to be the Captain in situations like that -
> "OK boys, pick up that anchor, chuck it over there, pull it up - then do it
> another four hundred times - I'll be having a wee nap in my quarters"
Considering that the alternative was being captured by angry British tars, I
don't think they complained too
much--and it surely helped that most of the captains
of the Constitution were wildly popular with their
crews. Kedging was usually only done under duress,
because at sea there were some things that sailors
just *wouldn't* do except to save their lives--and
forcing them to do it might get you the Cap'n Bligh
treatment.
> Perhaps I'll have to add a dry dock to my island fort/port.
Do you have any pictures of your layout up? I'd be
seriously interested in seeing them--my "major projects"
are replicas of pre-WWI and WWI warships, usually
between 200 and 400 studs long, and they need some
port facilities and a friendly fortress under which to coal.
Barring available images, I'd still like to hear about how
you've set it up--we nautically-inclined folks have to
turn inward now that TLG has ended the Pirates line!
Yes, I have pictures--but no, I don't have them up yet.
That's actually project #1 once my semester grading and
writing are done! I've got photos of a folding seaplane, an
autogyro, two battleships, two cruisers, and my beloved
pair of wee three-pipe torpedo boats (they're only about 75
studs long). Unfortunately I haven't been able to reconcile
the waterline models with good compartmentalization inside,
but I hope to build a new ship this summer that will have
"proper" compartments and amenities. Selective compression
has its costs. :(
Followups set to lugnet.build (I hope that's right!).
LFB.
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