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Ahoy, The recent Bricksmeet 2003 was an opportunity for some of the folks from Port Brique to go on a bit of a day sail. Both the good guys (the French) and the bad guys (the Brikkish) were represented: Jacques Legeaux with the Misérable, and (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jun-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: A new vessel in Port Brique
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Great ship! Good use of available bricks. Keep them sailing. Vice Admiral, His Excellence Amato Santiago Don, Lugnet # 1239 (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | A new vessel in Port Brique
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Ahoy, Another privateer has turned up in Port Brique. It's not particularly big or impressive, but does have a couple of innovative features. The vessel is the Digne, and is is captioned by Guillaume Bishop. As would be expected, Bishop of Digne is (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: His Majesty's Loyal Privateer Lady Grace
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Well, I am a fan of schooners, and it's nice to see another fore-and-aft vessel out there with a proper amount of privateer pop-guns. I'm looking forward to seeing the Lady Grace complete with sails. -->Bruce<-- (23 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Ken, Very nice, it's definitely a schooner, and the cannons look darn good. I guess those cod-pirates are in for a surprise. Thanks, George (23 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: His Majesty's Loyal Privateer Lady Grace
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(...) it's an *invisible* tiller. And that's an invisible boat too! : ) But let's not let that get around, there are pirates that would try to take advantage of her ladyship. As to the schooner rig, I'm generally not a big fan either, though in this (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: His Majesty's Loyal Privateer Lady Grace
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(...) Nice work indeed! That SNOT hull is a work of art - I love the combination of slopes and the bow and more traditional plated SNOT at the stern. I'm not a fan of schooner rigs generally, but I'd love to see this one under full canvas - she'd (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | His Majesty's Loyal Privateer Lady Grace
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Well, I've been saying that I need to get this privateer of mine finished, and I've dropped her name a number of times. At long last, photos of 'Her Ladyship' have arrived! The pre-moderation teasers: (URL) the gallery, with pictures predominantly (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: custom sails
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(...) <snip> (...) I find they work well when the arm is studs up (ie attached to the mast with a 1x4 plate with rod down), and less well for studs down (ie attached to the mast with a 1x4 or 1x2 plate with rod up). The Port Brique workaround for (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: custom sails
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(...) If you're going to use a paper punch on fabric, you might want to buy a dedicated paper punch and never use it on anything _but_ fabric. Paper will dull any cutting edge (in theatre, you learn that a very painful way to commit suicide is to (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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