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| Oh dear me! Quite good, indeed! I like uniforms you've cobbled up for your officers, and the ships are quite marvelous little craft. It's quite nify how you expanded the RBR hull to get your Brig to work. Is your sloop going to be larger or smaller? (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) The use of reverse slopes, then steep slopes is a direct steal from the larger Port Block ships. (...) The sloop is the smallest of the three. It's based on a Flybo hull (stretched by 4 studs). It'll be armed like the ketch, but without the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| but it's probably not as bad as my officer's uniforms ;-). Hey, i liked 'em! Ahoy me heartys! I havent posted in a while so i think you new comers dont now me. Names david gardner im 11 and i live in utah (blah!) Too the point, very nice ships. i (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) So do I, but they're not pure LEGO! (...) Thanks. I'm particularly happy with the look of the corronades and the smaller cannon. I'll try to get some detail pics (or better still, ldraw them) soon. (...) The sloop is very basic compared to the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Splendid! This I *have* to see. A silly question: how many masts on the sloop? I've been reading up on my smaller ship classes lately (trying to figure out what I can build :) and I've found that sloops could either be brig-sloops (2 masts) or (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) One! Doesn't a sloop only have one? (...) Oh dear. (I thought if it was fore-and-aft (sloop) rigged one mast qualified it as a sloop, two as either a ketch or a yawl - ketch if mizzen in front of rudder post, otherwise yawl), not sure about (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Ahh, I think we've hit upon the sloop crisis. I've come to associate 'sloop' with 'corvette' -- a slightly-smaller-than-a-frigate vessel, Brig- or Ship-rigged (oh, back then my understanding is that anything less than 3 masts wasn't considered (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Ahhh.... from a simple chart I saw at a small maritime museum last week (no reference on it, and no possibility of a copy, unfortunately), a sloop is one masted fore-and-aft rigged with two sails, a cutter is one masted fore-and-aft rigged (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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