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Re: A day sail from Port Brique
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lugnet.pirates
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Thu, 19 Jun 2003 03:58:07 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin wrote:
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In lugnet.pirates, Stephen Rowe wrote:
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have not seen much from port block in a long time! does he still build
ships?
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No tall ships recently, but Richard did bring along some small craft to
Bricksmeet. Have a look at
these.
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Stuff still happens at Port Block, but not of the sail driven variety.
Having built some large and small vessels on the narrow and wide hulls, design
seemed a bit tapped out. As Richie notes, there has been some recent activity
in the ‘heretical research department’ cutting up rowboat pieces in an endeavour
to make them useful, with not altogether unsuccessful results.
BUT, as we were discussing at the fest, attacking rowboat pieces with a saw is
only a precursor to the main game - attacking ship hull pieces.
I got to four centre sections with Agamemnon, and could not find a way to
progress beyond that - fixed max width defined fixed max length defined fixed
max height. Richie has pushed the envelope with extra inverted slopes, and his
glorious 6 centre sectioned vessel has earned him (for mine) pre-eminence in
South Pacific shipbuilding.
Obviously Port Block cannot allow this challenge to go unanswered ;-)
Right now am working on concepts for wide hull pieces split down the middle to
allow for a 20 wide hull, and snot-wise designs for sloped sides, to drive
towards a true three decker that looks halfway decent.
I must say, research is not going well in terms of outcomes, but as Einstein
said ‘If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn’t call it research’. Just makes
it all the sweeter when a successful concept is revealed.
Richard - Still baldly going...
Check out
Port Block Yards, and
New Pacific
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| (...) those are pretty cool, and they are more realistic than their lego counterparts. (...) hey, if no one thought outside the box, where would we be? (...) Blasphemy!!!! (much finger pointing!) ;-) (...) i agree, one is very limited by the size (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| (...) -snip- (...) No tall ships recently, but Richard did bring along some small craft to Bricksmeet. Have a look at (URL). The longboat is made by cutting two rowboats very accurately (using a fretsaw and a jig made of Megablocks™), they aren't (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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