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Online plans for a Merchant Brig?
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Date: 
Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:22:24 GMT
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I was lucky enough to book a 3-hour cruise on the Lady Washington next month, a
replica of the Lady Washington brig that was the first American ship to visit
the West Coast.

http://www.ladywashington.org

She is also currently starring as the Interceptor in Pirates of the Caribbean:
Curse of the Black Pearl.

I was wondering if there were any good sites on-line with plans for merchant
brigs.  I was thinking about trying to build one between now and the cruise, and
I'd also like to get a better idea of the name of the sails and such before I go
aboard.  I've been reading the trinity of Age of Sail nautical fiction
(Forrester, O'Brian, and Kent) but the names of the rigging and sails has not
really stuck in my head well.  Thanks for any help you can give me!



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  Re: Online plans for a Merchant Brig?
 
(...) I don't know of any. I'd suggest working from pictures instead, I used pictures of the HMBrig Supply when I build the (URL) HMLBrig Demand>. Given that you have to end up straightening out a lot of the curves anyway, I'm not sure that having (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jul-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)

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