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Re: Fore and aft rigged Orion!
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lugnet.pirates
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Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:44:32 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Stephen Rowe wrote:
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well, i decided to add more sails to my ship HMS Orion. that means that i had
to *gasp* cut up lego my sails! oh well, the outcome i think is more than
worth it.
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Welcome to the dark side.
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so, without further adieu, i give you the Orion under full sail, with square
sails up, and fore and aft sails flying!
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=55071
LMKWYT!
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Nice work! The effect of horizontally striped sails is interesting.
The gaffsail and the topmast staysail are effective, but the topgallant staysail
just doesn’t work for me... Perhaps now you’re on the dark side, you could take
the scissors to it and make a triangular topgallant staysail and a gaff tops’l?
Adieu
Richie Dulin
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Somewhere in the South Pacifique
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Building a safer South Pacifique
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| (...) yeah, i was kind of worried that they wouldnt look right, but i think they came out okay, now when i look at it, i dont even really notice the difference anymore. (...) perhaps a gaff topsail, however, in my research, i have found that british (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Fore and aft rigged Orion!
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| well, i decided to add more sails to my ship HMS Orion. that means that i had to *gasp* cut up lego my sails! oh well, the outcome i think is more than worth it. so, without further adieu, i give you the Orion under full sail, with square sails up, (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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