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The Black Pearl-lite a gaff-rigged sloop
at http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=222235
In his post http://news.lugnet.com/pirates/?n=4487 Mr. Dulin said something
that set me off.
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The Egregious is built on a four centre section hull, and includes the
challenging construction combination of short ratlines and Vikings masts. I
have gained a newfound appreciation of the possibilities of the short
ratlines – I had previously written them off as next to useless for serious
vessel construction… and even after I used them on the cutter Trésfroid and
the hermaphrodite brig Ratsée, I doubted that they could be used
successfully on a wide hulled vessel.
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I too had mostly a very low opinion of the short ratlines, but I thought to
myself it would have to be a very small ship, wait a moment didn’t I buy those
small black and dark-gray hulls http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/6051cx3 and
http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/6053cx3 to build a very small ship?
So thus was born the Black Pearl-lite!!
What do I like with what I did with this MOC?, I like the black, gray and a
touch of red colors. I like that she has a spinnaker boom. I like my bronze
swivel guns. I like that I the used the gun ports in the bow to lower the
attachment points of the far forward mast’s rigging. I like the rake of the mast
and the fact that I used real lego sails and they actually looked good! I love
the fairness of her lines ( how? wedge sloped
http://www.peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/psearch?query=wedge+sloped&limit=none)
she looks so yare setting there (with one brick under her portside) making her
look hard-over on her attack reach.
You can almost here the peg-leg hook-hand captian yelling “Fire as she bears
boys, and shiver me timbers!!”. Amazingly most people don’t know what “shiver me
timbers” means.
Well, I think that she’s low, clean and neat! And very tiny!
What do y’all think?
kurt
Austin, TX
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| (...) Glad I said something that set someone off in a positive way! (...) This is one of the nicest small hulled vessels ever! The use of the dread 4+ pirates sails is very effective. (...) Magnificent! To be an effective pirate, she needs more (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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