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We are building a boat for a build your own boat race, there is going to 6 of us paddling and one at the helm (tiller) we want to incorperate a working square mast on it, so in some of your opinions, how would we make the sail work? we already have a 6 1/2 foot mast on it that is a solid 4 by 4, and we're working on the rudder right now. It has to be team made, man and/or wind powered, and viking themed. last year it was pirate themed and we won agianst the three time winners (of course, because they faced a REAL pirate!! LOL)

As I have decided to become a pirate the question arose how I could get myself a ship. Unfortunately I live far away from any sea, so only a boat would be suitable, because I have to somehow transport it over land. As you can't - at least in the middle of south Germany - just walk to the next pirate boat seller around the corner, I have to build such a boat by myself. To still get it on a trailer such a boat should not be to big, so I made a design (all the members of the "Mercury" will recognise the design, because Mr. Brands "Gullah" was the inspiration for my longboat https://pyracy.com/index.php/topic/19074-draughts-of-the-mercury-and-smallboats/?hl=gullah#entry413342) with a hull length of about 26' (ca. 8 meters) - this is somehow about the maximum length allowed to transport on German streets. The designing process is still in progress, but somehow I got stuck in making the plans. So I begun to make a 1:10 model. While building I got some whole different measures at the model than I have detected within the plans. But I can see this happen in real. But only according to my boat building abilities. The boat is still very silent future music. Money, a place to build and the whole pirate project is still in limbo. But playing with that in my head makes really fun

The wooden figureheads on the tall ships... how were they mounted/ taken out? Was it anything to screw them in, or what?

I found a great web site for FREE boat plans. http://www.svensons.com/boat/?p=SailBoats/Falcon This is the one I am looking at. Now my problem it time and money :) Any advice on what I might want to watch out for before I start?

I really want to find some sort of cross-section diagram of what the interior of an 18th century sloop would look like. The closest I've come so far was courtesy of another thread on this forum: https://pyracy.com/index.php?showtopic=12831 Unfortunately the scan is just small enough I can't make out any of the legend text, and there's no indication what book the image was pulled from. Does anyone know? And if not, does anyone know of an alternate source that might have something akin to this that I could browse or buy? You can find all sorts of cross-sections of the big ships, but there seems to be precious little detail available on what a Sloop was like below decks. So for that matter if anyone knows good websites or books describing such things, that'd be swell too. The Captain's Cabin doesn't seem like it could have been very spacious (if it exists at all).

reclaiming a ditty bag and a half of silicon bronze screws from an old wooden boat... these are various lengths and sizes... lags bolts, carriage bolts, and regulatr bolts are in the mix... any boat builders interested ?? lemme know

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