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In my trawling through the site I came across your original post from your inaugural launch of Agility with plenty of pictures showing her on both...

That cutter beat up the Chester River with us for a while. She was splendid to behold and walked away from us easily. She's Bloodhound, a...

Great pictures. I should have driven down. Curious about that black hulled cutter next to the Pride, I don't recognize her.

We woke up this morning to 2-3°C, but it is sunny. The mast is freestanding and breaks down into to sections when not in use. I believe that the...

That's an interesting design, lots of freeboard. I don't think I've seen a sail plan like that before, presumably the mast is free standing like a...

A few of my ships have been used as sources for parts and the hulls used as wrecks, ships on fire as well. Rob.

Amusingly, Grace is one of the older boats in attendance, at 58. Agility is a hard dinghy of my own design. Here's a picture from a few years...

The ship on the right looks to be 200 years old, although I suppose she's not. Do You have a hard bottom dinghy on Grace? or are you back home?

That looks to have been a bright day, Dobbs, and what company to keep. The rake of those masts on the left look quite spectacular. We've not seen the...

There is an inevitability about that tale, John, duplicates must lend themselves to captures, or, recreations, or, pirates, or, anything but wreckage...

Thanks Dave, I've got these on my radar. :thumbsup: for me the difference between ships and planes is that with the planes it's the pilots that had...

Has there been any motion on the 3d printing in color for ships like Wings of Glory?

A little manufacturing-side background here: Printing new paper and applying new paint is cheap, new tool-and-die steel for sculpt rework is...

This is the fascinating side of the game to me, John. I have no idea about Sails whatsoever, how many actual models there are & what they represent...

That was what caught my interest, I've a notion to repaint and possibly re-rig my ships and thought that as I did it I'd rename them as a new ship...

The nickel summary on Stretching is "what can these models reasonably pass for, even if it means reworking the stats?" :) Goal was an early start at...

I found 3 of your stretched threads yesterday, I didn't really understand them but I only gave them a cursory glance before copying, pasting into...

Sudden gusts are nasty beggars, scared the wotsit out of me when we were knocked onto our beam ends in my mates boat (similar to that in Dobb's pic),...

There's a great deal that will never be official from Ares... the closest thin you'll see to it is my "Stretching Sculpts" series of threads once we...

Got caught in a squall sailing a Laser 2 type sailboat. With a sudden gust, the sailboat capsized. We got it upright and to shore, but the...

:drinks: I've had that sinking feeling twice too! The first was on our shakedown cruise after selling everything we owned. The evening was coming...

There's nothing official from Ares about Phoebe class frigates. I'd say our admiral was just giving us more 18 pounder frigates to choose from. Just...

When we were first doing initial research before I had my copies of BWAS, there wasn't anything about the Phoebes on Wikipedia to start from. :(

Well it's not a happy thought :surrender: As an ex sailor of a small ship I've had 2 occasions where she was sinking and on both of them I was far...

https://www.sailsofglory.org/entry.php?43-HMS-Doris-(-Frigate) This is the Admirals original post, it's in a series that as far as I can tell is...

Well that's ideal for a more exotic setting than the 'Ditch'

Pity we're gonna lose this thread. Perseverance is fairly close to an Amazon, so that "slower but better turning" would be an excellent note for a...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Doris_(1808) Here's another one. The Perseverance class was noted as being slower but more agile than other 18...

Many thanks for the glass of 98, John. Let us enjoy the beauty of the moon together.

Well, it did exist at least, John, though an initial search didn't bring it to the fore. Seems to have had an interesting career until she was lost...

Been a while since I went to Pompey to see the ships, it's about an hour or so away from us now so maybe I'll get there again soon. When I went...

Eric, I'll track down this Alexander Clay series at your recommendation upon conclusion of our current voyage.

I have started rereading Ramage again and am enjoying the series. I like that you can hear Pope's love of sailing in his writing. I am reading...