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    Happy Thanksgiving to all my Yank shipmates!
    This appears to have been a very quiet month for projects on the Anchorage.

    I completed one ship during the month and started another.
    Henry's little 22-gun brig snow HMS Ontario was a fun build.
    She never saw battle and sank in a storm just 5 months after launch. Her fame comes from the discovery of the unusually well preserved wreck in 2008.

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    And the ship I'm working on now is Henry's American privateer Prince de Neufchatel.

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    A little more progress tonight on the privateer

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    Both these ships are looking very smart and up to your usual high standard of workmanship Vol.
    Thanks for posting them for us all to enjoy.
    Rob.
    The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

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    A little more done with the stay sails added and some rigging

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    Beauty shots of the finished privateer

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    And another very fine ship takes to the water Vol.
    Thanks for sharing these pictures with us.
    Rob.
    The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

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    I wish so much I had more time (and talent) to make those very like sails that look so real. What a great job and pleasure for our eyes, bravo Sir !
    "Les passions sont les vents qui enflent les voiles du navire ; elles le submergent quelquefois, mais sans elles il ne pourrait voguer."
    "Passions are the winds that fill the sails of a ship ; they sometimes overwhelm her, but she could not sail without them."- Voltaire

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    Wow, kind words. Thank you Roméo

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    How much time did you spend on this ship's sails, by the way, Vol ? Just to have an idea.
    "Les passions sont les vents qui enflent les voiles du navire ; elles le submergent quelquefois, mais sans elles il ne pourrait voguer."
    "Passions are the winds that fill the sails of a ship ; they sometimes overwhelm her, but she could not sail without them."- Voltaire

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    The cloth sails do take a little longer than making paper sails Roméo. I have never timed myself but I would say, including drying time, four hours for a small ship like this and perhaps five for a third rate. Figure an hour less for paper.

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    That's something when you think about it ! But on second thought, it appears to be a sensible amount of time in proportion to the very fine results It really reduces a lot the effect of "plastic-looking" of the ships ; really a must !
    "Les passions sont les vents qui enflent les voiles du navire ; elles le submergent quelquefois, mais sans elles il ne pourrait voguer."
    "Passions are the winds that fill the sails of a ship ; they sometimes overwhelm her, but she could not sail without them."- Voltaire

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