A bitty old post today as I catch up a few loose ends.

Newspaper Cutting

Newspaper Cutting showing the Pihama Girls receiving their award from HRH Princess Anne; Photo from Faversham Times Thurs Nov 15th 2012

First  up, those Pihama Girls got themselves into at least three Kentish local papers (The Faversham Times, The Faversham Gazette (Kent Messenger) and the Ashford Kent Messenger with this nice picture and a good write up including comment from their School Headmaster, David Anderson.

 

2nd, David Rye, former “Occasional Contributor”, fast becoming “Regular Contributor” has found some more good links, including the next two sections of that instructional video on sailing the square rigger Solandet at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlRbcTsm2rc&feature=youtu.be (Part 2)

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3jU9Xz_GHE&feature=youtu.be (Part 3)

plus some nice assorted sailing vessels on

and then the moving of a big chunk of a new Aircraft carrier by sea on

HMS Queen Elizabeth prepares to depart Rosyth side by side with HMS Prince of Wales - May 2019

 

And, last but not least, the latest from SB Westmoreland modelers, Dave and Tony Brooks who tell us that by,

“14th November. An undercoat has been applied to the hull to show up any major blemishes, then final touches applied to our windlass and yet more cleaning up.  After this we decided to take a look at the mainmast furniture, namely the hounds and topmast cap that take the cross trees and house the topmast. Careful manipulation of brass and we had something that looked remarkably like the real thing. The brass for the topmast cap was gently rolled around a bar and then soldered. Once they were finished we glued both pieces to our mast and while we were at it we squared off the bottom of the mast to fit the mast case”.

Thanks all of you. I will put some of Dave’s latest pictures of the model up over the next few days.