main topmast.

I don't seem to have achieved much today but a lot of time spent trying to make sense of the old bits of rigging left over.

mainly concerned with rigging on mizzen yard. when I got the model this was not in place on the yard but lying in the mess on deck. scoured all my pics for clues but to no avail. looked at the rigging on "elizabeth jonas", also no help. looked at rigging plan of "revenge" and started to get the idea. however what's left doesn't seem right.

finally realised i had sketched it before dismantling. doh!! but even with that info the remaining blocks and lines not right. this may be because roy changed his mind halfway through. two of the remaining blocks are double sheaved and coupled together and appear to be used like the fore topmast yard halyard and spread onto the mizzen stay, which can't be right. i'm gonna have to wing this one. however i finally do it, it will work.

anyway once i got started i made up a new main topmast yard halyard, rove it through the main topmast and secured it to the yard. then rigged its purchase from for'd port 1/4 deck rail, up through its block and turned hauling part up on pin in stbd rail. then repeated the process with the main topmast running backstay.

then i made up and set the mizzen topmast stay.

finally made up 8 topmast shroud sets and got half way through rigging them. will box them off tomorrow.

hrs 127.