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Brilliant!

Surely they'll just get drunk and blow bubbles at each other...and at least they'll smell nice Ceeg

OK another one just sent, is your PM box chokkah?

PM sent.

All ready to go. 2 x 450 grm strips of lead. Where to? Do you receive courier parcels or perhaps you prefer Royal Mail?

OK I 'll sort things out tomorrow......sounds like a large-ish model. Ceeg

In what form do you want the lead, ; A bit of sheet lead or just waste lead. I have both What weight d'you need ? The sheet lead I have is standard 2.5 mm-ish thick. and the rest are bent/mis-shaped fishing weights . Ceeg

2nd a baggy-fit shirt of linen. Ceeg

Absolutely brilliant, very well done indeed. Ceeg

Pink sails forsooth! Unless you're making the thing for a child's playtoy, the best bet for model sails, is material that shows hardly any memory of form at all...because scale is important and the fabric must hang well. The most realistic models, use a material such as well-washed cotton...

Ain't even heard a cuckoo for years and years, never mind seeing one.

That overlap is what covers the joint of the "stiffener" inside the trim edging...the ends of which are held together with a crimp sleeve, or something similar ......where else are you going to put it, eh! ?????? regards Ceeg

Hoopoe.?

Shiants......i.ve passed them many a time during transits of the Minches.. Something about those islets was quite magical ....to understand how, you have to go there. Ceeg

Probably a good idea to avoid the Lutefisk for a while.

My last bowl of baccy was over 16 years ago...a pipe smoker for 35 years, about 1.5 ounces per week. Fair to say that I had very much under estimated just how much a grip the habit/addiction really had of me. So it took a lot of sheer will-power and a lot of diversionary engagement to fight...

OP, the way I deal with slightly too large hats, is to lay-in a series of large , but very slack stitches along the rear half of the free edge of the sweat band. Then cut just the line of stitch exactly at the rear of the sweatband. This leaves you with two ends of a draw-cord....tighten...

Tengu, just mentioning that the average period of motion upset, in coastal waters, lasts 3 to 6 days...unless there is an on-going ear problem. ref carrying and luggage articles... be aware that on small vessels it is unlikely that you have a sufficiently spacious place to stow much......but...

Possibly I am too late with the following observations culled from many non-mariners I have shipped about. Aside from an initial, pre-sailing dosage of motion-sickness tablets, there seems to be two distinct schools of preference about what to do and where best to be. One , there's a belief...

Recently bought from HH, the Buckshot Bone Sowbelly Trapper.....a really well made and class bit of cutlery.....I see that this one was rapidly out of stock...with good reason. Ceeg