getting near the end ,
Alright!
“Now in Cadence you hear” “Row, row Yer Boat”
The only reason I think Funerary Boat is the fact that All the oar holes are covered by the shields!
Hey Steve, that looks awesome. Very nice work sir. I love the wood look. Actually, I love everything about it. It’s a keeper.
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Bump…bump…bump… goes the drum in the stern,
The rowers grumble under their breath but keep rowing.
BUMP! BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!!!
“What the heck?”
“The Chief wants to go water skiiing!”
That’s a fine model you built. such a good kit to begin with and expert build.
There’s a fair amount of information concerning the sail. The corner of a piece of woven wool like a blanket was found in the attice of a church in Norway, IIRC.
Of interest is that there is an “eyelet” or opening woven into it. and, again because I’m lazy and not looking at sources, I think it’s dyed red. The red die of the time was made from madder root. The piece of fabric is very rough and thick. Looms of the time were as large as a meter wide, so the sail could have been made up with long meter-wide vertical panels.
It would have weighed a lot, and smelled like a wet dog.
great work.
Bill
thanks guy’s for the nice comments ,
steve , cheers mate , i’m keeping it .
bill , I suppose nearly everything would have had that smell , it would have been normal .
TB , you can see in the 2nd to last pic , that the holes aren’t blocked , I just thought either myself or 1 of my grandkids would knock some of the @##@$ off .so I left them off .
Aha!
That’s a very good reason for leaving them off. Been there, Done that!
Yet you see white sails on so many models. My understanding is white cotton sails were rare on all but US ships.