Construction of Billing kit from 27 September 2019 – Rigging and Sails
5-Oct-19 Model completed with flags etc.
5-Oct-19 Lateen rigged onto mizzen
5-Oct-19 Lateen rigged with pulleys and sheets
5-Oct-19 Main tops’l rigged with pulleys, clew and bunt lines, tops’l rigged to main topmast with sheets added
4-Oct-19 Main course rigged
3-Oct-19 Main course rigging and pulleys attached
3-Oct-19 Main course yard attched to sail
3-Oct-19 Fore tops’l rigged with sheets, buntlines etc.
2-Oct-19 Fore tops’l rigged with pulley blocks and sheets etc.
1-Oct-19 Fore course rigged with sheets, buntlines etc.
1-Oct-19 Rigging fore course onto foremast
1-Oct-19 Creating pulley block pairs
30-Sep-19 Fore course rigged with blocks and stays
30-Sep-19 Anchor rigged, stowed
29-Sep-19 Sprits’l ropes, bunt line, sheets
29-Sep-19 Sprits’l secured to sprits’l yard. 10 pulleys attached to sail for sheets, buntlines etc.
29-Sep-19 Sails edges turned, glued, canvas sections marked
29-Sep-19 Fabric cut for sails A to F, ironed, edges turned
29-Sep-19 Paper patterns cut for sails
28-Sep-19 After sprit shaped, drilled and fitted
28-Sep-19 Mizzen stay and backstays
28-Sep-19 Main backstays from main top
28-Sep-19 Main backstays from main topmast top
28-Sep-19 Main stays, 1 to foremast, 1 to bowsprit and 5 strut stay rigged
27-Sep-19 Fore topmast backstays from fore topmast top
27-Sep-19 Fore backstays from fore topmast top rigged
27-Sep-19 Fore stay from fore topmast top rigged, 5 strutted stay from fore top rigged
27-Sep-19 Fore top mast stays’l from fore topmast top rigged