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CBMM Shipwright Apprentice Sam Hilgartner works on new rigging for the 1889 bugeye Edna Lockwood, which relaunches at CBMM's Oct. 27, 2018 OysterFest.
Learn more about the 2018-2018 log-hull restoration of CBMM's queen of the fleet at www.ednalockwood.org.
Hilgartner comes to CBMM from the Arques School of Traditional Boat Building in Saulsalito, California, where he was an apprentice and instructor. He also worked for the National Park Service at the SanFransico Maritime National Historical Park for four years; rigging in New England as well as the Netherlands. Hilgartner enjoys sailing, and has sailed aboard traditional sailing vessels like Pride of Baltimore II, and Picton Castle.
It's on the market so there must be a market for it, but who wants that at home I wonder?
This was upping the contrast in the camera and swopping to the LTM Canon 28mm, giving 35mm equivalent on the M8, more comfortable to shoot with than the awkward cropped 50mm.
It's a good lens, especially when you only slice out the middle. f5.6 I think @640iso, it was gloomy and I keep the M8 at 640 with a 0.33 stop negative to protect any highlights, not that there are many at the moment.
The Shanghai Circus was in town, bringing with them rigging that looked centuries old. I guess the tried and true methods are best in some situations.
CBMM Shipwright Apprentice Sam Hilgartner works on new rigging for the 1889 bugeye Edna Lockwood, which relaunches at CBMM's Oct. 27, 2018 OysterFest.
Learn more about the 2018-2018 log-hull restoration of CBMM's queen of the fleet at www.ednalockwood.org.
Hilgartner comes to CBMM from the Arques School of Traditional Boat Building in Saulsalito, California, where he was an apprentice and instructor. He also worked for the National Park Service at the SanFransico Maritime National Historical Park for four years; rigging in New England as well as the Netherlands. Hilgartner enjoys sailing, and has sailed aboard traditional sailing vessels like Pride of Baltimore II, and Picton Castle.
The standing rigging was a stuctural part of a tall ship. It literally held the ship together from the top of the main mast (middle mast). It was very rarelly or never replaced, and that was structural work that had to be done in a shipyard. It consisted of 3 kinds of thick, tarred ropes:
-Stays: can be seen extending forward and downwards from every one of the 3 masts. Each mast has one stay. Ships with taller masts used to have a stay for every level of the mast, that extended in later years to up to five in the big clippers.
-Backstays: Can be seen extending backwards and to the sides of the fore and mizzen masts.
-Shrouds: These are the elaborate system of ropes that extends backwards from the main mast. There are usually 5-6 on each side, since these are the ropes that took all the tension and the force of the wind on the sail of the mainmast (the small horizontal ropes tied on the shrouds were called ratlines and were used for climbing on the mast to handle the sails. They were not tarred, so they have not been painted black, as they were often replaced. they are not part of the standing rigging)
AOPA Expo Palm Springs 2006. Shot with a Canon EOS 30D and 15mm Fisheye Lens. Postprocessing in PhotoMatix and Photoshop CS2.
© 2006 Allen Rockwell www.allenrockwellphoto.com
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Champ Fedora Hat 100% Fur Felt Made in the USA probably late 1950s or 1960s
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Nordstrom Shirt 100% Cotton Made in Sri Lanka
Banana Republic Pants 100% Cotton Made in India
Stuart Holmes Presidents Loafers Made in the USA
Nice morning, maybe rain and some heat this afternoon
CBMM Shipwright Apprentice Sam Hilgartner works on new rigging for the 1889 bugeye Edna Lockwood, which relaunches at CBMM's Oct. 27, 2018 OysterFest.
Learn more about the 2018-2018 log-hull restoration of CBMM's queen of the fleet at www.ednalockwood.org.
Hilgartner comes to CBMM from the Arques School of Traditional Boat Building in Saulsalito, California, where he was an apprentice and instructor. He also worked for the National Park Service at the San Fransico Maritime National Historical Park for four years; rigging in New England as well as the Netherlands. Hilgartner enjoys sailing, and has sailed aboard traditional sailing vessels like Pride of Baltimore II, and Picton Castle.
Edited illustration from the Library of Congress of a table of names for rigging on men of war ships.
Holy crap! This was a close one.
Road crane from Consolidated Crane & Rigging of Houston, TX came in to pick a Harsco tamper off the Flynn House Track and transfer it to a low boy trailer operated by Bardwell Trucking for relocation.
Well, the crane nearly toppled.. And I got it all on video too.
Fortunately, the low boy trailer was only a few feet below it. But it's jammed up.
BNSF Tamping Crew foreman checked on his crew first: no injuries? Started walking towards me.. pointing to eyes then the video camera. I nodded yes.
"You get that?"
"Yup."
"You got a card with number on it? And I need a copy of the video."
"I figured that - here ya go." handing him my business card.
The tamper is sitting on the trailer diagonally, lifted the left side outriggers of crane about 3 feet off the ground, minor damage to tamper: the laser end of tamper is hung up on the rear right outrigger of crane. Small dent to lowboy trailer. One set of four tamping fingers on one arm may have bent as well.
Can't lift because lifting center is now outside of center of gravity of the crane. Rigger calling home office, for second crane. And everyone is sitting and waiting.
BNSF Tamper Crew and the Truck Driver now have flash drives with all my still images and video. (The crane operator is on his own.)
I have it on good authority he was instructed couldn't place the tamping machine weight to the outside of the lifting circle of the crane.. But you now how it goes. And now so does he.
On the upside, no injuries no fatalities and everyone gets to go home with all their fingers and toes.
Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Nn66Nx8ko&t=277s
BNSF
Red River Division
Houston Subdivision
MP 168.50 - Flynn House Track
Flynn, Texas, USA
02 June 2021 - 16:00 CDT
all images © 2021 ~ Phantastic Pherroequinology / Philip M. Goldstein
Jonathan Zand, systems integration engineer for Ocean Networks Canada, rigs benthic crawler Wally II for deployment to the seafloor. This crawler will replace Wally I in the Barkley Canyon gas hydrates outcrops, where it will be operated remotely by scientists and technicians in Germany. Photo by Ed McNichol, 10 May 2014.
One of the masts (I think it was the main-mast) of HMS Victory, silhouetted against the midday sun.
Inside the ship was a chunk of the mast used (and abused - you can see a big hole) during the battle of Trafalgar. Whilst the original masts for the ship were made from single tree trunks, this wasn't an option after the American Revolution so the replacement masts were composited together from several logs, bound with iron.
From the mast-head flies a white ensign.
This bronze wheel is a sheave from a rigging block, and was found in the starboard scourpit outside the Mary Rose.
Bronze wheels were used for heavy-duty or critical work, so this may have been part of one of the main blocks used to raise and lower the yardarms.
This is one of the less ornate sheaves found, but it is unusual in that it had nine spokes, normally sheaves would have some symmetry. It also has the Broad arrow mark on it, usually considered to have been introduced as a government marking dating from the 17th Century, but clearly was in use much earlier. While this could be put down to this being a later object that somehow made is way into the site, several other objects, including a gun carriage, also feature this mark.
Image ©Mary Rose Trust
CBMM Shipwright Apprentice Sam Hilgartner works on new rigging for the 1889 bugeye Edna Lockwood, which relaunches at CBMM's Oct. 27, 2018 OysterFest.
Learn more about the 2018-2018 log-hull restoration of CBMM's queen of the fleet at www.ednalockwood.org.
Hilgartner comes to CBMM from the Arques School of Traditional Boat Building in Saulsalito, California, where he was an apprentice and instructor. He also worked for the National Park Service at the SanFransico Maritime National Historical Park for four years; rigging in New England as well as the Netherlands. Hilgartner enjoys sailing, and has sailed aboard traditional sailing vessels like Pride of Baltimore II, and Picton Castle.
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Diesel Equipment Technology
Bellingham Technical College
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future.
The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no
longer exists." Eric Hoffer
The rigging on the Lady Washington, tall ship moored in Astoria, Ore. Apparently the ship was in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean.
Photo of Crane making a critical lift - dismantled 300' flare tower dismantled in refinery - top section be rigged to ground
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