HMS Bounty

[speedy70]

I have just finished beta testing Milton Shupe's model of the Bounty of Captain Bligh and Lieutenant Fletcher Christian fame.

It really is a super model and very soporific to gently sail at leisurely pace around the coastline of your favorite place.

I think it is going to be released early next week.On simouthouse.

I really recommend trying it with accufeel.

Cheers Chris

[trucker17]

Just to show some of it.....

[Ian P]

That's rather nice. I used to have a working yacht in FS9, but all my FSX watercraft have been powered. Unfortunately, the wind really messes them up and in a >15kt headwind, most of them won't move. I don't think I've ever tried them with Accu-Feel v2. I probably should.

Ian P.

[bladerunner900]

That looks good. If it involves tacking into the wind then I may give it a go.

[speedy70]

Hi Bladerunner,
Yes you can tack with the Bounty although squareriggers had to turn through about 100 degrees to tack and most of the time they had to wear ship rather than tack.
Cheers Chris

[n421nj]

Very cool except that when I download non aircraft vehicles they wind up being substituted for other aircraft on multiplayer. I wind up being in the traffic pattern with that ship. Kind of kills the whole thing. Wish there was a way to prevent it from being used as a substitution

[speedy70]

Surely the answer to that is don't go online with it.

Cheers Chris

[bladerunner900]

Hi Bladerunner,
Yes you can tack with the Bounty although squareriggers had to turn through about 100 degrees to tack and most of the time they had to wear ship rather than tack.
Cheers Chris

Even better. Wear Away!

[trucker17]

according to milton........it should be posted this weekend.....

[speedy70]

Yes i am on beta version3 at the moment and that has to be finished by Thursday.So I guess Saturday release.
Cheers Chris

[spadjockey]

wow

[Nick - A2A]

Even better. Wear Away!

Wearing ship? Crikey - it looks even more of a palaver than an NDB approach (and involves more shouting)!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfu_ZPFHlTU[/youtube]

I couldn't even manage to carve gybe a bloody windsurfer!
Nick

[speedy70]

Here is a definition of wearing ship

http://www.seatalk.info/cgi-bin/nautica ... &Term=wear

The model sailing ship above is not HMS Bounty.This picture has since been removed and the word"wow" replaced it.

The Bounty did not have split topsails nor a lower and upper togallant as you can see from the picture Trucker posted.

Cheers Chris

[spadjockey]

And the end

[speedy70]

This picture depicts a terrible accident in the hurricane sandy that wrecked the 50 year old American replica and drowned two people.

The strangest thing about this tragedy is that the Captain was never found and the name of the crew member that died had just joined the ship and her surname was Christian.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/10/us/bo ... tsb-cause/

Cheers Chris