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[tt1]

Hello folks, Can anyone of you seamen advise a newbie landlubber re the above for my first model build - a Loyal Class from Model Slipway?
        There are four bollards in the usual positions i.e. 2 fore and 2 aft, (one each on port and starboard). I would like to add ropes and want to achieve a reasonably realistic appearance in both positioning and quantity. I assume there are usually ropes positioned around the bollards - (on all 4?) and probably spare or other ropes for maybe towing or tying down cargo etc. which may be either strategically placed, or strewn around the deck?

        I'm not a rivet counter to coin a well used phrase on here, just looking for acceptability (without too much scorn  )

Any ideas or advice is, as always, most welcome. These are the last items to add for total completion of the build and will post a few pics when done.

                               Kind regards to all,              Tony.

[Shipmate60]

Tony,
Most if not all the ropes were usually stowed.
These Fleet Tenders were mostly for personnel, so ropes stowed to keep trip hazards to a min.

Bob

[colin-d]

i curled one up on the fore deck and spliced it also...

but as Bob says they were mainly stowed away.

[Bryan Young]

Without going into technicalities, the mooring ropes on the Tenders were about 1.5" in daimeter. (not the way rope is measured, but that will do for now). Only 2 bollards were normally used, but if "bad weather" was coming up, and the boat was to be tied up (overnight?) then other lines would be used from yhe outboard side. In my experience the ropes that were used every half hour or so were just left in a heap and used accordingly. Never saw a Fleet Tender going about its business with very neatly coiled ropes. BY.

[UXB]

I used to catch one of those from Pompey dock yard to Clarence yard and back as part of my commute, it's only a few hundred yards they would only have a bow and stern rope out. the trip was not long enough to bother cheesing down the ropes (curled up) From memory they used to have one end of the rope out through the fair lead and back over the bulwark ready to throw to the jetty and the rest of the rope was loosely coiled around the bollards ready for use. Thats how we used to do it on our old and battered Aberdovey class as well.
Paul

[freelance 1]

An exellent eye splice, does the navy still teach knots and ropework ? Are seamen still issued a rigging knife and spike ?

[CGAux26]

To be a bit more nautical, at least from the west side of the Pond, any rope that is brought aboard a vessel and put in service is called a "LINE."  Dock line, tow line, mooring line, heaving line...  In one boating group to which I once belonged, "Rope" was what was drunk at parties (red rope and white rope).   

I too am building a Loyal tender.  Yours is obviously (more) finished than mine.  Looks good.

Dave