Gorden
I'm amazed.....68 reads and not one reply. If it wasn't for the help I recieved as a consequence of a post on here, I would have stuggled to get as far as I have with my first sail project a Y2K (although it hasn't yet got it's backside wet, see earlier threads).
I'm not good with scales. I usually if its one of my own efforts (normally electric semi scale) work up/down the sizes to get the proportions right and hope it all works out at the end of the day. I think the lack of response is down to one of two things, (1) either the scale you mentioned is a bit? small for a scale sail model of this type ( I know there are some small sail models that go very well, but the USS Alabama?) or (2) a fear of having your input ridiculed by a core membership, I know this put me off and I suspect a few others as the folks I recieved help from have stopped posting.
One guy I can recommend (I have no connection whatsoever apart from buying a hull from him, is Mike Mayhew in Clevedon). Don't e-mail or post, he's old school, drop in if you're passing or give him a call, he's a mine of information if you want to build scale sail or anything else for that matter, and he'll probably give you other contacts as well.
Good luck with your project, and please post updates if you do get this project off the ground as I for one would be interested. I rarely post these days, but I do check for interesting threads.
John C