Well didn't do much today as time taken up with my eldest's dentist appointment - 4 hours I won't get back.
Did some sketches for the standing rigging and moving rigging, also how the yards are to be linked together, the issue now as has always been the sail winch travel and its effect on the sails movement.
When you lay one sketch on the other it shows the disparity in the yards heights, as long as the connecting lines between the top yards and lower yards are the same distance from the pivot point then as one moves so should the other 3, i.e. foremast lower yard connected to main mast lower yard, similarly the top yards, if the lines that are connecting the top yard to the lower yard are good enough then they could in theory rotate each other, but that wont happen, so i will have to split the sail winch line between the top and lower yards on each side.
The pictures are:-
1. The foremast standing rigging, L is the expected linking point between fore and main masts.
2. The main mast standing rigging, again L is the expected linkage.
3. The mizzen mast standing rigging, surprisingly there is no connecting lines to the channel running alongside the mizzen deck area, though to gain access to the battery and receiver the mizzen deck is removable and on Sovereign I used a hook for connecting the ratlines to the yard on the mizzen mast for each side, that has yet to be built in.
4. The standing rigging between the fore and main mast, with the linkage lines initially shown as dotted, also the connections to the bowsprite.
5. The sail winch connection to the foremast, as the lines run up the main mast to the underside of the platform and then go forward of this to the foremast.