Island Rose

[gedren_y]

High Priestess Ylsbeth the Starcatcher has commissioned a ship built on behalf of the Crahiash neh Triuri. It was deemed that a fast explorer vessel was needed, so that those faithful to the Triuri could find and protect the Fountain of Youth.

This is what the shipbuilders at New Terreli came up with. The flower motif was Ylsbeth's idea. She named her the Island Rose.

Captained by Hammish Grei, and crewed only by worshipers of the Triuri, the Island Rose is now fully provisioned and ready to set sail tomorrow.

Luca Damser, a recent convert to the Triuri faith, waits just below deck with his musket ready to fire at anyone who doesn't give the password. He pulled one of the short straws, and now must take first shift guarding the ship while the rest of the crew celebrate.

The next two shifts have it worse, because they cannot drink at the celebration before coming on duty. When he is relieved, Luca intends to drink enough for all three of them at the celebration.

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(Story update)

Ever since the event of his ransom, Tolan duBroise is now the captain of the Island Rose.

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Lots of detail shots. Just click the thumbnails.

Deck and bow:

Stern and sails:

Dock and water:

Hull shots out of the water.

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This was an experiment in hull design. Some of the parts were old pieces in colors they never came in, so there's no building this in real bricks.

Here's the LDD file, when brickshelf makes it public.

The ship is something of a cross between an Italian lanteener, an Italian carrack, and an Arab dhow. She has no 'guns', and carries only provisions and crew.

Edited November 3, 2017 by gedren_y

[TitusV]

Great ship, and the use of the palm-trees is amazing!

[blackdeathgr]

A very innovative ship design! And the water...i have never seen such a technique but it just looks great! All in all, a very inspiring build!

[Tezclatipoca]

Nice and original design !

You did a great job ! Keep it up !

[Capt Wolf]

Lovely ship. It took me awhile to realize you had used palm trees for masts. Very interesting! And I like the brick-built sails; I used the same technique on my Far Horizon.

Your water technique is stunning! Well done!

[gedren_y]

Nice and original design !

You did a great job ! Keep it up !

Great ship, and the use of the palm-trees is amazing!

Lovely ship. It took me awhile to realize you had used palm trees for masts. Very interesting! And I like the brick-built sails; I used the same technique on my Far Horizon.

Your water technique is stunning! Well done!

A very innovative ship design! And the water...i have never seen such a technique but it just looks great! All in all, a very inspiring build!

Thanks all.

It took me quite a while to settle on the masts and sails design. The palm tree parts were necessary because of the limitations of the hull size. All the prefab parts were too large, even the prefab palm tree. Once I decided the ship should be in dock, the plan for furled sails opened my options up. The angled masts come from the images I used for reference, out of a 2014 World Book Encyclopedia.

The water design was a late decision. I think the color and randomness give the scene a real sense of being in the surf of a tropical island. I'd like to see if this could be reproduced in real bricks.

[Bregir]

Nice custom hull, Gedren, and those palm trunks actually work well as masts, plus they allow you to give the masts that nice rake. Overall very nice little mediterranean style vessel and nice story. I doubt those flowers are very practical when handling her, though! FLOWAH POWAH!

[gedren_y]

The Island Rose is now licensed as a Class 3. (Updated to the new system.)

Edited November 3, 2017 by gedren_y