wishing for the real me wrote on 26 Oct 2011 08:37:
The bottle's oppening is narrower then the ship.
It is narrower than the ship with its sails & masts. It is NOT narrower than the ship's hull.
The ship is crafted with its masts laying down. They are laying forward. (They enter the bottle ahead of the hull.) There is a string looped over the tips of the masts which, when gently tugged, straightens the mast. The string is then removed and, pronto, you have a scale model of a grand old sailing ship in a bottle!!!
P.S. Attached is the pics that was posted by
Wishing for the Real Me. (My filter blocked the other one. ;D )