It certainly is a work in progress. For starters I would recommend cleaning the ship properly since it seems very dusty. Just looking at it is almost making me sneeze already. 
I'd go with something else than plastic sails since it looks nicer, I assume all these ships are quite similar so it should be possible to fix it up with parts from other pirateships that use this shape.
This reminds me, maybe I should restore my brother's old pirateship sometimes so I can use it in picture stories. It needs some good sails and some parts may need to be replaced, but that would mean I'd have two large pirate ships for stories.
Thanks I forgot to mention that it needs a good dust although as you say it is fairly evident in the photos see if I've got time this weekend to clean it should probably do some work for my course if I'm short on time. I totally agree with you on the sail s my first thought was urh plastic, then I thought from a practical point plastic may be easier. My main thoughts are if I'm taking photos of it in the pond don't know how durable the sails are so hosing pond slime off plastic sails might be easier as might be disassembling the masts and stuff for storage, if I did go for plastic sails it'd probably only be short term.
I reckon you should definately restore your brothers Pirate ship, am I right in remembering you showing us a new Pirate ship a while back? 2 Pirate ships interacting with each other might make for some good photos or even part of a story
The plastic rolled up sails have a different mount on the mast. Just change the mount and you could use different sails. Not a big deal. I just don't understand why you would want to change the plastic bright red sails 
Don't discriminate? He was thrown overboard with that slimy baby
Thanks that what I meant to say, I thought it should be fairly easy to interchange parts since it's fairly similar to the earlier ones with proper sails, ah nostalgia dictates proper sails look good
Heehee that was fun
Great to see the pirates don't discriminate when it comes to Lego minorities!
It's probably just initiation. They're pirates.
P.S. I just noticed his hairy grey chest
Yes my LEGO Pirate doesn't have any other Pirates friends his own size so he hangs out with the Playmobil Pirates they seem to have accepted him in fact he's been sharing avevntures with them since I got my Pirate Advent Calendar the other year (he provided good company for the kids as well
) he may be lacking in size but, he's got plenty of enthusiasm particularly when it comes to warding off Zombie Pirates
Oh and yes he has a really nice outfit some great details combined with ever smiling enthusiastic face.
That's a great purchase! And the baby hydra 
Thanks glad you like it I like the little Sea Monster or Baby Nessie as I started calling it
it came with the Pirate Advent Calendar the one down side is it doesn't seem to float so couldn't take photos of it in the pond and it's a bit small to present a challenge to a Pirate then it occured to me my Lego Pirate might be a suitable size to ride it
Great buy, and yes it's 4424. You can just get the regular masts and sails and they will fit fine. I like the red plastic sails for at port but you want proper ones if you will be taking it out for seagoing photos.
Thanks for confirming that, that's great makes sense rolled up sails while in dock sails down when out at sea although suppose you've got to remember to keep them the same colour if you do that otherwise it'd ruin it
although guess it depends what conditions are like at sea if you need the sails?
A super buy! That's a ship that I don't have - though I bought the others in various incomplete states secondhand, and then ordered lots of parts to remake them the way I wanted. It's great fun.
Mine are always a bit dusty - I have nowhere protective to store them. Some are on the floor of a spare room, and others get the Special Treatment and are on (open) shelves. They are too big (and too many) to be moored elsewhere. But I think that my pirates are not particularly clean folk anyway.
Cool I suppose it's quite good fun custom building them from the parts you find. I don't think I'll have anywhere particularly good to store my ship probably under the bed inside a plastic bag so might get some dust, you make a good point though about the Pirates don't think they're well known for they're ship cleaning habits still probably best not have any of them coughing up old dust
, it gives me some ideas for photos I can take of them at work cleaning it out.
That's a good buy.
I might be able to help you out with a few spares, depends on whether you want the exact colour matches or whether you just want to make it into a useable ship.
I made my own sails for some of the ships I used in my harbour display (not the striped ones of course!)
- I used fabric interfacing soaked in cold tea. I may have some material left over and I have patterns of the sails for the old ship if you are interested.
Thank you very much for the offer that sounds really good and very kind of you
and the help is always appreciated, as far as I'm concerned I admire anyone who is skilled enough to make their own sails and yours looks as good as any I've seen on a Playmobil ship.
My main concern is restoring my ship to a usable condition so I'm not to bothered about what the sails look like and I think I'd worry less if they were homemade about them getting ruined as I can always replace them with Playmobil ones or make some new ones later. one of the things I was going to mention was that my friends suggested he could make some sails and masts out of dowel, I'm not sure about the masts think I might buy them but, even if you could just send me a template with the measurements for each sail that would be a great help and indeed a useful resource should I or anyone else ever need to make more sails, by the way what materials did you use for making the sails and where can you purchase them?
Thanks again will try to remember to PM you when I've got more time but, if I don't get round to it please feel free to send me a message as I might be busy doing some work for my Conservation course
