The ships boats are quite a feature of the model so I thought I should make a decent job of fitting them.
There are two mounted on chocks with the davits swung in-board, four suspended in davits which are swung out-board and one in davits, out-board over the stern. The four swung out-board should be lashed back to a cross-bar mounted between the davits.
All are nicely moulded, unfortunately, the pulleys, in etched brass are far too short. This doesn't matter for those swung in-board but it does for the four out-board ones. Fortunately I have some generic pulleys in 1:700 scale that fit the bill after some modification.
I built the whole lot as a sub-assembly as I thought (hoped) it would be easier to work with rather than trying to fit them, piece by piece to the model.
Hopefully the pictures speak for themselves. One done, another three to go.
Haddock.