Very well, she is probably too detailed anyway if that 60,000 is for the hull only. if not I have gun models that would knock 35,340 polys off the overall count for the game,and I could try to get it ingame myself, but I understand if you dont want that. The HMS Ajax model kit is based off of this chapman design:
http://www.sjohistoriska.se/sv/Fordjupning/Marketstore/Ritning/?msobjid=0014538
Happy modeling!

she looks great! ah, well the guideline I have followed for POTC is to keep my ships under 100000 triangles, but mine dont include interiors, and arent quite as detailed as this one. I dont know how close to that this ship is, but its only a guidline. I guess with this amount of detail 100 different drawings might be neccessary, but considering I have already built 3 ships with only 4 plans each(bodyplan, profile, plan, and sailplan-basically what is on that website) I cant say I agree with you on that point. Though I dont include items like captstans, guns, wheel, deadeyes, bell, etc in that count, which I built from standard royal navy designs for use in all my ships. There are plenty of plans to build the hull of a ship on that site, though ill admit sailplans are harder to find. However, with enough research and knowledge of the era guesswork can turn out alright. where did you get 100 drawings for this one? I know its based of chapman's frigate illustrated in plate 33 of his book, and the sailplan and such probably came from the HMS Ajax model kit based off of it, but that is still less than 100, unless you include the fittings in that count. (At one time I considered building a ship using some of the same plans as this one, so thats why I know so much about it)

Your screenshot certainly do look good! but in POTC you can have battles and sail your ship anywhere in the carribean, and theres other ships from the era too. The guns could be replaced (for POTC) with low poly models we use for new ships that are 650 triangles(270 polys) each. Anyways I hope you consider it! you wouldnt even have to get her in the game, im sure someone would go to the trouble of converting the files and the like, and I would do it myself as soon as all my own projects are finished.

Well Disney was Involved, but the game was meant to be the sequel to seadogs and was taken over by Diseny at the last minute and they addded in some POTC realted stuff so the title would attract buyers. It is still a solid game though, but is improved alot by the mod. 2.2 GB is a fair bit, but if its worth it in my opinion (of course you need to have the POTC game already) Anyways I dont want to take this thread off topic.

It is a PC game, a single-player RPG to be specific, released by Akella in 2003. somehow people have kept modding it since then, so a ton of improvements and new content have accumulated over time.

Simply stunning work! Out of curiosity, what game are you building her for that can handle that amount of detail? I have built 3 ships from this era myself, a 20 gun american schooner, a 22 gun french corvette, and a 40 gun french frigate, all built from plans of real ships. They are intended for this mod for the original pirates of the carribean game http://www.moddb.com/mods/new-horizons though unfortunately im struggling with learning texturing and whatnot, but ill see them sail yet. anyways, enough about that, if you are at all interested L'Aurore would make an excellent addition to the mod, though much of the rigging detail would need to be cut down to make the ship manageable(The lag would be terrible otherwise)

Oh and as far as plans for new ships go, I would recommend checking out the National Maritime Museum in London's ship plans collection. http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections.html#csearch;searchTerm=*;authority=true;collectionGroup=subject-90352;collection=subject-90352
It includes ships from nations other than England as well, and is really an inexhastable rescource, there must be thousands of plans to choose from