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    📝 Maiden complete…needs a bit more ballast aft
    7 months ago by 🇺🇸 Cashrc ( Rear Admiral)
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    Hi y’all. The Grace E was maidened this morning!! The first try was interesting. Although I ballasted her slightly heavier than the instructions called for the first launch was almost depressing. The aft was a little too high, and the prop was not getting a good bite, cavitating more than generating thrust. I got her back to shore, installed a slightly larger prop, adjusted the fwd ballast (noticeable list to port), and added a quarter pound of ballast aft….second go was much better! She pulled away with authority, and the cavitation was non existent after she went forward, as she “squats” a little under power. I still need to play with the ballast as the aft squat goes away in reverse, and the prop is just too close to the surface then. I don’t want to get her too aft heavy as I don’t want water getting too close to the top of the bulwarks when I lay into the throttle. So, I think I’ll add about a pound more, installed temporarily, until I have her exactly where I want her. On the plus side, she handled well under way, very well mannered. She didn’t take on any water inside, and as the day wen on we had a breeze of 12-15 mph gusting to around 25 or so..turning against the wind meant adding a bit more rudder and throttle, but that’s to be expected. I ran her on a 2 cell 5200 lipo for about 2 hours, mostly half to 3/4 throttle, and a quick check once done showed I still had 45 percent of useable capacity left…I’m happy!!
    Cash

    💬 Re: Maiden complete…needs a bit more ballast aft
    7 months ago by 🇩🇪 RNinMunich ( Fleet Admiral)
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    Bon voyage Grace,
    May you always have a hand's breadth water under your keel.
    Yet another great job Cash👍
    Cheers, Doug 😎
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    💬 Re: Maiden complete…needs a bit more ballast aft
    7 months ago by 🇭🇺 MouldBuilder ( Vice Admiral)
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    Good review Cash. She looks good on the water. That is a long lasting 2 cell battery you have there. You must be very pleased with the results.😊
    💬 Re: Maiden complete…needs a bit more ballast aft
    7 months ago by 🇺🇸 Peejay ( Warrant Officer)
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    Looks good out there on the water!
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    📝 Done!! Maiden Tomorrow!!
    7 months ago by 🇺🇸 Cashrc ( Rear Admiral)
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    Well y’all, the Kalle is ready for her maiden. I got the deck bollards, fenders and tow robe done, she’s ballasted, and she had a name change. She’s now the Grace E. I named her after my daughter, Grace Elaina Hargett. Graces middle name is the middle name of Buddy Hollys widow, Maria Elaina Holly. Her name is on the bow, the stern shows the home port of McKinney…she ballasted to about 3400 grams, or just shy of 7 and a half pounds. She splashes tomorrow morning.
    Cash

    💬 Re: Done!! Maiden Tomorrow!!
    7 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Wud that be the McKinney in TX or the one in KY ??🤔
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    💬 Re: Done!! Maiden Tomorrow!!
    7 months ago by 🇨🇦 cdnfurball ( Chief Petty Officer 1st Class)
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    Good luck, hope she’s better than you expected
    💬 Re: Done!! Maiden Tomorrow!!
    7 months ago by 🇭🇺 MouldBuilder ( Vice Admiral)
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    Great job Cash. You really have made a nice model. Good luck with the first trials.😃
    💬 Re: Done!! Maiden Tomorrow!!
    7 months ago by 🇺🇸 Len1 ( Warrant Officer)
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    Beautiful boat. Beautiful daughter. Love Buddy Holly and the Crickets.
    Len
    💬 Re: Done!! Maiden Tomorrow!!
    7 months ago by 🇧🇪 hermank ( Lieutenant)
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    Hopefully you have Nice weather and not to much wind
    Thé shop is à real beauty, well finished. Congratulations
    Enjoy thé Maiden trip skipper
    💬 Re: Done!! Maiden Tomorrow!!
    7 months ago by 🇬🇧 Colin H ( Fleet Admiral)
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    That's a great looking model, looking forward to seeing her on the water.
    Cheers Colin.
    📝 Thanks!!
    7 months ago by 🇺🇸 Cashrc ( Rear Admiral)
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    Thank each and every one of y’all for the words of encouragement and remarks. I truly appreciate it.
    To cdnfurball: I mostly know where everything is…once in a while I have to search a bit…it makes building sessions an adventure!!🤣🤣
    Thank y’all again. The next post should, Lord willing and the creek don’t rise, see her finished.
    Cash

    💬 Re: Thanks!!
    7 months ago by 🇨🇦 cdnfurball ( Chief Petty Officer 1st Class)
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    Look forward to seeing your tug in her natural environment
    📝 Getting closer
    7 months ago by 🇺🇸 Cashrc ( Rear Admiral)
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    Hi y’all. This is a fairly quick update. The superstructure is done, the mast, flagstaff and Texas State flag are installed. The aft tow rope rail is also installed…and I drilled a hole in the hull!! My right eye had been acting up a bit since the protective contact lens was removed a week and a half ago. Came to realize that my allergies were acting up, and even though I take Claratin daily, I reached for the Benadryl. This worked!, Eye felt much better, but as I was drilling the holes for the aft rail I went too far and punctured the hull. Was it because of the medication? Probably not but that’s the excuse I’m using. Anyway, I scabbed the hull inside, then filled, sanded and painted my little mistake,
    She’s almost ready to go. I still need to do some deck details and the anchors, then it’s off to the bathroom for a float and ballast check. Oh…need to fit the propeller too..🤣
    Cash

    💬 Re: Getting closer
    7 months ago by 🇨🇦 cdnfurball ( Chief Petty Officer 1st Class)
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    Very nice build….
    But how do you know where you put what with all the drawers ?

    Just ask’n 🤔
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    💬 Re: Getting closer
    7 months ago by 🇭🇺 MouldBuilder ( Vice Admiral)
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    Looking really nice Cash. I really like the wheel house. Very nice job.👍😀
    💬 Re: Getting closer
    7 months ago by 🇺🇸 Peejay ( Warrant Officer)
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    Very pretty. I have a fondness for the classic tugs, and yours is a great specimen!
    📝 A bit done today
    8 months ago by 🇺🇸 Cashrc ( Rear Admiral)
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    Hi y’all. Had to work Saturday so I got a bit done today. Before I go on I want to answer Rod’s question about the ships wheel…it came in the kits fittings, believe it or not!😀 The Kalle has some nice fittings, including a brass ships bell and a turned brass flagpole. Only thing it did NOT come with was proper sideboards for the nav lights. You’re instructed to build them up from 7mm x 1mm mahogany strip. Built one up, didn’t like it so I built them from scrap plasticard. I had to add a 2 mm strip of wood as a suppor to get the lights level on that curved roof. The lamps were then fitted, everything soldered up and tested, then a radio check using the 10 dollar electronic switch from Amazon. If your running one bank of lights these work a treat, plug and play and uses receiver power for the lights.I also built up the shovels and installed the front bollard. The hole in the upper foredeck is a little too big in diameter, so once everything was in place I hit the gap with thick ca then accelerator, once dried I painted it in the hopes it would look like a weld. I need to touch it up but so far I was semi successful.
    So that’s where she sits now. I could probably ballast her up and splash her this Sunday, but I’d rather have her done before that. I still need to do the mast, the rest of the deck bollards, some touching up and the hull clear coat, then ballast, so it looks like end of month before she’s ready.
    Cash

    📝 Cabin
    8 months ago by 🇺🇸 Cashrc ( Rear Admiral)
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    Hi y’all. I’ll keep this short(ish)🤣. On the cornea front I went to the doc and the protective contacts was removed. The graft and my eye pressure looked good, but there are a few tiny cold sores on my eye, the result of the polishing of dead cells and the steroid drops. So, a new contact was fitted and I have to be on meds a few more weeks. I’m cleared for work, but my allergies have kicked in and my eye is a little uncomfortable at times…that’s why I never went of contacts to begin with, but so far so good.
    I finished the cabin a day or so ago. As I built it I decided I wanted lights. Tha cabin once built is sealed, so I painted an antenna tube to match best I could and installed them in the cabin, that way I can run the bulb wires thru and down below decks. The brasswork is done, and I found an old Robbe figure that wa a little to tall to fit, so he went to the plastic surgeon and now fits as the tugs pilot.
    That’s all for now, since im going back to work im going to take it easy for a few evenings before i attempt any bench time.
    Cash

    💬 Re: Cabin
    8 months ago by 🇺🇸 Peejay ( Warrant Officer)
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    Classical elegance!
    💬 Re: Cabin
    8 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Lovely wheel...where did you get that?

    My $3 Minnie Mouse from DOLLARAMA didn't require surgery but is standing on a box so that she can see where she is going
    📝 Anchor winch and starting cabin
    8 months ago by 🇺🇸 Cashrc ( Rear Admiral)
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    Hi y’all. Got a bit more done past two days. I’m hitting the bench more as my eyesight improves.
    Yesterday I built and installed the anchor winch. The Aeronaut instructions are okay, not quite as good as Krick or the older Robbe and Graupner kits, but thruout the build they’ve been okay, and what wasn’t clear the plans showed enough detail to get the job done. The anchor winch, however, was along the lines of “prepare the parts, assemble and paint”. I mean, it’s not that difficult but I wanted to get it right. The plans don’t show a lot of detail, but the pic on the box was very helpful. I just wanted to make sure I had the gears in the right place. Anyway, I built it up, cut a small piece of plastic tubing for a crank handle, and painted it. The anchor hawse are metal, and open at the bottom. I don’t like open holes on my deck so I closed them by pressing the bottom into soft balsa. I then glued and sanded to shape. Once I got my locations marked I installed the hawses, positioned the winch and glued that unit and the chains in place.
    Today, I started on the cabin. The whole think is built up of strip and sheet mahogany. I would have been more comfortable with hard balsa, basswood or ply, but I soldiered on. I got the for and aft walls and floor done, and started on the starboard wall, and that’s where I’m at now. Tomorrow I’m going to try to finish the job.
    Cash

    📝 Ballast pic for RodC
    8 months ago by 🇺🇸 Cashrc ( Rear Admiral)
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    Here you go. About 9 dollars US and change for 6000 count from Amazon. Full container weighs 4 lb 10 ozs according to my scale. Cheaper than Daisy

    💬 Re: Ballast pic for RodC
    8 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Thanks for the precise details, I quickly found it on AMAZON, ordered 1 btl...CAN$22.75, free shipping. You have solved an acute problem that I hav had for almost a year. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍
    📝 A little more done
    8 months ago by 🇺🇸 Cashrc ( Rear Admiral)
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    Hi y’all. I’m getting a bit better every day. My Studebaker looks like a blurry car vs a white blob, and I drove a bit this weekend..in town, a few blocks to groceries and back. I was told that I could attempt a little bench work as long as I was careful, not a lot of grinding or sanding so…..I did a bit.
    I finished up the funnel and it’s accompanying vent pipe, got it installed and it’s straight and centered!! That was a feat in and of itself. Sunday I did a bit more, got the vent next to the fwd entrance made and painted, the support bar for the tow rope was done also, then both installed and the superstructure given two coats of semigloss clear. I installed the portholes in the holes I had pre drilled. The instructions said to paint them the same color as the superstructure, but I left them brass…my boat my rules🤣🤣, and I think it looks good.
    Anyway, watching myself, if I feel okay I work a bit, if my eyes feel tired I stop and go sit on the couch with a coke, the cat and the tv. I was supposed to get the stitch and temporary contact lens out tomorrow, but we have quite a bit of freezing rain coming, and the cornea clinic is shut down tomorrow and possibly Wednesday, so my appointment has been moved to Friday. Anyway, here’s a few pics, I have to touch up a couple of boo-boos but so far so good. Anybody says anything I’ll just blame my eye.🤣🤣
    Cash

    💬 Re: A little more done
    8 months ago by 🇺🇸 Len1 ( Warrant Officer)
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    Continue on your road to recovery
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    💬 Re: A little more done
    8 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Cashrc, off her bow in one of your pix is a container of copper shot. I'm not a hunter, cud you please post a pic of those 2 shot containers, perhaps with a few of the contents loose in the foreground, to aid my search for ballast? I can buy pelletgun ammo easily in CANADIAN TIRE but the cost per oz is prohibitive. I hav found that using gel cells,SLA, alleviates some of the need for ballast, but not all. Thanks in advance.
    Pleased to hear your surgery was a success. In my 60s I had retinas detach within 3weeks of each other. First was promptly reattached by green laser,2nd required injection of a gas bubble & spending 23hr a day with my head in a certain position, 2 wks off work, then lazered.
    💬 Re: A little more done
    8 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    I'm 75, "my boat, my rules" is the best way to live. That's part of why I love Springer tugs. Each one that I've seen has been a "cartoon"... not a scale ship, but a fun ship. Remarkably fun !!!
    💬 Re: A little more done
    8 months ago by 🇭🇺 MouldBuilder ( Vice Admiral)
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    Looking good Cash. “My boat, my rules”. Absolutely. I could not agree more. Some boats look dull until you add a little colour.👍😀
    Peter.
    📝 Quick surgery update
    8 months ago by 🇺🇸 Cashrc ( Rear Admiral)
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    Hi y’all. I’m home, surgery was done Wednesday, turned out I had the 3 in 1 combo-the trans plant, cataract removal and grinding off dead cells of the cornea with a micro Dremel. Was checked out at post op Thursday, I have to be careful what I do as there’s a gas bubble in my eye to support the cornea. As it dissipates natural fluid replaces it. I’ve been told I can attempt driving this weekend, and possibly a little bench time. Probably won’t see much from me till next week.
    Thanks y’all for the words of support, it means a lot !!😀👍
    Cash

    💬 Re: Quick surgery update
    8 months ago by 🇺🇸 Len1 ( Warrant Officer)
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    Glad the surgery went well and is behind you. Please make sure you don't bend and lift anything heavy just because you think you are better and adhere to the Dr instructions
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    💬 Re: Quick surgery update
    8 months ago by 🇺🇸 Peejay ( Warrant Officer)
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    So glad to hear it. Take good care of those eyes. It will be well worth it.
    💬 Re: Quick surgery update
    8 months ago by 🇬🇧 Martin555 ( Fleet Admiral)
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    Hi cash,
    I am glad the surgery went well.
    As for Bench time don't rush to do something it is important you heal.

    The only downfall now that you have had the surgery is you no longer have the excuse for any modelling cockups LOL!!

    Martin.
    💬 Re: Quick surgery update
    8 months ago by 🇬🇧 Colin H ( Fleet Admiral)
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    Great result Cash, speedy recovery shipmate.
    Cheers Colin.
    💬 Re: Quick surgery update
    8 months ago by 🇺🇸 pressonreguardless ( Commodore)
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    Wishing you a speedy recovery, Cash
    Trev
    💬 Re: Quick surgery update
    8 months ago by 🇭🇺 MouldBuilder ( Vice Admiral)
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    Great news Cash. Rest well and recovery will be quicker and total.
    Peter.
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