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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH (
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Was going through my junk drawer & came across this lit gem Hope it works Its so old I don't think I'll get my money back.
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 roycv (
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Baloons work well for waterproofing a rx. Put the rx into the outside of the baloon and pull the rest of the baloon over it, and then the neck over all and seal as you want.
When we had more plastic bags around I would cut a large corner off and selotape the rx into it. I use old crystal type rx's and when sealed up I can never remember which crystal number is in there! Roy ▲
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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commander)
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Over the many years in a model boat club I have let kids sail my models but lately the little kids have filled my models up with water & that destroys the receivers in the model SO my solution to this is to use the many Tylenol head ache pill bottles to keep receivers dry. So if I let any kids run the Puffer hopefully Only a few other electronic parts will get wet 🤔
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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 Ronald (
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I use those clear green pill bottles
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3 months ago by 🇧🇪 hermank (
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You must be an engeneer to find such a simple solution for a big problem sailing with kids 👍👍👍👏👏👏 ▲
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3 months ago by 🇩🇪 RNinMunich (
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Necessity is the mother of invention Garth👍
Nice one. Doug😎 ▲
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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commander)
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Door's Nav. lights Led lamps messy work bench spar varnish on hatch covers & deck P/S my wife thinks it's Noah's Ark because of all the rain we have been getting in Ontario because of the early Hurricane season or global warming ?
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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 Ronald (
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Float your Fanny down the Don Valley Parkway, latest fad eh!
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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commander)
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My wife thinks my Puffer looks like Noah's Ark I think it's because of all the rain we have had here since the hurricane season has started . My next stuff are Navigation lights doors & a little life boat. I'm so tired of buying these things & paying big bucks to get them after 2 weeks so I'll just make them my self. P.S I like a messy work space. Used spar varnish on the deck & hatch covers .
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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commander)
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Add a little paint Mast , Boom ,hatch covers Stack .And still a lot of other things like railings , vents .life rings, doors etc.
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 flaxbybuck (
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Lucky you. I always seem to be in the wrong place when things like this turn up. 😉
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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 Ronald (
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Looks very nice and will be the pride of the Fleet!
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3 months ago by 🇩🇪 RNinMunich (
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So far so pretty good Garth👍
Keepa da pics a comin'😉 Doug😎 ▲
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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commander)
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Time for cabin windows which I hate doing .I tried a different method made frames for windows & installed in holes I made in cabin. Looks a little crappy but it will have to do.
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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commander)
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Here's what my AI had to say about the flat bottom on a Puffer ( The Clyde puffer is a type of small, coal-fired, single-masted cargo ship that was primarily built on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Scotland. These ships played a crucial role in providing a supply link around the west coast and the Hebrides1.
Key Characteristics:
Bluff bows and a flat bottom: This design allowed them to beach and unload at low tide, which was essential for supplying remote settlements without suitable piers.
Key Characteristics:
Bluff bows and a flat bottom: This design allowed them to beach and unload at low tide, which was essential for supplying remote settlements without suitable piers.
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3 months ago by 🇧🇪 hermank (
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You are not the only one. Every body find bargains on sales, EBay etc But it me ▲
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Fred (
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Garth, I think in the early day's of the Puffer they was built to be used on the cannels of Scotland, so they needed to have a flat bottom hull, also a flat bottom hold would be a lot easer to fill and remove any cargo, later you would see them move to trips around the cost of Scotland and later still they started to make longer sea trips, a flat bottom is OK for the cargo but is not a good idea for the open sea.
If a Puffer was beached the owner would have charged extra to do so, as if the Puffer was not beached right it could end up with a broken back. Fred P/S this is my little Puffer 
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3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Peejay (
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Weil, since they were built in Scotland, that explains the accents in the Para Handy episodes that I have recorded! 😄
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3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Chum444 (
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Garth, I stand very embarrassingly corrected.The Puffer does have a flat bottom. I should have remembered that since it wasn’t that long ago I completed mine! Duuuh!🤕 👎
I’ve done quite a few builds where they’re not true-to-type below the waterline. Doesn’t bother me. Looking forward to see your interpretation of a Puffer. ▲
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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commander)
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I have built to many tug boats & we have a member in our club that has a Clyde Puffer and he hardly ever runs it so I've decided to build one .The bottom isn't flat but no one will know that except me & anyone that reads this. I have a lot of finishing up on the model but that's always the fun part adding doors windows more planking etc. etc.
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3 months ago by 🇧🇪 hermank (
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Type fault
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Fred (
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Hi Garth
Looking at your photo.s I think you have a VIC Puffer, a VIC is a Victualling Inshore Craft, and was a type of auxiliary vessel built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. The VIC was modelled on the Clyde puffer, have a look at VIC 32. As for not having a flat bottom this could be down to the master mold not being made with a flat bottom. Fred ▲
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3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Peejay (
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Chum: your puffer looks great! Great to see her ‘doing her job!’
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3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Peejay (
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Garth: I too had no knowledge regarding a flat bottom. I have some plans, so will have to check them. 🤔
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3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Chum444 (
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Looking forward to watching your build. Puzzled by your bottom not flat comment. Had no idea puffers had a flat bottom???🤔
Attachment is my build. 
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