Norstar Wave Princess resurrected

Started by AllenA
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#7

Norstar Wave Princess resurrected

Yew'n me both 😊🤔
#6

Norstar Wave Princess resurrected

Thanks John. I will also use spellcheck in future. Put it down to age.
#5

Norstar Wave Princess resurrected

I would leave the visa ( visor ? ) as is as some boats did have them John
#4

Norstar Wave Princess resurrected

Thanks Dave. Good to have some feedback and I will certainly post a video asap. Think I will upgrade my ESC in the near future and I am really tempted to install a 700 BB Turbo. That may be gilding the Lily though. Just out of interest I picked up the MacGregor II at the same time as the Digimac III. That one works as well. They were good quality fair play.
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Norstar Wave Princess resurrected

Hi AllenA
Welcome to the site.
Your model looks superb and you have restored to almost original condition, including the MacGregor! Looks better than the one I used to own!
The smaller prop will be much better, I have cooked a couple of speed 600s with a too large prop.
The lip at the front may not bwe correct but it certainly fits with the period when the model was built.
Good luck with the new prop and perhaps you will post a video so we can all share your experience of this nostalgic model sailing.
Dave
Live long and prosper

Dave
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Norstar Wave Princess resurrected

Very nice!
Happy sailing.

John.
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Norstar Wave Princess resurrected

At last The Wave Princess sails again. She is not quite planing yet. She has a Speed 600, cheap '320' amp esc, Macgregor MR23A receiver and a Carson Reflex CS3 servo, 12" Graupner propshaft. Quite proud of the home made prop support, I will never throw out an aluminium cooking pan again. Rookie problems are: 1. slight bend in prop makes it a little noisy but improved with vaseline and WD40 mix. 2. Have a 50mm prop at the moment will reduce that to 30mm and work my way up until I get best result. Will change to Brass eventually. As you can see the front cabin has an incorrectly fitted visa lip which has taken me 30 years to realise, that will be rubbed down and flattened. Really pleased that my bootsale MacGregor transmitter works as if new with a few new connectors to fit the ESC. My first one of many and, hopefully, tidier boats. Any advice and guidance would be warmly welcomed

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