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Captain 📝 Billings Dragen...has anyone built this kit and done an RC conversion?
Country: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Online: 3 hours ago
Online: 3 hours ago
Thanks Ron👍
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📝 Billings Dragen...has anyone built this kit and done an RC conversion?
Country: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Online: 3 hours ago
Online: 3 hours ago
Great bargain ,is it a Myford lathe next to the scroll saw ?
Cheers Marky👍
Cheers Marky👍
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Vice Admiral 📝 Billings Dragen...has anyone built this kit and done an RC conversion?
Country: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Online: 55 minutes ago
Online: 55 minutes ago
I'm sorry Doug, but I didn't have a camera for many years, unfortunate when I think of all the pics I could have taken, I have a large box of photos and slides which I will investigate one day, but they centre around dinghy sailing on the Medway few traditional boats all over the country and then mostly slides of barge and smack racing in the late 70s.
I sold 'Y Ddraig Goch' to someone from Brightlinsea, he sailed her over to the continent then down the coast , Brittany and Bay of Biscay, can't remember where, then back to the Colne. Lost touch with him as I moved to the Midlands.
Cheers, Nerys
I sold 'Y Ddraig Goch' to someone from Brightlinsea, he sailed her over to the continent then down the coast , Brittany and Bay of Biscay, can't remember where, then back to the Colne. Lost touch with him as I moved to the Midlands.
Cheers, Nerys
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When the winds before the rain, soon you may make sail again, but when the rain's before the wind, tops'l sheets and halyards mind
Fleet Admiral 📝 Billings Dragen...has anyone built this kit and done an RC conversion?
Country: 🇩🇪 Germany
Online: 12 hours ago
Online: 12 hours ago
Nice buy👍 Don't make a muck of it Ron!
Or run amok in the workshop😮
I have a table saw similar to yours, worth it's weight in balsa 😉
BTW; did you know that 'amok' came into English in the 1600s, earlier spelt 'amuck', from Malay, where it meant 'running around in a murderous frenzy'?
Keep taking the tablets🤔
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Or run amok in the workshop😮
I have a table saw similar to yours, worth it's weight in balsa 😉
BTW; did you know that 'amok' came into English in the 1600s, earlier spelt 'amuck', from Malay, where it meant 'running around in a murderous frenzy'?
Keep taking the tablets🤔
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Young at heart 😉 Slightly older in other places.;-/ Cheers Doug
📝 Billings Dragen...has anyone built this kit and done an RC conversion?
Country: 🇩🇪 Germany
Online: 12 hours ago
Online: 12 hours ago
"The person I sold her to did a lot of cruising on the continent ..."
Wow! Did he fit retractable wheels Nerys?😁
Maybe from a scrapped Catalina?
"and the last time I heard from him he was down in the Bay of Biscay somewhere."
Not too far down I hope!😮 Gets a bit inclement down there now n again🌪️🌧️🌩️ Glug glug glug☹️ (That's UP THERE to JB & Co 😁)
BTW: Where are the podium pics of you winning and collecting the trophy Nerys?
Action pics on board????
Cheers, Doug. 😎
AKA Cheeky Fleet Admiral, and unashamed with it 😊
Wow! Did he fit retractable wheels Nerys?😁
Maybe from a scrapped Catalina?
"and the last time I heard from him he was down in the Bay of Biscay somewhere."
Not too far down I hope!😮 Gets a bit inclement down there now n again🌪️🌧️🌩️ Glug glug glug☹️ (That's UP THERE to JB & Co 😁)
BTW: Where are the podium pics of you winning and collecting the trophy Nerys?
Action pics on board????
Cheers, Doug. 😎
AKA Cheeky Fleet Admiral, and unashamed with it 😊
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Young at heart 😉 Slightly older in other places.;-/ Cheers Doug
📝 Billings Dragen...has anyone built this kit and done an RC conversion?
Country: 🇨🇦 Canada
Online: 54 minutes ago
Online: 54 minutes ago
Wonderful find and good price to. I look foreword to seeing her sail.
Rick
Rick
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📝 Billings Dragen...has anyone built this kit and done an RC conversion?
Country: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Online: 55 minutes ago
Online: 55 minutes ago
I might as well tell the story of 'Y Ddraig Goch' now. As I really wanted a cruising boat rather than an elderly racer, I did the unforgiveable and converted her. I stripped off the decks and cabin top, raised the topsides by a foot. Put on a new coachroof and doghouse and, horror of horrors, rerigged her as a gaff cutter, purely so that I could race her in the traditional gaff rigged class at the annual Swale Barge Match. (I raced twice and came first and second) The person I sold her to did a lot of cruising on the continent and the last time I heard from him he was down in the Bay of Biscay somewhere.
Cheers, Nerys
Cheers, Nerys
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When the winds before the rain, soon you may make sail again, but when the rain's before the wind, tops'l sheets and halyards mind
📝 Billings Dragen...has anyone built this kit and done an RC conversion?
Country: 🇩🇪 Germany
Online: 12 hours ago
Online: 12 hours ago
"and she was painted red!"
Of course! WHAT ELSE? Beth arall?😁
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Of course! WHAT ELSE? Beth arall?😁
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Young at heart 😉 Slightly older in other places.;-/ Cheers Doug
📝 Billings Dragen...has anyone built this kit and done an RC conversion?
Country: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Online: 7 minutes ago
Online: 7 minutes ago
Hi Nerys,
Was it Welsh Dragon Red LOL!!!!
Martin555.
Was it Welsh Dragon Red LOL!!!!
Martin555.
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If it looks right it probably is.
📝 Billings Dragen...has anyone built this kit and done an RC conversion?
Country: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Online: 55 minutes ago
Online: 55 minutes ago
Yes Doug, I could never understand why she had been given a Chinese name, I don't think the owner knew either. Actually I renamed her ' Y Ddraig Goch', so she had another change of nationality and she was painted red!
Cheers, Nerys
Cheers, Nerys
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When the winds before the rain, soon you may make sail again, but when the rain's before the wind, tops'l sheets and halyards mind
