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Ronald
Fleet Admiral
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3 Lil Bit
This is the case I made to transport my Little Footy from home to pond, lake, or ? I can take it on vacation too; Holds transmitter and boat safely.
Liked by Dave M and Baggie and
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  • BaggieChief Petty Officer 1st Class
    Looks great - a sturdy case. Well done.
Ronald
Fleet Admiral
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East Coast picnic boat
Found these figures which I plan to use with this boat. Baby has a life jacket too! I added helm seat and passenger seat with chart table. Next is to add hatchway removable doors.
Liked by AllenA and FloydlStandiferiv
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  • rolfman2000Warrant Officer
    They don't look too bad at all Grandpa. They can't be far from scale by the look of them.
  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    👍 Where are they from?
    I hope you're going to make the kiddies teeny weeny life jackets!! 😉
SimpleSailor
Lieutenant
Red Cat hydroplane
Hi. Just put this back together after the 3rd brushless motor caught fire. Made from a rejected glass fibre hull which I bought cheap at a show. I have now learned how to do glass fibre repairs.
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  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    Hi, thanks for the info👍 I'm new to BLs, but learning fast, and your experience confirms my growing suspicions that outrunners not only deliver more torque than inrunners (size for size) but that they are also more reliable and seldom need water cooling.
    Your new motor seems to be a larger diameter 58mm?, as opposed to 31mm for the old one, so I begin to wonder if the old ones were simply overloaded by a big prop causing them to draw more and more current and hence cook! 😡😭
    Check out this test drive (Italian)of your new type motor!!

    cheers Doug 😎
    PS Caption says that with more than 3/4 throttle the boat becomes unstable! Then it flips 🤔
  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    PS Don't worry about 'adding up' the Watts and Amps!
    True the spec says 12.6v and 35A, which theoretically gives 441W.
    And the power is rated at 220W. This simply indicates to me that the motor scoffs 441W of power (at Max ratings) and spits 220W out again, i.e. ~50% efficiency 🤔
    Almost any decent brushed motor will beat that! But with other penalties😉
    Cheers Doug 😎
Baggie
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class
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Albion
This looks like an ideal boating lake - Next to Palma Cathedaral, Mallorca! 👍
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  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    Or .. how about here, in front of the Munich international Conference and Exhibition Centre (ICM).
    😎
    Liked by neilmc and Baggie and
  • BaggieChief Petty Officer 1st Class
    Whenever you see a stretch of water think... this would make a great boating place... ha! 👍
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lesliebreame
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class
yacht
more hooliganism from that power boat man !!! the cruiser is an ebay purchase and is carved from solid. it has a TAYCOL motor double special from the 1950's.
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  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    SIG TO
    RECPT: CICSM
    ORIGIN: CICMUC. ZULU TIME 21:34:
    CONTENT:
    CONGRATS TO ALL. STOP:
    SPLICE THE MAINBRACE. STOP:
    PROCEED BEST SPEED PUB. STOP:
    REFUEL AS REQUIRED. STOP:
    SITREP ASAP. WITH EYEBALL. STOP:
    CICMUC: END: **********
    😎
  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    SIG TO RECPT. CICSM. ORIGIN: CICMUC: PRIO: NORM:
    CLASSIF. OPEN:
    ZULU. 22:11:
    CONTENT: SUPPLEMENT.
    SINK A BREAKSPEAR XXX FOR ME. STOP:
    MESSAGE ENDS:
    CICMUC:
    😎
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Krampus
Warrant Officer
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Juntilla
So, here's my current project in the works. I got a nice 25-inches Deep-Vee fiberglass hull a while ago and now (finally) have a concept for it. Almost by accident I came across a plan for an American bass boat which in turn reminded me of a boat that caught my attention when I was a kid while reading a boating magazine. The boat is a 28-footer from a now defunct firm named Uniflite. it was a small deep-sea sports fisherman called "Salty Dog". Uniflite was very well known within the American boating circles during the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Uniflite created and supplied PBR river patrol craft to the US Navy between 1965 and 1972 for rivers in Vietnam using an already existing pleasure boat hull and adapting jet nozzles for propulsion. So, I just created a prototype template of the cabin so more to follow 😎.
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  • sandkbChief Petty Officer 2nd Class
    Looking forward to seeing your progress on this project.
lesliebreame
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class
yacht
i thought that power should give way to sail !!! you can have a lot of fun boating without spending much. this little Americas Cup yacht cost me a fiver in the flea market and after fitting a rudder servo it is brilliant fun !! Les Breame
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  • Dave MVice Admiral
    Yacht sails great. The power model owner needs educating regarding giving way to sail! Plenty of room for both models on that water without sailing in close quarters
    Certainly a bargain at a fiver
    Dave
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Baggie
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class
Albion
👍Detail of figures and dog added to Tug ... you can just see the dog at the back! 👍
I Googled 'model figures for Model tugboat' and several sites came up. - Hobbies at Revingham, Suffolk was one. Gaupner ( I think) was another.
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  • figtree7ntsAdmiral
    OK, I've got to admit, I thought I read they where Lego!
    Now I know there not. Still they look very good!
  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    The Legolites are Mark's crew Ed😉
    Cheers Doug 😎
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kimbo
Leading Seaman
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No name
Original cheddar pintail and unpainted ready for
The bench when others are done
Liked by circle43nautical and Brucef102 and
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  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    Hi Kimbo, thanks for the info in the PM 👍
    The Reply button here is the yellow "Post Response" button.
    You won't see it on the Homepage so you have to first switch into the blog by clicking on the subject title.
    Cheers Doug 😎
  • kimboLeading Seaman
    Going to have to look closer at the signs lol. Gas burner runs about 15 mins then top up pond side Forward and reverse are proportional
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kimbo
Leading Seaman
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Odin
The robbe odin. 45 " long working anchor. .stern winch..radar..lights..water cannon.. 16cl deisel engine sounds..smoke..lights..driven by a power 1000 motor
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Novagsi0
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class
Miss England 6
Miss england boat with homemade sound unit copied from Alan Bond's design, but modified for V8 sound. Scratch built to represcent the water speed boats that ran on conistan water with seagrave.
Liked by circle43nautical and neilmc and
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  • Novagsi0Chief Petty Officer 1st Class
    Bournville boating lake. -West midlands
  • SimpleSailorLieutenant
    Hi. Nice boat. Can you tell me what the sound unit is?

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