Now that is how you show photos of model boats! Crop the photo or use a zoom/telephoto lens to bring the subject in close leaving a little water around the edge. Thanks for doing that.
Lew
Florida ⛱️, USA 🇺🇸

Thanks for posting these pictures. Seeing model boats in action like this is great fun - just what it is all about, eh ? 😉

Hello Dave, give my compliments to the photographer. Beautiful photos.

DW BRINKMANK
that's why a modelboatclub is so pleasant and rich , when you see all the different types of modelboats,how they were made and the experience you can share between the members and of course interested people who are passing by and ask how they were made
👍👍👍

My Inga is still in its box in the boat shed as yet unmade. If mine ends up looking half as good as that I’ll be well pleased.

You guys really know how to rub it in, What with various problems I am hours and hours from finishing my model which originated from the Inga. I am currently decking, sail making as well as all of the many jobs needing completion before a hoped for launch date.
I hope to post some photos soon meanwhile I hope that you both enjoy a session of fair wind sailing as well as calm.
All the very best ChrisG

Very nice, so serene, she’s a beautiful ketch, I love sailing mine it’s so enjoyable. Lovely calm water shows her off to her best.

Really enjoyed the water line video. She’s a beauty !😉

Great video Philcaretaker! Too bad there was no wind, I would have liked to see this model sailing.

love the water line video
Len

Thank you for sharing yours and the boat’s provenance Brightwork! Such wonderful memories.
One of life’s great pleasures in my book is taking something old and returning it to its former glory. Cheers! And keep those pix coming!!!

restoring and repairing models are a great challenge that is also full of fun and in-depth knowledge of the subject.
👍👍

Isaac

Flaxybuck,

Yes..especially as one comment put it...they did not have the tools etc to make jewelry and all the fine work that it needs as they have now.

I also have a very substantial collection of Chris Craft Catalogues, brochures, kits and all pricing for all models from late 1920's to 1971. Here is a sampling

Thanks Jumpugly.

Yes sir, the wood railings screamed custom ordered to me too. Custom or not they sure are beautiful!
There’s just something about the big Connie’s and commanders… to see One in the water nowadays is a real treat. Anything over 40 feet with a lot of wood will grab anyone’s attention!😀

Jumpugly,

Yup.....that's the one I have in my records as well. Chris Craft enthusiasts will argue that all CC were bulbous bow until 1958. As a note this model had the wooden railings that dive down to the foredeck. I assume a custom order for the owner. I have attached a photo of the only one I found with the similar railings.

The book is called: "CHRIS CRAFT The Essential Guide" by Jerry Conrad, Copyright 2002 by The Mariners' Museum. It's over 700 pages long and lists everything they built at the Main Division from 1922 to 1977 including their kit boats and sailboats. And they then devote an additional 275 pages to all of Chris Craft's subdivisions including the steel Roamer Hulls. Great Book.
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absolutely stunning. The workmanship is above and beyond. Just to think that the hull was carved is truly amazing .All this done before and without CNC, 3'D printing, CAD, etc.
Len

Thanks Jumpugly, there's no rush.

Alessandro, when I get home I will send along the info on the book. It’s quite a tome. 😆

Hi Jumpugly, I admire and envy your encyclopedia.
Is it specific to boats?
What is it called (title, author and publisher)?
Sorry for the many questions but I'm a bit obsessed with books.

Brightwork, Found it! Here ya' go...from my copy of the CC Encyclopedia. 😉

When I see workmanship like this I feel like packing up shop and going home. Such wonderful detail, and beautifully done. Fantastic ! 😉

Brightwork you made an excellent purchase.

An absolutely astounding commission piece BW! I will check my CC reference books for more specs if you like. 😊

WOW someone gave you a beautiful piece of work.

It looks real doesn’t it?

Simply...

Brilliant, sails and looks excellent - love the first few frames showing the dinghy scale against the liner behind!!🤣

Well done Phil. Nice piece of work on the dinghy and Dinghy Dan as well as the Go-Pro footage 😉

…And some people just stop at a bear 🐻 …

planes well,but two months! did you sleep at all? 😊

A stout looker and very Badass! Love it! I want one!!!!!

Oh I love lifeboats!!!!!!!
Whatever RNLI or the German counterpart
Made 2 English, one German actually and the 4th is already on the wharf
Rnli Tamar scale 1/12
Herman lifeboatlover

Nice job, planes very well doesn’t she

Very nice,all you need now is something a little larger

Very nice,all you need now is something a little larger to sail with her.

Commodore H. You do know sharks dont generally eat people? But this one is Vegan so it doesnt eat meat 😂

Great looking shark. Does he eat people too?

It’s almost real! Whaw

@Hhager
Thanks for sharing the rc shark. Took me a while to realise tapping on the other images in the photo is not going to work 😂

Found shark

Wow that’s brilliant. Looks great. I don’t think I could handle 2 transmitters at once. 1 is enough at times. I must admit towing the shark takes the speed out of the Orca and makes her difficult to steer. Roycv did suggest converting the sharks tail to a rudder. Which I feel is do-able from a spare port on the receiver and a long servo wire to the sharks inboard tail servo. But this entails a MK 2 shark in glass fibre. Maybe later this year when the Tyne lifeboat is finished. Thanks for your interest and input, it’s most appreciated. Regards Roger

I did see a Rc shark on eBay or Amazon today. I was thinking of your ship.

Peejay no. Cant take credit for the shark design.🤣 I think it was built millions of years ago. But the model is scratch built. There is a remote shark for sale ex China but its not a biter. Its mouth is closed do it looks more like a comedian than a shark. Not sure if there are kits available. But the build isnt difficult. Create the whole body. Then cut it into segments. Connect the segments and insert the electronics. The one in the video has a motor under its belly. The smaller one I have has two tiny drone motors in the pectoral fins and its operated by flipping a switch to alternate the motors on and off. It can also move forward without "swimming". Then it dives and loses signal. And yes. I had some carp attacking my shark.

Your own design? Or are there plans or a kit? It would be great fun to ‘terrorize’ the other boaters! 😅

The prototype J Class yachts were a class for the Americas Cup back in the 1930s. They were over canvassed and could only sail in less than 20 mph winds!

All of the original were metal hull yachts using the rising aircraft industry design teams for maximum strength against lightness of hull. In the case of the British Endeavour of 1934 she also had to be sailed across the Atlantic to get to the competition! If you look aft on the yacht there is a discrete black hole and this is where the mizzen mast was set for the journey.

The class had a formula which traded off hull length against sail area plus some stuff in between. A couple of hulls have recently been built one of laminated wood but otherwise those 'rescued' have had to be re-fitted to modern standards.
The Endeavour now has an engine with prop in the cut out rudder area and floats a foot lower on the waterline.

One of my yachts is the 1 : 35 scale Amati Endeavour kit modified to take to the water and I found the quadrilateral jib makes her look really good on the water. But as I say there is so much sail are that even at this size there is too much. I set her up to run with local expected breezes without the quad sail and she goes well. When there is a light breeze the quad can go on and I use the rudder to give some weather helm so she is under control.

It can be seen from the hull design that the rudder is sloped away at an acute angle and this can be a problem! Consider the hull heeled over 20 degress and you will see the rudder no longer operates in a directional way but just makes the aft of the yacht rise up and down, so you have lost control!

Therefore the yacht needs to be operated close to the vertical position. The extreme of this is the modern planing cup yachts which only work upright with a mainsail angle of just a few degrees.

I have added the 3rd. photo as it shows the detail of the mast. On the model this is a 'stressed' ally extrusion mast. The cross-trees are scale and the wire shrouds do strengthen the mast. The mast and sails are stored separately in a sail box.

When on static display I have a crew, nice and easy at this scale! There was a class system among the crew, the floppy (Rupert the bear) white hats are the crew the proper seamans caps are the officers. When at sea there were 22 crew on board I have about 9 on show. Ca'nt afford any more.

Roy

That is the best looking yacht I’ve seen to date and sails so well on virtually no wind.

It looks like she handles really great in the light air.
I really like it!
Barry

I have to admit the conditions are perfect.

Beautiful - just shows what a fabulous hull design the J's had that she sails so well in such a light wind. That is one yacht to be very proud of.👍👍

You need a bigger boat!!!!!!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣



Isaac

Awesome! I have a rc shark. Its about 8,5m in length based on its scale. Two small motors under the fins propells it. Its 15cm long. Scratch built

I reckon you're right Roy👍 but with some 'modellers license'.
Especially at the stern - seems to be intended for only one shaft whereas the original had two.
Stabilisers were also fitted to the hull.
The embryonic superstructure looks about right though.
Deans still do a kit, but it ain't cheap🤑🤑
Cheers, Doug😎

https://deansmarine.co.uk/shop/product_info.php/products_id/463

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=02e6ca09a22e3908&q=Roya

Hi are there several decks and a funnel? Might be the Royal Yacht Britannia. Deans did a kit some years ago.
Roy

Brightwork
Coule it be thé hull of an old er steamtowboat?