Hi Lewz thanks for the web cam on the Keokuk lock. I am taking rather a long time to build a Dumas kit of American Beauty so fascinated watching the tow boats and their barges.
I have a pair of barges although rather austere and really just boxes.
American wood used by Dumas could do with a lot of quality control.

I found a great video of full size American Beauty with a large load showing all the detail left out by Dumas.

I shall keep your webcam site to watch for a long while now.🤗🤗🤗
Cheers
Roy

Are they what we used to call "Lash barges"? If so, I didn't know they were still in use.

I occasionally watch live streaming video of Lock 19 at Keokuk Iowa on the Northern Mississippi River. There is a turn just north of the lock, so they (US Army Corps of Engineers) keep a smaller pushboat there to help turn "tows" especially when the wind is up. Also saw the American Bueaty pass- live.

Lew
Florida, USA 🇺🇸

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/live/KglFyCnp65Y?feature=share

She is a beauty. Many hours of hard work went into creating this outstanding model.
Congratulations.😮

L working on my Creole Queen
Railings etc trim is last step. DE 1049 USN Garcia hull ready to be shipped to me. Scale Model Ships 5 ft long hull. My last big build. It will take a year to finish. Creole is a lot of work so far over a year in it

Just almost done with 1/32 Lindburg PT109 Hit it at hobby shop back room for $50

Have to talk to manufacturer on DEc1040 it’s still in California hope to get it shipped soon

Great picture of the jet on a barge.

Excellent Chugalone👍
BTW Did you know that the Swiss also have an Aircraft Carrier?
They do you know😁 Photo attached.
Hadn't realised that there was a VTOL version of the F18!
😎

How about this one?

Made me laugh too.
It appeals to my sense of humour 😂

But Dr John 😮 ...

😁😎

I think that I will stick with my old rubber ducks!!

Dr John F Leeds and Bradford MBC. 😊😊😊

Hi Phil I love the picture of the Inga IV motor yacht, I bought an un loved example last year and am currently refurbishing it there is a blog on this site of the rebuild this is a picture of the real craft

Very impressive display.Congratulations to all concerned.
Bill👍

Nice,built models, well taken photographs, and from what I read a nice bunch of friends. What else can a man want!

Hi Phil
Nice pics, thanks for showing. It's always a nice thing to be welcomed into other clubs.

Bill,
Hope your Missus doesn't see your last post, or
YOU will end up in the canal! 😮😠💥
Stay safe🤞
😎

“Three hands and two brains!!”
Three hands would be handy!!😂😂😂
Two brains would be very dangerous in my case as I struggle with the one I have.

Yes the smokers do make a funny noise on start up,but are great for these size models.
I know they are 8ml but I do pop in 10 without any problems.
If I let the wife video for me the phone would end up in the canal.😂😂
Take care chaps 👍

"Difficult filming on your own."
Agreed Bill👍
You need 3 hands and 2 brains!🙄
When I want to vid a boat I take my camera girl Gisela with me.❤️
Costs a plate of ribs and a beer from the adjacent Biergarten, but what the heck😁

Great result BTW, impressive.
I have several of the Seuthe Smokers, earmarked for Plastic Magic projects.
Main disadvantage for larger models is the limited oil capacity, 8ml🤔
They make a curious 'snap crackle and pop' noise in action🙉 do yours?
I also have some older Graupner versions which have the advantage of a wick to slurp up the oil from a larger reservoir.
Cheers, Doug😎

Hi Doogle.
Thank you.
The smoker used is a Seuthe No 5. 6volt power placed inside the funnel.
Regards Bill

Very nice modelling and a lovely video. What's the smoke generator that you're using?

Adrian had cut the brushless motor power to 45% as it was his first test run. He intends to redistribute the weight and increase the power and see how it goes on the next test. I will try and be present and video to see how he fares.

The engines sound like the 9 th symphony of Beethovén. You love it or you hâte it

I’ve always liked the shovel nose hydros. I have a couple of “fast” boats, a Graupner Ecospeed and a little outrigger hydro with a 4000kv brushless motor….but I really, really want to do a shovel nose, scale and fast(ish).
The Ferrari looks nice. Your friend did a nice job on her. I think her lack of speed is less power than balance. When they are running right hydros are basically skimming the water on the sponsons and the aft end is supported by the lift of the prop, very little hull in the water. Don’t let him give up on her!!
Cash

Weight and power are always issues on small wood high speed models I built Amati kit of riva aquarama a nice looking model but too heavy for realistic rc

That camera man standing behind the pilot it’s the bravest person on earth.😜

Spot On Ronald!
Airplane engines were the only way to get the Power and Speed Desired.
Gotta Love that Direct Drive, Not for the Faint of Heart!
Trev

Here are how they should run including a rooster tail

I thought that the original was with a petrol engine! Or am I wrong?

Thanks for the comments which I will share with Adrian. The model has a brushless motor and LiPo but is as you can see still too heavy. The balance is also wrong as evidenced by the sharp angle of attack at speed. I know he intends to continue with modifications so I will post further if and when.
dave976

A nice build 👌

Beautiful model and compliments to your friend for building it. I am ashamed to admit I bought one about 10 years ago and loved it, spent hours admiring it but was never impressed with it on the water and I am afraid like your video looked more like a sub than a hydroplane. I think it is certainly a model which would be at its best with a I/C power unit which is not acceptable these days on most lakes, mores the pity.
This is taking nothing away from the craftmanship employed building a beautiful classic, I wish to this day I had`nt sold mine.
Regards ChrisG

I remember watching the 12 cylinder Merlin powered Big Boats called Hydroplanes when they raced on Lake Washington, near Seattle. Long rooster tails, lots of noise too.
Miss Budweiser, Miss Thriftway, and many other sponsors too had those big boats.

Ronald

I would agree with others, viz. use a smaller prop. When a motor gets hot it normally indicates too high a resistance from the prop, so try a couple of smaller sizes and monitor its performance.
Good luck😉

Hi good idea, have you been out on the water yet?

I have several 12 -18 volt motors the size of a 550 and run them on 6 -7.2 volts and they will turn over a big prop 45 - 50 mm.

This looks good on a cargo ship where you can almost watch the prop turn over. They do not get hot and have a low current drain. Bonus is they are often cheap! Also I can use slightly cheaper NiMh batteries of about 3300mAhs.

I have a few Pittman motors originally scrounged out of computer tape decks 40 years ago. They are almost silent and work really well.

I always check for hot batteries or motors as I do not want current diverted from the motor to heating up the drive train.

Following a friend I have also found a cheap and effective and silent U/J. It is plastic flexible tubing about 3/8ths inch diameter in less than 2 inch lengths.

You can use it in place of the Huco U/J, keeping the brass inserts on which it is a tight fit. Or if you have a threaded shaft a largish pair of nuts locked together with the tubing forced over them.

They need to be in a straight line and a few fast forward and reverses settles the tubing into position. The drive is silent and efficient and good for up to 20 watts or so.
regards
Roy

Ronald, Nice little build

Wooden boat magazine is amazing, beautiful restorations, new builds and general information. Well worth the money

She certainly handles well in the water. That would be a nice one to enjoy cruising around with. From the video it looks like the velocity is more of a speed boat rather than a dory.
Nice job!
Barry

Ronald, the prop is actually 1-3/4" ... in the photo you hav indexed the left blade to the end of your ruler, not the "0" point on the ruler. My 33" PT109 calls for a single 1" plastic prop to reach scale speed. I think you need a smaller diameter & much less pitch to alleviate your motor heating issue. Heatsinking, & watercooling or a fan will not fix your issue.

Hi if the Graupner 400 is anything like the MFA 380 then it is a 40 watt motor. Rather a lot of power for your dory. I would guess that when you use your throttle that from half throttle to full throttle there is not a lot of difference in speed.
I have suspended experiments with a similar motor in a 16 inch Huntsman as it just tries to climb up a wall of water. Not sure if it is weight balance or what.

As you surmised originally, a smaller prop and I note the motor has a 6volt marking and 7.2 volts is 20% over voltage. I agree reduce the load and you will get a much longer run-time as well.
Good luck.
Roy

Motor is a 400 and prop 1 1/4” nylon
See photos

Hi as far as your hot motor goes there is a rule of thumb if you can measure the stall current of the motor. It is very likely that the most efficient speed of the motor is just 20% of this figure. The motor should then run cool.

I expect you are right, the prop is too large or the pitch too great all this would increase the load on the motor. Also as there would be less heating of the motor, the current flow doing the heating would be directed out of the back of the boat where it belongs.

Hope I am not teaching grandma to suck eggs!

regards
Roy

Nice photos and video 👍

One more video

Well on you. Interesting model.

Mrs.B certainly gets around Ontario. One minute she's in Hamilton, the next she's in .....⛵

The rest of the pictures.

Maybe you guys have heard of the Imai (Japanese company out of production), but you can still purchase the model Through:

https://www.japan-wooden-model-kits-zootoyz.shop/contents/en-us/p710_HALF-MOON-W

Here is the finished model and how I scratched build the falconets.
I will create a log to show everyone how I do my paper flags.

That looks like a wonderful day to enjoy. Having a continuous audience of spectators and possible new recruits is a big plus!

Looks a lovely pond, like the maneuvering challenge. How big is it ? It’s made me thinking about building one for our club.👍

Excellent stuff Phil, I definitely have a severe case of pond envy now 😂

JB

Well on you. 👍 Callie is the greatest! Some graphics she recently did for me.

Chumm444 Yes I also use Callie

So after you create the text how do you turn it into a medium for application on your boats. Decal? Callie? Krikut?
FYI, I use Callie.

Any more photos of your St Pierre dory? Looks like a some fine boat.

Looks like a fun day, I'll have to try to make it to one of your events

What fun! I would have loved to be there to enjoy a wonderful day.
Barry

looks like a good time was had. Nice collection of boats. It must take a lot of work to set up and fill the pool. Love the idea of the idea of the trains,

Looks like there was a good turn out on an enjoyable day. If there are more pictures by other attendees, please post them
Thank you

Sweet!!!!

Simply...

Beautifully done!! Where Quality & Beauty meet at the table of craftsmanship.

Ronald pointed out an error I made about my comment on the Catboat.
The cat boat was not JF Kennedys favorite boat.
I humbly accept the Ronald’s advise on this fact.
The the Great Book said: Prov11:14 “When there is no skillful direction, the people fall, But there is success through many advisers”.
Thank You for your advises.😌

When I built the Wianno Senior in 2018, Bill and Sam Lawrence both members of the Wianno Senior Association sailing out of Bass River, Massachusetts, answered many of my questions throughout the project.

Bill and his wife Ellie are seen here sitting on the gunwales of their Wianno. Bill explained that the boat will not capsize, the designer offered, in 1909, a sum of $1,000 to anyone who was able to capsize the boat and the money was never awarded. Bill said its because, as the boat heels over, the wind will spill from the sails before it will capsize.

Doyle Sails provided me with their lightest sailcloth to use on the model too. Doyle makes sails for the Wianno Senior and were pleased to assist me.

Crosby Yachts also gave comments along the way.

Thank You Ronald for clarifying that so important fact.
I appreciate it.

JFK’s favourite was a Wianno Senior not a cat boat. Two very different sailboats. The Cat boats mast is more forward than the Wianno Senior it also has a wider beam.

Be sure to edit your post please.

https://jfkhyannismuseum.org/jfk-and-victura/

https://www.emcrosbyboatworks.com/history-wianno-senior-gaff-rigged-sloop/

https://www.tedbrewer.com/sail_wood/capecodcat.htm

I know these people. They seem to be the president of the U.S with his wife

Glaxbybuck:
I love this model so much that every time I see it on EBay, I buy it. If I’m not mistaking I have two kits somewhere on my house. Soon I will be more organized with abundant room to work with since I moved from one of my bedrooms (hobby/studio room) to the garage.
I am also an artist and I do lots of oleo paints.
My wife works from home and she needed the room fir her legal paper work.
So I started to move things around, not completely finished but here is a preview of how things are getting set up.
Maybe another time I could post some of my paintings.

Thanks Chugalone. Now that is true museum quality. Not only beautifully made but presented in the most splendid case imaginable. I wish I were your son ! !😉

Flaxbybuck:
Yes the model is for my sons house to be display on his living room, like a conversation piece. It has an acrylic cover to keep the dust out.

Oh my, what a wonderful finish you have achieved ! And such attention to detail.

One thing puzzles me, and that is that this is for your son "to have on his house." Is the model to be mounted somewhere on display ?? Indoors ? Outside ? 😉

Terrific !! - attractive, skilful build ! - as a uni rig lover , I just cant not love this design - Love it,!!!

1:16 scale. Beautiful model, excellent workmanship. Attention to details. I can't do it, but your craft is something to strive for.

That is a beautiful build.
I really like this style of boat.
Barry

The original photo looks like the boat has a bowsprit but is just a rope with bumpers attached.
Funny

Is that a bowsprit I see on the 'original' boat ?😉