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    πŸ“ Camera Boat No. 5
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ philcaretaker ( Captain)
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    Camera Boat 5 uses another simple "pontoon" design with 90` rotating motor and fan unit with rudder which was added later. Gopro was mounted on rotating servo which gives 360` vision.
    Camera operated with phone using Gopro App.
    Regarding filming techniques etc. - Still plenty of issues to improve and overcome along the learning curve !.

    Mni Tnx Graham for being there with "Bill & Ben" and Jon G7NFK for all your previous help and support since my stroke.
    #rccameraboats
    #rcsailing #rcboats #bmbc

    πŸ’¬ Re: Camera Boat No. 5
    7 months ago by πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ jbkiwi ( Fleet Admiral)
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    Getting pretty flash now Phil πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ a big improvement on No 1!

    JB
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    πŸ“ Sterling Lumba is looking better!
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Dumaspittman ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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    Here's a few pics of the Lumba. It is ready for fiberglass and the superstructure is here just test fit. I need suggestions on how to power it; I want it to move scale, about 20 knots and it is going to be twin screw. I have a pair of 800 motors that are great but might be too much, even though I would rather this be over-powered than under. She has very cool lines, like an airplane. Lots of curves and twists all over her. She's a big girl, ready to carry quite a few angry oil rig employees on a dark and stormy night.

    πŸ’¬ Re: Sterling Lumba is looking better!
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Brightwork ( Lieutenant Commander)
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    Coming along nicely. Do you have a plan for the glassing? I think I put a video on that, here in the how-to section. As for power, yes couple of 500's would be good. A great ESC like a viper or the one I have in my Corvette(pic attached). I got it from Harbor Models in California. I also bought the diesel sound module there. Side windows just take patience. Tape the straight lines, then measure to distance between each. I then use a piece of balsa the width of the distance between each window and draw the vertical lines. Just make sure it is square. Then..a dremel works well. Don't forget.. famowood is great to repair any mistakes. I spend a third of the time thinking, a third doing and a third doing it over again.
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    πŸ’¬ Re: Sterling Lumba is looking better!
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Dumaspittman ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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    Thanks for the motor advice! I appreciate it!πŸ‘
    πŸ’¬ Re: Sterling Lumba is looking better!
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Dumaspittman ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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    The windows are my greatest fear, I have seen them done well and not so well. I am going to ease into it, making it first gen solid with the windows as black blanks. I know, I know, it's cheating, but soon I will cut it. I think it will make for easier pumpkin-carving after it is glassed up. I spent hours getting it straight, and slicing into it is not going to be un-stressful! I appreciate the encouragement.
    πŸ’¬ Re: Sterling Lumba is looking better!
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Commodore-H ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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    Great to see the Lumba lumba is still out there. The kit manufacturer, Sterling has been gone for so many years.

    Looking really good, don't forget all the windows in the side of the hull.
    πŸ’¬ Re: Sterling Lumba is looking better!
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Cargoman ( Chief Petty Officer 1st Class)
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    Lumba lumba looking great I restored one and recorded the build on here not long ago, I used a pair of 540 motors on straight drive not the low drain type just the standard 6 th 12 volt type.
    Hope this helps and best wishes for the build.πŸ‘
    πŸ“ Motor Barge "Nellie" - visits Buxton
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ philcaretaker ( Captain)
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    Information from Nerys -

    In the 1940s and 50s, many traditional Thames Sailing barges were converted into motor barges. This is a model, based on photos and my memory of the 'Nellie'. The sailing barge 'Nellie' was built by Cremers at Hollowshore, Faversham in 1901,. She traded under sail carrying about 90 tons of cargo around the Thames, Medway and Swale until about 1952 and then had the gear taken out, a Chrysler Crown petrol/paraffin motor installed and carried on trading for some years owned by R.Lapthorne & Co of Hoo on the River Medway.. She was eventually sold out of trade and is now privately owned. She has been rerigged with a reduced sailing barge rig without a topsail. My model is based on a 30" barge hull from Dave Watts Mastman.

    NOTE More information from Nerys - read on ........

    Hi Phil,
    I'll just add a little more information to that. I was Nellie's skipper in the mid 50's for a few years. We were based at Hoo on the Medway and carried cargoes around the Medway, Swale, Thames and Colne. Regular trips were such as ballast from Fingringhoe on the Colne to Hoo, sand from Upnor on the Medway to the Ford works at Dagenham, fertilizers from London to Faversham and Queenborough, wheat from London docks to Whitstable and more or less anything that could be carried between ships in the London docks to anywhere in the Estuary. We were paid by the freight. Half the value of the carriage charges going to the owners and the other half to the crew, shared 2/3 for the skipper, 1/3 for the mate, Then fuel and other expenses were divided up similarly.
    Nellie, of all the barges I served on was the one I liked best. She was the smallest, but there was just something about her. However as a footnote, in the 1970's I built a forty three foot schooner rigged barge yacht in the same yard as Nellie was built.

    πŸ’¬ Re: Motor Barge "Nellie" - visits Buxton
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ KenThompson ( Lieutenant)
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    Looking good Nerys...sails well.
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    πŸ’¬ Re: Motor Barge "Nellie" - visits Buxton
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Nerys ( Fleet Admiral)
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    Thank you, Phil, for making the video of my little Nellie. Thought she looked really good.

    Nerys
    πŸ’¬ Re: Motor Barge "Nellie" - visits Buxton
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Nerys ( Fleet Admiral)
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    Yes, Nellie visited Buxton. We had been on holiday in the Lake District and on the way home, made a diversion into Buxton. We were made most welcome by the members we met and particularly by Phil and Graham. Enjoyed a nice little sail with Nellie. Made a pleasant interlude in an otherwise long 300 mile drive.

    Cheers, Nerys
    πŸ“ T.I.D Class Tug
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ philcaretaker ( Captain)
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    Known as 'TID's', 182 of these little prefabricated tugs were built in modular units, by several different yards around the U.K. often by women workers. Brent started off as TID 159 and was the very last of her class to be built being completed in 1946.


    https://www.steamtugbrent.org/history...
    πŸ’¬ Re: T.I.D Class Tug
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Aerostar55 ( Master Seaman)
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    Very realistic. Well done.
    πŸ’¬ Re: T.I.D Class Tug
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Peejay ( Warrant Officer)
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    She looks lovely, but, then again, I am partial to the older tugs.
    πŸ“ Buxton - July 2022
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ philcaretaker ( Captain)
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    Model boats and yachting July 2022

    πŸ“ Details on the Judy B
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Dumaspittman ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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    Hello everyone, I hope things are absolutely great in your neck of the woods...A great tug like this one being constructed in the local Toluca Lake shipyards, needs a good radar. I have gone with the @indows 95 look. I am also fully committed to adding some wooden IKEA sliding doors, they will be well-balanced, with a "fingertip touch" when I am through. I am following through with similar swung doors on the captain's cabin.

    πŸ“ Woodbridge model boat club 40th
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ jacko ( Lieutenant Commander)
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    today WMBC had a 40th year celebration



    πŸ“ Status of Caltex Lumba !
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Dumaspittman ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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    I have begun the process, the Sterling kits living up to its rep, at one point there is some plywood, but mainly it's made from what appear to be second matchsticks...it weighs so little, it is hilarious. I plan on glassing it all over so it will eventually get some strength to her. But she's long and frail in this state...but I love her. Everything appears to be as straight as possibe, no horrible curves or bends. Still got my fingers crossed for her. Peace my friends, happy boatingπŸ‘πŸ€‘πŸ˜‚πŸ˜ŽπŸ˜ŠπŸ˜Š

    πŸ’¬ Re: Status of Caltex Lumba !
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Brightwork ( Lieutenant Commander)
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    Nice work ... they all seem so frail at that stage.
    πŸ“ Status of converted tug Judy B 🚀😊🀞
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Dumaspittman ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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    She is out of Toluca Lake, close to the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. Some of the very best ships came from those yards in Toluca Lake.
    My dad made my Mom a great tugboat with this name back in the 1960's. We always had real boats, and the handmade and very detailed model would get pulled out of the dock box to get towed about while the barbeque was burning down. It got lost over the years and I have christened this beautiful ship in tribute to her. The curves on this tugboat are quite handsome and eye-catching from my rather jaundiced point of view. I can't wait to swing the compass, and run the measured mile with her. Peace to all my model boat enthusiast pals!

    πŸ’¬ Re: Status of converted tug Judy B 🚀😊🀞
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Dumaspittman ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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    There's a really great shop in Glendale, I think, called Harbor Models...they have a great website and they are the kind of shop I want to back up a semi tractor trailer up to and buy everything!
    πŸ’¬ Re: Status of converted tug Judy B 🚀😊🀞
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Hhager2 ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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    I am in Toluca lake right now. Looking for a boat project at Ron’s hobby shop this weekend at Glendale CA
    πŸ“ Edina Model Yacht Club Lighthouse Night
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ DWBrinkman ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Lighthouse Night 8-14-22

    πŸ“ Edina Model Yacht Club lighthouse Night
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ DWBrinkman ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Lighthouse Night 8-14-22

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    πŸ“ Edina Model Yacht Club Lighthouse Night
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ DWBrinkman ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Lighthouse Night 8-14-22

    πŸ“ Edina Model Yacht Club Lighthouse Night
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ DWBrinkman ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    Lighthouse Night

    πŸ“ Edina Model Yacht Club Lighthouse Night
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ DWBrinkman ( Sub-Lieutenant)
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    This is the first of 2 Lighthouse Night events this year 8-14-22

    πŸ’¬ Re: Edina Model Yacht Club Lighthouse Night
    7 months ago by πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ jbkiwi ( Fleet Admiral)
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    Looks like a good turnout !

    JB
    πŸ“ ANOTHER GO AT A LAUNCHING VIDEO
    7 months ago by πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ jbkiwi ( Fleet Admiral)
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    Thought I'd try for another vid to try and improve on the previous efforts. Had another still day and good tide, so went down to the estuary again. Bit of a mission again,- competing with a few 100% boats and the steep slippery ramp. Truck didn't do a lot better than the jeep, and it weighs about twice as much and has a 4x4 rear, but at least it managed to get the boat out of the water. Forgot to take a 2s for the thermostatic fan for the truck motor, so it got a bit hot and faded towards the end. A lot of work for a 550 geared motor !

    Still getting used to the new editor so the vid's a bit scrappy. Almost impossible on a weekend to find the right space with no people, but there is not a lot of choice without going for miles. Fun trying to drive 2 vehicles,- truck doesn't have a handbrake like the jeep, so a bit tricky backing down the ramp. Whole outfit is 1.5m long, and weighs around 12kg.

    πŸ’¬ Re: ANOTHER GO AT A LAUNCHING VIDEO
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Graham93 ( Vice Admiral)
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    Hi JB,

    I’d be happy to come and be your assistant, provided you could afford my airfare πŸ˜‚

    It would be possible, I think, to operate both models from one Tx by adding some custom electronics to each model. This would need to operate like an RC switch controlled from a spare channel. One one model, the β€˜switch’ would connect the servos and ESC to the Rx whilst at the same time on the other model, a switch would disconnect the servos and ESC. Operating the spare channel would reverse the state of the switches to allow the other model to be controlled.

    Graham93
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    πŸ’¬ Re: ANOTHER GO AT A LAUNCHING VIDEO
    7 months ago by πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ pressonreguardless ( Commodore)
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    Great Job, JB.
    I can't imagine handling all facets at once!
    Trev
    πŸ’¬ Re: ANOTHER GO AT A LAUNCHING VIDEO
    7 months ago by πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ jbkiwi ( Fleet Admiral)
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    Hi Steve, thanks, pushing things a bit on that ramp, steep enough with 100% boats. Would be nice if you could use 1 TX and swap models by switching one off and another on. You can change models on the TX ok, but it makes the first model work as well on the second models settings, (you have to switch off at the model) so impossible to use. One day they may come up with a TX with totally independent channels, but probably not much demand, as most people only run 1 model at a time.

    I had thought about ways to turn a model off and on by TX, but you would need an independent TX/RX to operate the switch. There might be a way using a remote (like a garage door opener) - something to work on.

    JB
    πŸ’¬ Re: ANOTHER GO AT A LAUNCHING VIDEO
    7 months ago by πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ jbkiwi ( Fleet Admiral)
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    Thanks Gary, a lot of fun, but quite a bit of setting up, - 2 of everything, + battery charging etc,- truck has 3 batteries) Would go a lot smoother with an assistant on the cameras. A few things didn't work out as planned, but improving things as I go. I won't be happy till everything goes 100%. It would be a lot easier to do, somewhere with a shallower angle, (ramp's about 15deg). I've taken my 15ft day sailer down there, and it's a mission.

    JB
    πŸ’¬ Re: ANOTHER GO AT A LAUNCHING VIDEO
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ GaryLC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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    Brilliant bit of maneuvering and multi-tasking, the video is great and your own personal launching ramp and jetty, can't be bad, and I admire the dedication and effort and hope you are getting enough sleep. Regards, Gary.
    πŸ’¬ Re: ANOTHER GO AT A LAUNCHING VIDEO
    7 months ago by πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί stevedownunder ( Captain)
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    Great video JB,
    Those bumps are really big compared to the wheel diameter.
    Looks very complected trying to use 2 transmitters at once.

    Cheers,
    Stephen.
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