Hey Peter
Superb job. What an excellent looking boat. Well done

Hello from an Ossie, I am gob smacked at your detail, it is so good I bet you have messed up and the shoe laces on the boots of the crew are done incorrectly? ( well, I know they are wearing wellies, so it can only be that the buttons on the weather jacket are on the wrong side?) What a delight, a superb model of building and engineering. Very, very well done . See ya Lyle.

Nice model, sailing very realistically in quite choppy waters. The brushless is powering well and with such a small model the weight saving must really help.
The lines are very clean and the kit is a credit to its producer and builder. 😀

On MY wish list now

Hi
Yes she has been sailing a number of times.Boat number 623 has been sprayed on since this photo was taken and she carries the Norweign flag based on a photo I have.
I probably scratch built 95% of the fittings.Example the .50 m/c guns in tubs beside bridge are from small jewellers screwdrivers to show cooling flutes in barrel.
Will post some more photos in a few days.

HI there, I have a sea queen that I found in my mates grandads house, built in 1959 with paper work for the ganette 15cc motor, the boat was in VGC but I just had to restore it, the motor and esc I used is from gaint cod, the motor is a EMP 50/65 410kv with a 100amp ESC on 4cell lipo 5000 with a 70mm plastic prop, the speed is a bit over scale speed but the run times are up to 20 minutes.Brushless is the way forward, brushed motors are a thing of the past.

HI Chris,
This sounds very exciting. I have a Sea Queen kit which I want to start and have put off whilst I research what to put in it. Any photos or video of your Sea Queen in action?

What make of Lipo do you use? I'm just on the cusp of buying a couple and they seem to vary hugely in price. Presumably you got yours from Giant Shark?

Any info gratefully received!

Ian

I have the 46inch fibre glass hull version I use a brush motor direct drive onto an x45 prop powered by a 12volt 7ah jelly cell battery with 15amp series fuse using relay switch for fwd rev, runs really fast planing until battery power falls but cant get any where near the 40 mins jelly_baby gets using lipo cells my visits to the lakes when I lived in Bedford consisted of getting the boat to the lake then 6 12v 7ah charged batteries being carried from the car.

HI DeltaTango01 using the same motor and Prop (45mm 3 Blade Brass) with a direct drive I found that the amp draw was excessive and this made the run time very short. but by fitting a 3:1 reduction gearbox I retained the speed and dropped the amps used by the motor it was running much more efficiently. Thats why I think the run time Improved. I sail on a sunday morning from about 10.30 to 12.30 on 2 x 11.1 5100mAh lipo's and 2 x 4.8v 3700 mAh NiMh in series (9.6V). Hope that this helps DeltaTango01.

Whats happened to the video clip?

HI Ianed57, Yes Cwmbran is my home water, we sail Wednesday afternoon in term time and the evenings in the school holidays, we as sail Sunday morning 9.30 to 12.30. As I said before phot was taken at the Portishead openday on 1st July, and the weather was blustery to say the least. Graham

HI Graham,
Your comment on my Wavemaster prompted me to have another look at you photos. I'd say the speed of our respective boats was fairly similar but achieved by different means. I notice you are using a smaller but geared motor with a bigger prop but on the same voltage- all very interesting!

Ian

Quite a bit of detail shown of the relief lifeboat 17-45 The Duke of Kent in service from 2005. This was one of the last built of this class so it is useful info to compare with earlier vessels..
Thanks for sharing 👍

HI Dave, the figures were purchased of eBay as a set. I have Bluto but as of yet have not decided what to do with him ❓

BRAVO ZULU! The boats great & the figures ice the cake!
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HAVE A SAFE RC BOATING DAY!
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Wow . That is a really well done video of a really pretty boat . I really like those close passes .

WOW what a fabulous sailing boat, on a fantastic venue,I'm jealous as hell, keep up the good work.