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Cargo carrying under sail- today!
… watch?v=pby3pITr0VQ This is pretty neat too, How to build a rch-hit">Yacht - Double quick time! Same as us, just a tad bigger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TPAWwMrCks Out with the saws and planes lads 'n lasses! Never thought of tongue and groove …
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Help identifying this model boat
… com/ I am guessing that the cost of a set of sails for your rch-hit">yacht would be similar to those quoted for the Bearospace 'ANNIE'. $225 may sound like a lot but, from what I can gather, his sails are pretty well at the top of the pile. Check wi …
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Batteries in a DX5e
… the fens, there's a LOT of water and now one of the model aircraft fun club has allowed me to use some private water of which he is the bailiff. That useful crossover thing again. If only there were just model clubs, all in, eh? My interest …
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Batteries in a DX5e
Know what you mean Martin, it's a bit like the rch-hit">yacht sailers here, they all sail the same boats and they all turn up, take over an area for most of the day and if you dare to try and launch a boat while they are racing watch out. It's quite …
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Back for Summer
… less time for modelmaking. I have done as bit on the model rch-hit">yacht, but my slot racing contacts have kept me busy and I have built a small track in the shed to test the cars I make. Still nobody interested in having a model boat get together …
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46" RAF Crash Tender
… ry Industries Products) also did a matching model of the 'Mercury' - a Vosper high speed rch-hit">yacht built for Stavros Niarchos in about 1960, and based on the Brave patrol boat class. Three gas turbines - 60kt plus. Still in existence, though no …
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Back for Summer
… wift VVT. 4 doors, 4 seats and space for my models, be they rch-hit">yachts or aircraft. I really must try to get some stuff done on the Chris Craft (Sea Hornet), Darby One Design and Spitfire Outboard racer. I treated myself to an inrunner brushles …
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46" RAF Crash Tender
… ay planked and varnished looks very nice, on a sports boat, rch-hit">yacht or fantasy designs, but totally inappropriate for a naval, RAF Marine Branch or working boat. It would be far too labour and cost intensive to maintain. Not to mention downri …
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Warminster Model Boat Club Open Day 9th June 2019
… h West area. We are also holding Club 500 racing as well as rch-hit">Yacht racing (mainly Dragonforce 65) during the day http://warminstermbc.co.uk/
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Cruise Liners
… ?- look like multi story hotels fallen over . During an enforced stay at home been looking through my files & tidying them up . Another contender being the plastic bottle types that masquerade as cabin cruisers & motor rch-hit">yachts or am I just b …
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define a model boat
… are kit built models but could i include a speed boat or a rch-hit">yacht that is purchased as a completed boat,factory made and ready to go ? members views / comments welcome.
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Pretend deck planking
… ply for construction and decking it is much lighter than birch but is much stronger than light ply . The decking is a light straw colour and of very close uniform grain one coat of danish oil 'can be applied with a soft brush if you are wo …
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Sail cloth
I build both scale rc racing rch-hit">yachts and some scale gaff rigged cutters...all actually sail RC. I use several different materials, for the cutters, I have found the light spinnaker material from sail shops works great, much lighter than you …
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Pretend deck planking
… atterns, all tedious to draw! I lived on a Victorian racing rch-hit">yacht for a few years and its deck planks were, oddly, straight, so it ain't a golden rule. They leaked so bad I had a Gamalan orchestra of pots and pans catching the drips until t …
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Regression therapy...
… yrnwy when I was about 10. And I've just got hold of a Star rch-hit">yacht exactly like the one that was stolen from a lock-up years ago which I treasured as a kid, it always sailed so well. Add that to my nearly 60 year old Sea Urchin and 55 year o …
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Tony O
… nt in making something and let's face it, apart from racing rch-hit">yachts and very fast raceboats, model boat operation will bore the best of us after 5 minutes! Going round and round with a coaster is limited to say the least. I get my pleasure f …
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Brass bashin' Chris Craft deck fittings...
… rent. This Chris Craft is a restoration of an Aerokits Sea Urchin that cost me all of 99p. on ebay! But then i thought it would be better made up as a single cockpit smaller runabout, hence the Chris Craft with the steeply tumblehomed stern …
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Cheap motor for a quick fit, but what prop gents?...
… t full installation I've ever done in a model boat. My Sea Urchin is free running, the Crash Tender was installed by my Dad with REP single channel stuff and I once put a rudder servo in my brother's borrowed 575 rch-hit">yacht. Everything else (and …
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Robbe Smaragd
Just for information. While I was browsing through the rch-hit">Yacht section of pictures, I came across another Smaragd rch-hit">yacht. The pictures were posted 2/3 yrs ago. I wonder if they are still active members, and have seen any of our chats and pages …
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Submarine weekend
I've sailed my RC rch-hit">yacht on this lake as a visitor. its a Fantastic location, and as a raised sailing pond it is Superb. Sorry I can't get there for the Submarine weekend, as I live in Devon.
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Model Wherry hulls
… mbridgeshire/Norfolk Fens. Is there anyone in the Wisbech/March/ Downham Market area who wants to meet up with like souls and sail for absolutely FREE on any of the huge number of accessible waters we have round here, the Well Creek being o …
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Charging NiMhs, one for Doug?...
… folks, I have just received the 5 cell battery pack for my rch-hit">yacht R/C gear, but it come with no words and music, so I don't know if it's charged or not and am worried about using it with RC gear in case being under charged is dangerous to t …
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Charging NiMhs, one for Doug?...
… ard earned pension on one of the most expensive and complex RC sets on the market in the first place???? I bought a Spektrum DX6 on impulse a few years ago while strolling around Conrad here in Munich. I've regretted it ever since. in retro …
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drum sail winch questions...
… crimp. Still waiting for the battery pack to arrive for the RC and servos. Then I have to bind the Orange Rx. to the Spektrum Tx....ugh! I got a biddliboop from the Tx. when I put the batteries in and turned it on and a light came on in a l …
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drum sail winch questions...
… uld use these https://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/rch-hit">yacht-setting-tubes.html however because I would think it may be better to have the ability to change things https://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?page=search&SS …
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GRP hulls by the million...
… rouch room, never mind head room, so storage it is. My Sea Urchin, Veron Veronica rch-hit">yacht, vintage Marblehead and Dorada are all up there. There is so much insulation up there that you can't see where the joists are when poking about. But I'm …
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drum sail winch questions...
I am not a rch-hit">yacht guy but if I understand the twin spool winch correctly the line winds one way around the lower spool then out to a pulley then back and around the top spool. Thus line winds off one spool and on to the other. The sheets to …
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Council madness...
… the wildlife don't bother when we sail either powerboats or rch-hit">yachts (last 2 pictures) This website urgently needs YOUR input - please let us know about any local news or event by contacting the Clerk to the Council clerk@urchfont-pc.gov.uk 0 …