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Sun XXI
I like the colour the tug is an excellent tug
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Neptune
… to this boat modelling. I have been offered a Robbe Neptun tug. It needs finishing off but Is all there. Can anyone give me any advice on this model please. Also I have been offered a Rita Lea, a steam launch. Any advice would be great. No …
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Colwyn Bay Mayor's Cup Regatta
… er nice and good sailing. I picked up a Trophy for my Steam Tug MSC Archer which was very nicely presented by the Mayoress. Thanks again to Colwyn Bay Club for the invite. The Capt..
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Fittings, winches cranes gun mounts etc.
Met this chap at the Bury Metro Tug tow. He was selling of his own stand with lots of good quality bits on offer. Different sizes of towing winch. Hyab type hydraulic cranes, various guns and mounts, torpedoes and tubes, lots of nice pieces …
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Hello
… s really good. Must admit eventually I'd like a lifeboat or tug!!!! Roger f
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Scratch build of a fast bulker
… be difficult to dock in any sort of breeze unless you have tug assistance. Looking at your pics I can see you have already fitted cardboard formers to the hull. I have built many models with fiberglass hulls and usually run longitudinal st …
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Build log of a fast Bulker
… be difficult to dock in any sort of breeze unless you have tug assistance. We actually have a Build Blog section and you may wish to repost your build to that section as you will receive more comments/suggestions. Looking at your pics I ca …
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Just a thought, why not build a Springer tug to start with, simple and quick to build, you can put any superstructure on that you want, use an old battery drill motor to power it. Gets you on the water to have a play while you build somethi …
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Spraying hulls
… thought I was a bit of a nutter at first but showed him my Tug Amsterdam and he was very helpful. Still thought I was a nutter but who cares Mark
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Can someone help me
… feboat. I'm going to turn it into a floating tow toy for my Tug but I'm going to weather it and make it look old. Thanks for the electrical bit.
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Motor
… s ago (at New Brighton on the Wirral) we used to have model tugs with similar dimensions and prop size and were able to use ex computer motors supplied by one Bert Alt . Sadly such motors are no longer available so you will need to source a …
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Boat Transport
Fellow in Olympia 3-4 years ago placed his 40 inch tug model in a small trailer - solid axle - on the way to a show, over a small bump in the road - trailer went up, boat went up/down and he ended up with more pieces than he had in the orig …
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Wanted
Wanted plans for the envoy salvage class tug 1/48th scale 43 Inches long, civilian type Fiberglass hull also any templates for this hull, will reimburse postage etc, even copy's will do . This Is a model slipway kit. Please contact me via t …
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my aluminium barge a meter long
I made a wooden barge for my tugs to pull but found this too heavy so I asked my old firm to make me one in 4mm aluminium it has been fully seem welded and is water tight .I got them to powder coat the whole barge in black matt and I just a …
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Sun XXI
London tug boat. 1:32 12v engine. Radio Futaba 7c. Lights and radar.
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"AMERICAN"
HI All, Heres some pics of my "American" tug boat based on one of McAllister's tugs. it is scratch built from Images on the net, plank on frames in pine, cut on my bandsaw. it has working lights and radar scanner. it's powered by an electro …
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Sea Queen
… from the internet, they were for a 1944 Birch class empire tug, the one I chose to make was the Empire Walter, later re named Sea Queen and she worked in the Bristol and Avon area.
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Sun Medway
This tug was made from a Tito NerI tug kit and modified to make it look more like one of the local tugs near my home, she is fitted with two azimuthing propellor units driven by 900 size motors and a bow thruster unit
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please help
… rather than blasting about...saying that though the little tug is much faster than a narrow boat doing 4 mph as Iv raced a few
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please help
… can be seen look a bit like the motors I have in my pusher tugs. they are out of battery drills. if they are those sort they take quite a lot of amps when pushing all that water, or pushing a canal boat I only have one 18volt drill motor p …
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Building a Kort Schottel Drive Unit
I started to build a "Rhine Tug" it's a pusher called the Egrete, from a set of plans that I bought. Selected it because it had some neat challenges. 1st was making the telescoping wheelhouse so that the pilot can see over 2 containers stac …
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Anteo
… e will be powered with an electric motor, and she is an R/C tug. She will have the maiden voyage this spring. Here she is seen under construction.
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Anteo
Here are some pictures of my new tug boat under construction. it is almost finished. I made some changes to make the tug look like a Turkish tug around 1930's. Her Turkish name is Kalender. Original kit is 1/30 scale Panart Anteo model, 890 …
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please help
… ......it runs nicely and does move some water..if I put the tug against the bank and throttle it up it blows the fuse on each motor..I ran the leeft motor gradually increasing power and fuse blew..I repeated this with the right engine and i …
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please help
… ngs making the shaft tight. Two ESC's will make your pusher tug very manouverable and more suited to its intended purpose, but sort the motors out first. I'm assuming here that the 10amp fuse was fitted to the model as supplied and that the …
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please help
… of my nitro truck and alls well..........I bought a pusher tug to play with whilst I got lady jan sorted.11.45pm I thought id drop the pusher tug in the water and have a play with it, (it has lights )as soon as I gave it some power it blew …
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Cariad Lead and Keel
… boat club used about 30 miles from here. Boat club is into tugs most of the time and no knowledge of sailing vessels. I am pushing 83 and was going to order Cariad, but heart problems put the stoppers on that. My email address is: *Removed …
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Making a mould to fabricate a hull
Hi I have built a tug using standard ply keel frame and deck, then glued extruded foam between the frames keel and deck to complete the shape, after smoothing I have glassfibred directly onto the foam using west system Epoxy resin - which d …