… eep the cover in keeping with all the other fittings of the rch-hit">Yacht so I’m using 0.010" brass sheet . To make a container of suitable size I am going to make a press tool to form them making them uniform throughout. A small piece of brass bar …

… ttempt i am well pleased with a hopefully working set. This rch-hit">yacht modelling is all new to me so am winging it and could not have got this far without the help of you guys here at model boats, thankyou. Its all a steep learning curve, so com …

… ry Christmas. I have used fore sails / flying jibs on small rch-hit">yachts and find that they work without connecting to a sail winch. On my Pelican (see My Harbour) the fore jib at the clew of the sail there is an eyelet and the sheet just goes th …

… ot been drilled out yet.The rear cabin was missing when I purchased the barn find hull. as for your question regarding the winch set up this is my next project. I have not owned a sail rch-hit">yacht before and it is taking a lot of research to fill …

… by Vic Smeed and it will have all the answers. I have a few rch-hit">yachts and some run on one winch. These are Rob Guyatt winches which are expensive but one I purchased was fourteen(14) years ago and still runs fine and I sail in saltwater. One y …

I was in the RAF in Germany and bought several German made RC items. I had a kinematic unit. Tricky to use but when mastered great. Robbe also did a similar mechanism but much smaller and I had one of those as well. All lost in moving etc. …

… rent, Portgarth and scratch built, Cervia, Brave Borderer, Orca, and Rttl 2755, I have in dry dock a Tyne class, another Aziz and my latest acquisition an empty hull and decking of a Inga IV. As you can gather none of my fleet consist of an …

… ve past since first built, did its first :-)rescue when two Rc rch-hit">yachts got stuck on a buoy, with a gentle nudge got them both back on their way.

… installed along with a radio system etc. Like the Dragon Force rch-hit">yachts that I hope to be sailing shortly, the Pursuit needed "finishing" and "setting-up" for it to run well and to get the best out of it. I have been running this model for t …

… te I am linking below may assist you (it is aimed at racing rch-hit">yachts but I am sure you can get the basic principles from it). Also if you google for the manual for the Joysway dragonforce 65 rch-hit">yacht I am sure you can use the images and instruct …

… accommodation for small tourist and hunting parties in the Arctic as an ice-capable steam rch-hit">yacht.[7] As launched she had 10 passenger cabins, a spacious dining saloon and galley (with accommodation for two cooks), a smoking room, a darkroom …

Have done some work on the Jenny rch-hit">yacht. Ended up replacing both servos and had to teach myself to solder brass as the sail arm is a simple brass bar with a square section soldered on to make a ‘T’. There’s a smaller version screwed into the …

… ansom flap overhang down by almost 50% and decided to reinforce the adhesive with a couple of small bolts to avoid coming off in operation. The end result is good. The bow now lifts slightly on a full plane as the stern is no longer sucked …

… or perhaps I should say original set of sails for my Gracia rch-hit">yacht. After a wash and iron, please do not let my wife know I can do those things, I thought there was not enough sail for the job and decided to have a fore sail which I made qui …

… I took as we won several raffle prizes including a DragonForce 65 and a 1/25 ETNZ 1M America's Cup Racing rch-hit">Yacht won by my mother but as it is too big for their apartment I have custodianship, so several evenings planned to get them sorted …

… e Joysway transmitter and receiver borrowed from a Dragon Force rch-hit">yacht. The result of these efforts is that I now sail Speedwell more than ever before, and really enjoy the fact that whenever I chose I can bring her back into port, either un …

… I made a pendulum switch that turned the motor on when the rch-hit">yacht was becalmed and upright. Steering was with a simple Braine type gear made from an old school set-square. Masts and spars were simple dowel, and the first set of sails were m …

Who is the owner of the rch-hit">yacht Aquila? The owner of the AQUILA rch-hit">yacht is Ann Walton Kroenke, an heiress of the Walmart fortune who purchased the rch-hit">yacht in 2014 for a total price of US $150 million. Bill Gates bought for $650.000.000, The Super …

… move it from My Harbour so I could make some changes to the rch-hit">yacht varnish finish and then re-photograph and post again. But looking at the finish I am completely happy with what I first produced. I now posting the model again with the origi …

After the dust had settled, plus a reinforcing tot, I started the rebuild. Whilst there was plenty of wood surfaces for a successful glue up I nevertheless felt the need for additional reinforcement. I settled on using a number of cable tie …

… but the big boys too! A lot of sport boating, a few sailing rch-hit">yachts, cabin cruisers and of course House boats ( have one in the works soon). As a young man I got to ride in all of them. But I was so impressed with these old flat bottoms . ( …

… rinted in 2012 so I can access the reprint through the MBM archive. As it happens I have a small fleet of Stars, think I’ve got 7 and a load of Bowmans and a miscellany of others (Ailsa, some unknowns and 3 1930s pond rch-hit">yachts for restoration …

… Terry, Taxi, Bell 47G heli then other models from DuBro, Soarcraft, Fliteglas and jack Stafford (Super Minnow pylon racer x3) Came back home and made a number of other planes and boats from UK and US manufacturers who no longer exist. Oldes …

Built a Dumas ace sloop nice little free Sailing rch-hit">yacht when somebody yells up pity you cant make it RC so here we go

… d to me. Remember; these boats were war machines not luxury rch-hit">yachts. They were also very hard worked, probably more than any other type of surface vessel in the Kriegsmarine. The painting served two purposes; primarily prevention of rust, or …

… a large fast bit. I was around 7 years old, went to Southchurch park in Southend on Sea to sail it, and it was faster than my Dad's rch-hit">yacht. Unfortunately I no longer have it, nor do I have a picture of my first build at 14 years old which wa …

… ny different messages. Guess we like to chat I have never purchase a Ready to Run kit only bought a couple boats from a good builder so my grandsons could easily guide a rc boat which handled well, a Jolly Jay the Dumas kit. The other, is t …

… orts for the outside hulls were a bit bendy. This was reinforced both internally and on the surface. Lining up the hulls was a problem not quite right yet but not apparent when sailing. Still using 27Mhtz and very effective, the model is at …