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Steam Glorious Steam.
… th top workmanship - as here - is a joy to behold. My steam rch-hit">yacht here started life as a Kingston Moulding hull of the famous 1911 50 foot Steam-Pinnace-199. It lay around for 20(?) years untill I happened to stumble over a neat Chinese ste …
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Found these at an Estate Sale today......
… Room. I plan to do some work on the Cranberry Isle Lobster rch-hit">Yacht. It was not built/finished to run. I'd like to open it up and put running gear and electronics in it to make it a working RC. The front opens to access where the motor and el …
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Question of the Day?
Wow that has a wide answer spread! Having drawn up a few rch-hit">yacht plans the answer was more obvious, but not a bad question. Lately though I have put the main strength at the stern in the transom, which works well for model rch-hit">yachts but not so f …
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Question of the Day?
… fered to acts as an aerofoil and does as it says. Got model rch-hit">yachts with both keel forms and the long keel is not an aerofoil e.g. Inga IV she does her best but does not point up so well into wind. The sides of the keel are parallel so just …
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Question of the Day?
… ndro how I know a bit about hull fouling is that I did research on its prevention for rch-hit">yachts that I crewed on. Due to my electronic engineering background, I assisted with the fitting of ultrasonic prevention systems on a few boats.
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Question of the Day?
I must confess to researching answers, but not fron Gurgle. I have several books dealing with nautical matters, for example, the 1956 edition of The Admiralty Manual of Seamanship, several RYA training manuals, Advanced Powerboat, rch-hit">Yachtmast …
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Question of the Day?
… is surprising what has been left off the prototype for commercial reasons. Witness the off market 'super detailing' accessories, i.e. putting back what has been left off. Some of the worst cases are stanchions / hand rails. When done cheapl …
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Question of the Day?
… the main mast. You have to use a winch to do this as the forces are very high. It forms a wind slot to accelerate the air passing over the main sail. This increases the pulling power of the mainsail by creating a low pressure area. Storm j …
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Ra ingaIV
… 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 …
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… Sydney Harbour, probably 10 years ago, we were anchored up (rch-hit">yacht). We were there to see some event and a 30 odd foot motor boat found a not very large space to anchor in. The boat stopped and then was slowly drifting down on us. The 3 peop …
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i got my fishing boat term and rch-hit">yachts mixed up must try harder my percentage has now gone down
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Question of the Day?
… got the answer correct, but, not so sure now, a bit of research is saying otherwise.. https://www.the-triton.com/2017/03/diesel-digest-when-did-rch-hit">yachts-start-using-diesel-engines/#:~:text=The%20first%20commercial%20diesel%2Dpowered,of%20the% …
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Question of the Day?
… interaction here take it too seriously and spend hours researching for spurious answers which take up most of their day or night!. I think this a little unfair as sometimes especially for sailboat questions I have experience on full size an …
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Question of the Day?
… 'None of the above' question today (12.5.23.) Previous Superrch-hit">yacht questions (also None of the above) had prompted some intensive research on the subject. The 'correct' answer for today was once the owner of Pelorus, but she has been through …
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Question of the Day?
… leaky' question With the exceptions of hiring a small motor rch-hit">yacht for the day on Elba (no wind so just motored along the north coast to a secluded cove) and a 'porpoise spotting' excursion in the Canary Isles (during which poor Gisela spent …
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They are "Wooden Boats", but not scale models ...
… kid, "Crazy" George Swenson, who was a builder for Bertram rch-hit">Yachts. He became one of their greatest craftsmen and after a time his reputation grew so great that buyers would ask if it was a "Swenson" build. After he retired from Bertram and …
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Departed modellers 'left overs'
… an cope with. I am currently trying to dispose of one large rch-hit">yacht 3 feet long but nearly 6 foot in height a 50 inch rch-hit">yacht (not a Marblehead) in need of mast and sails a PBM kit of an off shore oil rig supply vessel and an Artesania Latina A …
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CGINGA 1V
… ition of all deck structures, much head scratching and research of some of the most beautiful rch-hit">yachts ever, I chose to make a modest copy of the topsides of an Alfred Mylne 105 ft Gaff Ketch built 1937. This entailed deciding on what to inco …
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New Moth MKII semi scale yacht
… t range of batteries in NZ, (to fit the dozens of different RC vehicles, tanks, diggers etc they sell) I've managed to find all sorts of batteries there for various projects (eg modifying TXs to last for numerous outings and doing away with …
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New Moth MKII semi scale yacht
… ing dinghy, which is going on display with many other small rch-hit">yachts at our next Auckland Wooden Boat Festival in March, plus- putting a new roof on my bathroom,- so modeling progress is a bit slow at the moment. Hopefully pouring some lead t …
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New Moth MKII semi scale yacht
… d with 3 pieces of basswood, then glassed using polyester aircraft cloth. Another resin coat after that. Stock was from basswood, coated with resin. Will be painted eventually. Slowly progressing. JB
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New Moth MKII semi scale yacht
… d away at this stage,- just getting it to a stage worth undercoating, as I want to see if it sails before spending money on paint. I'll be tinting a colour for the bottom as well, as that's not looking too bad at the moment, fairing wise. J …
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New Moth MKII semi scale yacht
… . The centerboard case is also epoxied into the lower reinforcing pad, ready for the unit to be epoxied into the bottom hull rebate. - (Pics added to show the centerboard case parts with the assembly method.) Once that's set, the upper cent …
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Edina Model Yacht Club annual "Parade of Boats"
… . Lots of boats and people, much more than I've seen at any RC event here. Thanks for sharing the photos. Lew Florida ️, USA
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MATAKANA MODEL BOAT SHOW NEW ZEALAND 21.04.24
… , with new ships and their modern RNZN namesakes. Also Bismarck and other German ships, PT boats, Perkasa, Thornycroft ASRs etc - too many to list. So many amazing models, but only a few seem to be sailed locally, (mainly rch-hit">yachts). I did mak …
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Where do you build your models?
… nsulation came via a friend who worked at the building research establishment not far away. He said it had come from an old paddle steamer which was being possibly refurbished but the various sheets about 2 inches thick, had been at the est …
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Graupner Krabbe Ton 12…the kit, not the boat😁
Hi y’all. After building the Caldercraft Clyde Puffer, and taking a break from building for a few weeks, I decided it was time to crank up my bench again. I had originally started on a kit that I got in a trade, a Deans Wacht Am Rhein…this …
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1965 Sterling Yacht America
… hed hull of a PBY flying boat. There are also unbuilt R/C aircraft kits X2 somewhere in the area, plus two ARF aircraft. (DHC-2 Beaver, and a Cessna 182, also in that ship's hull.) But my friends, last night I had a dream, and in it was of …