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HARTLEY FLARELINE, NEW PROJECT
… 100,000 examples built, ranging from canoes to large ocean rch-hit">yachts. Hartleys have been built since their plans were first produced in 1938, and wherever you go in NZ or Aust you are bound to find one example. The most common runabouts in th …
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Star 45 Racing Yacht Build
… ld. Most of my boat building and sailing experience is with RC Sailing rch-hit">Yachts so I decided to build Star 45. This boat is a AMYA Class sailed among sailing clubs in the States, not sure if it is popular elsewhere in the world. Let me know i …
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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 …
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US1 meter, lockdown build #4.......
… anity, so I will just stay put at home and make yet another rch-hit">yacht! In the past I have built several US1 Meter racing rch-hit">yachts, but when fighting cancer I gave them away to friends so as not to burden my wife. Having survived it's time to get …
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Hallet SK Drag boat
… 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 . ( …
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Racing Sparrow
… improves and the grass needs cutting. I currently have two rch-hit">yachts, a Wee Nip and Ellen, a Gaff rigged Pilot Cutter. I sail the Wee Nip most weeks, and the Pilot Cutter occasionally when the weather is suitable (it needs a 'good blow'). I d …
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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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Flying Scotsman. Iron paddle tug
… addles turned to maintain max area to the water. While researching found this web site with more detail. However the text is in German but it has loads of detailed drawings in PDF format. http://www.john-tom.com/RcShip/Strongbow%20Paddle%20 …
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Restore An American Nirvana Yacht
… with white spirit. b) Fill scratches and re-sand. c) Reinforce mast position surrounding area.
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Speedwell - auxiliary ketch
… 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 …
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Command Boat 90
… llecting pictures and profiles of the craft from various sources. http://www.dockstavarvet.se/products/combat-and-patrol-boats/combat-boat-90-h/specification/ Eventually I found some plans of sort :- http://laurell.today/boats/combat/plans. …
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Half Hull side project.
… ction in Rhode Island and plan on restoring it. It's an old rch-hit">yacht showroom sales demo (note the hook eye), but with a nice history. It's a Pearson Triton 28 designed by legendary designer Carl Alberg in 1958 for the (now defunct) Pearson Ya …
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Half Hull models
… t build I decided to attempt building a couple of half hull rch-hit">yachts. I sent for a reference book about half hull modelling but it covered basically the carving of half hulls from a large piece of timber, very nice but I wanted to persue my f …
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Grand Banks Yacht
Purchase this Amanti kit about 15 years ago , started to build the cabin found that every thing went to gether real good but when it came to start on the hull I had no idea of how to fasten the lap stape to the fibreglass hull so model was …
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Emerald - "Round the Word" ocean racing yacht.
Purchased new in kit form, from Robbe. 1998. Specifications:- Overall length: 1380mm. Overall beam: 360 mm. Draught: 300 mm. Mast height: 1800 mm. Overall height: 2200 mm. Standard sail area: 80 square dm. Sail area with Genoa: 94 square dm …
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River Dance
… rst adventure Into kit building but having been In building rc planes so was not detered by the complexity of this 7 seater model. Much alteration took place as the model progressed to Improve motor and lipo access. She has an 850 brushed m …
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Robbe Dusseldorf
… f the build on this site, as I already have a build blog on RCGroups. If you wish to follow or are already a subscriber there, here Is the link: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2059360 Thanks for looking. Cheers, Paul p.s. I …
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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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Graupner Optimist - Another refit
… in acetal with a single groove. The fine Dynema cord was sourced from our local fishing shop where I was given 5m for free,- (very nice of him). I had also bought my stainless trace rigging wire from him previously, (apparently a lot of yac …
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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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Again back to the masts.
… 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 …
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Ship of the desert new project (sand yacht)
Finally! some good wind from the right direction to try the rch-hit">yacht out on the beach, Sand is very sticky still and a bit soft, (last cyclone ruined the sand with tons of silt from subdivisions up the estuary) so the speed and tacking wasn't …
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Ship of the desert ? new project (land yacht)
… l might work ok. Getting frustrated with the weather and overcrowding in our area. 12 yrs ago none of these massive subdivisions with thousands of houses, shops, town center, mall, playing fields existed. Now people have moved in from the o …
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Ship of the desert ? new project (land yacht)
… s held in place with 2x 4mm bolts threaded into cyano reinforced balsa, plus a rear magnetic catch. The new 'experimental' test sail is made from black art card, with double sided battens from the same material, and painted with aircraft do …