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    Re: 34 inch Crash Tender refit
    "I find I enjoy the building more than the sailing. After all, all it can do is go round and round, faster or slower!" Heartily agree Graham πŸ‘ That's why my first ship build was a destroyer, thought it offered good possibilities for special functions. What happened? At 15 I had no resources for RC to even drive it round in 'wobbly' circles πŸ€” She was free running and if she conked out Mum and I would stretch yards of Grandads fishing line across the boating lake at Radnor Park in Folkestone to haul her back in again! Caused some hilarity amongst the
    park strollers
    and littl' ol' ladies sitting on benches around the pond. Highly 'embrassing'! 😁 Some twenty years later, after moving to Germany and doubling my salary, RC was added along with traversing gun turret, NAV lights, flashing signal lamps, smoking funnel, Whoop Whoop siren and fog horn and an experimental towing winch. The latter since landed- a) I needed a weight like a can of baked beans to pull the winch hook out b) The stern of a destroyer is much too low to get the hook on to any other boat. Of course I discovered that on sea trials after spending time building my own winch controllerπŸ€” Here endeth the night's ramblings of the old sea dog. Thank you for your patience 😌 😎
    5 years ago by RNinMunich


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