Collie
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Petty Officer 1st Class · 238 pts
Huntsville, United States
Member since Jul 2025
Last online 8 months ago
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I got to go sailing again and managed to get a couple more videos. Turns out it's really hard to record and operate RC controls at the same time, so my sailing…
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Re: The Maiden Voyage
Alessandro, This is a local pond here in Huntsville, Alabama. We're fortunate to have some beautiful parks in this area. I'm hoping to get more video sometime …
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Re: The Maiden Voyage
Mike, The T37 is designed as a one class racing boat, so it has a pretty clever sheeting system in my opinion. It starts at a loop under the deck, then goes th…
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The Maiden Voyage
After about four months of building, I finally had my maiden voyage! It was a very gusty day which was not ideal, my boat ended up heeling over more than I wou…
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Rigging and Painting
I've been moving lately and pretty bad at posting updates, but over the past few weeks I got the boat painted (don't judge me I used rattle cans) with a cool l…
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Day 19
August 10, 2025 Today was an exciting day! I always dread the step of varnishing woodworking projects, but I can't deny that the results are incredibly satisfy…
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Day 18
August 3rd, 2025 I forgot to take pictures, but I did a little bit of work last Sunday. I waterproofed the hatches by putting a thin coat of epoxy all over the…
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Day 17
August 2, 2025 I haven't had much time until today to work on this unfortunately. I made up the main hatch and got all of the magnets glued into place today. T…
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Day 16
July 25, 2025 I really like the idea of using magnets to attach the hatches since it helps me keep them a really low profile. I got some neodymium magnets off …
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Day 15
July 22, 2025 I had hatches on the mind today at work so I mocked something up when I got home with some scrap plywood. It's not pretty by any means, but it gi…
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