EdH
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Edgecomb, United States
Member since Jan 2020
Last online 3 years ago
Age 78
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4 blogsScratch Built 31" 'Blue Moppie'
I’ve started the model my youngest grandson asked for. He wanted something similar to my 30” Huntress model (green boat pic) but he felt …
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Revamping a Damaged Model Schooner for a Non Profit
Another board member of The Carpenter's Boat Shop, was given this beautiful model that had fallen off a shelf. He suggested I restore it,…
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39' Windboats of Wroxham 'Fairwind', built 1930s and 40s
Started another model boat project, but the grandkids will be disappointed as it doesn’t plane! It’s a 39” model of the 39’ Fairwind, bui…
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Aerokits 1962 34.5" RAF Crash Tender rebuild, including interior.
Recent FB posts of the Aerokit's RAF Crash Tender got me interested in restoring the old one in our basement. I built this one with my Da…
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Re: Scratch Built 31" 'Blue Moppie'
Thanks Bill. I’m not sure if my grandson will ever get into building models but he enjoys driving them! We live on the Maine coast so my models have to run in …
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Scratch Built 31" 'Blue Moppie'
Spent Saturday morning and afternoon in the Whaler with my 14 year old grandson, giving the model I built for him, Blue Moppie, her first two runs. To my relie…
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Re: Revamping a Damaged Model Schooner for a Non Profit
Hi flaxbybuck. Malibar II is 42', so considerably smaller and your reasoning makes sense. The sail you describe is a Gollywobbler, but unlike a headsail, it wa…
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Thank you flaxbybuck. She's a model of Malabar II (although they kept the deck and cabin varnished instead of white). She was designed and built by John Alden …
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Scratch Built 31" 'Blue Moppie'
The figures for ‘Blue Moppie’ are done. The moulding of the clay originals went smoothly. I made clay casings, suspended the figures, filled them with silicone…
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Scratch Built 31" 'Blue Moppie'
The electronics are in on ‘Blue Moppie’. The control switches can't be on the lift off cabin top, as the two parts would have to have a wire running between th…
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Revamping a Damaged Model Schooner for a Non Profit
When we found the model I have been renovating is of Malabar ll (see previous post), Michael, the model’s donor, found this beautiful modern video of the actua…
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Revamping a Damaged Model Schooner for a Non Profit
I’ve just about finished the model schooner we are donating to The Carpenter's Boat Shop. This week I worked on the rigging, which was in quite a mess. The rig…
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Thanks Gary and all the best for 2023. Ed
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ChrisG another modeling site filled me in. She's a model of Malabar ll. John Alden designed and built several boats for himself, all called Malabar, which he r…
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