Nick Ward
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Chief Petty Officer 1st Class · 516 pts
Christchurch, New Zealand
Member since Oct 2024
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4 boatsLESRO SPRITE
Not sure what the run time will be with the new brushless set-up, so I've put 15mins as a start point; I kn…
GLYNN GUEST KNOCKER WHITE TUG
NB some of the stats above such as run time, max amps, speed, are estimated. The actual finished weight was…
Springer Tug
Built as a cheap-ish rescue boat driven by a planetary geared 540 sized motor off the Ali Express website, …
VIC SMEED SS UNITY
This simple Vic Smeed design was originally for the 'Unit Steam Powerplant' but the plan does say suitable …
Nick Ward’s build blogs
3 blogsHi all, just posting a summary of (mainly) previously posted pics to kick off this build log and show progress to date since I first star…
I decided to start this following a suggestion from one of you on this website, that the smaller Lesro designs such as the Sea Urchin, Se…
I mentioned in the Vic Smeed Vivacity forum I would do a few smaller builds while chugging through the Vivacity project; the first of the…
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♥ 6 likesRe: Rescue Equipment@DJW Hi DJW, please see attached pics of my Springer Tug, which was sort of designed with 'rescues' in mind. Mine uses a geared 12v 550 motor spinning a 4 blade 50mm brass prop, the emphasis being on 'pushing'…
+2♥ 7 likesRe: New to model boatingAs Colinj2 suggests, a great place to start would be looking at the build logs on this website. A couple of mine were projects that might suit beginners wanting to have a go at a scratch build (ss unity & sea …♥ 4 likesRe: build blogTelectra is one of my bucket list builds for the future - I have the plan in my stash, so looking forward to enviously following your build - might motivate me to do a bit more on my Vivacity, but grand-daught…♥ 1 likeASSEMBLING VIVACITY'S KEEL - Feb - July 2026.Hi to all again! Sorry no post for a few months, but I've been rather busy on other projects; my younger grand-daughter's first train set for Christmas which still needs work (one has to plan these things well…
+10♥ 10 likesRe: Maiden VoyageReally like the look of Rebecca's fast patrol boat, great finish. Definitely considering building one in the same fashion as my recently completed Sea Urchin, but also considering brushless power - I reckon a …♥ 11 likesRe: build blog@chugalone100 - Many thanks for all your positive feedback. All I can say is I thoroughly enjoyed the whole project, and I'm looking forward to adding further smaller (and some larger....😉) Aerokits scratch-bu…♥ 1 likeShort videos of Sea Urchin maiden voyage.Thanks to Fireboat's efforts, we are now able to upload videos up to 1GB in file size, so here are the two short videos of my Sea Urchins maiden voyage on 16MAY2026.
♥ 7 likesRe: 64MB file size limitation - will this be increased?@fireboat - many thanks for this, I'll upload those videos now. Keep up the great work you do, rgds Nick.♥ 1 like