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📝 Question of the Day?
24 hours ago by 🇬🇧 EdW (
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Do water wings qualify as a PFD?
I was taught that a protective firearm device was anything with more firepower than the opposition
I was taught that a protective firearm device was anything with more firepower than the opposition
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Another one where the correct answer is none of the above. Robin Knox-Johnston Was the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world. Slocum stopped in many places in his three year voyage.
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📝 Calling it a day.
4 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Bill, sorry to hear about your challenges, all I can say I’d do not give in. Sometimes there is a glimmer of light in the darkest places.
I can sympathise with you as I have had health issues since December and just when I think it’s over there are complications but now I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
Hope you can find the same light.
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Ed
I can sympathise with you as I have had health issues since December and just when I think it’s over there are complications but now I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
Hope you can find the same light.
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📝 Question of the Day?
4 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Sheer madness 😜
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📝 Blast from my past
7 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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This one none of the kit was used, the original parts were used as templates to cut aircraft quality birch ply parts and it was skinned with the same type of ply.
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📝 Blast from my past
7 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Jumpugly you are correct, it was a Dumas kit but the streamlining was custom made using glass fibre.
I had the smaller Dumas Thriftaway Two with a Veco .19,
Also quick but nowhere near the speed of this one.
I had the smaller Dumas Thriftaway Two with a Veco .19,
Also quick but nowhere near the speed of this one.
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📝 Blast from my past
7 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Found this picture of one of my fathers boats. This was taken in the early ‘70s. It was very fast and very noisy.
Wish I had one of it running, the rooster tail was really impressive.
Wish I had one of it running, the rooster tail was really impressive.
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📝 Relax for a few days.
9 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Hi Wolfe, I can smell the sea when I look at these pictures😊
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📝 Deans Marine
12 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Thanks for the posts, I will be giving Deans Marine some “excellent “ write ups were ever I can. People like this do not deserve to be in business.😔
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📝 Deans Marine
12 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Has anyone here had issues with this crowd. I ordered a drawing from them and they wanted £7.50 for postage, when I questioned them about this, the dropped the charge to £7.00. Royal Mail 2nd class large letter is £2.50.
In any case at worst I should have received it last week. After numerous calls they told me that they had posted it and that if they had to get a tracking number from Royal Mail it would take 3 weeks. I replied⛵ that was not good enough and I wanted a refund. The person at Deans Marine then became abusive.
I would warn anyone to avoid there guys as they are not as professional as they claim to be.
In any case at worst I should have received it last week. After numerous calls they told me that they had posted it and that if they had to get a tracking number from Royal Mail it would take 3 weeks. I replied⛵ that was not good enough and I wanted a refund. The person at Deans Marine then became abusive.
I would warn anyone to avoid there guys as they are not as professional as they claim to be.
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📝 Question of the Day?
21 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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The Egyptians are known to have had a navy before 1200 BC.
The old kingdom used ships for military purposes (2575 - 2130) including organised defence of the kingdom.
The old kingdom used ships for military purposes (2575 - 2130) including organised defence of the kingdom.
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📝 Question of the Day?
29 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Roy, hope you recover quickly
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📝 HMS Royal Marine
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Has anyone built Deans Marine’s HMS Royal Marine
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📝 The games we play
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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@CTSMBC How about “Richard Cranium” if you want to be polite 😆
You can take a South African out of South Africa but their sense of humour remains South African
You can take a South African out of South Africa but their sense of humour remains South African
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📝 The games we play
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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I was a member of a society for many years but when the chairman would not stand again the vote was “steered” to select a new chairman who is unfortunately “Inebriated with the Exuberance of His Own Verbosity”, I left the society. 😞
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📝 Death of a member.
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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My sincere condolences
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Todays question is total rubbish, the only sailing rig that I have seen with a raked mast are cats and trimarans. Never a sloop, cutter or ketch. Furthermore the only difference between a sloop and a cutter is that one has two foresails.
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📝 Unique Clubhouse
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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About 40 years ago I was a member of the Cape Town Maritime Museum Ship Modellers Society, this is where we held our monthly meetings.
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📝 Monitor drawings
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Hi Lew
Thanks, I had a 3 elevation drawing and I made a drawing for a RC model which I built and ran but it got smashed during a house move. Both drawings have disappeared over time. This type of thing happens when you change hemispheres.
Regards
Ed
Thanks, I had a 3 elevation drawing and I made a drawing for a RC model which I built and ran but it got smashed during a house move. Both drawings have disappeared over time. This type of thing happens when you change hemispheres.
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📝 Monitor drawings
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Hi
Does anyone know where I can get hold of drawings of a Vietnam era monitor. I believe that they were converted landing craft where the bow was rounded off and the load bay was modified to carry armament.
Does anyone know where I can get hold of drawings of a Vietnam era monitor. I believe that they were converted landing craft where the bow was rounded off and the load bay was modified to carry armament.
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📝 Sonstraal Dam
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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I have lived in the UK for the past 26 years but grew up in Durbanville. I used Sonstraal Dam for model boats in the 1960s. Tethered, free running and RC. Most of our boats were power and ran with little or no silencers but the only road at that time was what is now called Bethanie Street. Was surrounded by farmland and no houses nearby. My late father used the dam for his model yacht up until about 10 years ago when he passed away. My late father was key in getting access for the Tygerberg Model Boat Club, an offshoot of the aircraft club, access to the dam on Brinks farm off the Fisantekraal road. Regular endurance races where held there in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Sadly what was left of my fathers boats disappeared after he died but I have a few pictures. If I can dig them out, I will post them on this site.
Sadly what was left of my fathers boats disappeared after he died but I have a few pictures. If I can dig them out, I will post them on this site.
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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I’m not saying a word 🤔
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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With some of the recent questions and answers I was tempted by the Bismarck or Titanic.🤔
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Another dumb question, these are really getting a bit stupid
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Another questionable question 😂
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Another dumb question, carpenters glue glue is not water resistant so why would you use it.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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By a process of elimination, b and d don’t sound Portuguese, c is Turkish so must be a.🤔
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Nickthesteam, that is an excellent idea but we need someone to set it up and we should not exclude the person setting the questions, it will give then a chance to get their score up 😂
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📝 378' WHEC US Coast Guard Plans Post or Pre Fram
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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You need a boat with working depth charges 🤣
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Midshipman)
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Another one of these questions where the answer is wrong. Steam-bending would be more correct than planking as planking is not necessary curved. I think it would be better to scrap Question of the Day if we cannot come up with decent questions.😠
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