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📝 Why do we still use Knots Go Question for todays Question
6 days ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH (
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🌊 Why “knots” exist at all
Before engines, sailors measured speed using a log line:
A rope with knots tied at regular intervals
A wooden board (the “log”) tossed over the stern
Sailors counted how many knots passed through their hands in a set time
Each knot represented one nautical mile per hour.
The name stuck — and the unit turned out to be extremely practical.
Before engines, sailors measured speed using a log line:
A rope with knots tied at regular intervals
A wooden board (the “log”) tossed over the stern
Sailors counted how many knots passed through their hands in a set time
Each knot represented one nautical mile per hour.
The name stuck — and the unit turned out to be extremely practical.
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📝 Vosper
8 days ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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My latest build finished in December 2026. Waiting for water in Spencer's boat pond.
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📝 Led Resister chart
8 days ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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If you ever wanted to know resistor values & voltage, here is a chart that might help( Black-0)(Brown-1)(red-2)(orange-3)(yellow-4)(green-5)(blue-6)(violet-7)(grey-8)(white-9)(gold)(silver)
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📝 Led Resister chart
8 days ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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If you ever wanted to know resistor values & voltage, here is a chart that might help
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📝 Model Shipways
8 days ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Monday, February 16 2026, is a holiday called Family Day in Canada so I decided to build a lifeboat that a fellow in the boat club gave me. Read over the instructions, and that took a while, and then started building at 11.00 am today, after 1/2 hour stop got two parts built.I am surprised that ModelShipways is still in business It's a real tiny boat.
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📝 Vosper
17 days ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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It's been too cold to go out, so more work is being done in my cold basement on the Vosper almost completed; just a few tiny parts need to be installed. The model isn't that well done. I'm a Poor painter, and a few small parts were not added because I kept dropping the tiny parts and they would disappear into the Twilight Zone.
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📝 Vosper
21 days ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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I was having a hard time trying to find a way to protect the receiver from water damage. Then a light bulb popped in my brain, just use a bottle that you have used in other models. So the photo shows the red-taped bottle that has my Fly Sky Receiver
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📝 World Model Boat Clubs
22 days ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Was just curious, looked at the club map, and the locations of the Mid Thames Model Boat Clubin Helsinki is the only club in Europe, every way east has no clubs. Most areas in Asia also have no model boat clubs. Strange!
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📝 Vosper
23 days ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Had some of these switches, so used one on the Vosper very tiny P/B for on & off.No insult to Ron, but as
Frank Sinatra sang it I did it my way.⛵
Frank Sinatra sang it I did it my way.⛵
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📝 Batteries
24 days ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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I have been building R/C models for many years, and during my Building of models have accumulated so many types of batteries & chargers. In the begining started with Nickel Cadmium bad for envirament so on to Nickel metal hydrate, 7.2 volts with different MAHs.Tried the ion batteries. First one fried my speed controller & smoked the battery. I also bought a small fire boat for the little kids to run at shows. It has an ion lithium battery that had an alarm in the boat if it was low .that battery ran down & battery will not charge any more SO NO MORE lithium. Last photo is my newest charger for my 3000 Amp Hour AA batteries that will be my power for Voster or maybe a the NI-MH AA 3500 8.4 Volt I just got from China.
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📝 Vosper
27 days ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Changed a little bit the installation area for the Flysky receiver, and installed speed control in a new area also. The next step have to find a plase for on off switch.
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📝 Vosper
1 month ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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I've been using a lot of brain power to figure out how to change out the battery on the Vosper model that wasn't designed for R/C Only thing possible was to make a hole in the deck, then make it so it can be taken off so that's why I will use 2, 6-32 bolts & nuts to hold the cabin down.I also hate clear windows that need gluing in place.And I know now why I stopped making plastic model cars it' because my fingerprints end up on the model.P/S I really wish Jolly Red Guy had given the Vosper Perkasa.I like its design. The torpedoe tubes will hide the nuts.
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📝 Vosper
1 month ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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I want to thank Ron for his help with my Vosper build. The one thing I need to do is find a way to change out the battery pack, and the size I'll need to make a section that can be removed to change out the battery. I will use a 6-pack AA-NMH 3000 milliamp-hour rated batteries to keep the weight down.I also want to emphasize that members of the website can be very helpful.
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📝 Sterling Century Seamaid
1 month ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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I got this model from a fellow Cofederation modeller member. The Model boat needed a few things, like a battery box area and a steering wheel that I'm still working on installing, plus a few other small things. I always like to have a driver, so I'll use my Dail Ernhart junior figure that I had in my duel cockpit runabout . The model was a wooden Sterling model kit that was well-made by that member. found the kit on Google images
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📝 Vosper
1 month ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Just as I promised, I installed the motor & rubber. The photo looks like the alignment is off, but I don't think it will matter. Tomorrow, there will be a leak test in the bathtub before my wife catches me putting water in the tub. I added two photos of the type of shaft & Prop. I upgraded the motor but used coupling stuffing box & propeller 🤣🤣
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📝 Question of the day.
1 month ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Well, I thought I'd never be 100% I think I'd better stop now while I'm ahead.😊
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📝 Vosper
1 month ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Today was another part constructed. The motor mount is built, the propeller shaft and the propeller is installed need to wait till the glue sets and then I'll glue the motor in place.
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📝 Vosper
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Well, I'm about to start my Vosper. I painted the crew, glued the transom in place. made a rudder up because I'm just thinking about how I'll propel the boat, rummage around in the drawers for a motor and drive shaft prop that may take a while. The model is about 24 inches in length, and the third photo shows that it takes 7 screws to hold it to the hull easily, but it may be a problem changing batteries. Lots of thinking will be needed to R/C the Vosper.P/S Ron gave me some ideas so thanks, Ron.
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📝 Vosper
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Before the major Vosper build, I have to do a few other things, like have a crew so off to the hobby store, and all I could find was a British 1/35 tank crew that can be modified.So last night before answering the questions started.I haven't made any plastic models for years so all fellow modellers know that 1/35 scale is tiny.After 3 men had to give up till another day.
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📝 Just happened
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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I guess I'll have to take the model boat kit back.
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📝 Vosper
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Well, I was right, the Jolly Red Guy did give me a model boat for Christmas. Got something to do on a cold winter day—a plastic Vosper MTB77. The hull is a single piece, and I will need to add the motors and rudders for R/C capability. Any suggestions will be helpful.
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📝 Next project
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Just wanted to wish the Model Boat website members a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year . Hope we all got a nice new model boat and maybe some socks.I'm not sure but the jolly fat guy dropped off something that looks a lot like a model boat box no hints but I'm hoping . Stay safe and we'll be giving an update another day.
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📝 Christmas theme
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Tonight the Confederation model boat club is having the last meeting of 2025 and we are bringing models with a Christmas theme.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Understanding 19th-Century Ship Rigging
The correct answer is B. Backstays. In the context of 19th-century full-rigged ships, backstays were the component of the standing rigging primarily responsible for preventing the foremast from moving aft under the strain of the headsails and fore-topgallant staysail. Backstays are ropes or wires that run from the mast to the stern of the ship, counteracting the forward pull of the staysails and preventing the mast from being pushed backwards.
The correct answer is B. Backstays. In the context of 19th-century full-rigged ships, backstays were the component of the standing rigging primarily responsible for preventing the foremast from moving aft under the strain of the headsails and fore-topgallant staysail. Backstays are ropes or wires that run from the mast to the stern of the ship, counteracting the forward pull of the staysails and preventing the mast from being pushed backwards.
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📝 Chris-Craft
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Well I was wrong,. First off windows never set up with the silicon glue so I'm not endorsing this glue I used but it worked. It's a very thin glue but it cleans up & doesn't smudge the clear plastic windows I also forgot the model came with a steering wheel Name plate and a mirror plus a few miscellany parts so I'll be busy for another few days's
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📝 Chris-Craft
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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While I was doing the modification, I broke the windshield plastic windows and I can tell everyone that it was a real pain to replace them, as several attempts were made to glue new plastic and I kept getting glue fingerprints on the replacement windows. Finally, use a tiny dab of clear silicone to hold the windows in place. Build blog now finished.Need to get back to the Deep-Sea Trawler build blog.
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📝 Chris-Craft
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Put a new floor in & glued seats to it, and the battery is now hidden. Installed a speed control switch, mounted the speed controller with some of that amazing velcro, changed the transmitter & receiver to a Turnigy 2.4Ghz style, adjusted the rudder servo to give the rudder more movement. Bath tud test and O/K for the summer run.I had a 2.4 GHz transmitter that had a broken antenna, so I found an old 78 transmitter, took out its antenna out and soldered it to the broken antenna. Seems to work O/K hid the soldered antenna inside the case
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📝 Chris-Craft Style
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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I think I mentioned this model on another blog.And now it's become a Build Blog. So here we go. This model required a battery box, so I had to make some modifications.So a few cuts were required to find a spot for a 7.2-volt NMH battery so see some photos.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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First off Canada changes time in the fall. The slogan is that time falls back one hour on Nov.2, daylight saving time, so after all the thinking about what time to answer the Question was 8.00 PM. Now it's 7.00 PM I guess England doesn't do Daylight saving time . I had to use AI to find the Question of the day Answer which was B & that was wrong. So how can Eddystone Lighthouse be right AI gave this reason Eddystone Lighthouse (C): John Smeaton’s 1759 tower was the first to use interlocking stone blocks, but it was replaced in 1882. While revolutionary, it predates the 19th-century standard-setting Bell Rock.P/S I would never know this unless I to lived in England Which I don't sorry.My score will probably go down 10% I guess.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 GARTH ( Commodore)
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Nov.11 2025 Remembrance Day and club meeting attended Legion ceremony Our club took some models for the attendees to view.After service at the Cenotaph.Legion lunch.In the evening Club meeting, where I picked up a model sports two seater that needs some TLC & should be ready for the 2026 season Snowstorm on the way home so took some time to get home and had a Rum & Coke a Cola AND forgot to do Question!!
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