Grumpy1949 🇦🇺 Basic
Leading Seaman · 98 pts
Wildwood VIC 3429, Australia
Member since Mar 2018
Last online 4 years ago
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SuzyQ
Hi Martin The starlet is the only one of vics sail boats that i have built, but if she is any indication of his otjer designs she will handle a good blow and s…
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SuzyQ
I have built a few of Vics plans and found them very easy to construct. He does build them a bit heavy an underpowered but.....they are solid and safe.......St…
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Zing Ray
She is 28ins x 12ins
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Zing Ray
Ok boys has anyone built this great mans hydroplane and either re engined or insralled a brushless outrunner. Bearing in mind that i am building this boat to o…
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Scudder
scratch built old Vic Smeed plan. needs either bigger motor or more pitch. should go better once it gets on the step
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Scratch build twin pontoon water jet boat
Hi fellow mariners, winter approaches time to get a couple of projects under way. Is there a general rule for the positioning of the pontoons in order not to f…
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Emma C Berry Fishing Smack
this was how she was first built. as a lobster smack with wet wells to bring the catch back alive. she is 40ins single mast single jib massive amount of sail a…
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Emma C Berry Schooner Rig
built this one a few years ago. she is fitted with an aux motor only used when we were becalmed. bilge pump auto ops a couple of times in really high wind and …
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Emma C. Berry Conversion
I got my first kit back in 1974. it went to god during a house shift. Over the last 4 yeays i have built another 2 Emmas. The first is a 30in model ofthe schoo…
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Scudder
Pontoon top surfaces skinned and sealed. Engine cowling epoxied and faired to spinner backplate. Donitello nose rough shaped out of polyester foam and glued in…
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