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📝 Early Radio Control Experiences
8 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck (
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I think I can probably go back older in an original RC unit than most of you. My uncle built a model of a coastal Shell tanker in the late 1950's (bread and butter scratch built using red cedar), with radio control by Radio and Electronic Products. I only ever saw the model working under RC once at Blackheath pond in London around 1960. He entered the model into the Boat Show model boat section in 1960, and came second. For my 21st birthday he gave me the model and its second place penant, both of which I still have, and in the last year or two I have finally installed modern RC. Otherwise the model is original still with its ancient Taycol motor which works perfectly.
Because the receiver was reed based, it never worked properly, and even the electronic boffins at A&AEE Boscombe Down (an experimental RAF base in Wiltshire, England) could never get it working!! Finally though it has had some outings this last year, and still draws admiring looks
Because the receiver was reed based, it never worked properly, and even the electronic boffins at A&AEE Boscombe Down (an experimental RAF base in Wiltshire, England) could never get it working!! Finally though it has had some outings this last year, and still draws admiring looks
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📝 Dutch sailing barge
10 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Beautiful piece of work Andy - did you get the stainless rigging made, or have you the facilities yourself?
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📝 Question of the Day?
10 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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I agree with your post RN on contributions - I did wait a while before contributing, but that was to understand the site and to find the real expertise and wide knowledge of the contributors. Even the basic yearly contribution is not really a penalty. even for us pensioners.
Why not put a posting limit, after which you either contribute or your get a read only access? More work for Steven, but might be a thought?
Why not put a posting limit, after which you either contribute or your get a read only access? More work for Steven, but might be a thought?
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📝 Question of the Day?
14 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Again, all our thanks to Stephen - and hey ho, I've jumped from 22 back to 8 without answering a question!
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📝 Question of the Day?
15 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Lucky you Steve - overnight I have gone from 8th to 22nd!!!! Don't think we can blame AI for this - or has our data been hacked?
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📝 Question of the Day?
15 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Yep, we are all being credited twice on the list - now need to have our points scores doubled!!!
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📝 Question of the Day?
29 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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I wonder how many of our models will be in the water long enough for any fouling to occur? Normally it is just the sludge layer on the water surface that I have to clean off.
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Sorry to say EdW, but the AI bot says that answer B is wrong, as out of all the options that was the one I picked, and I have a lovely big red mark, and another wrong answer!!!
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Sorry, todays answer is wrong - it allows a ship to fire more of its guns, not from wind assistance, but because its gun ports are clear of the water - windward ship has the lower guns facing the leeward ship unable to open their lower gun ports.
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💬 Re: Professional Photographer at Southport
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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If it wasn't for the 'fixed' people on board you could almost imagine these as full size boats. Just the odd exception with a rather disproportionate bow wave!
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📝 Dutch sailing barge
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Beautiful work Andy - hope she sails as well as she looks.
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📝 Upgrade at last
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Hi Bob - water jets have always been successful, and fortunately water levels in the ponds and lakes I use, mean the jets will only hit lower leg levels, even if near the shore - most of the spraying is done out on the water. Shame you have had to disconnect - as many of the kids love it when a spray comes at them gently as a surprise.
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📝 Upgrade at last
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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After all the mess of fiddling with 2 channels, the surplus wiring has gone, and all a lot tidier. New receiver will clip into the superstructure, and the plastic tube is the feed to the fire monitors on the superstructure. It is removable to allow the superstructure to be taken off completely.
New pump fitted under foredeck, and suprised myself thast 25 years ago I thought of making it removeable to allow for maintenance!!
Next is the water test to ensure water comes out where it should from teh monitors.
New pump fitted under foredeck, and suprised myself thast 25 years ago I thought of making it removeable to allow for maintenance!!
Next is the water test to ensure water comes out where it should from teh monitors.
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💬 Re: Another Addition - Clyde Puffer
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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What a superbly built model, as Wolle says it should have minimal touching up. Is it a smoker?
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📝 Upgrade at last
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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After its last outing my Zwarte Zee, built over 25 years ago,finally decided that the windscreen washer pump used for the fire jets was not going to do any more pumping. To dig it out of its hiding place under the foredeck meant a fair bit of dismantling, so took the opportunity to upgrade the RC to multi-channel 2.4ghz from the old 2 channel 27 mhz. The old 2 channel required using the extreme rudder tab to provide the pump connection as in the picture, so that I could only use the firejets when going round in a circle!!!
Now with its own dedicated channel the jets should work whatever the tugs direction.
The other picture shows some of the cabling, including the historic Hunter speed controller, which still woks brilliantly with the new system, and drives the old Decaperm 12v motor.
Updates will arrive after completion of the upgrade and water trials.
Now with its own dedicated channel the jets should work whatever the tugs direction.
The other picture shows some of the cabling, including the historic Hunter speed controller, which still woks brilliantly with the new system, and drives the old Decaperm 12v motor.
Updates will arrive after completion of the upgrade and water trials.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Lovely when the answer is in the question - no idea, so just used the dates.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Capsize and upright are totally contradictory - a capsize means that you have gone over so far sideways that the lower gunwhale is under water. Although there are plenty of times when planing at full power that I have had so much water flying over me when hiking out, that it feels that I am under water!!
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Nobody is forcing anybody to do QoD or even be on this group - if something doesn't fit, then others may just enjoy a bit of fun, and perhaps some learning?
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Never heard of a wildcat windlass system - there only only two wildcats I know - the animal and the helicopter - just shows what you learn from these questions.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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There have been many requests for members to send in suitable questions, but presumably there weren't that many sent in or suitable. Admin cannot be expected to keep dreaming up new questions, so thanfully AI is there to help him, otherwise this part of the site would collapse. Your choice as to whether you want some light hearted fun or not.
BTW - I have never had any emails chasing me to answer the question. Lucky, or have I got a setting to block them, never seen such a setting.
BTW - I have never had any emails chasing me to answer the question. Lucky, or have I got a setting to block them, never seen such a setting.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Surely in basic coastal navigation, when you see a headland sticking out, you steer to avoid it!!!! Many headlands actually stick out into the sea for a very long distance underwater, often with shallows that go on for a deceptively long way.
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📝 Bloody AliExpress
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Yodel have the worst delivery record of all the companies in the UK. Interesting that they have now been taken over by InPost. Inpost for sending things are excellent, but have yet to try receiving any orders through them. Don't know who they use for deliveries, but if they do not do something serious about Yodel, they will lose a lot of credibility.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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I didn't even understand the question - looked for common words in the answers, and by a fluke it was right - still doesn't make any sense to me, but then mayhbe the grey cells are aging too fast. As others have said, interesting to see how you get a model boat far enough out to sea and with someone on board to use this method.😁
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📝 BUXTON MODEL BOAT CLUB
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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If only we all had access to such a great lake.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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No idea of todays answer about surf, but looked for an answer that had surf in it, and luckily it was right. More learning, if you can understand the actual answer.😉
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Hopefully this site is for like minded people, with a core interest in model boats, but other wider interests which possibly feed into model making. It would be interesting to see how many of us do other types of modelling that both feed into and feed out to our other modelling interests. Fo me, my core interest is model boats, but I also model railways in both OO guage and N gauge.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Not just yacht racing - it is even more important in dinghy racing, when wind shifts have more effect than tides. In offshore yacht racing this tactic has to be considered with other factors such as tides, which often have a greater effect.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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The toredo worm was the reason that so many wooden hullsed ships had copper plates added below the water line, added to the weight of the ship, but extended its life enormously. A toredo worm infestation could cripple a wooden ship within a year of being in the water.
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📝 when big is too big 😬
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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me thinks 6 foot long, and heavy equals mini mobile crane? Is that the next model?
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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That was a lucky guess today, for once the answer was not in the question - good way to learn
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