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1 day ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam (
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Hi Steve, ordered on line, stuck indoors after another fall. Today's question is one of those self answering questions...
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2 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Thanks for the tip Steve. Any idea what month? Roy, there was a wharf on the Mersey (Wallasey side) riverfront near the Alfred lock. It was called the Fisherman's Wharf, a rather err, challenging establishment, but after several big fights and a nasty fire it was closed by the authorities!
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4 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Steve, I have one of those Swallows and Amazons kits, and the Seagull to go with it...
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📝 Question of the Day?
9 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Cor lucky stab there, not genned up on Latin!
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📝 Is it 100% real or is it AI modified?
11 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Hi Ron. I have not noticed that beeping. Just behind me is "the pits" so it was probably someone setting up an esc or a radio...
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11 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Little Anna testing her new boiler.
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📝 Is it 100% real or is it AI modified?
11 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Admiralty coaster plugging across Southport lake and Borkum attending to harbour duties..
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📝 Question of the Day?
25 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Handy stuff seal skin, you can wear it, carry stuff about in it, make tents out of it carry water in it and go boating in it. Very versatile. I guess that's why it's called seal skin, it seals things..... (I'm just leaving)...
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📝 Question of the Day?
27 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Longest answer gets the prize!
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Ah, th'old "bulbous bow" ploy....
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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I noticed the split question, second part was about historical context or something....
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Not far behind you Roy! Only 10 years..
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Basically, the prop acts like a paddle wheel,, a certain amount of the thrust is to one side due to the shape of the propellor Pitch would add to the equation, coarse pitch would produce more "side" thrust than a finely pitched example. There is probably a mathematical formula involved in there somewhere, but I ain't no mathemetician..
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Propwalk!
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📝 How to reduce roll in a warship model
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Ron, I did this 15 or so years ago, so no photos, and the chap who owned the boat is long dead. .
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📝 How to reduce roll in a warship model
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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A friend had a similar problem with a Gearing class destroyer. My solution, which worked perfectly. I glassed a threaded brass fitting into the underside of the hull, flush with the outside. Next I threaded some 10mm brass rod to screw into the previously fitted threaded bush with a longer thread on the lower end. A brass weight was threaded to suit the rod. The rod screws into the hull, a nut is wound up the longer part of the rod, followed by the brass weight and then a locknut. The weight can be "fine tuned" on the rod for optimum balance. I hope you can understand my ramblings. It would help to reduce top weight, hollow out turrets, superstructure and any other gert lumps of wood high up the superstructure...
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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The most ubiquitous knot in the sailor's arsenal...
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Process of elimination. Not SOLAS, that's to do with construction safe practice,we had blast water water management a couple of days ago. SCTC is to do with training standards, I think, so it can only be MARPOL...
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Well that question was a bit of a no brainer...
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Most long winded answer wins again!
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Good luck with the operation. Ed. Roy, A Pompey esc? What's one of them? Are they a home build?
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Blimey, this quiz has more repeats than the BBC!
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Duh... Answer is a dead giveaway!
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Another repeat question...
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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I had algebra thrashed into me at school, got a maths O level level, then promptly forgot it all. I use the basic stuff still Ohm's law calculations, Trig, that sort of stuff. Nowadays I can barely add up my shopping list and barely spell Algebra!🤔
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Self answering question....
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Hi Boarshed, Butchers backslang further down the thread...
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Dab dna ereht's gnals kcab, ni gnals kcab".
Back slang. Any guesses?
Back slang. Any guesses?
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Apples and pears, stairs. Butcher's, as in Butcher's hook, look. Brahms, as in Bhrams and Lizst, pissed (drunk). Trouble, as in Trouble and Strife, wife and so on.
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3 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Rear Admiral)
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Isn't a Fluke also a fish?
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