I doubt it will be top heavy, those containers have sections cut out and removed making them very light. I had run the boat last year without the containers but felt it needed something else and these were available. Might not be entirely authentic but its ballast is good.

Put a new receiver and speed control in the ship yesterday. It is now ready for the pond later this week. Too hot today, felt like 40 with the humidity.

Wow, is this cool! Can you imagine the potential for builders? Maybe a club or organization would buy one then make it available to members to use.
https://glowforge.com/

https://glowforge.com/

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Got it on the pond today, after three days of rain it is is pretty murky, but the tug boat did very well giving Pluto an ride on the water.

Another few clips

Sailing past my grandson

Sailing on Lake Simcoe, Mara Provincial Park beach, near Orillia, Ontario.

I had the Folkboat out in a stiff wind and 12”swells. My grandson, liked it too. It handled the stiff breeze and swells very well. It is posted on Facebook both stills and video. I will edit the video clip in a day or so.

The stiff wind was too much for the Wianno Senior, I kept it close to shore and quickly retrieved it when the winds heeled it over.

Minus the cigarette and you almost have me...

Amazing deck work. But you painted over it! Why?

I worked to summers at Wyndance also clublink, which gave me golf at various other courses. My wife and I enjoyed traveling and playing some of them from Montreal, Hull, Ottawa, and the GTA.

Yesterday was a pretty hot day to be on the golf course. Hope you were not carrying your bag? Today is to be even hotter 34+
Metro Marine Modellers had a regatta yesterday at Humber Bay Park East. I only found out about it late Friday evening. I was not there, Saturday is chores day...

What course were you on? Some nice courses down In your area, such as Mystic.

Thanks Rick. Were you at the event today near Oakville?

The grandsons had fun running the Jolly Jay on the lake yesterday. Each of them wanted a turn and the 10 year old was running it between his parents as then waded in the shallow beach area. He was pretty good too!

Very clever!

That is really cool 😎 on the water! Amazing there were no spectators on the dock cheering you. Hope you will get some steady winds the next time out and post a video too.

Batteries charged ✔️
Systems working ✔️
Radios packed and fresh batteries ✔️
Toolbox 🧰 loaded✔️

Did I forget anything ???? 🤔

Ron here...you had any pond time?

Good planning on not using the coils but buying lengths instead.

Well done. Always nice to (see🙄) our work on the water and running.

I had a tooth rebuilt recently. Dentists, and dental hygienist are very conscious about their and your health. Wear a mask in and out of the office, not needed in your car, obey the instructions. Wash hands etc. But do get it fixed.

What software are you using to do the drawings? And, which type of printer is making the parts?

It must have taken along time to print some of those parts?

Nice work by the way!


When these 3-D printers were just becoming a possible item for Technology Design classes they quoted our school $15,000CDN plus you needed a service contract, a separate ventilated room to use it.

While I only had five years left before retirement and was then not sure if there would be anyone capable to keep the program going? We in the Tech Dept bought equipment for the auto shop and woodshop.

Nicely done a proud moment for you and him. Keep up the good work.

Mine too, Lego, Building, designing, reading and golf 🏌🏽 ages 10,7,4

I disagree.Here is the original sailboat I designed my model from. See where the mast is located? See the length of the boom? The mast has no noticeable rack aft.

We cannot see the full mast though what can be seen should provide ample information as to how the model should be rigged.

In talking with those who sail Nordic Folkboat designs, they come about very easily. When I did my tests the wind was barely noticeable. I will be doing further testing
soon, now that there is a slight rake aft.

This boat is not a true Nordic Folkboat. It is too short and fat. It is a European design which I am told there are many of the Folkboat style.

Raking aft, eh...Like this?

Will try the easiest first of adding to the rudder. I had to do that on the Wianno Senior too.

Thanks

Ron

Kits help me to see what I need to learn about my scratch building. I found that one on my first kits used too heavy of wood, in the bow particularly, thus it never planed over the surface of the water.

Some airplane kits are like that too, where too heavy of wood is in the kit, and thus it does not fly correctly.

So, if you use some of those kit parts as templates, then select your own material to replace it, a better model should be produced.

I don’t like the preformed hulls nor the glues used to bond them together. The challenge of making a hull is missed in the building process.

Ron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMJP7yXOcBI

Do you know the person who built the kit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMJP7yXOcBI

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Yes, I stand corrected it is an RAF rescue craft. 63’ High Speed Launch

The hull of the 63ft HSL was hard chine, with skin constructed in double diagonal African mahogany, 4in x Vim planks with a layer of proofed canvas between. Planks were through fastened by clenched copper rivets and attached to frames by brass screws. Hull sides, transom, bottom and decking were all of similar construction. Frames were African mahogany with rock elm facings. The stem was spruce, shaped and fastened to the keel by spruce deadwood. All bulkheads were of special light weight fabrication to a Power Boat patent. The wheelhouse and cabin were prefabricated synthetic resin bonded plywood with spruce frames and stiffeners. The hull was sub-divided into six watertight compartments by five bulkheads.
Under the wide foredeck and abaft the forepeak was the crew's mess, with bunks and a galley fitted with a pressurised paraffin oven. Forward of the mess against the fore peak bulkhead was the crew's Baby Blake toilet and washbasin to port with a chain locker and a ladder leading up to a hatch to starboard. Aft of the crew's mess on the starboard side, steps led up to the wheelhouse and a level deck led aft under the conning position to a chart room and sick bay. The latter could accommodate five stretchers. Leading off from the chart room on the starboard side was a small wireless cabin aft of which was a double berth cabin for NCO's, whereas on the port side of the chart room was a single cabin for the Captain. Access to the forward turret, offset to port, was also in the chart room. The main engine fuel tanks were situated underneath the deck of the sick bay. Stretcher access to the sick bay was via a wide hatch on the port side of the casing. The aft turret access was also right aft in the sick bay section.
Entrance to the engine room was via a small hatch behind the turret The engine room contained the three main engines, the auxiliary engine for battery charging and bilge pumping and all the controls. The two wing engines drove the propellers through direct gear boxes, whereas the centre engine faced forward and drove the centre propeller through a V-drive gearbox. The engineer of the HSL controlled the engines via large levers from a position between the wing engines, facing the centre engine. Communications to the wheelhouse was via a visual telegraphic display on the forward engine bulkhead, however the throttles were controlled directly from the wheelhouse by hydraulic controls. All the engine room instrumentation was on the port bulkhead. Abaft the engine room was an aft peak which contained the batteries but which also served as a stowage for ropes and fenders.
The fore deck was relatively clear of equipment, which not only gave the crew good visibility from the wheelhouse windows, but also ample space upon which to work when coming up to a wrecked aircraft, ditched airman or a mooring buoy. The 63ft HSL was equipped with W/T as well as an aircraft style intercom which linked the Captain with the Coxswain, gunners, and wireless operator. Some launches were later fitted with IFF and a radio direction loop which was either of the open type or enclosed pattern VHF was also fitted to some launches.
The guns were mounted in two Boulton and Paul aircraft type turrets, each comprising a single Vickers .303 machine gun. Additional weapons in the form of twin Lewis machine guns were often positioned on free standing mountings each side of the wheelhouse. Some of the 63ft HSL's carried a 20mm Oerlikon cannon on a specially strengthened rear deck. Anti-shrapnel padding covered the top sides of the wheelhouse, chart room and sick bay, as well as the radio room. Armour plating was installed behind the coxswain's position and behind the engineer's seat in the engine room.

Further, from Clive is this former email:
I am simply the archivist for the British Military
Powerboat Trust and in fact I was a Marine Fitter crewing the RAF
launches after 1955 for 12 years.
There are several things wrong with all the models, according to my
informants, members of the Marine Craft Sections and Air Sea Rescue club
who did crew the Whalebacks the scheme I sent you is the correct one.
The four wire antenna was the correct one as this was matched to the
1083 HF radio.
The models that you have sent are incorrectly armed. They were only
fitted with the two Anson aircraft turrets with .303 Machine guns. The
Machine gun at the side of the bridge (if they had one) was something
that the crew had "scrounged". The 20mm on the stern were never fitted
to the Whaleback as the hull at that point was not strong enough and the
area could not be suitably re-enforced. They were however fitted to the
"Hants and Dorset's".
There was no metal decks on board any of the RAF Launches as they were
Powered by petrol engines burning high octane fuel, just out of interest
the crews only wore rubber soled shoes for the same reason.
The number painted on the foredeck was the boats callsign number ie.
Seagull 70.
I hope this gives you all the info you need.
Clive

23 March 2004 - 20 July 2010 Clive Frampton worked as a Director (RETIRED) in BRITISH MILITARY POWERBOAT TRUST LIMITED

On the real boat, the mast probable extended below deck. Could you add a small diameter brass tube insert from below up into the mast? That would certainly provide better installation and strength than just epoxy flush to the surface. One good knock in transport or carelessly movement of your hand reaching across the model could dislodge it.