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    ๐Ÿ“ Round Bumpers
    5 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Ron

    ALIEXPRESS has 16mm rubber or silicon balls, black or white. Delivered price about $1 each (10, up to 50 quantity).

    You would have to add your own colour and line & attachment. All i can think of right now

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    ๐Ÿ“ Round Bumpers
    5 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Ron

    What diameter do you need?

    Ross

    ๐Ÿ“ Question of the Day?
    7 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Dave

    In your case, you still have 5 more days before your wrong answer of 25 days ago drops off. If you keep making correct answers for the next 5 days, your old, wrong answer will fall off and your score will increase by 3%.
    In my score I have 26 more days before the wrong answer falls off and I go up by 3%
    The game scores on total correct answers in a rolling 30 day period

    ๐Ÿ“ Laughing Whale Friendship Sloop Scale 1:12
    7 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    As all have said, beautiful work. Your mast hoops, how were they done? Alessandro & I got into a mast hoop discussion a while ago.

    ๐Ÿ“ Question of the Day?
    12 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    As Garth said, can somebody in the UK explain your time change to the Canucks

    Garth, your drop will be 3 and a third percent, rounded off, like mine.โ˜น๏ธ

    ๐Ÿ“ Question of the Day?
    12 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Alessandro,

    Aircraft engines are removable, but it's about a 6 hour process for the purpose of maintenance, repair, and overhaul.

    Just being difficult and nitpicking

    ๐Ÿ“ Question of the Day?
    12 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    As Doug was saying, on a 4 engine aircraft, the 2 engines that are farthest away from the fuselage are referred to as the OUTBOARD ENGINES, the 2 engines closest to the fuselage are referred to as the INBOARD ENGINES.

    I think AI is confusing the concept of internal COMBUSTION engine with internal MOUNTED engine

    ๐Ÿ“ Question of the Day?
    16 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Me thinks i just accquired super powers๐Ÿ˜ฎ

    ๐Ÿ“ Question of the Day?
    20 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Lightfoot's WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD



    ๐Ÿ“ Sailing barge sails
    22 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Ok, that's reasonable. Post a sail plan and we can get going

    ๐Ÿ“ I was given this Gina II and bought the Mary Ann
    25 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Ron

    Question for your vessel on the bench, as is, how was the mizzen mast and boom supposed to work with the exhaust stack? Was it not a sail mast?

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    ๐Ÿ“ One to file away
    26 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    The Viking's version of deadeyes on the shrouds, to support the mast of a sailboat. โ›ตAdjustable, as the rope stretched

    ๐Ÿ“ I was given this Gina II and bought the Mary Ann
    28 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    How tall are they Roy?๐Ÿ˜

    ๐Ÿ’ฌ Re: Extending the cable routes.
    28 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    I do like the idea of the steering wheel being the control for the power switch๐Ÿ‘

    ๐Ÿ“ Billings Boat Karoline #412
    28 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Ron

    Did you want to go as far as calculating the balance of the centre of gravity and the centre of bouyancy? I'm guessing small fin-ballast like Emily

    ๐Ÿ“ I was given this Gina II and bought the Mary Ann
    28 days ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Ron

    for that price, does it come with a full crew๐Ÿ˜?

    ๐Ÿ“ Lesro atlantic
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    How many rescues have you done so far?โ›ตโ›ต

    ๐Ÿ“ Modello RC scala 1/60, di piroscafo armato a goletta, liberamente ispirato alle cannoniere classe US
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Alessandro,

    2 of my DEADEYES, BIGOTTA.

    Size 10 mm

    ๐Ÿ“ Modello RC scala 1/60, di piroscafo armato a goletta, liberamente ispirato alle cannoniere classe US
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    BIGOTTA= DEADEYE
    Italian English


    SLEEPING RIGGING is called STANDING RIGGING in English

    This is to clarify my translation from Italian to Engish. This will be my Italian lesson for the week.
    I have 40 DEADEYES in my toolbox. They are waiting to be installed

    ๐Ÿ“ Modello RC scala 1/60, di piroscafo armato a goletta, liberamente ispirato alle cannoniere classe US
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Doug, Alessandro,

    So, if BIGOTTA is a DEADEYE. Then SLEEPING RIGGING is STANDING RIGGING, SHROUD LINE in English,which supports the mast, (connected to DEADEYES)?โ›ต

    ๐Ÿ“ Sailing barge sails
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Rick

    Just so we are all on the same page, a KITTY SIZED THAMES SAILING BARGE, is 65 tons and carries 1,000 feet of sail. How big a vessel are you working on. . . ๐Ÿ˜ฎ?

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    ๐Ÿ“ Sailing barge sails
    1 month ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Hi Rick

    Do you have a sail โ›ตplan for your vessel? There are a number of us here that can work you through it, like Ron says

    Ross

    ๐Ÿ“ Question of the Day?
    2 months ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    gondola

    none are correct
    left (port) wider curve, bulged, longer. & FATTER not flatter
    starboard is flat

    8 different species of wood

    asymetrical

    flat bottomed for canal work

    ๐Ÿ“ QOD for Alessandro
    2 months ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    If DOESN'T MATTER, u need to get a ROUND TUIT.

    remember:
    it doesn't matter if you get a round tuit

    ๐Ÿ’ฌ Re: A bit of fun Das Boot
    2 months ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    I think we should give that idea the boot

    ๐Ÿ“ Question of the Day?
    2 months ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    I think the answer would have been better if AND UPRIGHT had been left out or changed to TO FACILITATE UPRIGHTING

    ๐Ÿ’ฌ Re: Re: Schooner Kamanik
    2 months ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Nice work๐Ÿ‘ and nice camera work. too๐Ÿ‘

    How long is your fin keel?

    ๐Ÿ“ 2nd voyage on Lake Paterno of the 1:60 scale model of a schooner-armed steam gunboat, assisted by a
    2 months ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    As I have said before, come for the model boats, stay for the history . . .

    ๐Ÿ“ 2nd voyage on Lake Paterno of the 1:60 scale model of a schooner-armed steam gunboat, assisted by a
    3 months ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Thank you Lew

    I was wondering what the balance was between sail and boiler. So, sails were more for an emergency, used when the boilers couldn't function?

    ๐Ÿ“ 2nd voyage on Lake Paterno of the 1:60 scale model of a schooner-armed steam gunboat, assisted by a
    3 months ago by ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ RossM ( Captain)
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    Alessandro

    MORNING works well with your shots of the boat on sunlit water๐Ÿ‘



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