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📝 I miss Graupner!!! And Robbe too.
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Hi cashrc, I have a small line drawing of full size changes which I was going to do myself but happy to share.
It looks like the update to the class I think it was Nos. 3, 8, and 11. A guess at mid 80s.
The Graupner kit was issued in 1974 and maybe one of the longest continuous runs of the same kit ever.
I can tell you a bit about Bugsier if you are interested as they are now the largest Towing company in the world, all done on English money!
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It looks like the update to the class I think it was Nos. 3, 8, and 11. A guess at mid 80s.
The Graupner kit was issued in 1974 and maybe one of the longest continuous runs of the same kit ever.
I can tell you a bit about Bugsier if you are interested as they are now the largest Towing company in the world, all done on English money!
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22 hours ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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Robin Knox Johnson was the first solo, 50 years ago, but he is not in the options!!!
But now I cannot read my own post, this is daft!
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But now I cannot read my own post, this is daft!
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📝 I miss Graupner!!! And Robbe too.
1 day ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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Hi cashrc. Look at this photo it is Bugsier 8 a sister ship. Obviously sold out of service but what a choice of colour! Note the changes to Super structure this was also done to Bugsier 3.
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📝 I miss Graupner!!! And Robbe too.
2 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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Hi cashrc, I agree in the missing of the past genius of Graupner and Robbe, having built kits from both and they were so complete. Very well thought out planned and described. Amati kits are also nicely done.
Not sure about some others named by you, as my experience is of 25 years ago and they must have improved to have survived. The trouble is you have to pay for the attention to detail.
A few years ago I made an Aeronaut kit up and I think this came up to the standards of G & R, no plan, but good instructions.
I have a Panart kit that looks very good yet to build. A detailed look has revealed no problems and as I also found more detailed instructions on-line I am looking forward to it.
Sarik who have taken over most of the supply of plans these days in the UK, have in a few cases also produced laser cut wood packs and I am just ready to start one, a small scale yacht called Wild Duck.
Otherwise it has been build off plans for me using up accumulated wood and fittings from over the years.
I agree the old shiny coloured catalogues were a nice casual read and I have a few myself and do dip into them. Hobbies here are the only similar ones here now.
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Not sure about some others named by you, as my experience is of 25 years ago and they must have improved to have survived. The trouble is you have to pay for the attention to detail.
A few years ago I made an Aeronaut kit up and I think this came up to the standards of G & R, no plan, but good instructions.
I have a Panart kit that looks very good yet to build. A detailed look has revealed no problems and as I also found more detailed instructions on-line I am looking forward to it.
Sarik who have taken over most of the supply of plans these days in the UK, have in a few cases also produced laser cut wood packs and I am just ready to start one, a small scale yacht called Wild Duck.
Otherwise it has been build off plans for me using up accumulated wood and fittings from over the years.
I agree the old shiny coloured catalogues were a nice casual read and I have a few myself and do dip into them. Hobbies here are the only similar ones here now.
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2 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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Had a guess at sheer as I did wonder if it was going to be another goofy answer.
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3 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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I have heard they do Chicken ping at Chinese restaurants. (old joke)
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5 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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Hi Austin, He lives in Australia and it is moored at a Marina on a buoy. If you check a map for Sydney Harbour and go up the coast from there the next 'inlet' is Brokenwater leading to Brisbane Water, but he is the sea side of the Rip Bridge. Brisbane water is over 60 square miles in area so a lot of water, subject to a 3-4 foot level tide change.
The Rip bridge is justly named as the tide coming in or out can be treacherous. I found out on my own, while canoe paddling an inflatable 10 foot board set up with a seat.
I went through on the basis it was high tide, but I was an hour out and the water looked calm on my return, then a leisure boat of about 40 foot cruised by and the water just turned into waves, shoulder height. At one point the water under me was running at 10+knots and the next it was in the opposite direction, I was helped through by a friendly tow from a motor boat in the end.
I later found the water is 120 feet deep and it is 600 feet across and a few calculations showed 5/600 tons of water were coming though every second! For every tide 1.25 million tons of water pass under the bridge in each direction! I did not go back!
It is Rip as in tidal rip and it was because it was so dangerous to cross, that the Rip Bridge was built in 1972, it was also a necessary road route enabling easier travel times and has regular traffic. At the time it was the longest single span bridge in Australia.
So that is at the town of Woy Woy, it's best known person is none other than Spike Milligan! The local library has a room devoted to him and there is a very nice footbridge called Spike Milligan Bridge. No room for cars, a touch I am sure he would have liked and appreciated!
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The Rip bridge is justly named as the tide coming in or out can be treacherous. I found out on my own, while canoe paddling an inflatable 10 foot board set up with a seat.
I went through on the basis it was high tide, but I was an hour out and the water looked calm on my return, then a leisure boat of about 40 foot cruised by and the water just turned into waves, shoulder height. At one point the water under me was running at 10+knots and the next it was in the opposite direction, I was helped through by a friendly tow from a motor boat in the end.
I later found the water is 120 feet deep and it is 600 feet across and a few calculations showed 5/600 tons of water were coming though every second! For every tide 1.25 million tons of water pass under the bridge in each direction! I did not go back!
It is Rip as in tidal rip and it was because it was so dangerous to cross, that the Rip Bridge was built in 1972, it was also a necessary road route enabling easier travel times and has regular traffic. At the time it was the longest single span bridge in Australia.
So that is at the town of Woy Woy, it's best known person is none other than Spike Milligan! The local library has a room devoted to him and there is a very nice footbridge called Spike Milligan Bridge. No room for cars, a touch I am sure he would have liked and appreciated!
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5 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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On our son's yacht a Beneteau 40 foot Oceanis the sail is furled and it can unfurl into a jib or when fully out into a Genoa. Nice and easy to balance the sail plan that way according to wind strength.
The larger yachts nearly all have furled up foresails often with a dark colour band that can be replaced. This is a sacrificial strip about a foot in width and takes all the damage of UV radiation so giving the actual sail an increased life span. The sacrificial strip is easily replaced when it bleaches out in colour.
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The larger yachts nearly all have furled up foresails often with a dark colour band that can be replaced. This is a sacrificial strip about a foot in width and takes all the damage of UV radiation so giving the actual sail an increased life span. The sacrificial strip is easily replaced when it bleaches out in colour.
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9 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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This was no hornery question and required considerable thought especially with the old reliable options not being present. Being alerted to ones presence is a bit hi-falluting but there you go. The you know what option had a lot of 'alerting to ones presence' and all to no avail.
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11 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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Hi Boat... Sunday afternoons are not what they used to be. Sunday school, singing hymns trying to do good deeds, I was a failure there as well!
Life marches on and on and on.....
Were there any good old days? Most things were worse and just happened less often on a Sunday.
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Life marches on and on and on.....
Were there any good old days? Most things were worse and just happened less often on a Sunday.
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Now that is a conspiracy theory after my own heart! The Titanic never sank at all! But did she go onto New York? Any ideas anyone?
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12 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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Hi all, just in case some have looked up 'spoggled'. This a word used in front of young children when a profanity would be a much preferred option!
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I feel totally spoggled! I thought it was a trick question! Oh wow!
Just glad I am sitting down.
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Just glad I am sitting down.
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💬 Re: Kathryn - a Thames Bawley - 10
14 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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Well done, a lovely job. My opinion would be that the prototype would follow a method evolved over the years for ease of handling. In a model the same applies. You have worked out a way of ease of handling and it deserves much praise in the detail and 'authenticity' of the sails and gaffs and the securing of all into a working model.
Perhaps Nerys is looking down on you now and she would be proud of you!
Nicely done and I am also jealous!!!!
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Perhaps Nerys is looking down on you now and she would be proud of you!
Nicely done and I am also jealous!!!!
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14 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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I have been in irons when mis-judging a tack, the noise can be horrendous! Good question though.
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Nice post Boatshed!
On a lighter note a previous post shows how essential Titanic is to the answers and options posed for us. I have been in the 90's but accept now I shall only be a mid 80's person, my fate, my destiny!
Thank you all who commiserated concerning my time in hospital recently. Almost human again now, looked at the 4 holes of entry into abdomen and apart from belly button not a scar in sight.. They did a great job on me down-under, helped I know, having senior hospital medical staff in the family.
It was a good excuse to extend my visit and now return 3rd week in April. At this moment I am sitting watching the sun rise over the water with a cup of tea and you guys for company. No more 'me' now but back to what really matters model boats and yachts!
Working through my head on the construction of a Wild Duck yacht, I have the Sarik basic wood pack, bought early on but now nearly double the price. Should be a nice one to go with my other Maurice Griffith model yacht Gooseander.
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On a lighter note a previous post shows how essential Titanic is to the answers and options posed for us. I have been in the 90's but accept now I shall only be a mid 80's person, my fate, my destiny!
Thank you all who commiserated concerning my time in hospital recently. Almost human again now, looked at the 4 holes of entry into abdomen and apart from belly button not a scar in sight.. They did a great job on me down-under, helped I know, having senior hospital medical staff in the family.
It was a good excuse to extend my visit and now return 3rd week in April. At this moment I am sitting watching the sun rise over the water with a cup of tea and you guys for company. No more 'me' now but back to what really matters model boats and yachts!
Working through my head on the construction of a Wild Duck yacht, I have the Sarik basic wood pack, bought early on but now nearly double the price. Should be a nice one to go with my other Maurice Griffith model yacht Gooseander.
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18 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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I chose the other last time, has the answer altered?
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📝 Double planking, a typically modeling technique or a technique also used in real wooden ships, commo
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Hello Alessandro. The many torpedo boats and similar 100 foot+ 'ships of war' were double diagonal planked with a layer of canvas in between the planking. It is a very economical and fast way of using wood. The hull lines were developed to allow for ease of planking against seaworthiness. Mainly single chine boats and the chine enabled a spray rail to be fitted that increased the speed as well. Repair was easy as well.
It led to the idea of glass fibre resin hulls with their cross weaved patterns of fibre glass. Now in large boats using speed to avoid the enemy. Moulds took over from hull frames as to the shape. I believe the J class yacht Humanin (from memory) was constructed of wood and used an additional process of vacuum forming as well.
Most warships are constructed to withstand attack so metal is a likely building material, however minesweepers were originally wood to counter magnetic mines until the idea of de-gausing was developed.
In model form quite soft materials like newspaper and sticky brown paper can be used over a mould to form a rigid and very light hull. The newspaper having similarities to glass fibre and when held in place by a glue is multi-stranded and very strong.
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It led to the idea of glass fibre resin hulls with their cross weaved patterns of fibre glass. Now in large boats using speed to avoid the enemy. Moulds took over from hull frames as to the shape. I believe the J class yacht Humanin (from memory) was constructed of wood and used an additional process of vacuum forming as well.
Most warships are constructed to withstand attack so metal is a likely building material, however minesweepers were originally wood to counter magnetic mines until the idea of de-gausing was developed.
In model form quite soft materials like newspaper and sticky brown paper can be used over a mould to form a rigid and very light hull. The newspaper having similarities to glass fibre and when held in place by a glue is multi-stranded and very strong.
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18 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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Hello Isaac, it is normally achnowledged that history is written by the winners. So probably a distorted version of the truth anyway but justifying all measures taken. Other less savoury things that happened are swept under the carpet.
If allowed, the truth emerges a couple of generations later. The TV in the UK seems, mainly on cable etc to be concerned with the second world war, then the fiction writers stick in a plot, that distorts some facts to accomodate the plot and another 'truth or fact' emerges.
Check out the Battle of Midway through its path from fiction to fact, also the enigma code story. The facts are still distorted here, much is given to Bletchley Park for its work. Yet the truth lies beyond with Polish and other nationals having an input. One American film will have you believing it was all solved with their Navy capturing a U-boat etc.
The underlying problem already suggested is which 'truth' do new generations remember, the text book or the film?
Then the new 'science' of Political science also known as fake news is there to feed on facts and distort meanings. All set up to confuse the other side.
Life ain't easy, you have to have your wits about you when it comes to knowing what is actually happening. Much in the UK anyway has more than one verification source to authenticate 'the news'.
The social media channels are the source of many peoples news and information and when 'set up' interviews and apparently unorchestrated confrontations are both reported and filmed it is easy to believe what you see.
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If allowed, the truth emerges a couple of generations later. The TV in the UK seems, mainly on cable etc to be concerned with the second world war, then the fiction writers stick in a plot, that distorts some facts to accomodate the plot and another 'truth or fact' emerges.
Check out the Battle of Midway through its path from fiction to fact, also the enigma code story. The facts are still distorted here, much is given to Bletchley Park for its work. Yet the truth lies beyond with Polish and other nationals having an input. One American film will have you believing it was all solved with their Navy capturing a U-boat etc.
The underlying problem already suggested is which 'truth' do new generations remember, the text book or the film?
Then the new 'science' of Political science also known as fake news is there to feed on facts and distort meanings. All set up to confuse the other side.
Life ain't easy, you have to have your wits about you when it comes to knowing what is actually happening. Much in the UK anyway has more than one verification source to authenticate 'the news'.
The social media channels are the source of many peoples news and information and when 'set up' interviews and apparently unorchestrated confrontations are both reported and filmed it is easy to believe what you see.
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18 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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I would think that the logic would be, first there would be trade and then someone would try to subvert the trade by force. (Navy 1) Then the trading country would arm themselves / create protection ships, (Navy 2).
Pirates spring to mind but they hardly constitute a navy.
Is a Navy a protection force?
Then there is the question of invasion by sea.
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Pirates spring to mind but they hardly constitute a navy.
Is a Navy a protection force?
Then there is the question of invasion by sea.
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21 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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Hi Com-H now that is a hard, quite out of the blue a name like that.
Such are the mysteries of life. The AI only seems to sort out a question, not realising the answers should be also linked in time or possibility or even confused with a similar event.
Now take the Titanic, if we were into Just3words it could be Big, ice, sink.
Of course when stock answers are called upon Titanic, Bismark and Lusitania then there is a hidden hint there, never mind the question.
So far AI seems to aid fake news and perhaps fake questions are yet to be launched on us? When you get answers with ski as the suffix then Putin your money on the answer is a no-go!
Non-fake news! I am getting better by the day despite the rain continuous now for 30 hours. Exercise is the key, and a build up of food and get the muscles aching with effort. I have lost a stone in weight (6+kilograms) since I arrived a month ago.
I am now doing a Captain Tom, what a lovely man he was, and adopting his motto of 'tomorrow will be a good day'! I have measured out a lap of one tenth of a mile and counting the laps, 20 so far. Had to use a walking stick to start with but will try without soon. It is the walk out onto a 4 foot wide jetty that needs a bit of balance and that was dodgy before anyway.
Best regards😀😀😀
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Such are the mysteries of life. The AI only seems to sort out a question, not realising the answers should be also linked in time or possibility or even confused with a similar event.
Now take the Titanic, if we were into Just3words it could be Big, ice, sink.
Of course when stock answers are called upon Titanic, Bismark and Lusitania then there is a hidden hint there, never mind the question.
So far AI seems to aid fake news and perhaps fake questions are yet to be launched on us? When you get answers with ski as the suffix then Putin your money on the answer is a no-go!
Non-fake news! I am getting better by the day despite the rain continuous now for 30 hours. Exercise is the key, and a build up of food and get the muscles aching with effort. I have lost a stone in weight (6+kilograms) since I arrived a month ago.
I am now doing a Captain Tom, what a lovely man he was, and adopting his motto of 'tomorrow will be a good day'! I have measured out a lap of one tenth of a mile and counting the laps, 20 so far. Had to use a walking stick to start with but will try without soon. It is the walk out onto a 4 foot wide jetty that needs a bit of balance and that was dodgy before anyway.
Best regards😀😀😀
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21 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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I was designated to go and see a donation of model boats not dissimilar to this one. I took them on in good faith there were 7 or8 of them. The lady had been told they were worth £50 each!!!!!
On checking them over they were all broken and not worth restoring, the batteries all failed and the chargers were not much use outside of what they were sold for. No one made any offers for them and they were all returned as un-saleable.
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On checking them over they were all broken and not worth restoring, the batteries all failed and the chargers were not much use outside of what they were sold for. No one made any offers for them and they were all returned as un-saleable.
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25 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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You are getting mixed up with the Titanicus!
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Hi PhilH, no excuses just a bit b*****d. Reducing on pain killers and off the big one and see how the morning goes. It is bed time here! I am sleeping for 8-10 hours not my normal 6. and I am trying to keep awake!
Have rescheduled my return journey for a fortnight later. If you try and delay a week the price is enormous, but a further week and it is as you would expect. Price and demand rules on the airways.
I usually book a flexi-ticket on the return legs as cost of changing is zilch and means I can extend without problems, so 7 weeks this time but 10 days in hospital takes it back a bit.
Just as well it is family and no such thing as over staying your welcome!
Again thanks for the support.
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Have rescheduled my return journey for a fortnight later. If you try and delay a week the price is enormous, but a further week and it is as you would expect. Price and demand rules on the airways.
I usually book a flexi-ticket on the return legs as cost of changing is zilch and means I can extend without problems, so 7 weeks this time but 10 days in hospital takes it back a bit.
Just as well it is family and no such thing as over staying your welcome!
Again thanks for the support.
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26 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Rear Admiral)
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The prototype J Class yachts were a class for the Americas Cup back in the 1930s. They were over canvassed and could only sail in less than 20 mph winds!
All of the original were metal hull yachts using the rising aircraft industry design teams for maximum strength against lightness of hull. In the case of the British Endeavour of 1934 she also had to be sailed across the Atlantic to get to the competition! If you look aft on the yacht there is a discrete black hole and this is where the mizzen mast was set for the journey.
The class had a formula which traded off hull length against sail area plus some stuff in between. A couple of hulls have recently been built one of laminated wood but otherwise those 'rescued' have had to be re-fitted to modern standards.
The Endeavour now has an engine with prop in the cut out rudder area and floats a foot lower on the waterline.
One of my yachts is the 1 : 35 scale Amati Endeavour kit modified to take to the water and I found the quadrilateral jib makes her look really good on the water. But as I say there is so much sail are that even at this size there is too much. I set her up to run with local expected breezes without the quad sail and she goes well. When there is a light breeze the quad can go on and I use the rudder to give some weather helm so she is under control.
It can be seen from the hull design that the rudder is sloped away at an acute angle and this can be a problem! Consider the hull heeled over 20 degress and you will see the rudder no longer operates in a directional way but just makes the aft of the yacht rise up and down, so you have lost control!
Therefore the yacht needs to be operated close to the vertical position. The extreme of this is the modern planing cup yachts which only work upright with a mainsail angle of just a few degrees.
I have added the 3rd. photo as it shows the detail of the mast. On the model this is a 'stressed' ally extrusion mast. The cross-trees are scale and the wire shrouds do strengthen the mast. The mast and sails are stored separately in a sail box.
When on static display I have a crew, nice and easy at this scale! There was a class system among the crew, the floppy (Rupert the bear) white hats are the crew the proper seamans caps are the officers. When at sea there were 22 crew on board I have about 9 on show. Ca'nt afford any more.
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All of the original were metal hull yachts using the rising aircraft industry design teams for maximum strength against lightness of hull. In the case of the British Endeavour of 1934 she also had to be sailed across the Atlantic to get to the competition! If you look aft on the yacht there is a discrete black hole and this is where the mizzen mast was set for the journey.
The class had a formula which traded off hull length against sail area plus some stuff in between. A couple of hulls have recently been built one of laminated wood but otherwise those 'rescued' have had to be re-fitted to modern standards.
The Endeavour now has an engine with prop in the cut out rudder area and floats a foot lower on the waterline.
One of my yachts is the 1 : 35 scale Amati Endeavour kit modified to take to the water and I found the quadrilateral jib makes her look really good on the water. But as I say there is so much sail are that even at this size there is too much. I set her up to run with local expected breezes without the quad sail and she goes well. When there is a light breeze the quad can go on and I use the rudder to give some weather helm so she is under control.
It can be seen from the hull design that the rudder is sloped away at an acute angle and this can be a problem! Consider the hull heeled over 20 degress and you will see the rudder no longer operates in a directional way but just makes the aft of the yacht rise up and down, so you have lost control!
Therefore the yacht needs to be operated close to the vertical position. The extreme of this is the modern planing cup yachts which only work upright with a mainsail angle of just a few degrees.
I have added the 3rd. photo as it shows the detail of the mast. On the model this is a 'stressed' ally extrusion mast. The cross-trees are scale and the wire shrouds do strengthen the mast. The mast and sails are stored separately in a sail box.
When on static display I have a crew, nice and easy at this scale! There was a class system among the crew, the floppy (Rupert the bear) white hats are the crew the proper seamans caps are the officers. When at sea there were 22 crew on board I have about 9 on show. Ca'nt afford any more.
Roy
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Thank you all so much for your comforting remarks. I am a bit woozy, probably still got some anaesthetic in circulation. You really do not know what is going to happen next! I am in a very nice place and can layout on a day bed when tired and watch the view, all boats! A bit of sun helps too so can't complain, got to get the paperwark done now and start an insurance claim, not that it will return much. Staying on a bit longer so must look on the bright side!
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Hi are there several decks and a funnel? Might be the Royal Yacht Britannia. Deans did a kit some years ago.
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Hello Colin, devastated to hear your news many friends have sympathised at your loss and may I add mine as well. It is bad as it gets but I expect you have some good memories to fall back on.
My heart goes out to you.
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My heart goes out to you.
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Hi all trying to catch up as still 80 of these emails to go! I have had a mini-stroke, then a guts problem and then had a gall bladder removed, home now, or at least back to my son's house in Australia.
3 hospital admissions and 10 days in-side, but now some what nackered, hospitals very good here and the medical attention excellent and quick as well. It does help that my daughter in law is a Doctor/consultant in one of them, she says a good bottle of wine can move mountains!
Hope the rest of you are coping well.
Testing brain with son and I can still beat him at Crib!
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3 hospital admissions and 10 days in-side, but now some what nackered, hospitals very good here and the medical attention excellent and quick as well. It does help that my daughter in law is a Doctor/consultant in one of them, she says a good bottle of wine can move mountains!
Hope the rest of you are coping well.
Testing brain with son and I can still beat him at Crib!
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Good start on the prose, thoughts and speech have to seem like conversation. That is the difficult bit.
Sixty odd years ago my mum used to write to me every week, I was away in the RAF, and when I read the letters it was just like she was talking to me.
That is so difficult to do, never credited it to her at the time, just wish I had kept her letters.
I am an avid reader about 2 books a week, some writers have it and others don't.
For an easy going read I like Dick and Felix Francis and Edward Marston, they just suck you in! I am getting more into female writers lately. Jacqueline Winspear, Claire Gradidge.
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Sixty odd years ago my mum used to write to me every week, I was away in the RAF, and when I read the letters it was just like she was talking to me.
That is so difficult to do, never credited it to her at the time, just wish I had kept her letters.
I am an avid reader about 2 books a week, some writers have it and others don't.
For an easy going read I like Dick and Felix Francis and Edward Marston, they just suck you in! I am getting more into female writers lately. Jacqueline Winspear, Claire Gradidge.
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