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small sailing yacht

I built this one for my grandaughter. She is from a MB free plan about 12 inches long that used to have a swing rig. I don't like swing rigs so set up a very simple sail set from ripstop nylon material. The sails are just hot cut so no sewing needed. The vane steering works very well and on a small pond keeps you very fit! Again no radio but a lot of fun for a young person. Susie says "Not seen this one before"! You are not old enough puss. Roy

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3 years ago

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Anglian Trawler

I have been doing a bit of re-furbishing and this is the Very old Hobby's kit for The Anglian Trawler, about 18 inches long. The all balsa kit is from the late 1950s. The kit was complete, note the cast lines in the just visible lead weights, these came ready shaped! The Mighty Midget electric motor does its bit to give her a healthy turn of speed running on a discarded Sony movie camera 6 volt battery. No radio and only for small ponds. I have kept her as was, this is Susie, Just checking! Roy

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3 years ago

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Celia May

This is one of those toy boats that I used to look at through the Basset-lowke window in Holborn. Not an original Bowman Sea Jay but a copy I made from the Basil Harley plans of Celia May 1988. I suppose I started in 1989 almost certainly a Sunday as I had to hunt round to find some 3/8ths" thickness wood. The only stuff I could find was some 9 ply which is quite tough. So I made a steam cylinder from plastic guttering tubing. I boiled an old fashioned kettle into it and about 5 minutes of this softened the ply for bending. I made a crude former, mainly big nails, and whipped it out and bent the ply to shape. Then the other one followed and the hard bit had been done. The rest of the hull was straight forward. The superstructure was made of aluminium, not easy to bend but a friend showed me how. The boat was meant to have a steam plant but the one I had built by an excellent engineer for me was in the end too heavy. So I left the boat for a few months and then decided to go electric. If you look at the plans the 3 parts of the s/s are individual and have another bend also to form the deck, great for steam not so for electric. I cut the flanges off and made a wood deck and planked it to look pretty, well it is a toy after all, and fitted the s/s parts into the deck. Those ex-Meccano gents will spot the rudder parts a 2 inch pulley which I carefully sawed to make the 2 parts. These have a wrap round chain and a small spring to tension the chain. The rudder servo has a small extension and the whole has worked with a little oil ever since. The motor is a Bassett-lowke Marine bought when I was in my teens but not really used. The yellow U/J is I think from SHG it has a loose "bone" as the connection between the 2 ends. It allows for a lot of positioning of the motor as I had planned to use the boat as a test vessel. Notes The cat is Suzie my little helper and is 13 now. I really like the funnel, it is rolled aluminium with a half inch piece of dowel on about 6 thicknesses of blanket. The aerial is a working one connected to the receiver which is 27Mhtz 2 channel. Apologise for the prop I originally made my own it is somewhere in the shed! Roy.

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3 years ago

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Huntress

Hi all this model was scratch built using the free plan Sparkler as the basis. She is just over 16 inches long and has a 380 geared down 1 : 2. Unfortunately she was over-powered and on 6 cells only has 2 or 3 inches of the hull is in the water. I have slowed her down a bit but it is difficult to ballance the hull. Either the hull is climbing a hill or just splashing through the water. I built her in 1986 so she is getting on a bit. The pulpit is brass tubing and painted silver. The perspex wrap round screen was fractured a while ago and left for several years, then I decided to replace it and it is fine now. Roy

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3 years ago

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Mary Ann No.2

This is another Mary Ann, I bought her off ebay after a good negotiation to lower the price. She was built as a decorative model quite attractive but again many problems. All the glueing was minimal and I just lifted off the cabin! I stripped her completely and drilled into the deck to get an opening for the engine and RC. I grasped the side gallows to pull them off expecting brass they were delicate laser cut wood! So a recent model! I had a spare brass pair and that is what is on her now. The prop and shaft are just a short push in dummy! So a new shaft hole was opened up, I did an initial fit of motor and prop and into the bath, luckily I did not walk away! I watched the water coming in. This took a while to sort out and I had to open up the forward bulkhead which was sealed in. I poured in varnish and swilled it around and then poured the residue out. After drying I found the main leak and as I was not going to re-do the planking and I remembered seeing a fishing boat drawn up on the beach and it had additional planks nailed on, I presume repair leaks. So I did the same. She is a different colour as these fishing boats should be white hulled, this is because both of the Mary Anns work from a single 4 ch. Tx. (reference Admiralty Naval Intelligence November 1942) This I have found may need a more alert brain than mine to do successfully! The right stick, no problem but the left (hand and) stick do not give the right rudder movements when coming towards me. My left hand needs re-educating. I found the father and 2 sons crew lurking in my garage and after I got them new gear here they are. Roy

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Lilla Dan

Lilla Dan but not as you might know her! She is an extended version 36 inches stern to bowsprit. The hull is a Graupner Elke fishing boat hull. The plans were kindly sent by Billing 20 odd years ago. However I am the new owner as she was built by my late friend John Cook. I bought her earlier in 2022 and did an update on the insides and renewed all the rigging, which took quite a while and rather than serve the lower parts of the shrouds I used white heatshrink electrical insulation. She needs a good breeze to sail and really hates tacking through the wind and wearing ship can lose all you gained previously. However my daughter in law got her to go very nicely. Roy

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3 years ago

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The Schooner Theresa

Here is another of my yachts, the hull is 40 inches loa and the bowsprit makes her a bit longer. She was built by my late friend John Cook back in 1965 and first came to my notice when many years later we had a club stand at Olympia. I had offered to take the boat and John said he would be along later, so he was very surprised when he arrived and found I had assembled the boat. (To some eyes it would be a jumble of sails and spars). We became friends then. I bought the yacht from his estate when he died and started refurbishing her. I simplified the RC and kept the double drum winch as it works very well. Replaced the 2 hatches in keeping with the rest of the boat, they have custom made brass pins on a retaining string to keep them located. All the rope rigging had lost it's strength and was replaced and there was a lot of whipping to to do on the spars, this is something I like doing. The paintwork you see is original I just cleaned the paint and gave it a spray of varnish, the sails are cotton and also original. The winch system looks the part where it can be seen on the deck, it is functional and easy to adjust. The plans and building instructions were in one of the old F.J.Camm A5 size books on model yachting and about 6" X 4" but the table of 'off-sets' was the main guide, John drew them up to full size and the construction is plank on frame and has well stood the test of time. She sails very gracefully and responds to the helm easily and always draws a small group of people when sailing. I keep her in a large 'Christmas Tree box' a plastic one with a lid which is excellent for model boats. Most of the plastic box makers do them but they only come out at Christmas! Roy

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4 years ago

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Condor

This was drawn up from a 6 x 4 plan out of Yachting Monthly and is called Goosander. She was designed as a home buid yacht 27 feet loa 4 berth. My model is 1 : 12 scale. The hull shape is unusual being a double chine. When I came to draw up the plans it was not easy to accomodate a little more displacement and still balance the hull. This involves keeping the waterline right and doing some calculations for in and out wedges for heeling over and staying level. She got wet for the first time in 1975 and then having learnt a bit more about sailing I gave her a re-fit in 1990 and entered her in the Class C5 in the Model Engineering exhibition where she gained a Bronze medal. She sails remarkably well and also has a small prop, (purely for lunch time purposes of course). I found some more detail photos. The stanchions were mechanically drawn down to size on diameter from some Aluminium rod to match the brass tubing used at the pulpit and pushpit. The anchor sits at the bow and takes any knocks etc. The side view shows the tabernacle used to hinge the mast down. She is fitted with life saving apparatus. The handrails are cut from the solid and were a bit fiddly to make. I recently did a few repairs and some changes to the jib arrangements and the photo was taken a week or so back.

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4 years ago

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Mary Ann

Hi all I like fishing boats and this must be one of the most popular judging from prices. This is an old one with brass fittings. It took me a while to recruit the crew as the hours are long and no holidays. She runs with a Monoperm on 6 cells and a small brass prop. The esc is a very small pcb one from China. I have another one but different colours can't go to sea yet as no Captain!

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4 years ago

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Fishing boat Norderney

I bought this boat at an auction it was started but not much more. I paid £40 and when I got home I found a ready made set of sails wrapped up in the plans which are from Graupner. She sails with internal ballast and a small (drop down) keel, but this is fixed. Against Graupner advice with internal ballast she sails very well. Not great into wind but easy enough to control. I used a Hitec arm winch but this was too fast so I used a slow down circuit which works well. There is a motor so needs a 3rd. channel.

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4 years ago

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Ferry from St. Lawrence Seaway

This is my version of Glynn Guest's free plan of Ogdensberg. I have timed it as the 2nd. August in 1937, which was the August Bank Holiday and the cars are all left hand drive with passengers for each. There is a story behind each group for my own satisfaction. The main s/s is located on brass ferules that come with servos, the lifebelts are the 'heads' of brass rods that hold the s/s in place. Took me ages to work that one out. Motor is a 555 with an old Hitec esc and runs on 6 cells, moves nicely. The ramps were made of coffee stirrers but it is crap wood and would not do it again, they do hinge down on dolls house hinges. Of the vehicles all to 1 : 43 scale the most sought after is the motor cycle and side car, I put in her a very disappointed girl friend expecting a naughty weekend but ending up in a sidecar!

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4 years ago

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Inga IV

This was a gift but needed a complete re-build. The insides had grown with new additions and I took everything out reduced all to run from 6 D cells right down low. She had some rather unfortunate red sails but I have now fitted a new but original set of sails. Lovely to sail but rather heavy to move around for me now.

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4 years ago

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Clockwork boat

This was a collect it or it goes in the skip email to me. I went to collect wondering what electric motor it might contain. So opening up was indeed a surprise! "will you restore it"? the lady said. "more like a ressurection " I replied, however a collector friend convinced me to restore her. It was very crude s/s and heavy but very solid construction I reckon the mid 1930s the clockwork motor at first a mystery was revealed in an article by John Parker in his Flotsam and Jetsom series. Turned out to be a top of the range clockwork motor and she runs for about 7 minutes. I put in RC! This was for the rudder and also a stop on the motor. I found by the time I got low enough to launch her the motor had run down!

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4 years ago

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Yachts

This just to show the 2 similar yact hulls I bought £30 for both of them! Had to go to Salisbury to collect just as the Novichok problem allowed us all back again. I made the boatstands myself to my standard format.

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4 years ago

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Graupner Gracia

Gracia is my all time favourite! I had the plans and was about to build when I had an email from friend Keith Bragg who said would I like to take on his inherited part made kit, I jumped at the chance. It took me a month including planking the deck and making the sails, and she looks great on the water. I have recently found some original sails and am contemplating revising the rig. I usually separate the mast and sails and store them in boxes, so this would be another mast with new sails so I would be able to choose from 2 rigs etc. RC is simple winch with a far pulley on a stick so that it can all be withdrawn for maintenance. I finished her summer 2006. I have found some more pictures of the winch - on - stick which locates into a slot at the bow and the joggling of the planking. This is the stern and you can see the tiller arm. This is made of 11 laminates of 1/32 inch ply and shaped to fit over a 13 amp brass mains socket single pin. This is handy as it has a grub screw that retains it on the rudder stock. It is the second one as the first one was nicked while the boat was on display at a show!

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4 years ago

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Nordfjord

This is a version of Glynn Guests Norwegian ferry free plan. I built my one from obechi and not balsa and she was top heavy, After much thought I sawed my one through just at the foredeck level and added 8 inches with appropriate lead ballast. I turned her into a cargo carrier which is exactly what was done to many of the ferries after WW2 due to the high cost of steel. The various derricks are made from an old 27Mhtz aerial so very light in weight. They do articulate. My model runs on a 555 motor on 6 volts with a 45mm brass prop, but there is enough power lower down to control the speed on the Tx, trim control alone. She has had a lot of admirers and running at slow speed my initial problem duck turned into a swan.

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4 years ago

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Dolphin

Although no longer in my possession this a kit from the late 1940s. I was asked to finish an already constructed hull and there were the plans to go by. The drive is an orange and black Hectoperm motor, which I supplied so in keeping with the era well just about. She drives like a dream and even though I was paid well I found it difficult to part with. She is about 42 inces loa, originally for i/c.

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4 years ago

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Endeavour

This is a conversion of the Amati static kit to RC. She is about a metre long and looks very graceful when sailing. Note for display purposes there is a 1 : 35 scale crew on board as well. The kit is on sale and you can also buy a booklet showing the conversion which I wrote with the kit, all rights sold to distributors.

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4 years ago

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Yacht

This a bare hull I bought a few years ago, I think it was made in the early1950s judging from build. She had a sealed deck and I used my worm camera to look inside down the mast hole. B & B construction so I delved inside and fitted RC and kept it looking like a Pond yacht. Interesting part is there are 2 hulls almost identical and I am working out a new rig for her.

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4 years ago

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Pelican

This an Aeronaut Bella with a gaff rig. 3 channel RC as there is an additional tweek to tighten the fore jib, makes a big boatspeed difference. I like the old 40 Mhtz sets with a flick arm for the 3rd. channel and I use this to flatten the jib after a tack. I had to fit a bowsprit because of the extra sail, and also move the mast back about half an inch.

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If you have the plans for Mary Ann you will see a small light at the bow on a post about head height. This is a fishing light just needs another LED.
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The cheapest way is to use a separate BEC. Ohms law gives you the value of resistor the mWatt value of the LED gives you the current. But a single BEC (5 volts) will drive 2 LEDs in series or maybe 3 and no resistors required.

Forget the mysteries of electronics it is just a simple arithmetic calculation.
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Hi Ron thanks for sharing great looking models. I have just ordered the Jim Pottinger book Fishing boats of Scotland.

I found contacting the Scottish Fisheries museum very helpful and friendly. I think it needs to get on my Bucket List!
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Hi Ron thanks for those pictures I have saved the one on blocks in my archive. Never thought of sailing my ones on sails, I think it would need to be a bigger version to do this successfully.

I originally had the 2 boats on a 4 ch. Tx. with just 2 ch in use in each boat. The idea was to sail them together but I found this extremely difficult. My right hand worked fine but my left had no idea, there were several collisions! They now have separate controls and I pass one over to a friend so we can run together.

I have another fishing boat, it is the Ring netter from the the book Plank on Frame Models Vol.2. by Harold A Underhill. Boat registered as CN 992, but this is fictional.

She looks good on the water and I am looking for a crew for her. I did not build her but found her on Gumtree ( another ebay) she was a decorative model and I gave her a new life on the water. At £20 I thought she was too good to pass by, and she was kindly shipped from Scotland by the seller. We had exchanged friendly emails about her and I sent her photos of her on the water, which she liked.
She is bread and butter built and leaked like a sieve until it was attended to.
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Hi Ron is this a Billing Mary Ann kit? I have 2 and they are a joy to sail. I have a 3rd. kit, unstarted except for the frames and keel, I hope it will get finished.

There are many 1:35 scale figures available. I have used the army figures with torso and limbs separate as these are versatile to any position. I think there are 3 crew, there are pictures in 'My Harbour'.

The kit has been on the market for 65 years and has had many upgrades and now costs 12 times what it was at the start. The Cux 87 Krabbencutter in the series, uses the same hull.

The photo shows the 2 together, they are both the same kit! Just that one of them is slowly sinking! It was water creeping in around the hole where the prop tube was alegedly glued in place.
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Yes I was wondering about that. On this forum it is about the slowest rate I have noticed. I have used CCleaner to get shot of rubbish and that really does work, but it does strip the data which you can protect to some extent.
I paid £13p.a. but it was worth it, although it is almost 'start again' afterwards.
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Is the glue Stabilit Express? I have used it, a good gap filling adhesive bonds in 15 minutes and stronger than surrounding materials. Works well, wood to plastic.
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Hi Alessandro, In UK we mainly have side wheel paddles. The word propwalk was there before wheels were driven as in cars, so propwalk was appropriate at the time and there it is stuck!
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As far as models go you have to balance between small high speed props, (extra wear on bearings and u/j's) and efficient larger props that 'prop walk' but are quiet with it!

I always enjoy working out a drive train with my smaller models and have been working with 4/5ths Sub-C 2800 maHrs cells. Slightly smaller battery than usual type and of course less weight. I also use Aliexpress tiny esc's and there are lots of small motors available. All the above to accomodate getting old and accounting for what you can carry.

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I worked that one out in my mind and it was also the longest answer!
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A clove hitch is usually used for hanging fenders from stanchion rails, very quick and also undoes easily.
Figure of 8 knot is a stopper! it stops a loose line from running through a pulley. A sheet bend from memory links 2 ropes of different diameter.
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Hi Tomark, I have moored up a 40 foot yacht with a wet rope tied a bowline and 24hrs later easily undone it, so a bowline does work nicely. Just remember the rabbit coming out of his hole going round the tree and going back down!
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I have the Graupner plans for the cruiser Emden. I had the Wotan kit complete but enthusiasm died a bit and I sold her on.
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Hi Wolle, I went to look at your photos as I like restorations, but the separate picture is smaller? Is it me or can I do something to each image to go full screen?
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📝 Model slipway 1/16 RNLI Tamar Lifeboat

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Many years ago the model on the front cover of the Model Boats magazine had the feature article model image reversed. I expect the graphics designer thought the photo looked better that way round.
Having written that I think I used to know the graphics designer, but more into soldiers, he was a very nice guy, but there you are!

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📝 Model slipway 1/16 RNLI Tamar Lifeboat

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Perhaps this is a reversed image?
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💬 Re: Atlantis

27 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv (

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Lovely yacht, I had to turn down a very reasonable offer on one as I just can't manage a yacht that size any more. Do enjoy your time with her, I am jealous!
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Hi Ron thanks for those pictures I have saved them into my archives.
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📝 Identify model

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Hi Andy the name Trefusis is a west country name. My last address was living in Trefusis Walk Watford Herts.
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📝 Question of the Day?

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I thought the answer should have magnets in it! Seems like Wikipedia agrees as well!
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Don't knock it Pat it is a bit of fun. I can't say I found your questions any better, they seemed for those who were ex sea-farers. I make model boats and yachts not been to sea except on a cruise and the crew rarely take you into their confidence about their credencials.

I see that you are currently at 97% so well done, the next step is 100% and after that the only way is down! If the answers from A.I. are wrong they are cancelled, a recent survey of A.I. as far as information went, was one result was just 54% correct so I am not holding my breath!
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📝 Question of the Day?

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Blew it at the last question!!!
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What about Steve's virtual broken leg, he was committed in an involved sort of way, and now needs friends or maybe supervision?
Hope all good with you now Ed.
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Hi Steve S re hospital visiting. It is the difference between being committed and 'involved'.
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Hi Ed this is where you find out who your friends are!
Who is willing to break a leg to give Ed some company in the ward?
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