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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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    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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    2 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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    2 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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    3 years ago
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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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    3 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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    3 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.
    roycv
    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.
    roycv
    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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    📝 Question of the Day?
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    I guess this nearly correct answer is where AI extrapolates from it's data a possible reason why the dinghy needs bouyancy. Those that have sailed dinghys will have experienced a capsize.

    I remember going through the capsize drill in the Solent in April and not a very warm one either.

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    I have swum and dived on the Great Barrier reef, then there were 2 dodgy answers leaving just one.
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    Hello Alessandro, I thought there maybe a new perhaps lighter and better SLA battery around.

    I have used Cyclon cells, lead acid, but very similar in actual discharge capacity to NiMh cells. They do not seem to be around much any more.

    These are AGM (Absorbed Glass Matte) but measured at the 5 hour rate as NiMh cells are. The SLA batteries are measured at the 20 hour rate.
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    Hi Steve -s I too like to have a book to refer to as well. We may well be the dinosaurs here, on the other hand we can read our book without having to have a 'signal' or broadband etc.

    We can find somewhere quiet and with the technical books I have some paper tabs to act as page markers. Too many times it has taken ages to get back to a particular item or reference.

    I have belonged to one library or another for 80 years now. I could hardly wait to be 7 when I was first allowed to join a library.

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    4 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    There is nothing personal here for you, I was surprised the new technology in batteries had gone into small batteries.

    I just wondered how many members of this forum were aware of the batteries now in their cars.
    I mentioned my experience, there was nothing in there for you, or about you, Alessandro.

    I Googled the battery you mentioned and read the technical details. I note the FG graded batteries are referred to as SLA in their own literature. Apparently similar to the good quality batteries we get Yuasa etc.

    Personally, I stopped using SLA batteries some years ago as the weight to power ratio was unfavourable compared with NiMh batteries. I do not like LiPo cells but that is just my opinion.

    Experience also tells me that long documents frequently get the initials TLDR.
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    Thanks for the detail.
    Cars with stop/start function have to use a different battery to the standard type battery and cost twice as much.
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    One technicality though, a normal lead acid battery cannot run this system, so special batteries are needed: Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM) and Enhanced Flooded Batteries (EFB).

    The EFB batteries are for the larger cars altough also work for smaller cars.

    Other information I have come across requires a special charger with a lower cut off voltage for the charge voltage.

    I got into this as I had an old battery monitor from my last car which I plugged in to my current car and it said I need to re-new my battery.

    But apparently the battery voltage is limited to 13 volts for the advanced batteries but the old lead acid batteries are allowed to have 2.4 volts per cell i.e. 14.4 volts on full charge.

    Confusing? Yes but with 60% of the cars in Europe on S/S need these batteries.

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    📝 Are there any kits of this Scottish fishing vessel?
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    Do not forget the Billing Mary Ann kit. It is a Danish design to do the same job of catching the herrings as the Scottish and N.E. coast fishing boats.

    It was boats like these that were the Wartime Shetland Express from Scotland to Scandanavia.

    I have mentioned it before but there is an obscure fictional film called "Suicide Mission" which features the story.

    The engines in these boats were the old gas engines and were very noisy. They could be heard way before they were often seen!
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    Hi Ronald, the fishing boat I am working on was a model built from the Underhill plans, currently on 3 sheets at £25+ each sheet!

    I guess it was built 50 years ago from these plans, and was passed on to the lady I bought it from. She had had it for a few years as a gift from a neighbour. It was on sale on Gumtree for £12! I paid for transport from Scotland to Herts. And was very pleased with it on arrival.

    After enquiry I found the 992 number had never been reached so it was a bit of fiction.

    I love it!
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    Hi chugalong loved your work on the Artur kit Looks really nice and authentic.

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    Hello Allesandro, I did not know you can buy small Absorbant Glass Matte batteries? I have one in my car as most people will have who have stop start technology fitted.
    Let us know where to find them please.
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    Hi all, the Q o D is the most popular thread on this forum so rather a lot of us like it and it is a bit of a challenge. Questions about model boats are limited and often subjective.
    Most of us make models of prototypes and that is in the main what the questions are about. I have to admit questions about regulations are not relevant as they are the ins and outs of ship life.

    So apart from that I am game for most of the questions and as other members have said a bit of logic to exclude some answers and deduce from the questions parts that appear in the answer options give the answer anyway.
    Ed points out they are a bit of fun and sometimes things go wrong!

    I would vote for rather than against, I have my private war with A.I. as many will know but it is all a bit of fun.

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    4 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    The only kits I know of are for a Fifie. I think there are 3 kits from different sources.
    The Fifie is pointed at both ends, there are a lot of plans on Sarik for them and the late Sandy Cousins wrote an excellent article on his build in Model Boats magazine maybe 20 years ago.

    The photos you show are from the north of Scotland from Wick, many similar ones are in and around the Western Isles.

    The Scottish Fishing museum is there as well and I had a very kind Curator give me details of the fishing boat I was working on.

    My model turned out to be a Harold Underhill plan of a Ring Net fishing boat with the registration CN992 this is a fictional number CN is Cambletown. The plans are very expensive!
    I am restoring this model 24 inches long as it was built as a decorative model and the waterproofing is taking time.

    The scale of 1:24 will give a working sailing model and simple radio will suit, I use monperm super motors but a medium 380 with a 35 mm 3 bladed prop works well.

    I prefer the 1920s/30s era models but some of the modern ones look OK.

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    A pure unadulterated guess. The answer option seemed more involved so opted to C
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    Another one!
    "Don't tell him, Pike"

    In a recent compilation as the best one liner in sitcoms.
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    Well done Nick I enjoyed it! Way after my time in the RAF, where were all the aircraft with propellers?
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    7 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    1 Mr. Mannering Dad's army

    2 Tony Hancock Hancocks half hour
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    📝 Question of the Day?
    8 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    It has already given me my score then reduced it and now restored it!
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    I see that the questions and answers are about to go wrong again! I have answered this question correctly but it refuses to mark it so.
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    📝 Good Bye Scotland
    9 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    I was intrigued as I had not heard of Paxlovid before. It is available on NHS free in UK.
    The test data shows how very effective it is.
    How much does the medication (5 days) cost in US?
    I read data from 2022 which suggested $530 per 5 day treatment. Under health care insurance is that free?
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    📝 Bloody AliExpress
    10 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    I use Ali express and have found them very good sometimes the wait is a bit long but that was in the blurb before I bought the item.

    A recent purchase was 4/5 size sub C 2800mAh NiMh cells which have proved to be excellent. I am no longer bothered by batteries from China.

    They perform much better than the AA cells of similar capacity.
    Roy

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    10 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    I never even finished reading the question!
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    13 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    I think not I have changed my ways!

    If I drop something heavy on my toes I do not say "f******g H***l B*****d S^^t" any more. I delicately hold my foot and say "Oh! dear, I do wish I had not done that". Then I add the above expletives to ease the pain!

    At my age certain things are not going to change!!!!!

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    📝 2nd voyage on Lake Paterno of the 1:60 scale model of a schooner-armed steam gunboat, assisted by a
    13 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    Hi Ronald digging up history can have some unexpected results.
    You are right the boats were built on the Clyde.
    So how were they paid for?
    The finance came from cotton produced in the main by the slaves in the southern states.
    This was traded in Lancashire which became renown the world over for its cotton goods.
    The money from this was used to pay for the ships built on the Clyde.

    Ironic for the slaves who picked the cotton and that their own labours were keeping the slave trade going.
    Is it best not to know? This is not meant as a political issue, just history!

    regards
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    📝 VIC SMEED'S VIVACITY
    13 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    I bought a Harbour defence launch built before the MAP plan came out from the estate of a friend. I admired the boat when he ran it but he had problems I did not know about. When I tested it in the workshop I found the prop tube and the rear bearing in the water were not aligned and the resultant drag had each motor taking 5 amps (10 in all) just to turn the props. I opened up the middle bearing with a tapered reamer and replaced the motors and now each motor takes less than 1 amp (at 10 volts) on full power and she goes faster!

    Which makes me wonder if the solution to the problem maybe a shorter shaft to the exit from the hull and a support bearing at the prop end. You can make the support bearing housing from a second shaft and harvest a bearing from it.

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    📝 2nd voyage on Lake Paterno of the 1:60 scale model of a schooner-armed steam gunboat, assisted by a
    13 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    Not to forget the Adagio from Spartacus by Khachaturian.
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    📝 VIC SMEED'S VIVACITY
    13 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    Hi Nick when you look at a prop shaft and tube they are very simple. There are bearings at each end which knock out easily and the long tube and the shaft. The shaft will probably have a thread at one end.
    If you can put a thread onto a shaft, this the most difficult part as it needs a thread cutter and a lathe. If you can source these then make your own. I found that cutting the thread as a tight fit onto a prop or u/j was the best way to keep everything 'square'.

    You need a small prop shaft and a longer length of tubing of the same internal diameter and knock out the bearings, these are to be inserted into your longer shaft. Beware as the shaft diameter can vary within the tolerances used. The rest follows.

    I have done this myself when I replaced the shaft on an old boat (not my build) when I realized the water end of the prop shaft was running on an extended 4BA thread in the bearing. It was a bit of a game finding the right shaft diameter but OK in the end.
    I can cut threads but they are almost impossible to get right without using a lathe.

    Hope this might help.
    Roy

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    13 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    If you look at the investment you make in time why would you use cheap woods. I always buy good quality.
    On my last build, still not finished I thought I would use B&Q small section wood for stringers on a chine hull and take it down to the required size using a 'thicknesser'.

    BAD idea!

    The wood even when steam bent does not bend evenly as the strength in the wood varies along its length.
    Just wish I had never had that idea!!!

    Regards
    Roy

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    13 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    Hi all this maybe historical but is also current! I did a RYA yacht course in the early '90s and on the last but one day we approached Plymouth harbour in the dead of night and used 'Leading lights' to guide us in. We were returning from the Channel Islands.

    It worked perfectly, pairing up white lights and the chart showed us the direction of the next course change and then looked for the appropriate lights and it took us all the way to the mooring bouys. I seem to remember associated red and green lights to line you up.
    It was a magical night with the stars out and a it was warm and very still, never forgotten it.
    Roy

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    15 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    I have mentioned her on other threads but I have at last got her planing and under control. I bought some 2.8Ahr. 4/5 sub-C cells and welded up a pack of 6 to give 7.2 volts.
    The reduced weight plus a tiny 10 amp esc from Aliexpress cost £1.50, plus experimenting where the battery goes has given her a nice balance and a good turn of speed and 30 minutes plus endurance. Measured under load the power is 19 Watts.
    The propeller is a 2 bladed plastic red (P) 35mm dia. I have tried others and she will go faster but not much and this suits her fine. Also the motor is just warm with the gear reduction running at a more efficient speed.
    Roy

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    💬 Re: 34" Fairey Huntsman 31 #3
    15 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Admiral)
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    Attaining the discreet look of the windows with slim frames gives the right look.

    I have made a 16 inch long model and used a thick clear plastic, heated to shape screen. I then used masking tape to reveal where the pillars and frames are and theses were painted in. I used 4 or 5 coats of paint to give some body to it and let it all dry for several days and gently soaked off the masking tape.

    The paint has a solid look and seems to do the job. Construction was based on photos of various prototypes.

    Power is with a 380, 40 watt motor with a 1 : 2 gear reduction motor, consumption at speed is 19 watts. It took a long while to get the balance right for the model to plane including buying 4/5th size sub-C 2.8Ahr. cells to make up as a 7.2 volt battery. ESC is an Aliexpress 10 amp one cost £1.50. Running time is 30 minutes plus.
    Roy

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