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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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2 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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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.

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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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Hi all, my two penworth!
If you want to run at that speed then make the rudder narrower.
Second the hull is going too fast and is beyond its' speed envelope.
In proportion my smaller Huntsman started out going even faster and was basically uncontrollable. She had just 10% of hull in the water and was flying rather than planing.

Eventually she did exactly what your model has done turned on her side and dived down underwater. She then ran beneath the waves turning round and round and beyond RC control. After about 30 seconds she surfaced and stopped.

That is when I decided she needed to slow down. The motor was a fast 380 with a 1 : 2 geardown driven by an ex-camera 6 volt NiCad. It was difficult finding the right power to weight ratio but she works very well now.

I have not exagerated what happened, there was a witness but he died a while back.
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Hi StephenT, 1/43 is a good scale as there are lots model cars and of course 'O' gauge model railways, to choose from
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Hi Zooma I had a 'Bobby' if you remember it about 20 inches long. It had a 540 with a 30mm dia prop and it went really fast but had a tendancy to react to the torque involved.

I started the wedge off at 0.25inch and 0.75 width using P38 and gradually it was filed down to just about 1/8th inches deep and that was enough.

Take it easy on your first run the wedge looks rather much!
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And of course we shall all be seeing your photographs?

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Thanks Ed, spot on. The Bongo drive has a monoperm super motor already mounted.
I would just like to find another one to make a tug or the like for mydelf.
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Hi LewZ, I once gave a talk on model boat propulsion to our club. There are several options but VSP is the most expensive and also not easy to set up for the response you want from the Tx.

I have a Graupner 'Bongo' unit which looks like an outboard but screws down through the hull at the stern. This has a drive similar to an outboard and rotates about 40 degrees either side of neutral within a 'Kort' nozzle, it has a name I can't remember now but no rudder is needed.

If anyone has one for sale please let me know!

I do not know what the losses are with the complex movement of the VSP but the ability to move anywhere must be the over riding criteria. It works well in model form as well.

I think I read somewhere that the Azimuth propulsion units have been modelled. They are very popular in full size cruise ships.

Many years ago we (the family) hired a narrow boat for a canal boat holiday in the UK. Our boat, really a scow, had a converted car engine (Morris Minor 800cc) to run on gas. The engine was mounted at the stern pointing forward and it was a Z drive (through 2 u/j's) to the prop.
It worked as smooth as anything and seemed economical as well.

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Hi Zooma 2 things I agree the wedge might work, I fitted a wedge to an over-powered smaller boat years ago and was surprised how small it needed to be.

Second thing is there should not be the almost obscuring amount of water over the bows. I still think the strakes are not so good but I can understand not wanting to take such drastic action.

On a smaller boat similar design I had a lot of trouble both with pushing a mountain of water ahead of the boat, weight distribution and power.

The first success was making the boat lighter with 4/5ths sub-C batteries, then the weight moving it around, until as far back as possible worked best. Finally a smaller propeller which seemed to give more speed(?).

It is worth working on as my little boat looks really graceful as it gets onto the plane and she gently leans into turns as well.

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Hi Zooma I think the spray rails below the main one are causing the problem.

With ther lower rails converging on the chine one, the water gets broken up from the first joining lower spray rail.
The water needs a clean path to follow but appears to be breaking up and the water going on the deck.

Also the water at the bow is being parted and wants tp flow in a curve beneath the hull. If you look along that flow I think the prakes may have introduced mini breakwaters.
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You can see frrom the excess water being thrown up, that the hull bow, is dropping into where that water was.
Try fitting spray rails at the chines to disperse the water, this then uses the sprayed water to give lift and ride up on to plane.

For a 36 inch hull a bit less than 1/4 inch square wood will spray the water aside and will definitely speed the boat up. Keep the angles sharp and clean.

I can't tell if there are spray rails on the boat already but if there are, then they are not wide/big enough.
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I think that is a good 1203 plan by Jim Pottinger. He does scale drawings not ones with the hull adjusted to sail.
So doubling up should work well on the water and be accurate as well.
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For what it is worth this looks like a Fairmile hull with a 'freelance' top.
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I agree knowing the functions of each of the ships mentioned there was only one choice.
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Hi Pat, most of us taking part in the general conversation are 70+ still active and probably had a career which we chose and liked. Most of us had many years of this and climbed a short way up the ladder of success.

So here we are, brains in working order still involved and keeping engaged if not always active. I read of a well known author and speaker who refered to those like him and us, as 'Extreme Adults'.

So we are the savvy ones! We are a self selected group not a cross section of society. We are not sitting watching TV we are still involved with society probably with many friends etc.

I still lead and teach a Bridge group at 87 and interesting it is too. So with a good brain many interests and memories we are bring knowledge and odd items of interest we have seen or read about.

Not a lot to be gained on TV these days and you should see what the Ozzies have to put up with!

So Pat, we are going to be able to answer more questions than the average guy, argue about them and criticize them.

I rest my case!
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I remember watching a documentary on transfer of organisms in ballast water a year or so back, mainly to do with dredging the Thames estuary.
Interesting.
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That is the most stupid question ever. I looked it up!
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I found this written in stone when it came down the mountain.
"If your wife wants something done, do it now" There are so many benefits!

You will not be nagged.
You will have more time for your own work. i.e. no nagging time.
Your wife will boast of your virtues.
You will have much more admiration from your wife's friends! (dodgy one that

There will be more tolerance for your model boats. I was even allowed to keep one on show"! Well just for 2 weeks.

Your wife's friends husbands will ask you how you do it?
You may start self help courses for them, perhaps at the local hostelry.

You will live longer! This is specialised knowledge.

On doing some research, I prefer to shop in Morrisons rather than Sainsbury's If you do not believe me check out the Birthday cards!
Morrisons have them for age 100, Sainsbury's don't.
Regards
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💬 Re: Fitzroy Storm Glass

13 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv (

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Anything labelled Nauticalia is suspect. They flooded the market with crap model yachts knocked together in China. They fool some otherwise intelligent people as well.
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13 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv (

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Nine years and three weeks ago We were on a gondola from the Grand canal around the one-way system and singing "O solo mio".
No that's not true as I also heard "Just one cornetto". Those b****y bridges and stairs, the pizza was good. One of the most exploited places ever!!
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13 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv (

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Hi Ed, I like it!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Hi if you are bringing her back to life, which is good, then do not trust any of the existing joints for glue.

Perhaps not, in this case but I have converted 50/60, year old models from decorative to operating and the joints are dodgy.
Good luck with the project.
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Hi Doogle, I see an old Taycol motor in the old kit. They were contempory at the time. I assume the i/c engine is gone now. She must have had a good turn of speed with an i/c engine!
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No idea but chose the most descripive answer.
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📝 Who has built the Mary Ann?

16 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv (

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Hi Pete5, the last build blog in your email by a member of the Luton club is a work of art beautifully made and finished.
After I saw the actual model I went back to mine and made a better job of it.
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Confessions:-
4 kits in their boxes.
3 model boats in advanced state of build.
5 models given to me in need of a good refurbishment.
2 bought in as decorative models already converted to sail on the water, need a small finish.
4 needing minor repair.
11 model yachts always needing TLC after sailing.
8 electric and one clockwork (with RC) all working but just general maintenance.

I think I might have a Viking funeral with boat after boat setting sail with my remains.
I would like to get my OO gauge railway running again as well.
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The Veron trawler goes back to the late 1950s and a bit generic rather than an accurate model. I built the Caribean Coaster about that time.

With the large bow I would have a look through Sarik plans to see what would suit, not to buy plans but get some ideas.

Look forward to seeing the result.
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Hi Lew if you 3D print a propellor what about the thread or do you clamp them in place?
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17 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv (

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Many years ago a friend who was instructing on using a lathe said a stuffing box is a good item to make.

With the screw adjustment that brought pressure onto a few winds of string and vaseline, it clamps tightly onto the rotating shaft but only for 0.5mm leaving the shaft hardly feeling the drag. Works well but not an item that would sell commercially.

The commercial shafts and their bearings in the tube are not interchangeable. There is too much variation in the actual diameter of a 4mm shaft, or 5mm come to that.

I recently upgraded an open frame red magnet electric motor as the shaft was sitting in a 20 gauge aluminium frame. I just used the interlocking brass tubing you can buy, which with a 5mm length and lightly oiled can make a good bearing surface.
I accept phosphor bronze is much better but I can so easily replace the existing bushes it does not much matter.

In commercial prop shafts it is easy to knock out the end bearings, Just pull the shaft out a bit to the other side of the bearing and hit the shaft end lightly with a hammer and they fall out.
This way you can shorten the prop tube and then replace the bearing.

The biggest problem is when you come to threading the shaft, I have to visit my friend with a workshop and he does it using his lathe.
There is an additional problem as the thread cutter has a grub screw to adjust the cut and you want as tight a fit onto the prop or U/J as you can get.

Lew sorry to go off piste a bit with bearings!
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📝 Who has built the Mary Ann?

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This is not a UK registered boat as the home port registration letters would be bold on the bow and she also has a sharp pointed stern and not rounded as per the Norwegian boat Mary Ann.
Nice picture though I think now stored elseware on my laptop.

My newly restored Scottish western Isles fishing boat hit the water a week or so back.
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A guy I knew was responsible for the update of plans for the hotels owned by the railways. Basically to put measurements into metres et. al.
One hotel did not submit there information and he contacted them telling them it was to convert yards and feet into metres etc.

They came back with the information that our plans are in Rods, Poles and perches! Before the Imperial system came into use.
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📝 Who has built the Mary Ann?

19 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv (

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Billing also offer the CUX 87 shrimp boat kit.
This uses exactly the same hull as the Mary Ann. I checked the Billing identification numbers for the printed wood sheets and they are the same.
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