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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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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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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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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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Hi Ron yes I recognise the names, we often sail into the Hawksbury river, it is a National Park with free mooring and very nice, Jarusalem Bay where we moor up and go swimming.

We are having lunch at Cottage Point on the Hawksbury river in a week or so.
We take the dog and me for a walk on the beach and pass Mooney Mooney en route. Erina has a big air conditioned shopping Mall, you can go for the day in there!

Woy Woy means 'much water' and the photo is of the narrow inlet about 200 yards across of the water flowing into Brisbane Water, 64 square miles of sailing and fishing. Further down from us it narrows to 600 feet wide and there is a bridge called the Rip bridge and it is well named as the average amount of water with the tide over 5 hours is at maximum 200+ tons per second and it is 120 feet deep. I made the mistake once of going under it on a paddle board it is dangerous.

Everyone has a boat or yacht here and some of the larger motor boats are so ugly! Marinas galore. We are able to easily sail down the coast to Sydney Harbour which is an enormous area and go further in to explore the water ways. The picture is of the previous yacht with me at the helm about to sail under 'the bridge'

When sailing out to sea and the Hawksbury river we have to navigate the many sand banks through the channels and it takes about 25 minutes zig zagging through. The beaches here are near perfect no stones underfoot and sometimes completely deserted.
Gosford is an industrial town but I know the hospital well having had 2 visits one a stroke and the other the next year, an operation. I was treated very well, possibly because my daughter in law is a Consultant doctor there?

It is the middle of the night here as jetlag has stiked again, but going back to bed now.

To finish we have roll up solar panels on board and they top up the batteries a bit, but usually the boat batteries are put on charge the night before sailing.

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Hi DWB. Apparently the Brits are the top long haul flyers statistically. All to do with family connections all over the world. Being from an ISLAND you can see the last 3 letters are DNA, so already built into us and we do things as we like! And you exagerate, it was only 23 hours 50 minutes! 😀😀😀😀

Coming back is a bit longer. I arrived as always 'nackered' but our son collects me and all is well again. He has a very large model railway which is always growing, but mainly in complexity. Looks like sailing is on in his 40 foot yacht I used to be crew but now just a helpful passenger.

I hope you survive your blizzard but sometimes the predicted weather patterns fade early on. In the UK it rained for the first 2 months of the year, the changes in global weather is not always what is expected, but science says the more water vapour available over the Atlantic the worse the storms will be.

There are still skeptics about and no amount of bombs or fires will dry off the air!

Take care.
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I agree the Emma C Berry is a great looking model, at the time the cost in the UK was just too high for me, but she does look good on the water.
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Hi Yabbie 1 and welcome John. I hope you enjoy the posts and ideas floated.
I am in Woy Woy at the moment having survived the chaos of Kingsford Smith airport yesterday, Saturday. It took 2 hours to clear through usually only 30 minutes. We had to wait as previous flight delays had an aircraft occupying our gate when we landed so kept waiting 20 minutes before letting us out.
Security is much quicker but the baggage hall was just chaos with not enough staff to check our bits of paper.
All the best
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Hi Ronald I am there now writing a review of our recent March club evening. see our website https://stalbansmes.com

I organise our club evenings, which can be seen for content by going to the bottom of the pages and clicking on the picture.

We manage 10 evenings per year from internal sources, members. The others are Auction and visit to club track. Usually around 30+ members present in our excellent church venue.
I am currently typing and this is my view from the patio at rear of our son's house. Lovely warm and bright sunlight with a cool breeze.
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The dinosaurs as a species were very resilient having ruled for 170 milllion years, we have a long way to go, providing we can get some better leaders than we have now.
All current would-be warriors included in this.
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Hi Jump, I always wanted the Sterling freighter kit. A few years ago one was put in for sale at our club shop I went through it and was not impressed with the contents. A disappointment and one I wish I did not know.
As you say Dumas also qualifies for the worst wood ever, I am sure better wood was available and I there were accountants involved where the profit line is more important than the quality of the product.

I have an old kit of the American Beauty towboat still not completed. The under water fittings kit was way over the cost of what it should have been. Having seen it I made my own from mainly brass which was a small reward apart from the negligible cost to myself, just time. I bought 2 props (£60) made 6 rudders and 2 kort nozzles.
I will post a picture when I find it!
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Hi SS yes you can answer missed questions. I shall be doing that myself Friday / Saturday as I shall be crossing so many time zones I do not know if I am coming or going! 11,000 miles from UK to Australia and 24 hours travelling via Singapore.

With trustee laptop and an Oz coloquial dictionary, doubled up on hearing aids and with 'best' walking stick and whistling to keep my spirits up. No, I am getting carried away, it is my 16th. trip!

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Hi Ronald if you read Model Boats magazine John Parker drew plans for a solar powered boat (Sarik). It is a tourist boat with a long awning which has solar cells on it. He lives in Melbourn Ausrtalia and we are in frequent email contact.

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PVA glue penetrates the wood, best join is to put a weight or clamp the wood down, also a pin with an end part is good. When the pin is removed there is a hole but this is just fibres that have been pushed aside and a drop of water allows them to move back to resume their place and hole dis appears.

Have a damp cloth available to stop pva staining the deck when the plank is held in place. I saw a video testing all available pva glues and all the glues worked from cheapest to most expensive, so choose cheap and thick.
However we all have our own way so choose for yourself.

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Hi Ron stanchions that size can also come as etched brass. Have you checked that possibility?
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Hi Bob I was lucky as I did not need glasses until I was 50 and I used to shoot rifle (.22) in competition, my eyesight went downhill when we had screens and keyboards on our work desks.
But 2 years ago I had 2 cataract operations and now am back to some week reading glasses so straight lines and stanchions are all easy for me in the workshop. Trouble is no one can put my age back 20 years to have the energy I used to have.

I am off to visit family soon, our son, in Australia and usually come back much fitter as he takes no prisoners when out for the day!

Just waiting for a warm up in the weather to return to finishing my Wild Duck model yacht. I have made arrangements with a Higher Being, that I will live long enough to complete all the kits and a few part built models before I pop my clogs.
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I have made my own stanchions before but used brass tubing. This combined with close fitting brass rod. When drilling the tube I put the brass rod inside to support the tube walls when drilling. When the drilling is done I use a small length of the rod soldered into the lower part to use as a locating pin for the deck.

I made some a while back where the stanchions had to be removed as part of the removeable upper deck and I found that the brass ferules located into the deck and included in servo packs were an excellent fit and and protected the wood deck.

If you are making stanchions in a small scale on a jig do not wear varifocal lense type glasses as the trapezium distortion of the glasses will taper the uprightness away at the edges. It happened to me some years ago and now I use a metal jig with 90 degree corner to ensure they are upright. With the small ones superglue for railings is less obtrusive than solder.

With brass wire which sometimes comes wrapped in a rough coil, I cut off twice as much as I need clamp one end in a bench vise and with a pair of pliers grip the other. A small jerk will straighten the wire and harden it at the same time. It will lengthen maybe half an inch but stay straight and hard.

It is nice diy some of the items more associated with buying ready to use.

All the best
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That was a close thing I was almost at 100% by tomorrow!
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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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What teachers like is when you listen and then do something for yourself. It means you have learnt something by yourself.

NB I am not a teacher! But have done a little instructing.
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Pat! I seem to remember you were complaining about the 100% scores and now you are at 97%!!!!!!🤔🤔🤔🤔
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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!
All the best
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Back in the day when boats were boats!
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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.
Quite dear, needs mixing and applied very quickly!!
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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.

Keep on carrying on for the 80+ old members still doing what we started 60+ years ago!
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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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