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It just goes to show that the American red Indians and the Eskimos knew all about hydrodynamics many years ago well before the Oxford and Cambridge universities got involved with racing 🙄🤗.
I have watched "The last of the Mohicans" several times over the years with quite a lot canoes involved. ☺.
All down hill from now on.😮.
I have watched "The last of the Mohicans" several times over the years with quite a lot canoes involved. ☺.
All down hill from now on.😮.
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1 day ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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This buoyancy standards question took me so long that my phone shut down twice 🤕 before I had the chance to put in my answer, probably quite an easy one for anyone who actually sails yachts 😐.
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3 days ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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I presume that this document for a "certificate of registration" is also relevant now, and not just during "the age of sail ".🤔🤔😐, for a safe passage in foreign ports.
I'm sure that someone will know for sure?? 😊.
Roy, the only three boats that I have built, all took a lot of research to get the info on their history of the exact number that I wanted to "call" them. I finished up buying about 8 books on
Submarines, and a lot on coastal command boats. I would rather have a book in my hands rather than looking for the information on the internet 🙄😁--and it's easier to refer back to.👍
I'm sure that someone will know for sure?? 😊.
Roy, the only three boats that I have built, all took a lot of research to get the info on their history of the exact number that I wanted to "call" them. I finished up buying about 8 books on
Submarines, and a lot on coastal command boats. I would rather have a book in my hands rather than looking for the information on the internet 🙄😁--and it's easier to refer back to.👍
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5 days ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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👍I'm with Luckyduck with this one and the answer I gave was likened to driving a car where you apply the brakes slowly and with the use of the clutch 😊.
Now waiting for the flak to come back. 😞😕😩....
Now waiting for the flak to come back. 😞😕😩....
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8 days ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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GARTH-----drop your flag to half mast 👇 🇨🇦 😁 😃😜..
Only kidding, the last few questions have been asked before so it's been easier to get them correct if you can remember that far back 🤔🤔🤔.
Only kidding, the last few questions have been asked before so it's been easier to get them correct if you can remember that far back 🤔🤔🤔.
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💬 Re: 34" Fairey Huntsman 31 #3
10 days ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Well--
😁I get my copy on " prescription ", I need a monthly fix, ☺ it arrives a few days earlier than it does in the paper shops so it will be on the shelves on Friday 19th. Steve..👍
😁I get my copy on " prescription ", I need a monthly fix, ☺ it arrives a few days earlier than it does in the paper shops so it will be on the shelves on Friday 19th. Steve..👍
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11 days ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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I remembered this one from something like a month or two ago and it's been asked twice already 🤔🤔.
Shiver me timbers 😁 and where's mi parrot gone 😁😀.
Shiver me timbers 😁 and where's mi parrot gone 😁😀.
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💬 Re: 34" Fairey Huntsman 31 #3
11 days ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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If you want to see a lot more information about the Fairey Huntsman and photos, there's a great article on SLEC'S 48" version by John Milestone in the latest October Model Boats Mag, 8 pages worth.
Hope this is of some help to the Fairey fans. Steve 😀👍..
Hope this is of some help to the Fairey fans. Steve 😀👍..
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12 days ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Ok EdW about the eye piece, but I just remember all the Navy War films that I have watched on TV with the Captain on the bridge with a very large pair of binoculars looking out for enemy ships, or Captain Edward Smith of the Titanic wearing a large pair.
It was just a tragedy that the crews on lookout duty didn't have them to look for icebergs 😐😨. I read that they were locked away and nobody knew where the keys were.😕😥.
It was just a tragedy that the crews on lookout duty didn't have them to look for icebergs 😐😨. I read that they were locked away and nobody knew where the keys were.😕😥.
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13 days ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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So---What are we supposed to call a lifebuoy (A ring shaped buoyant object designed to be thrown to a "person" in the water to help them stay afloat and prevent them from drowning) when someone shouts "MAN OVER BOARD" 🤔🤔🤔 😐😐.
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23 days ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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I did the same as Luckyduck by going for the answer with surf in it👍. No real idea otherwise. I studied the answers for ages and just about gave up 😐🤔🤔.
Late at night on one of the ITV channels there's an "unwind " program which is supposed to help you relax, and it many a time has surf breaking along the shoreline.
Relax--no way, I spend half an hour trying to figure out which way the tide was turning 🤔🤔😐..
Late at night on one of the ITV channels there's an "unwind " program which is supposed to help you relax, and it many a time has surf breaking along the shoreline.
Relax--no way, I spend half an hour trying to figure out which way the tide was turning 🤔🤔😐..
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25 days ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Hello Roy, Congratulations on your wedding anniversary.🤞😊
Haven't you noticed that "she that must be obeyed " has a copy of the colregs manual on her bedside table 😀. Is it there to study or to hit you over the head with ? 🤔😕. Or probably just to make sure that you don't go astray 😁😂🤣..
Haven't you noticed that "she that must be obeyed " has a copy of the colregs manual on her bedside table 😀. Is it there to study or to hit you over the head with ? 🤔😕. Or probably just to make sure that you don't go astray 😁😂🤣..
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29 days ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Ok Roy, we have had a hosepipe ban for quite a while now here in Yorkshire. I was going to use our fish pond as a test tank but that is a little below ground level and my knees are now giving me a bit of trouble as well☹️.
I can remember seeing the fishing trawlers up at Bridlington and Scarborough in the 1970,s with the large flat boards on their sides and wondered what they were about 🤔. I wish that I had photographed them then as it would have been useful now that I,m into boat modelling.
I think that they have gone now 🤔 and have been replaced by smaller boats fishing for shell fish, crabs and lobsters ??
I can remember seeing the fishing trawlers up at Bridlington and Scarborough in the 1970,s with the large flat boards on their sides and wondered what they were about 🤔. I wish that I had photographed them then as it would have been useful now that I,m into boat modelling.
I think that they have gone now 🤔 and have been replaced by smaller boats fishing for shell fish, crabs and lobsters ??
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Well two wrong in two days 👎👎 I'm going to have to stop answered them at 2am in the morning 🙃😴😴 .zzzzzz.
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Nick, what are you going to " bribe " Ai with--crypto currency 🤔🤔😂😁.
Garth,
I was also watching the Space X " bomb " smouldering away. 🤤😨🤤☠👽👽.
Garth,
I was also watching the Space X " bomb " smouldering away. 🤤😨🤤☠👽👽.
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📝 Pat's QoD 24/08/25
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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The u boat U570, type V11C was captured and put back into the RN as HMS Graph.
Last year I was given the transmitter of a model of this sub to sail round the Kirklees Model Boat Club lake while the owner went for his lunch 😊. I didn't dare dive the boat as he didn't give me good enough instructions on how to bring it back up and I was too busy making sure that I didn't collide with anyone's boats.
He had the boat painted in a very light grey??. 🤔🤔.
Last year I was given the transmitter of a model of this sub to sail round the Kirklees Model Boat Club lake while the owner went for his lunch 😊. I didn't dare dive the boat as he didn't give me good enough instructions on how to bring it back up and I was too busy making sure that I didn't collide with anyone's boats.
He had the boat painted in a very light grey??. 🤔🤔.
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📝 My son busted Leeds hobby shop
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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The shop was established in 1955 and used to be called "Flying Models Crossgates" . Now it's "Model Shop Leeds" and the phone number is
01132646117.
There was a model shop in the centre of Leeds, I think that was called Leeds Model Shop.🤔 I used to buy all my stuff there when I used to go to Kitson College where I studied Radio Tv Technician course. Couldn't drive at that time so couldn't get to Crossgates shop 🙄. 😭.
Just been in and there's nothing left-some guy from the USA has been in and bought nearly everything!!! --No, only joking 🤣😂😆..
01132646117.
There was a model shop in the centre of Leeds, I think that was called Leeds Model Shop.🤔 I used to buy all my stuff there when I used to go to Kitson College where I studied Radio Tv Technician course. Couldn't drive at that time so couldn't get to Crossgates shop 🙄. 😭.
Just been in and there's nothing left-some guy from the USA has been in and bought nearly everything!!! --No, only joking 🤣😂😆..
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📝 My son busted Leeds hobby shop
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Ok about the Leeds model shop 👍. I live about 20 minutes away from the shop 😁😁.
Years ago it was also a newspaper shop, so it was open 7 days a week. I used to call in every Sunday while on my way to Rounday Park to watch the leeds model boat club members sail on the smaller of the two lakes and to give our lassie type collie dogs a really good walk around. At that time I was mainly into flying model aircraft and switched to boats much later on.
I still pop in when I need some bits for building and it,s nice to be able to actually see and touch what I am looking for.😀 I usually come back with other things "that will come in handy" The owner is Martin Sherwood, he took over when his father passed away. A nice lad very helpful along with his staff.
As for the pop concert 😝 it has caused a lot of traffic jams all over, along with a Rail strike on this same Bank Holiday. But this year on the news they have been saying that there are flushing toilets and shower units available for the campers so I might go next year 😎😊. Good luck with your surprise present👍👍. Steve..
Years ago it was also a newspaper shop, so it was open 7 days a week. I used to call in every Sunday while on my way to Rounday Park to watch the leeds model boat club members sail on the smaller of the two lakes and to give our lassie type collie dogs a really good walk around. At that time I was mainly into flying model aircraft and switched to boats much later on.
I still pop in when I need some bits for building and it,s nice to be able to actually see and touch what I am looking for.😀 I usually come back with other things "that will come in handy" The owner is Martin Sherwood, he took over when his father passed away. A nice lad very helpful along with his staff.
As for the pop concert 😝 it has caused a lot of traffic jams all over, along with a Rail strike on this same Bank Holiday. But this year on the news they have been saying that there are flushing toilets and shower units available for the campers so I might go next year 😎😊. Good luck with your surprise present👍👍. Steve..
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Well, Down again ☹️ !! I didn,t have a clue this time as the only sailing that I have ever done was a trip up the East coast on the Bridlington Belle ( without getting sea sick ), a few crossings to the Isle of Mann on the ferry,s and much earlier still, on a Swan two kid paddle boat at a lake near Blackpool or Morcambe Bay.😁🙄.
Even when I read the correct answer I was not much the wiser to the "key principle in advanced racing strategy" 🙄🤕..
Even when I read the correct answer I was not much the wiser to the "key principle in advanced racing strategy" 🙄🤕..
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Ok; Alessandro, I will certainly remember the bad old Teredo Navalis the next time that I build a model boat with marine birch plywood.😀
But I will not be covering it with copper sheeting.😊
I think that I should be quite safe as I only sail my boats in a landlocked lake 😐☺.
Do you think that I should be taking the forum much more seriously???🤔. I have learned a lot since joining when I asked if anyone could help with the use of the operation of "fighting lights" on my HDML.
But I will not be covering it with copper sheeting.😊
I think that I should be quite safe as I only sail my boats in a landlocked lake 😐☺.
Do you think that I should be taking the forum much more seriously???🤔. I have learned a lot since joining when I asked if anyone could help with the use of the operation of "fighting lights" on my HDML.
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Ho bug**r, I see what you mean now with navalis, Doug,
😮 I should have gone for that but the only latin names I have come across have always had the same name twice as in Vulpes vulpes for fox and Meles meles for badger so I just went for the one with two names😆😆..
I couldn,t remember that question so it must have been before I got involved with this ☹️😭😭.
😮 I should have gone for that but the only latin names I have come across have always had the same name twice as in Vulpes vulpes for fox and Meles meles for badger so I just went for the one with two names😆😆..
I couldn,t remember that question so it must have been before I got involved with this ☹️😭😭.
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Didn't have a clue 🙄 without cheating. So I didn't.😔😔. No good with latin names probably easier for Alessandro 😁😁.
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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I agree with you all the way.😁
Not like Pat's questions when he asks 4 or 5 parts to one question with no possible answers given 🤔🤔🤔, it's the steady elimination of these that makes it a little bit easier to answer . Far Far Far tooooo hard for me to have a go at Pat's , I would embarrass my self 😣🤤😢.
Not like Pat's questions when he asks 4 or 5 parts to one question with no possible answers given 🤔🤔🤔, it's the steady elimination of these that makes it a little bit easier to answer . Far Far Far tooooo hard for me to have a go at Pat's , I would embarrass my self 😣🤤😢.
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Ok, thanks Roy I will make a note of that and have a look for it down at the shops in Castleford that sells nothing but DVD' s and games discs ?? or whatever they call them.🤔
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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This one took some reading multiple times 🙄🙄, but the part of the question "the unique construction feature of a 'Banks dory' that made it especially suitable for deployment from schooners"
Lead me to go for the answer with the part that had-
"easy stacking and launching from mother ships" in its answer..😊
As somebody has pointed out more than once-
"The Answer is in the Question" 👍I had no idea at all about the description of a Banks Dory only that it was a smallish boat probably with a few sets of oars ?? 🤔🤔.
Nick. I totally agree with you when you posted
"The post question debate is as much fun as the questions themselves!" That's how I got involved in the first place 😉😁.
Lead me to go for the answer with the part that had-
"easy stacking and launching from mother ships" in its answer..😊
As somebody has pointed out more than once-
"The Answer is in the Question" 👍I had no idea at all about the description of a Banks Dory only that it was a smallish boat probably with a few sets of oars ?? 🤔🤔.
Nick. I totally agree with you when you posted
"The post question debate is as much fun as the questions themselves!" That's how I got involved in the first place 😉😁.
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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I nearly missed out on this NEW question of the day as I was just looking for any comments on the foghorn one. Then I found a question of the day that I hadn't answered and began to wonder about my sanity 😣🤔.
It was only when I read more comments about the question being changed that I breathed a sigh of relief, wow, thank goodness for that 😀😀😀. I really thought I must be losing my sanity having skipped a whole day- I'll now finish my ranting with a very long sigh of relief.....
It was only when I read more comments about the question being changed that I breathed a sigh of relief, wow, thank goodness for that 😀😀😀. I really thought I must be losing my sanity having skipped a whole day- I'll now finish my ranting with a very long sigh of relief.....
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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I totally agree with you Doug, I definitely think that Ai has got it's knickers in a twist this time 😣😐.
I think that we have again, had this question before or one very similar, but this time I couldn't remember what I had put down or if I had got it right or not.🤔🤔.
I read it lots of times and couldn't find anything about towing 😣😣...but I thought that it was something to do with being restricted in some way.
I think that we have again, had this question before or one very similar, but this time I couldn't remember what I had put down or if I had got it right or not.🤔🤔.
I read it lots of times and couldn't find anything about towing 😣😣...but I thought that it was something to do with being restricted in some way.
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📝 Water propulsion.
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Ok sorry about that 😆 I'm safely out of range..
I bought a MFA/COMO 12volt pump years ago for an unfinished project, it's part number is 650 and at the time it was £7.95.
I don't know if they are still available 🤔.
All the best with the project. Steve 👍..
I bought a MFA/COMO 12volt pump years ago for an unfinished project, it's part number is 650 and at the time it was £7.95.
I don't know if they are still available 🤔.
All the best with the project. Steve 👍..
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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We have had a similar question about the bulbous bow improving fuel efficiency a while ago so I remembered the last answer 👍 😀😊.
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📝 Water propulsion.
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Steves-s ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Awww I liked the idea of pinching the wife's windscreen washer pump and the consequences that might occur later on. 😀😁😂..
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