Just carved two lifeboats from Balsa and produced Davits.
I think the only reasonable place to mount them is on the top of the sponson side cabins, more later
Chris
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Just carved two lifeboats from Balsa and produced Davits.
I think the only reasonable place to mount them is on the top of the sponson side cabins, more later
Chris
Davits & Lifeboats positioned on top of sponson side cabins, now to try to produce some lifting hawsers.
Chris
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Lifeboat lifting hawsers fitted, not perfect as very fiddly for me - but OK from a reasonable distance!
Now just waiting for the land adjacent to our sailing lake to dry out a bit so that we can commence sea trials!
Chris
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Lifeboat lifting hawsers fitted, not perfect as very fiddly for me - but OK from a reasonable distance!
Now just waiting for the land adjacent to our sailing lake to dry out a bit so that we can commence sea trials!
Chris
Frustrated by the lack of access to our lake, I again resorted to my test tank ( bath ).
Now need a bit of adjustment to the paddles and a bit more ballast in the bow area, and of course a suitable name.
Chris
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Frustrated by the lack of access to our lake, I again resorted to my test tank ( bath ).
Now need a bit of adjustment to the paddles and a bit more ballast in the bow area, and of course a suitable name.
Chris
Paddler now named Lady Langbury, after our children when young combining our surnames to make an Imaginary Langbury Stores owned by a mythical 'Lady Langbury'!
Still to get to our lake to do sea trials but hopefully will be able to post some operational photo's soon.
Chris
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Paddler now named Lady Langbury, after our children when young combining our surnames to make an Imaginary Langbury Stores owned by a mythical 'Lady Langbury'!
Still to get to our lake to do sea trials but hopefully will be able to post some operational photo's soon.
Chris
A bit blustery today but at least the weather was fine and the access to our lake has dried out. She sailed fairly well but needs a bit more ballasting and is a bit tender in the wind but overall I'm very pleased. I'll try to post a short video later, a bit haphazard as I was controlling her with one hand whilst trying to video with the camera in the other!
Chris
Having trouble uploading the video but this is a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MVE6eAiDD0
Chris
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A bit blustery today but at least the weather was fine and the access to our lake has dried out. She sailed fairly well but needs a bit more ballasting and is a bit tender in the wind but overall I'm very pleased. I'll try to post a short video later, a bit haphazard as I was controlling her with one hand whilst trying to video with the camera in the other!
Chris
Having trouble uploading the video but this is a link:
Chris
Looks real nice, (but I am going to the opticians tomorrow) only jesting Chris, you do need a nice calm day for these sort of models, don't you. Nice to get your new model in the water after all the work you put into them, isn't it?
This time at Weymouth & Portland MBC day at Mangerton Mill, Bridport on Easter Monday
As I can't seem to get It to upload In the Video Gallery section, ( I've tried with both MP4 & wmf files )
So another video link :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEZoWpEYQhU
Chris
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This time at Weymouth & Portland MBC day at Mangerton Mill, Bridport on Easter Monday
As I can't seem to get It to upload In the Video Gallery section, ( I've tried with both MP4 & wmf files )
So another video link :-
