- lhpen🇬🇧Master SeamanGreat looking boat, I had one of these several years ago, Northlight by Caldercraft, first kit boat I ever built, regret selling it!Like
- Deswelham🇬🇧Petty Officer 1st ClassThanks. Must admit that it is my favourite. Sails like a brick but not into sporty boats, reactions far too slowLike
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2,041 posts · Page 118 of 171- circle43nauticalChief Petty Officer 2nd ClassBRAVO ZULU! Does your spouse miss having no forced air in the car?
- DamonPetty Officer 2nd ClassWell instructions may of been useless> 😟 but you've made a brilliant job of it. I think instructions are designed so you end up sinking whatever it is you've brought, a strange hope by the manufacturer that U'll go back & buy something else God alone knows their mentality 💭 coz I don't. She looks really Impressive, well done 😎
Hope it does not live up to it's name 😁
Alan
- hammerLieutenantThis is a very quick way to make a hull. First remove the silver paper from one side of the foam & reduce thickness to the distance between the stations. Starting at the widest mark the station include the centre line. mark on the on the silver side, cut out square. Continue fore & aft. Stick them all together aligning the centre marks top& bottom, hold in place with cocktail sticks until the PVA is set. Carve the square edges down to the silver at the smaller station. Mark the lines of the plates, cut the plates 8-10 scale ft. 3ft wide max. Simulate rivets before glueing with polyurethane wood glue. The edges of the outer line of plates over lapping the inner use super glue (thick verity) Hope this is clear. hic! hic!!
Functional Nav Lights and wailing siren.
OA Length 690 mm, Beam 180 mm, AUW 1656 grams.
OA Length 710 mm, Beam 180 mm. AUW 1.98Kgs.
She carries the name 'JAYSHIL". it is a portmanteau derived from the names of my late parents.
Model features working lights as prescribed by the international Maritime Authorities:
http://www.bosunsmate.org/seamanship/lights.php
In keeping with Rules 22 and 23:
http://www.bosunsmate.org/seamanship/rulesoftheroad.php#rule23
Brushed 550 motor, Reversible ESC, 2S LiPo, Turnigy Blue Prop, Working Lights and indigenous Sound Generator unit.
Video is available here: (you may need to turn down the volume a bit as the horn is rather loud)
I would welcome any queries and/or comments on this build.
Thanks and Regards,
VC
Bottom Boat is the SS JOHN W Brown partly rebuilt to wartime structure.
Class: EC2-S-C1 Type Liberty Ship
Launched: September 7, 1942
At: Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland
Length: 441 feet, 6 inches
Beam:57 feet
Draft: 27 feet, 9 inches
Displacement: 14,245 tons
Gross: 7,176 tons
Capacity: 8,500 long tons
Armament: Three 3-inch/50 caliber guns; one 5-inch/38 caliber gun; eight 20mm guns.
It has had a complete hull respray, gun platforms built along with new radio control parts and now lights