Now finished off cockpit and rear structure and recruited a couple of crew from bargain 4 for ÂA£1.50 Army pack! They are a bit on the small size or it could be a large RIB!
Chris

Yeoman Minx and Wavemaster restored by Kalamunda, filmed at Crealy near Exeter. These boats were originall produced by HMM and were, I think, designed by Les Rowell in the fifties.
The boats were found on ebay and brought back to life.

Another project as I found a model RIB at our local car boot sale ( probably for action man or simular ) and thought it might be worth modifying.
it floats in the bath and now has a Mtronics Vision 500 motor and ESC, and servo steering via a rudder mounted in the dummy outboard.
More after sea trials!
Regards
Chris

This was the first try at driving by my 8 year old grandson Lenny and only the second time the boat has been in the water.

Chris

Took my work in progress fireboat out for first run last sunday, just a few bits to do especially getting water pump to work. its a boat that used to belong to Bob Jones, I got it of ebay and stripped her down as last person put flashing tape on inside intsead of finding leaks, but she is going now.

Two Yeoman / HMM boats- both salvaged from e-bay and thought to be at least 55 years old. each having had most of internal structure removed. no drawings available so had to guess where 'bits' were needed. The smaller 'Minx' is powered by a brushless Turnigy Aerodrive SK286. The 'Wavemaster' has a brushless KD Thumrun 2387/18 and an EZ Run 18a ESC - supplied by Giantcod. First runs at Crealy - 29th July.
Thanks to Ian for the photos.

first time on the water for my latest build, 23" model of british power boat co. 68ft type 3 hants and dorset raf high speed launch,
power is speed 400 driving 35mm three bladed prop, 7.2volt 3300mha nimh planet 2.4 ghz radio,
scratch built, I used scaled down drawings from my aerokits plans then gave the frames more shape to replicate the curves of this boat, the forward section where diaganally planked.
then sides and bottm as normal with sheet ply, deck is teak planks.
I sail on the rotary pool at penzance.

A few Arun Pix for those in need of some close up from different angles. Hope this is of some use to someone.

Hi" fellow model boat members " . I thought I would put some photos of my 1970s restored Aerokits sea commander . it running on a speed 600 motor with a 50 amp speed controller on 7.2 power pack at 4600 mh . finished in Antique Ivory white and Mediterranean blue with a varnished walnut finished deck . I like to take all my rebuilds to my local boating lake which is at Sheringham Norfolk and meet up with my old boat friends . Sheringham is very popular with holiday makers and the local people a like .

hI all here couple of pics of my range saftey launch and british power boat co type 3 hants and dorset 68ft high speed launch. the range safety launch is powered with speed 400 35mm 3 blade prop, 7.2volts 3300mah gives me about 10 mins run time, the hants and dorset as yet not fitted power plant, thinking to go brushles but dont no enough about size to go for yet.

I'm currently restoring a 34" Crash Tender and from finished pictures I've seen I was wondering how did people go about making those great hatches.

So I thought I'd have a go, I think it looks about right, well better than before anyway. I hope these pictures help anyone else wondering about rebuild of hatch covers.

Used a small amount of basswood and balsa.

Aerokits Sea Queen & Swordsman at Fleetwood Classic & Vintage Model Boat Days

Thanks to John Lockett for the footage