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1,238 posts · Page 15 of 104Here is a brif story of how I got my hands on the model.
I have to mentioned where I got this kit from because is always good the real story behind the kit.
The place is "SE Miller Guitars". http://www.semillerguitars.com/sea-of-galilee-boats/.
Scott Miller owns the business and I asked him how he came to produce this now famous boat kit.
This was his exacts words:
I was a moderator at MSW when Captian Pugwash was running the site and had just moved on from building kits to scratch building. I did the Triton cross section build that was going on at the time and that got me interested in building models other than standard scale ships. This lead me to building boat models because they are fun to build and can be done in much less time than a three master ship. The also don't require a lot of rigging which was attractive to me as well.
One model that was fun to build and could easily be scratch built was Midwest's Peterborough canoe kit. I made quite a few of these as gifts and this introduced me to building on a strong back and using thin CA glue to weld planks together
I started looking at different boats that I could model and found that no one offered a Sea of Galilee boat model kit other than a paper one from a German company. I found an excellent book by Shelly Wachsmann about the discovery of the Kinneret boat and that book had a set of ships plans in it. I used those plans plus what I had learned from building Peterborough canoes to build the first 16" Sea of Galilee model.
- RNinMunichFleet AdmiralHi DWB,
Balloon Duster is an unfortunate typo for Balloon BUSTER!
It's just a hilarious game on the water, especially at exhibitions, to encourage youngsters to get involved.
Each boat has a balloon tethered to it, which the other boats try to bust (pop💥) with a spike mounted as a bowsprit. (I've got 4 x 4.7" QF Mk. IXs on mine😂🤣)
If done in strict competition I guess you could regard a Balloon Buster as a boat class, with defined specs in order to level the playing field.
But if JFF then Who cares about specs? Even in Formula 1 teams are always trying to develop 'an edge' within the rules!
Last man (balloon) standing wins😁
LET THE GAMES COMMENCE!!
Cheers, Doug 😎Liked by chugalone100 and DWBrinkman and - LewZAdmiralHere is what the "Florida" version of the "Balloon Boat" looked like (first photo, ~1990).
This is what the "Mother" of these balloon boats looks like today (second photo, current rescue boat). This was the master to make the mold for subsequent fiberglass hulled boats like in the first photo.
Lew
Florida, USALiked by chugalone100 and hermank
- jbkiwiFleet AdmiralHi Garth, boat looks good👍 Re the video, you may have to upload it to You Tube, then put the link in your next post,- video might be too big to post directly.
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I’ve contact with old sailers of this tug, and they are follow me in Holland, and have a lot of information of these 1800 serie build Tugs, in that time,….
Now i’ve testing the lights and sound.
Tug is still under construction,…
- figtree7ntsAdmiralHi Albert90,
Your Smit Nederland is superbly built, and I love the sound system!
Pity we're so far away from each other?
As, I'd love to do some tug boating competition with you?
Also, Thanks for pointing out the wrong lighting on my mast!
Regards,
Ed-Liked by Albert90
This video covers the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the beaches of Dunkirk in Northern France in 1940 by the armada of ships and little boats that went to their rescue.
The amazing tenacity of the British people in war torn Britain in 1940. Without their rescue the outcome of World War II could have been dramatically different.
Greg 👍
Here is the real Miss Katherine as you will find her today should you visit Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. She has been in the boat yard for over 15 years.
It was from these photos that the model was created by me.
Ron Bauer
Using ESP8266
- dave976CaptainHi NickD
Good info from RNinMunich and probably not generally known.
I would switch on the Bluetooth before your Tx and all should be ok as the Tx (certainly those of recent manufacture) should avoid using the channels selected by your Bluetooth device.
All devices use Frequency Hopping and use a shared map of hop times and frequencies between devices to identify heavily used channels and avoid. This is the binding process.
The info is constantly monitored and regularly updated to allow for new transmissions.
That being the case both should work without issue but as ToraDog says I would not wish to use the Bluetooth device on a critical control.
dave976Liked by RNinMunich and River Rat and - jbkiwiFleet AdmiralHi Nick, I use BT music players in a couple of my boats, as well as a remote key fob (433mhz) operated engine sound start relay, and have no problems with either. BT Doesn't have a great range (around 40ft on the water) but if you are just using it for an effect which for close up it should be fine. Bench testing will tell if it will affect your set-up (range test outside etc).
I've used it from my watch to the boat, the small Ruizu player to the boat, the Ruizu player in the boat to the BT board/player, for music and radio - aerial on the boat is functional for the radio, (aerial to Ruizu player to board via BT) all BT board functions (including music from an SD card ) controlled by an ifrared remote- pic 4), from the Ruizu player to a BT speaker in the boat and from Ruizu player in the boat to the BT speaker. No problems so far.
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- SimpleSailorLieutenantThanks everyone for the comments and yes I will try out the tug one day. Next project is a DF65 ⛵. I already have two, one bought and one made in the conventional way of plank on frame with Balsa wood. I will take a look at the Dragonfly and post if I think I can do it. The CAD work takes longer than the printing.Liked by hermank