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chugalone100
Commodore
Galilee Boat
This is me showing the boat at a Kingdom Hall. My goal with this model is donate it to a Bible Museum.
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chugalone100
Commodore
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Galilee Boat
I also used the blue prints on the book by Shelley Wachsmann, "The Sea of Galilee Boat- An Extraordinary 2000 Year Old Discovery". This book also is a good source for creating many details added to the kit.
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chugalone100
Commodore
Galilee Boat
With all the members permission I would like to share my Galilee Boat project.
Here 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.
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GARTH
Commodore
Was asked what a Balloon Duster is
Here is a photo of these Balloon Duster at a model boat show at Hamilton's Steam Museum The object is to pop the balloon on models last one is winner !
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  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    Hi 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 😎
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  • LewZAdmiral
    Here 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, USA
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GARTH
Commodore
Andrea Gail
Great weather this week so off to Leander Boat dock for Andrea Gail maiden run I made a video but could not down load on this wed site But I did take a still photo so here she is & the model work well .As soon as the boat pool opens a Spencer's in Burlington It will get a summer of running .
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  • jbkiwiFleet Admiral
    Hi 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.

    JB
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Albert90
Petty Officer 1st Class
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Testing results sofar of the SMIT harber tug
This kit from BillingBoats, the SMIT NEDERLAND was A harber tug in Rotterdam Netherlands build in 1979. There where 9 of this tugs working in the harber. You can find more of my building in https://www.modelbouwforum.nl/threads/smit-nederland-billing-boats.282005/

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,…
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  • RonBMK2Petty Officer 1st Class
    Beautiful model, great detail mate.
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  • figtree7ntsAdmiral
    Hi 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-
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GARTH
Commodore
Got to use a display pool at Hamilton Home & Garden show .
A couple of our members got to use a display pool last weekend Alligator tug boat & a 44 lifeboat small scale made with a laser printer That's it for me I can't download any thing & will not do any more Media Gallery
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firefighter
Lieutenant
My Last Video I Made During the First UK Lockdown Period - Dunkirk 1940
Having recently posted the other two videos I made to pass the time when the UK was first locked down due to the pandemic I thought I would post the third and final short video I made at the time.

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 👍
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Ronald
Fleet Admiral
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Miss Katherine from Mahone Bay scrap yard to Barry’s Bay
Miss Katherine runs very well though the geared motor linkage is a bit noisy, needed some grease.

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
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3 comments
  • Albert90Petty Officer 1st Class
    It looks very good to the original boat, excelent job! 👍
  • RonBMK2Petty Officer 1st Class
    Just WOW!!
NickD
Warrant Officer
Control systems
Has anyone any experience of running some items on a boat by Wi Fi/Bluetooth in parallel to the boat been operated by normal Rx/Tx equipment.
Using ESP8266
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  • dave976Captain
    Hi 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.
    dave976
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  • jbkiwiFleet Admiral
    Hi 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.

    JB
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SimpleSailor
Lieutenant
I have been trying out my new 3D printer
I have been using a 3D printer now for over 5 years. My first was a Prusa i3 which I extensively modified over the years and looked more like some creation rather than a printer, but it worked. The problem I always had, was tall things being thrown off the bed 🤣 and slow printing. So now I have a Creality Ender5-S1 running Klipper software. What a dramatic difference. I was in the process of designing a 3D printable boat in FreeCad which was designed with 3D printing in mind. Then I thought someone must have had the same idea. Sure enough I found a speed boat on https://www.thingiverse.com/
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  • StephenPAble Seaman
    That's amazing....bet it takes a lot of work to programme it to do that.
  • SimpleSailorLieutenant
    Thanks 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.
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