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Swiss RC boats
… of happy holidays in years gone by. Excellent selection of tugs but I do agree with Ron, most were going far too fast to be in scale. Not an uncommon problem everywhere. I thought the blue MGB could have been going faster, though not by mu …
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Swiss RC boats
… addle wheeler with masts and sails for example. Some of the tugs too. Others rock about too much, because they do not have enough ballast. Maybe, I am to critical! It reminds be of seeing folks flying seaplanes with floats doing aerobatic s …
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Adhesive's
… p me with my question I shall be starting to build my model tug which is mmm Portgarth the question is this is my first big build and I am not sure what glues to use such as wood to fiberglass hull and wood to wood also when I put the windo …
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Vic Smead or Smeed?
… of plans which we would be more familiar with, his American tug and St Louis Belle are readily available. American tug plan is a slightly smaller version of the old Sterling Models kit from the past, whether he designed the Sterling Models …
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Adhesive's
… poxy for wood to fibreglass (Araldite). Good luck with your Tug Portgarth. Will you be doing a build log ? Martin555.
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Vic Smead or Smeed?
… steammuseum.org/cervia.html http://thesteammuseum.org/steam-tug-cervia/ Cheers, Doug
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Vic Smead or Smeed?
… oks superb. Got wondering whatever became of the full sized tug. The last I heard, she was in poor condition in Ramsgate, the hull was leaking badly and sandbags had been used to minimise the leakage. Afterwards the vessel was listed for sa …
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Vic Smead or Smeed?
… e, Another plan by the great Vic Smeed - this is the Cervia Tug, it was great fun to build - and really good fun to sail. I built this one a few years ago.
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Change of Tack
… the middle of a plank! I am currently building a live steam tugboat which has a curved strake running round the stern. An obvious candidate for bending from the centre. I used part of that previously cursed plastic tube with an end cap forc …
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Auckland anniversary day regatta 2021
… and harbour (Monday 1st Feb- almost deserted apart from the tug 'race') which in the past would have been standing room only. Most of the yachts had sailed up north 100 miles on a coastal race to the Bay Of Islands on Saturday (seems to be …
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Please help identifying old model ships
… built. However, all the kit manufacturers have made kits of tugs, so these may well be from kits. Somebody else on here may well recognise them. 'Cervia' was the last tug built for Ship Towage in 1946 and I think there is a kit still being …
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Auckland anniversary day regatta 2021
… h the gaff rig. I liked the idea of seaplane races too, and tug racing, now that's a good idea. Thank you so much for posting this wonderful series of pictures. Cheers, Nerys
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Please help identifying old model ships
The photographs are mainly of a steam tug called 'Dragon' and a couple of photos of 'Giant'. The funnel markings of both tugs are that of William Watkins, who were major tug operators on the Thames. In 1950, they amalgamated with two other …
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Props
I started my Cervia steam tug in 1972 and finished it last year in lock down
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Boat Build Help
… ue by a long way. I certainly need to seal the inside of my tug pretty well as it is likely to be swimming in warm water and steam oil! How long is the working time of z-epoxy?
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Real boats
… NZ) I remember Going out of Tauranga Harbour on a new 40ft tug on a fishing charter, (pic) and when we got half way out to Mayor Island, the waves were probably around 12 -15ft ( Tauranga has one of the fastest tidal streams in NZ and was …
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Vesper MTB scale 1/32 hull size 660x 180mm sarik hobbies dwg mm2062
… my bits arrive , meanwhile I’m working on my Mastman Bantum tug happy steaming , Howard
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boat roll
… y. In particular with low speed high torque vessels such as tugs and smaller freighters. Some skilful Captains use this effect to shove the stern of the ship to the quay when docking This is also the reason why twin shaft vessels have the s …
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Receiver Ariel
… uired. Having finished my scratch built Cervia Thames steam tug, I fitted it with an old planet 6 channel radio set I had from a previous refurbished boat, it only needed 2 channel so didn't think it was cost effective to buy new, when I ha …
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Receiver Ariel
… ,Yorkshireman,Cervia. Then I thought I'd have a change from tugs, now having nearly completed the scratch built 1/32 scale Brave borderer which can be seen on various posts on this site. Plus the new addition on the slipway to be revealed s …
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Mobile Marine Models Euro-Girl
… ct from Mobile Marine. This will be the third Mobile Marine Tug at Centurion Club in SA. Two Members have a Brackengarth and an Ayrton Cross.
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Mobile Marine Models Euro-Girl
… ed as a Multi-Task, Multi-purpose unit, this rather 'short' tug, a little under 80 feet / 24 metres l.o.a, is the pinnacle of brute-force & intelligence. Conventional stern drive tug, with steerable korts & the option of bow-thrusters; Push …
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Mobile Marine Models Euro-Girl
… an, I do hope you will be doing a build log on this unusual Tug. Martin555.
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L.E.D Resistor
Hi Fred, Mobile Marine Models do a 20 LED set for a tug complete with resistors etc. Might be expensive but possibly worth it. Good Luck in your endeavours Ian
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L.E.D Resistor
… nt shop UK's website he has an article on LED's. As it is a tug how many LED's do you want to fit? If you look at the 'new' regulations for tugs and can consist of 20 LEDs Good Luck Ian
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Sound
The RAM product, tugboat horn, came with a cardboard box to house the speaker. Is this a good idea?
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General interest
Just like to share a couple of my models. A Tid Tug built from a Kingston Mouldings hull/plan on a pond at Sneterton airfield. STARLET built from a Vic Smeed plan at Eaton Park Norwich. The pond at Sneterton is no longer available and the s …
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Glue for metal and wood.
… eed to glue metal sheet to wood. The boat is a 1/20th scale tug about 5 foot long with a smooth wooden hull. At that scale I feel that the hull should have plating represented. I have a lot of printing plates to do this. Has anyone any sugg …