RossM
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Cottam, Canada
Member since May 2023
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Re: Sailing ship "full rigged ship", "Af Chapman", now "Dunboyne".
@AlessandroSPQR I recognize the issue that you are writing about. The main mast will carry about 7 square feet of sail, so I will do my counter weight to the b…
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Re: Sailing ship "full rigged ship", "Af Chapman", now "Dunboyne".
@AlessandroSPQR Okay then, order has been made. Next up will be bench test of the main boom. The excitement there will be the triple block that the main sheet …
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Re: Sailing ship "full rigged ship", "Af Chapman", now "Dunboyne".
If you can figure this out, you win a prize. That was the new video yesterday of the powered winch running the STAYSAIL
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Re: Sailing ship "full rigged ship", "Af Chapman", now "Dunboyne".
@AlessandroSPQR This was just the test on the bench, but it is radio controlled. servos & switches near top, receiver left side below it, motors batteries, rig…
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Re: More Ducks Than Boats at Southport MBC Today.
@AlessandroSPQR If Alessandro or anyone else wants something really silly and completely off topic try Googling FLOCK OF CANADA GEESE LANDING ON ICE. Typical C…
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Re: Sailing ship "full rigged ship", "Af Chapman", now "Dunboyne".
Alessandro I don't have the capacity to move any larger video but this is it under radio control Little stick in the middle is the position of the leech of the…
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Re: EMMA KALMAR, ORING, and other Swedish workboats
Alessandro I love it You know where my heart lies with working sailboats
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Re: Question of the Day?
Around here we just call it SOMETIMERS. (sometimes I remember, sometimes I forget)
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Re: More Ducks Than Boats at Southport MBC Today.
Bob, Could these ducks be migatory birds en-route?
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Re: Sailing ship "full rigged ship", "Af Chapman", now "Dunboyne".
@AlessandroSPQR I have the original testing equipment. The original was simply a manual test. If I pulled on the starboard sheet, it moved to the starboard sid…
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