Roy

Any and All photos plus details is great
Not just the Mary Ann but the Karoline too.

Ron or as you say Ronald 😁

This Gina 2 has no gunnels at the hatches and wheelhouse, they simply lift off or a latchkey locks and unlocks (see photos) Loads of room inside for battery and gear. It needs a rudder servo mounting arrangement. It has a small brushed motor with tubing connecting to the shaft.

Hi Roy,
I put the 380 motor in the boat and it was a bit faster but after no more than 10 minutes it was red hot! The guy who makes the kits happened to be at our club today so I took the opportunity to ask him what he suggested for a brushed motor. He said he would recommend a 600 or 700. I personally think a 700 will make it too fast for our young grandson. If I go to a brushless as he recommended that would mean the extra expense of a different ESC! Another guy said he has lots of brushless motors so he will have a look whether he has a suitable one.
Hope you have had a good weekend.
Cheers Duncan. 😊

Thank you. Will have a look at your solution. Cheers Duncan.

Roy

The name the builder used was SHARK but I did not like it and scrapped it off. Not sure what it is?

He took liberties with the build and thus I have too in redoing it.

Not done yet, but here’s it as of tonight. I am thinking of doing the hull in a medium green

Ron

Roy

You wrote earlier about a suggested stuffing box size and prop shaft for these boats. You also said to use a small prop with a 385 on 7.2 volt motor.

For this model it already had a small motor and stuffing box installed. No leaks! Tested it with more ballast than needed and left it for five hours.

I’m using a 7.2 volt NiMh battery 1200MAH

Roy
I used the term “stuffing box” instead of the brass tube the prop shaft run through. I thought it was a standard term.

Roy this is what I was referring too…
You posted, “discard the propeller shaft in the kit and replace tube and use a narrow one with M4 or 4BA threads and a 35 mm 3 bladed propeller.”

Thanks,
Ron

Is it a Billings Gina 2 ?

Hi roycv,

I didn’t want to reply on the main site , publicly as it look’s like I am saying that your statement regarding the Norfolk Broads is incorrect.
I am NOT doing this as I knew nothing about Sir Cornelius Vermuyden other than what I have read this
afternoon, as I had never heard about him before.
I had been using the Norfolk Broads since I was 15, I am now 75.
I have myself owned 2 small Powered River cruisers for up to 30 years, and I only gave the last one up 3 years ago now.

I had been curious as to haw the Broards were created several years ago and I read both on line and in a book about the Broads that they first started out back in the 12th Century with the peat being dug out for both fuel and some possibly for building and by towards the end of the 14th Century the pits had begun to flood with water from the rising of the sea levels and the digging had had to stop.
Over many years over the following centuries up to what I can see, the 17th Century many parts of the
remaining rivers up there were slowly re-cut with some locks put in then when they fell into disrepair over those years they were never repaired and the rivers just flooded together it seemed.
There is now only one working lock on the Broads and that is Mutford Lock in Oulton Broad, which is not in Norfolk but in Suffolk and this lock leads into Lake Lothing, this is a salt water lakeand leads into the North Sea out from Lowestoft Area..
The lake, which is believed to be the remnant of medieval peat cutting.
Oulton Broad is the only one that is used for full size power boat racing.

What I have read about Sir Cornelius Vermuyden is that what you have said about him regarding the Fens is correct, but what I have seen it says about the Bedford and Cambridge Fens and the Lincolnshire Fens and the Hatfield Chase on the Isle of Axholme,
Reading about the Norfolk Broads he doesn’t seem to get mentioned anywhere on there. Only reading about the Other Fenlands which they do not seem to call the Norfolk and Suffolk area’s

This is a short piece from Wikipedia ( of which doesn’t touch the Norfolk or Suffolk Broads)

Contrary to popular belief, Vermuyden was not involved with the draining of the "Great Fen" in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk in the 1630s. He did not participate until the second phase of construction in the 1650s.[10] This area of marshland was naturally drained by a labyrinth of rivers. It had been inadequately maintained since before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1537 during the English Reformation, as the monasteries had been chiefly responsible in the region for keeping the channels clear. The initial plan for the drainage was based on a proposal by John Hunt in 1604-1605, to construct a new river 21 miles (34 km) long from Earith to Denver, shortening the length of the River Great Ouse by many miles. It was eventually named the Bedford River (subsequently Old Bedford River) after Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, who was the chief Adventurer and financier. The project created or improved eight other channels. The operation was judged as substantially complete in 1637. It was criticized for its limited goal to provide "summer lands", leaving the land subject to winter flooding. ( picture from Wikipedia the area from which he worked)

Funny enough my second boat I purchased from someone in March in Cambridgeshire on the Fens up there.
I then towed it across to Potter Heigham on the Norfolk Broards, which is where I spent my very first Norfolk Holiday when I was 15, a great fishing holiday that was.
In Fact Quite a few M.T.B,s were actually built in Herbert Woods Boat Yard in Potter Heigham, that’s the same boat yard that I kept my boat moored in when I had it up there.
I was stuck on Norfolk from then on, even now even though I do not own a boat now my wife and I spend as much time up there as we can every year.
I am also a big fan of the Norfolk Wherry’s even though there are only a few left.
I hope this hasn’t offended you in any way this is why I didn’t publicly post it .

I am NOT saying you are wrong and I am not saying I am correct regarding Sir Cornelius Vermuyden and the Norfolk Broads area he just doesn’t get mentioned to doing anything anywhere on the Norfolk Broads, not even on Wikipedia.

Kind regards BOATSHED (Thomas Foster)
P.S I look forward to hearing from you.