yes it was an enjoyable day.
how about yourself?
taffy😀

Ffalch o'i chlywed Taffy.
Mwynha dy ddiwrnod, 👍
Doug 😎

G,DAY Doug,
Noswaith Dda,

Sorry mate my Internet dropped out. This is the first chance I have had to get back on.
Diolch, worked like a charm.
Taffy

Hi DG,
I solved the lawn mowing problem by digging out the lawn (mostly moss anyway due to the permanent shade of a huge cherry tree🤔) and replacing it with Rhine pebbles 😉

Mornin' Taffy,
Bore da, Sut mae'n mynd?

When you click on the Adobe item on the site all you get is a blank page.
Site does not seem to have a built in reader.

In the top left corner if the window you should see a small button with a white down arrow on a blue background. Pic 1.
Click on that and a window opens offering you the choice of Opening or Saving the file. Pic 2.
Gobaith sy'n helpu. Cheers, Doug 😎

G'Day Doug,

I have tried on numerous occasions to open right hand Adobe PDF and all I get is a Blank page?

Regards,
Taffy

"...If you do do 'Old Motors' I have a few going back to the 50s...."

Many of us probably have, and it might be interesting to start a thread on the topic...

".....but I believe there is a Java Development Kit available which should help......."

Would that that were useful! ...but JavaScript is quite different from Java - it's not even part of the same platform. The joke goes that 'Java and Javascript are similar like Car and Carpet are similar'....and I don't need to develop code for myself, but understand a complex and poorly documented Open Source page-flip package. And I also have to mow the lawn...

Thanks that is what I was looking for. Many thanks

Hi,
If you do do 'Old Motors' I have a few going back to the 50s. (Like I do 🤔)
But I think that Martin (Westquay) might be the 'Old Motor King' on this site 😉

Sorry I don't Java (have enough trouble Jiving🤣) but I believe there is a Java Development Kit available which should help.
Ciao, Doug 😎

Shame how we are at the mercy of Domain providers.☹️.............

I am only at their mercy because I am freeloading!

I wanted to set up a 'service' which could continue indefinitely without financial support, since I guessed that there would be few people prepared to support a more 'professional' hosted service. The whole point about rare old plans is that they are rare because no one is interested in them, so sites which cost money to keep going are onto a hiding to nothing...

For anyone who might be wondering, I am operating in accordance with copyright legislation. I chase up the current owners of the rights to the plans, and obtain permission to publish. Most companies are very happy to give this - I have only had one refusal in all the years I have been operating.


Interestingly, I have recently had some interest expressed by some model boat motor collectors, who wondered about adding an 'old motors' page to the mix....

Thanks for the advice about the links. I had wondered how to do it... Oh, and if you know anyone who's any good with JavaScript...

Ho DG,
Thanks for the 'heads up'👍
You've been busy little bee 😉
Shame how we are at the mercy of Domain providers.☹️

I'll look by the sites, get the feel and see what I can give you from my archive that might be relevant. I may not have too many plans (other tha naval ships😉) but a vast archive of boat / ship photos and data. Also hundreds of sources links.

BTW: I've never had problems putting up several web links.
Just make sure each link is standing on it's own, i.e. no other text in any of the link lines.
They then all appear in the grey boxes under the post.

Cheers, Doug 😎

And finally, the EeZeBilt site that you all know and love?

I am looking for any more history. And any new plan contributions?

The Old Boats site - this is a stylistic copy of Outer Zone, the vintage model aircraft plans site, though without the sophisticated Oracle database and content management features! It has far fewer boat plans, but I hope it will be seen as a good place for someone to contribute old plans to rather than just keeping them in their local collection. It has a good collection of the old American Sterling model boat plans.

Any rare model plans pre about 1980 would be gratefully received. Yeoman and Feltra would be nice...

Taycol site: This used to have a working full KK Marine catalogue to look through. Then Flash went out of fashion.

I am currently trying to learn JavaScript so that I can replace the Flash page-turning code with Turn.JS - but It's a slow business. In the meantime, I'm looking for any Taycol history, and data on accessories like motor covers...

".......Since I never heard of the site you quote (One of yours? .tk?)........"

I apologise for leaving out the thanks for what you did provide!

My main point, I think, is that you have provided the Aerokits plan (very good, just what was requested) and a couple of EeZeBilts (amateur plans for a completely different boat) as well as instructions for the EeZeBilts. This might be confusing? Particularly if someone tries to use the EeZeBilt bulkheads to build the Aerokits model!

I am very happy for the EeZeBilt plans to be passed around - that is why they are out there - but they were created in a very 'bitty' way (my fault), and consequently rather rely on the directions and the background on the web site to make sense. I really need to tidy things up, but time....

Perhaps a quick potted history of how the sites came to be will explain matters?

1 - I wanted a simple balsa boat kit like the old EeZeBilts to introduce my son to the hobby. None were available. So I reverse-engineered an old EeZeBilt Terrier that I had. and learned CAD to draw some plans for it.
2 - I thought that other people might like the plans I had drawn, so I offered them around the well-known free plans sites. No one wanted them because they were of a boat, and these sites typically do aircraft!
3 - So I leaned HTML and set up my own site using a 'lifetime-free' Dyn DNS domain name (eezebilt.hobby-site.com, IIRC). That ran from my home using my house broadband, so EVERYTHING was free apart from the electricity. But that also explains why the site goes down occasionally :(
4 - People started asking me for other EeZeBilt plans. So I asked collectors to send me scans of their kits and converted those into plans, which I put up on the site.
5 - Dyn DNS pulled their 'lifetime free domain guarantee' and closed down the site. So I got another free domain - eezebilt.co.vu.
6 - Vanatu (the .vu people) then started withdrawing their free domains by putting conditions on them. Eventually they required static IP addresses which my IP provider would not offer, so I needed another domain!
7 - I am currently on the Dot TK free site. There the conditions are:
a - you must have a minimum number of visitors per month (which I just about manage to achieve)
b - you must renew each year within a 2-week slot (which I have managed so far, with the aid of an automatic diary!)

8 Once I had completed the original EeZeBilts, I thought of adding a few somewhat larger boats to the same simple design which would be easier for R/C installation. Hence the 50+ selection. People seemed to like these - they went on the front of Model Boats magazine - so I kept doing them, which didn't leave me any time for tidying up the web sites... :( Which is where I am at the moment.

Eezebilt.tk is indeed one of mine. Currently the others are Marinecraft.tk, Taycol.tk and Oldboats.tk. It would help me to keep them going if people could click on them occasionally so that my site visitor numbers rise. There are no adverts or any kind of money-making scheme involved, and no financial contributions are sought. It would be great if people could contribute old plans or data to be put up on them so that other modellers can gain access to this, and so that rare historical plans do not completely disappear...

Since I think I can only put one web link per reply, I will have to bore you with three more lists of things I am looking for:


Marinecraft - history, and superstructure for Cormorant, MTB, Teal, Kestrel. Plans for Fiona/Iona and the Dawn boats. Have a flick through the catalogue on the site...

I bow to the Pro. 😌
That's simply what I had in my archive.
Since I never heard of the site you quote (One of yours? .tk?),
and no one else had responded, I simply sent what I had.
Ciao, Doug
PS I also have some original USN drawings. 😉
PPS I had included the instructions!

The second of these is the Aerokits 40" PT Boat. It was the only plan which came with the kit, though there were comprehensive instructions as well.

The first of these is a rather confusing mixture of two copies of the EeZeBilt 20" PT boat cutting lines (of completely different construction to the Aerokits), the EeZeBilt RAF Crash Tender (early version with errors), two sets of PT boat instructions and the cutting lines for a small original Keil Kraft propeller.

Don't you think it would be much better to reference the web site for download, where A&R can select a boat, see the build log, completed pictures, and obtain the latest plans with error corrections for them - http://eezebilt.tk/plans.html ?

If they don't - I do 😁

Jotika used to sell old Aerokits plans many years ago - I wonder if they have any left...?

Evenin' Andrew,
How's this?
Don't worry about the German when you open the file in your pdf reader or view on this site.
Just download to your hard drive.
(Click on the blue backed arrow icon, top left in the file viewer, when you click on the file in my post.)
View or save the file.
Open the file from the hard drive.
Click on the file icons on the left (hopefully in your reader!) and you'll see the plans and the build instructions. I've tested the files with Adobe reader and it works.
Second file gives a more detailed plan (deck fittings and weapons etc) and profile view but no bulkhead profiles.
Happy building, don't forget the Build Blog please😉
Doug 😎