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modeltugman
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Katrina
A couple more pics of her.taken at one of our tug days at Bluewater
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  • thamestugAble Seaman
    Hi
    Yes I did have a set of plans for Titan altho they were only about half sized so scaled them up on the computer. They then ended up about two inches shorter and 1 inch beamier than the fibreglass hull so had to adjust as I went along. The fibreglass hull is actually a 40year old zwarte zee hull which had previously been used [ not for a titan model] but the old model deteriorated over the years so the whole lot was stripped right down to the bare hull and started again reusing only the original decaperm motor, shaft and prop.
    Both the titan plan and this model are based on the bustler class tugs.
  • wunwingloPetty Officer 1st Class
    Thanks, very interesting. My father's model is bread and butter in obechi. She is about 30 inches long and still has the original brushed motor. She is heavily ballasted and has a very purposeful sit in the water. Father refitted her at least three times, and I am just finishing the latest refit now. The first radio was an ED Black Ghost reed set. She has lots of 1950's Ripmax fittings - I ended up resin casting port holes to replace missing items. I will post some pix when she is finished.

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