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Les-Forbes
Petty Officer 1st Class
PROBOAT WESTWARD 18
This very popular small sailing yacht from Proboat has a plastic cabin held tight by three strong magnets. Tricky to get off in a hurry, particularly if your fingers are cold, or you are an old 'Coffin Dodger' like myself with cold hands and very little grip. Here's a wee tip I hope any owner may find helpful.
#cabin #yacht #sailing #sail
Liked by philcaretaker and RNinMunich and
2 comments
  • jarvoLieutenant
    Hi Les, great tip, would work on any part that is hard to get hold of, nice one

    Mark
  • John2Chief Petty Officer 1st Class
    Great idea!
Les-Forbes
Petty Officer 1st Class
Largs Boat Club
Pity such a beautiful West Coast location should have a popular boat club pond in disrepair. Sign of the time perhaps with many councils having reduced expenditure. But a disappointment travelling with my small grandson to sail his little Proboat Westward 18 for the first time. it's the first thing he noticed, no water.

Staff in the RNLI shop along the promenade said the pond had not been in use since last year. Here's hoping the council can organise repairs before next year's season. I couldn't resist buying a little model fishing boat from them the RNLI shop which now has pride of place in our kitchen shelf.
#promenade #club #model #model shop #kit #sail #rnli #air boat #boat club #fishing boat
Liked by liamduck and rolfman2000 and
2 comments
  • rolfman2000Warrant Officer
    What a shame. it looks such a lovely location for a model boat club. There must be some cash somewhere in the system which could just repair the pond and waterproof it. if there is a "current" club, maybe they could approach a local business to help with finances as a sponsorship. Heres hoping for a positive future. Best wishes, Dave W 😊
    Liked by BOATSHED
  • liamduckLeading Seaman
    I love visiting Scotland and Largs is on my list. Hopefully they might have a functioning pond when I get to visit. My next visit is planned for Newton Park near Ayr next Easter time.
Les-Forbes
Petty Officer 1st Class
GALA DAY VARIOUS
Knightswood Boating Club Glasgow. Part 2. Again, great day with smashing stalls and a childrens play centre, with Knightswood Club providing a variety of small power boats for the children to get "Hands On' experience. it was a joy watching their faces when they realised it was THEM that was actually sailing the boat's. My only regret I didn't have my small grandson with me.
#club #boating #sailing #wood #sail #power boat #boat club
Liked by circle43nautical
Ronald
Fleet Admiral
1 / 4
3 Lil Bit
This is the case I made to transport my Little Footy from home to pond, lake, or ? I can take it on vacation too; Holds transmitter and boat safely.
#lake #port #transmitter
Liked by Dave M and Baggie and
1 comment
  • BaggieChief Petty Officer 1st Class
    Looks great - a sturdy case. Well done.
Ronald
Fleet Admiral
1 / 6
East Coast picnic boat
Found these figures which I plan to use with this boat. Baby has a life jacket too! I added helm seat and passenger seat with chart table. Next is to add hatchway removable doors.
#figures
Liked by AllenA and FloydlStandiferiv
2 comments
  • rolfman2000Warrant Officer
    They don't look too bad at all Grandpa. They can't be far from scale by the look of them.
    Liked by FloydlStandiferiv
  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    👍 Where are they from?
    I hope you're going to make the kiddies teeny weeny life jackets!! 😉
SimpleSailor
Lieutenant
Red Cat hydroplane
Hi. Just put this back together after the 3rd brushless motor caught fire. Made from a rejected glass fibre hull which I bought cheap at a show. I have now learned how to do glass fibre repairs.
#motor #hull #glass fibre #brushless motor #brush #brushless #show #glass #fibre glass
Liked by rolfman2000 and John2
6 comments
  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    Hi, thanks for the info👍 I'm new to BLs, but learning fast, and your experience confirms my growing suspicions that outrunners not only deliver more torque than inrunners (size for size) but that they are also more reliable and seldom need water cooling.
    Your new motor seems to be a larger diameter 58mm?, as opposed to 31mm for the old one, so I begin to wonder if the old ones were simply overloaded by a big prop causing them to draw more and more current and hence cook! 😡😭
    Check out this test drive (Italian)of your new type motor!!

    cheers Doug 😎
    PS Caption says that with more than 3/4 throttle the boat becomes unstable! Then it flips 🤔
  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    PS Don't worry about 'adding up' the Watts and Amps!
    True the spec says 12.6v and 35A, which theoretically gives 441W.
    And the power is rated at 220W. This simply indicates to me that the motor scoffs 441W of power (at Max ratings) and spits 220W out again, i.e. ~50% efficiency 🤔
    Almost any decent brushed motor will beat that! But with other penalties😉
    Cheers Doug 😎
Baggie
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class
1 / 2
Albion
This looks like an ideal boating lake - Next to Palma Cathedaral, Mallorca! 👍
#lake #boating
Liked by circle43nautical and John2 and
2 comments
  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    Or .. how about here, in front of the Munich international Conference and Exhibition Centre (ICM).
    😎
    Liked by neilmc and Baggie and
  • BaggieChief Petty Officer 1st Class
    Whenever you see a stretch of water think... this would make a great boating place... ha! 👍
    Liked by RNinMunich
lesliebreame
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class
yacht
more hooliganism from that power boat man !!! the cruiser is an ebay purchase and is carved from solid. it has a TAYCOL motor double special from the 1950's.
#yacht #power boat
Liked by Northumbrian and philpjuk
6 comments
  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    SIG TO
    RECPT: CICSM
    ORIGIN: CICMUC. ZULU TIME 21:34:
    CONTENT:
    CONGRATS TO ALL. STOP:
    SPLICE THE MAINBRACE. STOP:
    PROCEED BEST SPEED PUB. STOP:
    REFUEL AS REQUIRED. STOP:
    SITREP ASAP. WITH EYEBALL. STOP:
    CICMUC: END: **********
    😎
  • RNinMunichFleet Admiral
    SIG TO RECPT. CICSM. ORIGIN: CICMUC: PRIO: NORM:
    CLASSIF. OPEN:
    ZULU. 22:11:
    CONTENT: SUPPLEMENT.
    SINK A BREAKSPEAR XXX FOR ME. STOP:
    MESSAGE ENDS:
    CICMUC:
    😎
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