Hello Skegness..I am using 2 E-Max GT2820/7 brushless Motors. These Are UK purchased from BRC Hobbies (based Northolt) Cost £20.95 each.. these are 850 KV..using Twin Mystery RC 70A Forward Backward 2-7s Brushless ESC (with Ubecc) about £20 or less on EBay (HK).

Run Time..1 Hour, mix of fast and slow Sailing..Depends on use.
Using 2 X 7.2 NMH Volt Battery Packs..at 5000mah each.

She Goes Like fast, and cuts through water lovely.
Have A Similar Setup (Different Emax Motors) in my Models By Design interceptor 42 Boat (42 inch length)..Tooo Fast for me..lol..Any Other info PM me for phone number..Happy Sailing

E-Max Number is GT2820/07..sorry about my error

Hi ,
thames sailing barge model pages>
http://barge.homeunix.org/index.php/home
some discussion about Thames sailing barges you can find here

http://www.modelboats.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=95328

http://barge.homeunix.org/index.php/barge-building/15-build-reports/34-building-a-model-1970-onwards-a-relatively-new-members-reminiscences-and-ideas < by R.Chesney

Magazines.
Model boats 2007 nr 7 tsb Celia Jane model tuning
Model Boats 2013-11 tsb finless little models
Marine Modelling international 2014 nr 7-9 tsb Veronica
Marine Modelling international 2016 nr07 tsb Westmoreland

Hi,
in last wekend I participated in the open championship Footy in South Moravia, near Znojmo .. in Vyrovice , Vyrovice dam.

The technique betrayed me, footy ruder servo burned during race. Then I participated in open regata with my barge Capricorn. it was my first race. my model also had the first opportunity to sail on "big water".
It turned out that I need to adjust the sails to add and manage a large jib servo.

Technique was against me once more..maybe battery collapsed after first round in second race.

At home I found..battery Ok , but something collapsed ..

Weather nice and hot, but the wind was very weak, so the models of the racing sailboats were the first ..

My photos..> http://tomarack.rajce.idnes.cz/Mistrovstvi_footy_Vyrovice_2018/

I placed on board Capricorn deck cam, but after about 20 minutes the battery was discharged, i did not expected it... and I didn't expect the battery discharge will be so quick...

Deck cam >
greetings
Tom

Welcome back to the hobby, and you did a great job on her build! hope to see a video sometime in the future.

Hi Frank, great project looking superb, where did you find the drawings?? or could you scan a copy to me please?

Mark

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Speak to this gentleman, he was very helpful and his charge reasonable.

Best Regards
Frank

Hi thank you. im very happy with the paint work . i hope to get video of her this weekend depending on the weather . 😊

Great, looking forwards to it!

Looks great...Sirs well in the water too.

Many Thanks Biggles for the sail plan from Roger Stollery. I think my Orange Mystery is a mystery no longer. Thanks to all who contributed

Looks surprisingly stable!

Yes it hardly banks in even on the tightest turn and there's no digging in at all. I put it down the fact that apart from the keel the rear third of the hull is flat.

The original Sea Hornet has a flat transom which I felt ruined the lines so I extended the hull bottom by an inch or so to make the transom raked and may have inadvertently affected the performance (for the better 😑 )

I remember when they used to race them! They had two men stood at the sharp end with huge sweeps to row them along near Tower Bridge. River men used to be a different breed.
Roger

As a lad I used to see this type of barge in use all the time which I why I wanted to make one.

There are a few still in use but no "Lightermen" to row them about anymore since the passing of the East End Docks

😊 Great looking boat. I love it when a boat gets up on plain .

Good to see my old boat on water, glad your happy with it. Our pond is beginning to weed up again so it would not have had much use down here!!

She is lit, full set of Nav lights, plus a set of 3 towing lamps either side of the mast, 2 spots lighting the rear deck, bridge lights & partial lighting in the lower cabins.

There are other lights to add yet, i.e. search lights on the bridge roof, foredeck spotlamp And 3 lamps around the superstructure above doors.

Last month she won our clubs 'Torchlight Regatta' trophy, was well chuffed. 😀

Nice.... Model slipway do make a nice kit. Built their Tsekoa last year and was very happy with it.