Well done firefighter - very graphic, very poignant and very sad that we still live in a world where such atrocities can happen !.

Hello Luckyduck,

Thank you very much for your reply to my post. Absolutely fascinating that your Mother was a valued member of the NFS in World War II. Many of the firewomen during the Blitz and throughout the war, although they did not perform frontline fire fighting duties were responsible for many tasks. They operated the telephone and radio systems and fire plotting rooms throughout the country many above ground and did suffer casualties from falling bombs. They also transported fire fighting equipment from location to location as needed and often delivered equipment to fire scenes during air raids. And of course we must not forget they also staffed the canteen wagons that provided food and a cup of tea to the firemen at often protracted incidents.

When the war first started in 1939 these men, with little to do, were looked upon by some people as those who where avoiding joining the armed services and serving with the British Expeditionary Force fighting in France. These men were looked down on as cowards. When the Blitz started in September of 1940 all that changed.

When the war ended, 1027 firemen and over 24 firewomen had lost their lives.

Winston Churchill called all that served in the NFS and AFS "Heroes with grimy faces"

Greg

It looks very good to the original boat, excelent job! 👍

Just WOW!!

Hello Ron,

With regards to the YouTube link, I am obviously doing something wrong when adding the link to the video but for the life of me I don't know where I have made a mistake. So I have copied below the YouTube link that can be copied and pasted into a browser.



Sorry for the error.

Greg 👍

I now see that the video is showing in the media post. I now what I did wrong.

Greg 👍

Hi NickD
Good info from RNinMunich and probably not generally known.
I would switch on the Bluetooth before your Tx and all should be ok as the Tx (certainly those of recent manufacture) should avoid using the channels selected by your Bluetooth device.
All devices use Frequency Hopping and use a shared map of hop times and frequencies between devices to identify heavily used channels and avoid. This is the binding process.
The info is constantly monitored and regularly updated to allow for new transmissions.
That being the case both should work without issue but as ToraDog says I would not wish to use the Bluetooth device on a critical control.
dave976

Hi Nick, I use BT music players in a couple of my boats, as well as a remote key fob (433mhz) operated engine sound start relay, and have no problems with either. BT Doesn't have a great range (around 40ft on the water) but if you are just using it for an effect which for close up it should be fine. Bench testing will tell if it will affect your set-up (range test outside etc).

I've used it from my watch to the boat, the small Ruizu player to the boat, the Ruizu player in the boat to the BT board/player, for music and radio - aerial on the boat is functional for the radio, (aerial to Ruizu player to board via BT) all BT board functions (including music from an SD card ) controlled by an ifrared remote- pic 4), from the Ruizu player to a BT speaker in the boat and from Ruizu player in the boat to the BT speaker. No problems so far.

JB

Anybody know why the video isn’t working?

Fixed it, found a workaround (I think)

Pleased to see the video working ok now, and nice to see your gang down at Towne Lake !.

Thanks and well done to the website team also.

Cheers
Phil👍⛵🚤

What à romantic scenery!!!!

Looking fantastic Graham. Now are you glad that you kept the matches in your pocket.😬😬

That speed looks so much more realistic to how I used to enjoy real touring in my kayak as a younger fitter lad.
Regular trips from Leicester to Skegness by kayak, and collected by my dad for return trip. 3 days out 2 hours return.
Thanks for reminding me of my youth.
Cheers Colin.

Thanks for the comments guys !.
Still a bit unsure what will happen when she gets a good blow ! - I don't enjoy sailing in a howling gale but I can alter the keel weight if necessary and alter the jib fixing point along with sail area combinations.
Still all very suck it and see ! .
Enjoy !
Phil⛵

Well Done Phil,

It's good to see you improving an already very successful design with a few very effective tweaks.

We should always remember that even successful designs can be readily enhanced and\or improved by our capable members!

Dr John F. Leeds and Bradford. MBC. 😊😊😊

Very nice finish...the crew is awesome. Great job! RR

Hi Rogal,

Many thanks for the photos - a really impressive model!!

Each to his own, but I much prefer small water craft modelled to 1\24, 1\16 or even 1\12 scale - rather than far larger ships unavoidably modelled on a tiny scale.

With best wishes. Dr John F. Leeds and Bradford. MBC. 😊😊😊

That's amazing....bet it takes a lot of work to programme it to do that.

Thanks everyone for the comments and yes I will try out the tug one day. Next project is a DF65 ⛵. I already have two, one bought and one made in the conventional way of plank on frame with Balsa wood. I will take a look at the Dragonfly and post if I think I can do it. The CAD work takes longer than the printing.

Looks like a very successful maiden voyage!
Very well done boat.

Very nice looking boat. She runs very well. Great job.😃