So much joy in a renovation.. very nice...

Excellent! I'm a big fan of restorations. Keeps our history alive.👍

Beautiful ! What is the function of the chains at top of rudder? A "limit switch"??

Hi Rod. You are correct. Because of the size and location of the rudder it needs to be protected from stressing beyond it limit. That’s a great question. In all my presentations no one else has ever asked. Good eye!

"just one minor point which is Arthur has a H in it? "
NOT in Portuguese, e.g. Brazil Gary (or several other non-English languages, e.g. Slavic, Celtic and Germanic) 😉
😎

Just looking at the pictures it is obvious how much time you have involved in it.
Beautiful job!
Barry

I can only thank my "first in command" - (the XYL) for sailing her - It gets a bit confusing trying to do both jobs at once ! .⛵

Nice conversion Phil, sails well by the looks of it. I have my eye on a similar display model in a haberdashery shop window, but I doubt it's for sale, (or if it is, it's $$$$$)

JB

Nice conversion , where is she sailing?

Location here is Buxton Derbyshire,we sail at the Pavilion Gardens.👍

Lockdown project or not, you have built a very nice model and I look forward to seeing her afloat, if ever they let us sail again!.

Nerys

Now it's the wait of Lockdown before you hit the water.
Looks like a neat project

do you get people feeding it
brian😋

Hi Brian,

Not happened yet 😁. There are a lot of real ducks on the Pavillion Gardens lake in Buxton and they get fed by lots of the visitors. Most visitors don’t notice Donald as he blends in with the rest of the crowd. It great to see their faces if/when they finally notice that Donald is a bit different to the others ( the blue flashing eyes tend to give it away!) 😂🤣

Graham93

Or as we taught some of the Moroccan sellers of re-coloured crystals to say when hawking their wares as gem crystals, e.g. amethyst -
"It's a genuine original forgery Sir" 😁😂

Beautiful yacht and well done. Too much goes into a skip, this proves a point.

Many thanks Guys, yes we did a trial business in 2016, to test the market 'Broadland Classics'. The initial runs sold with real enthusiasm, and reported back to us the best they had ever had as kits, however, sadly, my own failure was being far to fussy on getting every kit out more than perfect, and treating the kits as so individual to every customer per real commissions, that I slowed down the production process massively, thus creating self worries on demands, which I became concerned if we could not keep up with supply. We were so lucky to have gained the original lines plans from these classics life sized craft, but I had to make a decision, and following our one year trial, ceased, which I recognise broke many potential customers hearts. I was simply not prepared to do mass production in the sense of same, same. Every customer to us had to have their kits as though the real thing, beyond perfect,a commissioned kit if you like. I know perhaps crazy, but there you go, it is what we strived for and just took far longer than any other kit manufacturer to produce.
We are looking at way of perhaps re-producing the kits that people may enjoy, or even do commissions, but just need to carefully think it all through one final time. Being we have the complete rights to the designs in model form, there is no rush from our part against competition, and of course only we know every real detail imposed on the real Broads craft to relay to every kit.
Lots to think about all over again, but it has finally come to light following lots of enquiries of our kits, that we simply wanted to show them in their pride and glory here.
Cheers to you all.

I have only just come across these build photos and must say I really do admire both yachts the one shown sailing with the dinghy behind it particularly. I am not surprised that you were overwhelmed with request to buy the kits, to me they are simply lovely. I have a friend who purchased a real one some years ago and had it shipped to Leics and it was on the River Soar, lovely thing with a cabin roof that could be raised for headroom and canvas cabin sides.
I am sure there would be lots of interest if you resumed production.
Best regards Chris G

Well done that man 👍
Unfortunately I'm not a yacheting man so can't help you directly with the setup.
BUT HEY! There's lots of yachties on this site! I've seen many discussions, threads and blogs on various yacht setups ....
Soooo ... pull your digits out guys, give the man a break and help him out with his yacht setup.
Cheers, Doug 😎

Go with swing arm servos for sail control, less trouble with the lines than winch. if room is a problem one can be used to control jibs & main. but separate controls are obviously best.