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Fairey Huntsman 31 (47” SLEC kit) build blog
… about doing a big Huntsman for a while and as the Springer tug wasn’t doing it for me I decided to rest the tug for another day and pull the trigger on the large 47” length Huntsman kit from SLEC. 2 days after ordering the huge box arrived …
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Weather forecast
… at are stalled for painting. First is my Stevns Arctic 75lb tug. I don’t have a blog for this here but you can see it in my Harbour along with a link to photo gallery. I think there is enough left to do to maybe start a blog “The finishing …
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Propulsion fitted
… ough. I've added a link to a video of same motor in my Hoga tug. I have an strong dislike of universal joints and their clakity clakiness so I make my own couplings that also act as an alignment tool. https://techno.smugmug.com/Billing-Boat …
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Cheeks & Stringers
… asn.t sussed it I am doing a kind of step by step of Cervia Tug Build on Mayhem. Right Iam off to the pond for the maiden voyage of my U.S.C.G Ports & Waterway Model. Last minute thought was wondering if I should fit the frame 10 on the bow …
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One problem down one to go
… st going to try another receiver, as I uninstalled the rx I tugged on the antenna slightly and it came right out!! I’ve concluded that I had a sketchy intermittent signal the whole time. The receiver in question is a FlySky GR3C bound to a …
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Fittings details
… er and prop, I do not know. They'd be OK on a Vosper, but a tug boat, really? The rudder spindle is brass rod with a 2mm groove milled 3mm deep to accept the brass blade. Once the blade was soldered in place 1.25 mm flats were milled from e …
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Fort Valley
… owing to the letter what my mind had proposed. Indeed, this tug is another build that was modified from the original vision and for better or worse had several "Shipalts" along the way. While I'm working on one facet an idea may come along …
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70' WWII MGB
… ntention was to go fast electric since my 2 other boats are tugs (one a paddle tug) so single prop 2 blade 30mm, direct drive from a Turnigy XK2845 3650Kv In runner motor with water cooled mount, 50 amp water cooled ESC with 4 amp BEC power …
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New Running Lights Switches!
… on the Boat Website! I have nothing to do! But, my Brooklyn Tugboat had light switch issues! See, I had used push button switches. which I was told would eventually fail! And as I was told they did fail! So, I purchased some new SPTD switch …
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Euro-Girl Semi Kit Review
… the load. It is finished off in a rust colour which suits a tug because if you scratch the paint this rust colour will show through just like a working boat! The Cut outs are molded in inluding the propshaft(s) and steerable Kort(s) Here yo …
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Four wheel secured
The skipper from Port Dover, said that a tugboat’s propeller is called a wheel. If you drive the tug with a four blades it is called four wheel. Thus two, three, five also a two wheel, three wheel or five wheel. Learned something new.
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Just another, Smit Nederland Build!
Well, The Tug Atlantic was a no go! So, I ordered the Tug Smit Nederland! This is going to be a nice build. I have many idea's in mind! I'm going to incorporate independent throttling! also independent smokers will be used as well! Her ligh …
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Hull Painted
… at are recommend by Dean's, but they are going to be my new tug fleet colures. Fred
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Progress with installation and H bridge as a smoker.
… matter of preference or even practicalities. I examined the Tug electronics and it's a little more non standard than I expected. The rudder servo pulse is 1to 2 msec, but occurs at a rate of about 8.6 msec, over twice as fast as usual. Serv …
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Onwards with the circuit description
… e inputs that we have extracted from the raw signals of the Tug, which actually gets us near to actually driving the motors.
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The real blog starts
… e in order to achieve the objective. In this case we have a Tug that manoeuvres worse than a slug. Windage is a disaster with little keel and a high non central superstructure. The obvious thing to do is to fit a rudder mixer so rudder oper …
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On the water
Tried the Tug on the pond today. I had fairly windy conditions. Results on the dual ESC generally pleasing. Going forward, as expected, slow turning much better, turns going fast about the same. Backwards gave best results at medium speeds. …
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Not quite in circles
Well I had a short video showing the Tug wiggling its bottom in the bath. The bath is smaller than the Tug so it could not do a circle. But although I got it to less than 5MByte it looks like the site won't accept the video. Sorry. Can anyo …
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Going in cicles round the (deckhouse)
On this tug everything goes round the deckhouse because it always seems to get in the way. I have added a few cm to its wires to ease things a bit. The replacement pair of H bridges has been constructed, fitted ( or to be honest, squeezed i …
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St Canute Billing Boats Build Update
… managed to proceed with some pace the build of my St Canute tug, please don’t look to closely at the stern! I replaced the planking with some carved and shaped balsa blocks. The one big problem l have now is some missing brass parts (2off) …
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Newb7 query
… ar in mind that this build is applicable to the Southampton Tug and similar boats using the same basic parts. I detailed the options previously. You can spend your way to the same solution but it will cost a fair bit. Other boats which have …
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History and progress
… es on from the Electronize thread and also from Southampton Tug/ smoke generators. A few folk would like an introduction to Electronics and this ESC project will hopefully serve as a foundation for that. Please go through the last few weeks …
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Alternatives suggested by G6SWJ
… hat uses the receiver 1-2 msec signal cannot be used in the tug because it uses a proprietary PCB. As far as I can see from the official circuit that signal does not exist on any line that can be picked off. There is a PWM that goes to the …
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"MARGE" Completed.
… besides a few swear words i have enjoyed making this little Tug. Now i must get back to working on U552 or HMS Cottesmore. Maybe! Martin555.
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Test Floats - Sea Trials
… my three winter builds up the street to my neighbours pool. Tug Miss Katherine, Vosper, and Folk sailboat Ballast was good on all three. I had my Forward/Reverse power controls set-up opposite to what I prefer but those were just minor adju …
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Superstructure.
Hi Guys, A good friend sent me some plans for a different Tug so i will be using some ideas from them. Again using plastic from a Margarine tub. Just a little word of warning, if you plan on using Margarine and Ice cream Tubs it is best to …
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📝 Airboat, getting back to it
… et one dry and see what it looks like,- might be good for a tug if it will dry without splitting. Might do a bit of pre carving with the chainsaw while it's soft.
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connectors for upper cabins (Water/ Electrical)
How do you make it so you can lift upper cabins off of tugs fire boats, to allow easy access to batteries and other parts of the boat. What connectors do you use for upper decks (Water/ Electrical) Do you install switches on outside of boat …