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Hull Materials
… powerful direction control. I had a Model Slipway Al Khubar tug that used two nozzles, those were fixed and used rudders as per full size. However steering was best done by controlling the motor speeds and direction. One forward and one rev …
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Le Caux Tuf
Le Caux French Tug Fiberglass hull. Complete with Futaba Navy radio 40 Mhz Twin 900 turbo water cooled motors Two Electronize speed controllers 12 volt 35 amp golf buggy battery Ready to run and It Is a very powerful tug capable of towing a …
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Model boats - at night
… st after dark. Boats included are : Fishing boats, trawler, Tug, Lifeboat, sports cruiser and patrol boat. Appologies for the background noise, but thats the traffic on the M6 toll.
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Bournville Model Power Boat Club
… r looked after us which was good for the large turnout. The tug did survive albeit very wet after been rescued!!. Hope you make it next year. Regards Chris
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Alte Liebe
This is my tug Alte Liebe. it is a Caldercraft kit and is almost 1 metre in length. I have installed an MFA 540 motor with a 2.5:1 reduction gear and operate her on 6 volt SLA's. With ballast she is fairly heavy coming in at about 15 kg. I …
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Huntsman rescue
Thanks tidtug, Some minor damage to repair. and the missing hand rails & stanchions to refit. But mostly in fair nick. Would like to try on water before winter sets in.
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Lesro Rapier
… ter torque and higher revs- although I expect some of those tugs are pretty powerful. Incidentally Dave, I don't know about expert, but I'm thoroughly enjoying taking a more methodical approach to my boating! All very interesting. Regards.. …
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Aerokits Sea Commander
HI tugs62, This boat was bought off another club member, with a Bushless motor, quite a large one and on 14.4 volts it was very very fast. As a result I rolled it turning under power, I might have hit something like a basking fish but I rea …
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Launching
… pole but since our boats weigh in at more than 6kg (my big tug is 60 kg!) this proved Impossible to handle. Now I'm sure not many folk will have access to leaded gillnet footrope cord but a few weeks ago I saw the same sort of leaded cord …
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Sea Breacher
… As a final note one of our members was sailing his 4' model tug with others on his local canal. Without any provocation or warning a male Swan attacked his boat and pierced a 2" hole in the plasticard deck.
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Smoke generators?
… bers uses jos? sticks. Uses a 35mm film canister in his TID tug. Certainly attracts attention for the smell if not the smoke! Looks quite realistic. Come on Fireboaters / Modelboater some of you must have used smoke units, lets hear about y …
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Irishman
… w.modelslipway.com ) as Yorkshireman as this was the sister tug. The basic kit costs about A£270 and running gear, bow thrusters, fire monitors and radio gear costs about another A£250. The kit is really for those with modelling experience …
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Irishman
where can I buy this tugboat from
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funnel finishing
… om a distance, if I remember right you have one in your sun tug, are they worth buying ? can you recommend one ? all help very much appreciated......regards.....mark b
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funnel finishing
It took me 2 weeks to finally profile the funnel on my Sun tug, that was made up of 6 pieces of wood too! A lot of hard work, but yours looks well worth all the effort . incidentally, any thoughts on a smoke generator for full effect perhap …
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props,shafts and motor mount
… to grips with Cascamite, used it on the woodwork on the Sun tug and found it stronger than the wood itself. but the only down side is you have to get the mix just right for it to fully cure. A more recent "find" is "aliphatic resin", this t …
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Which Radio Control System?
HI Tidtug Used one for a couple of years now. Rock solid and the four batteries in the transmitter lasted for a couple of months weekly sails without charge Most of my fellow club members are or have upgraded to 2.4Ghz as it saves the hassl …
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Smit Hunter
… e boats, RNLI type of sailing but the detial on some of the tugs are amazing!! giving it some thought at the moment what to get into
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Mayhem at Wicksteed!
… joy. So what's on? Free sailing most of the time, Springer Tugs games, Club 500 racing, Footy and yacht sailing, Thames barges, Warships from all over the world, Tugs and towing of every kind, Merchantmen, Ferries, Ocean Liners, pleasure c …
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Could somebody please help me Identify this model???
… e picture it appears to be some sort of ocean going salvage tug. As well as a side view picture it would help to know the number of props and measurement details? Tugs were very popular in the 70's and 80's and many kits and plans were avai …
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Could somebody please help me Identify this model???
… w picture to stand any chance of identifying it. Almost any tug could look like that from that angle.
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Which motor?
… is no rush!. I have a few other models to sail,Cervia,Yarra tug Manchester Ship Canal Old Trafford paddle tug (all scratch built) and when the Mercury is finished I will start the 34" RAF fireboat, for which I have the drawing. When I learn …
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Radar.
… as I used 2 of them to fit in the radar heads on my pusher tug, the "Egrete" [see my boats section for piccy]. the motors run very quiet, I did just drip the smallest of light machine oil on the gears before installation, but the ones on t …
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… irst and encouragement to branch out into scratch building, tugs other Aerokits models and more
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old age
… are kept quite pristine, The replica of a London/Thames Sun Tug Was kept in tip top order, in so much as the crew were not allowed to leave work for the day untill the tug had been fully washed down, all ropes stowed away, any paintwork bru …
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37.5 Foot Seaplane Tender 206
… with my 34 and 46 inch Aerokits Fire Boats and a couple of Tugs. Making the seaplane tender was very satisfying and it performs really well.
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AL KHUBAR 3
Model Slipways 1/32 scale harbour tug kit built late summer/autumn 2011. Powered by MFA 2.5:1 geared motors running on 6 volts and powered through an Action P94 Mixer/speed controller to provide great steering performance -- easily turns on …
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Propshaft Coupling arrived - Construction Full Speed Ahead!
… as such the "flexI bit" may get too hot and self destruct. tugs normally use low revving or geared drives which have a lower rpm end line. The "drive pins" are also known to shear quite easily if put under too much load, as thats the idea …