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Fairey huntsman
… atch the rounded bow so I’ve seen a few people use water or steam and heat gun but what would be the best outcome many thanks Wez
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Harrogate
… es models from Micro Magic Yachts , Scale Electric and Live Steam No IC or Fast electric. We sail Sunday mornings all year round and Wednesday evenings in the summer months. All are welcome it would be nice to see you.
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Lydia Eva restoration
… e Lowestoft Maritime museum has lots of similar scale model steam trawlers on display with all the natural paraphernalia carried on the decks back in those days.
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THE MOST ORIGINAL, STRANGE AND FAILURE SHIPS EVER BUILT IN THE WORLD.
… e to reduce the sail and advance with a little speed of the steam engines. He had managed to counteract the skidding but, during the changing of the first and second guard, a stronger gust suddenly increased the skidding. The order to relea …
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Glassed
… ject.) Or, you know Coast Guard Cutter Onandaga 1/48 with a steam plant. One of those two. Then, a break from boat building and on to a PBY!
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Zwarte Zee
… g the model at Boats in the park this weekend at Hamilton's Steam Museum I did do a build log on model
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Balloon Buster
… R for the next show .Boats in the Park at the Woodward Ave. Steam Museum . I have until May 27th & 28th. Web Site Hamilton Museum of Science & Technology
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Drifter Trawler Boat Formidable LT100
… n the Maritime Museum along with lots of other very similar steam trawlers. Here’s a picture that just catches the funnel.
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What do you reckon for this next step?
… bing strips. Do you think crimping them would work best, or steaming them… or a combo of both? It is only the stern I am really worried about as it is a tight-ish radius. I am going to sand a small (5mm) flat around the stern for them to si …
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Re: Quick update.
… …however, since the Kalle is an “representative” model of a steam tug in the 20s or thereabouts, one could say that the Mystery is representative of a diesel tug in the early 50s..and the designers were looking at the Kalle when they “desig …
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2nd competition
Last Sunday we had our 2nd competition for steamdriven modelboats 1 very nice wheather which improves the atmosphere 2 nice people and visitors 3 not that much participants But it is not the number but the quality that counts
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2nd competition
Wish we had some steam power down here in Portland I have a steam powered that I built, and I scared to run it and setting all the work I put into it and it catching fire. And I not sure the steam engine is set up correctly. or how to opera …
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Russian K100D waterjet work boat project
… nt controls for each port). Someone on the site mentioned a steam powered water pump driven ship from the 1800s ? a while back on the site which used a similar principal. The boats were made by the Yaroslavl shipyard, and were very common i …
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Mast to boom fixing
… y crude and oversized, it works for me and looks right, the steam winch only moved the boom up & down and the same goes for the cargo hook, to get the cargo onto the quay the boom had to be moved by the ropes that are fixed to the boom and …
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Sailing at Madrid
… will join them again. I was told that Eduardo will bring an steam-driven side wheeler.
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THE MOST ORIGINAL, STRANGE AND FAILURE SHIPS EVER BUILT IN THE WORLD.
… ravagant of all. Just look at the photo to understand it. A steamship designed by Ernesto Bazin that moved on six enormous wheels. Not paddle wheels, but floating wheels, incredible. Yet this ship managed to cross the English Channel. This …
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Cheddar Electronic gas control valve instructions
… h a Cheddar Puffin). I don't want it. If I need any type of steam electronic control I use Denes Design. Like the Gas Controller: https://www.denesdesign.co.uk/products/gcu-gas-control-unit Denes
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Lulonga River Tug
Lulonga steam river tug. Broad beam twin stern paddles. Very stable and graceful on the water. Single motor (12 volt)chain driven from geared motor. Fitted with smoke mister, lights and sound. Unusual model built from plan. Lovely to sail o …
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Re: (Tug Boat) Lulonga quarterwheeler
… www.paddleducks.co.uk, it is an Aussie link for all paddle steamer modellers. Unfortunately, a number of Aussie links have been unavailable lately, I don't know what's going on. the process of building my model can be found here > https:// …
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THE MOST ORIGINAL, STRANGE AND FAILURE SHIPS EVER BUILT IN THE WORLD.
… aranteed by six propellers at the stern, powered by as many steam turbines capable of delivering a power of 2400 hp (wikipedia reports a different, much higher value). The six propellers should have made it more maneuverable than any other …
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THE MOST ORIGINAL, STRANGE AND FAILURE SHIPS EVER BUILT IN THE WORLD.
The British K class steam submarine. Won’t go into details, I’ll link the wiki page, but just not a great idea…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_K-class_submarine
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THE MOST ORIGINAL, STRANGE AND FAILURE SHIPS EVER BUILT IN THE WORLD.
… d ship in the list of strange, bizarre, failed ships is the steamer BESSMER. Attention should not be confused with the steamship Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 which was a railway ferry in service on the Great Lakes where it sank in 1909. The B …
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THE MOST ORIGINAL, STRANGE AND FAILURE SHIPS EVER BUILT IN THE WORLD.
… ing operations would be reduced. Only the rear module had a steam engine, while the central and front segments had sails that allowed autonomous propulsion for all modules. Each could navigate independently of the other. The first test was …
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Opening of the electro driven boats
… delboatbuilders Last week was the opening of the season for steamdriven boats today my favourite the electro driven boats! What a day! Lots of sunshine! 14 participants( what à succes) nice people, NEW members, so the average age is going d …
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Opening of the season
… Chats, good friends We opened thé season this year with thé steam driven modelboats and it was à great pleasure
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Rawdon Model Boat Club
… and. we do have the following sections: Trains electric and steam boats electric and steam lorries electric only the sailing division with whom it all started 119 years ago( as our pond has been especially buit for us 15O X 30 CM and 1m dee …
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Fantail launch
A Midwest steam launch built as a fantail launch from Woods Hole.
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Ribs
… ble enough to bend into shape and clamp in position without steaming. Unfortunately, the ribs have a sharper bend and could not be bent dry without splitting. A steamer was constructed using offcuts of plastic drainpipe (I knew it would com …