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AliExpress Delivery Times
… n in Oswego, NY is selling a Midwest Cranberry Isle Lobster rch-hit">Yacht kit. Similar to what I have in my collection. I have not purchased it, but we did correspond.
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Saturday 6-21-25, at the White Bear Lake Calssic and Antique Boat Show
The Edina Model rch-hit">Yacht Club was again invited to set up a display at the annual White Bear Lake Classic and Antique Boat show. We had a 30' X 10' tent with 30 boats on display (plus one scratch built 3D printed RC snowblower ... providing ba …
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Weight calculation
Hi ToraDog Aircraft yes, and rch-hit">yachts, but we are talking biggish planing hulls here and in my experience the hulls are so buoyant it almost doesn't matter. Having said that, I always try if I can to even out the weight along the hull with th …
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Re: Photo problem solved; here’s an update
… market dynamics: to the south the one dedicated to tourism, rch-hit">yachting and cruises; to the north the area for commercial traffic, fishing and coastal shipping. It is very old, it was founded by Emperor Trajan. It is very beautiful because it …
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Pat's Fairlmile D MTB
… neur Noel Macklin of Fairmile Marine and designed by naval architect Bill Holt for the Royal Navy. Nicknamed "Dog Boats", they were designed to be assembled in kit form mass-produced by the Fairmile organisation and assembled at dozens of s …
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HMS Duchess
… ned to the Home Fleet, Duchess spent her early career on exercises and port visits. She was involved in celebrations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II during 1953, and escorted the royal rch-hit">yacht Britannia in 1954. The destroyer was rea …
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Found these at an Estate Sale today......
… Room. I plan to do some work on the Cranberry Isle Lobster rch-hit">Yacht. It was not built/finished to run. I'd like to open it up and put running gear and electronics in it to make it a working RC. The front opens to access where the motor and el …
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Tri65 3D printed trimaran, converted to foils
… printing this one I've produced two for members of my model rch-hit">yacht club and are about to print two more for other members. The Tri65 uses the rig from a DragonForce 65. I originally printed this one for conventional sailing with a centreboar …
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JIF 65 (RG65)
This is the typical boat sailed at Kirklees Model rch-hit">Yacht Club (a division of Kirklees Model Boat Club) who are more into sailing vessels and race. It was apparently chosen because the build is very easy so encourages members to build their o …
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Half Hull side project.
… ction in Rhode Island and plan on restoring it. It's an old rch-hit">yacht showroom sales demo (note the hook eye), but with a nice history. It's a Pearson Triton 28 designed by legendary designer Carl Alberg in 1958 for the (now defunct) Pearson Ya …
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Graupner Optimist - Another refit
… in acetal with a single groove. The fine Dynema cord was sourced from our local fishing shop where I was given 5m for free,- (very nice of him). I had also bought my stainless trace rigging wire from him previously, (apparently a lot of yac …
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Re: transport
… ago I was asked to take a scale display model of a sailing rch-hit">yacht, and make it a practical sailing boat with RC. The model is a metre long but weighed in at just 7 pounds. I calculated a minimum displacement of the hull for sailing and deci …
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CGINGA 1V
… ition of all deck structures, much head scratching and research of some of the most beautiful rch-hit">yachts ever, I chose to make a modest copy of the topsides of an Alfred Mylne 105 ft Gaff Ketch built 1937. This entailed deciding on what to inco …
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Graupner Krabbe Ton 12…the kit, not the boat😁
Hi y’all. After building the Caldercraft Clyde Puffer, and taking a break from building for a few weeks, I decided it was time to crank up my bench again. I had originally started on a kit that I got in a trade, a Deans Wacht Am Rhein…this …
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MGB 81 UK and HSL W1 (NZ)
… boat has been re-modelled into a luxury launch with full aircon, pop up tv etc in a total interior and topsides rebuild, virtually back to a bare hull. Propulsion is now by a single Detroit 8V 92T - around 430hp(from memory) which still ge …
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Flight Link Control Launch Link 2 channel radio control set
… s" as they are known I cut my teeth on Aerokits stuff, Sea Urchin, Sea Scout and Sea Commander. The latter with a Frog 349 diesel and others with early Mabuchi motors powered by dry cells. S - l - o - w! My first boats were a pond rch-hit">yacht and …
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THE MOST ORIGINAL, STRANGE AND FAILURE SHIPS EVER BUILT IN THE WORLD.
… en writing) something, the Internet (via Google or other search engines) offers you various news or articles for sale about it. This time it wasn't a sales proposal but news. Why do I say I'm going off the rails of my topic? Because the the …
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MATAKANA MODEL BOAT SHOW NEW ZEALAND 21.04.24
… , with new ships and their modern RNZN namesakes. Also Bismarck and other German ships, PT boats, Perkasa, Thornycroft ASRs etc - too many to list. So many amazing models, but only a few seem to be sailed locally, (mainly rch-hit">yachts). I did mak …
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THE MOST ORIGINAL, STRANGE AND FAILURE SHIPS EVER BUILT IN THE WORLD.
… GOROD. Now the list has gone from four to six thanks to Cashrc who added: 1) an aircraft carrier which proved to be very useful but very original, perhaps unique (along with its twin) of its kind, and 2) a submarine which seems to have been …
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Racing Sparrow
… built from the plan and detail in the book "Build your own RC rch-hit">Yacht" by the New Zealand modeller Bryn Heveldt. Plank on frame balsa construction. Detailed blog here: //model-boats.com/blogs/106408
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Sloop Emma
Only paper sails for now but just had to test the rc systems along with a fan blowing gently across the room. Tried several different “ sailing “ attitudes and adjusted the sails accordingly. The main works well and is very responsive, the …
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IngaIV
… o and this shows in the build quality that remains in the purchased hull and deck that arrived by carrier from an online auction site. A good scrub of the decking and a coat of paint on the hull. I made the sails and masts, plus the rigging …
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Again back to the masts.
… eep the cover in keeping with all the other fittings of the rch-hit">Yacht so I’m using 0.010" brass sheet . To make a container of suitable size I am going to make a press tool to form them making them uniform throughout. A small piece of brass bar …
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RA IngaIV New sails
… ttempt i am well pleased with a hopefully working set. This rch-hit">yacht modelling is all new to me so am winging it and could not have got this far without the help of you guys here at model boats, thankyou. Its all a steep learning curve, so com …
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Sail Winches
… ry Christmas. I have used fore sails / flying jibs on small rch-hit">yachts and find that they work without connecting to a sail winch. On my Pelican (see My Harbour) the fore jib at the clew of the sail there is an eyelet and the sheet just goes th …
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Ra ingaIV
… ot been drilled out yet.The rear cabin was missing when I purchased the barn find hull. as for your question regarding the winch set up this is my next project. I have not owned a sail rch-hit">yacht before and it is taking a lot of research to fill …
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Re: Scheme for connecting Sails to 2 winchservos for à marblehead sailing boat
… by Vic Smeed and it will have all the answers. I have a few rch-hit">yachts and some run on one winch. These are Rob Guyatt winches which are expensive but one I purchased was fourteen(14) years ago and still runs fine and I sail in saltwater. One y …
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Re: GRAUPNER CHRIS CRAFT CONSTELLATION
I was in the RAF in Germany and bought several German made RC items. I had a kinematic unit. Tricky to use but when mastered great. Robbe also did a similar mechanism but much smaller and I had one of those as well. All lost in moving etc. …