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SimpleSailor Bronze

Lieutenant · 1,856 pts Stamford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Member since Mar 2014 Last online 13 hours ago Age 74

374 Posts 5 Followers 4 Boats in harbour 3 Build blogs

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SimpleSailor’s harbour

4 boats

Clyde harbour tug "ARRAN"

I decided to renovate a very old model tug which belonged to my Dad. This has been in the family for over 8…

13 5 3 years ago

Fairey "Maybe"

I have just been fixing this boat up. It was built in about 1962 by my dad from his own plans. Made from Ba…

18 6 3 years ago

3 D Printed boat "Out-Spam"

This is my first attempt at a fully 3D printed boat. Made from PLA+. Finished in Acrylic paint with hand cu…

16 8 3 years ago

(Naval Ship) KD Perkasa MTB

Plywood 1:24 scale MODAV kit from 1976. (Motor: Turnigy AquaStar 4084 620Kv) (ESC: Turnigy AquaStar 160 Amp…

1 0 5 years ago

SimpleSailor’s build blogs

3 blogs

Powered Hopper Barge

Hi. After my exploits with the Hybrid Barge hull design I have now started work on a powered barge. This will be using a Kort nozzle. Pic…

7 1 2

12 months ago

Hopper Barge

A friend of mine has asked me to make him a Hopper type barge to tow behind his tug. He already has a scratch built shoe box, but it does…

12 7 6

1 year ago

Update on Hybrid Hull

I have decided to go with the Fig 1 Hull. This is a L58 x W15 x H12 cm section, four required. For anyone interested the cost per section…

9 8 11

1 year ago

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Gallery reply Re: gallery Hi RossM. Yes they have been stretched and are out of shape. 2 7 days ago Media Sailing on a Sunday Just a few photos of the Three Musketeers sailing on Sunday 19th July. We seem to be the only three that turn up on a regular basis. Just so happened there was… 8 8 days ago Forum reply Re: Flysky Warning @EdW Hi Ed. Yes I have on my 2019 X9D+. I have two of them. One runs Edge TX the other the last valid version of Open TX 10 16 days ago Blog reply Re: build blog @DuncanP :Nice looking boat. As for the Chatgpt thing. I would climb the ladders in photo 2 to get to the top deck but might bang my head if I tried it in with… 3 22 days ago Forum reply Re: Question of the Day? @TonyAsh Hi Tony. You can access past questions in the new system. It is not obvious. There is a previous button at the top. I have done it and did work. 21 2 months ago Forum reply Re: SHIP MODELING: WHICH MODEL COMPANIES ARE STILL ACTIVE? WORLD OVERVIEW, CHARACTERISTICS AND PECUL Hi all. I couldn't see Deans Marine UK on the list so just in case here it is. https://www.deansmarine.co.uk/ 11 2 months ago Forum reply Re: Question of the Day? @SouthportPat: I agree with you Pat. However it could be the Ai lulling us into a false sense of security before increasing the complexity of the questions. Wa… 21 3 months ago Forum reply Re: Question of the Day? The only thing I can say about todays question is, I got it right. However I did have help. Stephen might have missed it in his update of the site. Prior to th… 21 3 months ago Forum reply Re: Question of the Day? Please keep the QOD going. But what a change to the web site. It will take some getting used to. The only thing missing is the answers bar which gave an indica… 21 3 months ago Forum reply ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS SWITCHING FROM A MAIN BATTERY TO A SPARE BATTERY, FOR SAFER NAVIGA Nice one Mirangi. That should work, I like the latching idea and the use of a LM393 comparator. It should cut out any chance of relay chatter.As suggested I wo… 8 169 3 months ago

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