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Hello all,


Since I decided to use WiFi for the communication between transmitter and boat I now needed a WiFi router in the field. I found a nicely tiny and very efficient router and now needed to place it somewhere. It seems logical to put it on the water in a high place considering that this will increase the coverage of the network (along with the WiFi repeaters in both the transmitter and the boat), but this requires something to put it on. A lighthouse like the Fastnet Lighthouse south of Ireland is a perfect solution as it provides some 60cm of height above the water for the router, gives light during the night (off course the light will be working and rotating) and by adding an anchor winch which is remote controlled via an ESP32 board I can tow it to any location I want and not need to worry about water depth as well.

It took me 5 minutes to design anchor winch and 40 minutes later the 3D printer had finisht it as well. The engine and drum turned out to fit perfectly as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHktUdYSRrM
The winch works well and it powerful enough.

This will be the anchor making sure the lighthouse can not drift off by the wind. I made room for 2 layers of 4 blocks of lead meant for balancing car wheels. In the middle on the bottom I put a M4 threaded insert in which I will screw an eyebolt to connect the anchor chain or rope. By putting the threaded insert on the bottom it cannot be pulled out.


I made quite some headway with filling and sanding.

The bulbous bow requires quite some attention since it's not yet symmetrical.



The stern is a lot more symmetrical.

Took a pencil and a host of different types of rulers to check how close I am to the desired result, which turned out to be not as close as I thought.



After finalizing the design I printed the new power supply box. This is a lot better then what is currently in the old hull. The top plate housing a new 20x4 LCD screen and the plate holding the Raspberry Pi and it's attributes and a plate to hold all the removable plates straight are currently being printed. All plates will remain removable for maintaince purposes.

Greetings Josse

Having recently finished my Fairey Faun apart from some minor detailing I've returned to the Fairey Fisherman I started around 12 months ago having produced the drawings sometime before. Resisting starting my water-jet and outboard projects!   

Hi all, A Maxwell Hemmens boiler and engine appeared on a certain internet auction site today for a short while. I recognise the boiler as a MH Kingdom but which engine is this? And what size of boat would it comfortably power. The boiler was described as being approximately 12cm tall by 10cm diameter



Thanks in Advance, Rob

Davit which will be fitted to the forward part of the funnel superstructure.

Painted the funnel section, now comes the fine detailing

Water-resistant procedures were taken around lower deck, which work is always important for fast sailing RC boat with low free board as it is always exposed to continuous splash caused by the speed....The terribly worst if it's rough on the surface..!!   Delicate details will be sometimes disastrous by such a splash attack....   

MY next build will, after i have finished the Clyde that i am building for a friend in Scotland, a model that has sat in my workshop and other places around the house  for the past 30 and a half years and still waiting to be built.

It was the first model kit that I put together in a box of the Ann Letitia Russell just prior to me announcing to the world that a new model lifeboat kit was on the market. that was in August 1995.

The full kit is in the box below the Titanic box, and the hull and cab

I will get great enjoyment building these two lifeboats, and ones I will keep and sail.

Llandudno’s Shannon, doing upper works and brass in the comfort of the spare room, also a Speedline Trent as and when I can get the time..

A very late update on this thread.

I have finally tracked down my article on the Caldercraft Cumbrae, and have got a copy of the magazine from Magazine Exchange (an excellent service to track down old magazine editions.

It was published in Radio Control Boat Modeller Magazine, May / June 1987. Because of the way the contents were listed, in a split column in the magazine, three articles, including mine, had been omitted from the contents list on the Magazine Exchange website (now amended by the proprietor). This was the only place I could find the contents listed on the web.

Douglas

The difference in colour can now be seen between the colour on the cabin, and the trunking, so this morning I sprayed the two smaller units to go with the cabin, with a couple of coatings of the Halfords spray can sealer to see if it would react with the paint already on the cabin............




Not a jot of pealing or other reaction, so I can go ahead and sand it down with various grade of abrasive paper to give me a grounding for primer and top coats of the correct colour. so sanding will begin this afternoon.