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Yes it was Dave, all 3 in the water for the first time in 2012.....think it was new brighten clubs open day in june or july sometime around then. 

 
On February 2, 2002 in the English Channel, General Cargo Vessel KODIMA suffers and engine breakdown in a force 8 storm.
She starts drifting towards the Devon Coast.

 
https://youtu.be/PTPeUXpOMh0?si=J10cVN5I6VsjgHUk


SVITZER Salvage tug SYGIN on station at Land's End approaches the injured vessel and seeks to make a towage connection. The heavy swell makes it impossible and the vessel runs aground near Plymouth.

A Salvage Team with specialised equipment is mobilised from the Netherlands. The storm makes boarding only possible by helicopter. With assistance from the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency all equipment and specialists are transferred to the vessel.

Preparation is made and on 16 February the re-float is successfully accomplished. The KODIMA is safely returned to her owners in Falmouth.

Where was that photo taken? Looks very much like the boating pond at New Brighton, but there may be others that look similar.

Whilst looking through ebay last night I came across a model lifeboat that I imediately recognised, as it was unmistaceable, being the one and only model made from grp mouldings that had come out of moulds that I had made way back in 2009[I think].

Got chatting to the seller who was a little warry, I can understand as I knew more about it than he believed until he told me that he was selling for an older friend who had bought it and another similar boat some  years before but now too old to lift them.

So I asked him how was the Field Marshal and mrs Smutts....he came back asking did I build them.

Yes, and I put them on mayhem as a build  many years ago.

Its lovely to see them still sailing and in good condition. Makes me proud, but also sad now that I sold them years ago


3 Lifeboat builds, What goes into a model kit.




https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/388668881540?_skw=MODEL+LIFEBOAT&itmmeta=01JZBE4FBPPH77M5QKEE0QVQ5H&hash=item5a7e787a84:g:O5kAAeSwG9NoaBYN&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1eDdCr9auH8G5bzua%2FjXWi80Mgt73eMDiBBIbASMP9TfGmfvuQz900vHw9SXuhBUO8wgFe3dqNv1Jovx3uWFmwH%2FrmbpKPUefZf34iJNY45lbiPcMpAZTrSZAVyyBzMJLxMQT1jVLBMZ0tWYxpuIG%2FsmGxNb8OvCfK8ieCQzleNc0NShR2L%2Bhz9enc0kGJSNrCnvsj8v3vxdB0oO18223onf7Us10p4hcjbEcuSuCDN%2BgUhO26cGE3KFB6yvjqOWkbEHsCURWwouS3%2Fl3tfkOIayG9WbAWU6LtvDlPFOqMu7Q%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR572ke76ZQ

Nope Ron

HI Dan just been lookin through your great build but  cannot see a video ?
chrisb

I’m watching that thanks.
Hoping Flack on here will get in touch.

Hi David - I've been looking at your pictures and I thought that the deck looked really spot on.  A very brave decision on your part and sometimes we just have to get things exactly the way we want them - fantastic build.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/365706361893?_skw=MODEL+LIFEBOAT&itmmeta=01JZB8J59XTWS4ZC0ZPR8XJ8MN&hash=item5525cc3c25:g:x8MAAeSwKBZoZTT3&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1cS1q0AAK60%2BtVWsbiGSTjwh%2BFdVukZZ%2BIoUkjo3htwdtZ5r7UY5uuXGhnnwyUKBmPEiWEP330ItymIbSQ7YrB398TouKPLYe4Y%2BQNXJXgWKNOJO8%2FK1pJbaraUMze%2FOGiO2e8VtOnMmVSbZzgyvEoW2Hcrszjc%2FTxx5XieFBU5K90q7soI4qXdgOsVsBcSQJIHCrx%2FSSrfRmfMHuGYNczVatTHOt2eJwiW6bC4HG7bvI%2FjgSWnaOUe0eAKbpOeaF%2BlnpyN7q0i3NYzqKSWp0xdZpUJX3CqV4h1vi6%2BEW5Tiw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR57VyOj6ZQ

  Not sure if you've already posted Brutus... how is the exhaust routed?

I think I posted that, but can't remember for sure.

In any case, I routed the exhaust through the actual funnel. For that, I took off the funnel from the accomodation, worked out the innards so I could fit an aluminium tube all the way up.

At the engine manifold, I hooked up an old expansion muffler from a .12 class IC RC car model, which "more or less" fitted relatively conveniently.



The muffler is connected to the funnel-tube by about 20 cm (8") thin walled very flexible Silicone tubing.



It is a bit of a fuss to pop that tubing on the muffler, but once done, it usually does not have to come off again for a while.

So when the boat is sailing, it emits a nice blue plume of exhaust gas from the authentic place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6-f_VWYC54
It is remarkable how positive people respond to that: "Oh, look, it even has smoke coming out"... Most people do not realize that that is not just smoke but actual exhaust gas from an actual engine... Funny, that...