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Biggish Aquarama Special build
ukmike:
Hi.
LOA 1.3 mtrs. x 380mm Beam.
Powered by 2 x 1KW. brushless motors.
Some photos of the work so far.
Mike.
TomHugill:
Been looking forward to this mike, following on!
Martin (Admin):
Yeah, I say Bigish too!
DaveRuss:
I take it that this is a scratch build.If so,do you cut the parts yourself or is there somewhere you send the plans.Thanks
Also can you tell us what wood you are using etc.
Will be following closely.
ukmike:
Building from plans and cutting the wood myself.
The frames should have been 5mm birch ply but when it arrived it was the Imperial equivalent which is a tad thicker, as is all of the wood that I ordered.
The keel is 2 X 5mm laminated together from frames 7 to 13 and 4 laminations from 6 onward. Again all oversize due to the wood being Imperial.
Other woods include Mahogany, Lime and a little 4mm ( ish ) birch ply.
Glue will be mostly yellow aliphatic, maybe a little epoxy here and there.
The Mahogany planks for the hull sides and some of the decking will be 9mm X 3mm which I will cut myself, the hull bottom is 3 mm ply due to the full size having a white bottom.
As for varnish, ( eventually ), it will be LeTonkinois.
Mike.
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