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ATLANTIC 21 NEW BUILD + 1

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Neil:
A friend was desperately looking for an Atlantic 21 and had asked me if I would build the "new" kit for him,and finally I relented and said reluctantly that I would at Christmas time if he hadn't found another ready built one.
Just a couple of days ago I saw one for sale and pointed it to him, and that is now a done deal.
So, I decided tonight to just do a little on the one that I have been restoring and to change it a little now that I will be building the untouched 21 as a production boat, and called Spix's McCaw.
So the one I started to develope tonight I am going to build as the pre production B300 with the experimental seating pod where the 3 crew sat one behind the other, with no antena or self righting airbag on a quad  mast arrangement.
Should be something different down the pond.

Neil:
this afternoon I cleaned up tyhe crew seating pod, and added sopme of the detailing to that specific boat.
I made a mould for one of the front seats some years ago and cast a few seats........tomorrow i'll try finding those or the mould and fit two more to the pod

Neil:
the small replacement platform for the hand throttles has now been fabricated and glued in possition with the throttle consol attached to it.

All going well.

Neil:
And the final addition to the 21  were a few more parts on the pod, the engine gontrol wires  feed tubes on the starboart side of the pod, and the bow and stern tow ropeholders.

Neil:
well!!!, I've been verbally "bullied" this evening by my friend Martin in Rotterdam to do some more on my Atlantic 21 [ only joking, but just jee'd me up to do a bit more] which I should be doing now that the nights are getting colder and darker very quickly and so decided to make the paper template for the wooden deck for my rib B500,

The deck of the original prototype was wooden, and I will be putting a thin veneer of mahogony over the plasticard deck.....no planking as it was just a sheet timber covering on the original in workable pieces of ply timber laquered.

These will be done similarly.
pictures are of present boat, and as Blue Peter John Nokes would say..........here's two I made earlier, lol.

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