The Shipyard ( Dry Dock ): Builds & Questions > Lifeboats
NEW BUILD -Clyde class lifeboat
Circlip:
We had a couple of inches of snow too,
Yep, and we had 6"
Regards Ian
Stavros!:
Neil told you about these ages ago got 3 myself 20 mins on in shed and i am down to a tee shirt and warm as tost as yoiu said sod the expense
Stav
Neil:
well, the first of the two boats that I will be making/repairing has arived, but the second one is going to have to be scratch built for most parts , so just a matter of the blind following the blind on this build, as a long time since i built a D Class lifeboat.
Neil:
it arrived just over 2 weeks ago, and has been pushed here and there in the workshop whilst i was finishing the Atlantic 21 I started on the 7th January.
It's now a tidy up and make some space and then its on to repair small bits on this one for a friend of mine., before Ibegin the full build of a second Clyde for him when it finally arrives.
The one I am in possession of at the moment has some bits broken and a few parts missing but know what they are, as I built the original semi kit 15 years ago and still have a few mouldings remaining from the original castings I did.
Hopefully the repairs to this wont take long, and by that time I will have quite a few made for the unstarted boat.
Funilly, the build of one of these big brutes isn't so daunting though, as, as big as they are, they are NOT cluttered as much as the most modern od lifeboats as the technology just wasn't as detailed in the 1960's when these were built as it is these days with such as the Shannon and the Severn, et al.
Neil:
IT IS now time to get started on the repairs to the Clyde class lifeboat that was delivered to me a few weeks around Christmas time with quite a few brocken parts. that boar I am now going to photograph, take measurements and start producing fittings for the second one that is wanted.
then theyll all be ready just to put on the model when ready.
Today, been cutting out all the windows........all 19 of them...........hope to have those ready by tomorrow night.
In the meantime have re-arranged the boat for easy access, both to the boat and the work bench.
have you ever seen motors this size............much neaded for these monsters.
I'm only thankfull that the mast on this boat is not brocken, as that is a task to build on its own, without reparing
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