Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: modelman66 on June 04, 2009, 07:24:37 pm

Title: Has anyone else done this?
Post by: modelman66 on June 04, 2009, 07:24:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tl0JdhWntU&feature=channel_page   this link takes you to my model boat pulling me in an inflatable boat across a pond just to see if it was possible and it works and i wondered if anyone else has done this with a tug for example??with more success.(i thought i had posted this earlier)
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Post by: barryfoote on June 04, 2009, 07:47:09 pm
That is very impressive. I have seen similar done with a tug.....But that really shows the power in the model.. :-)) :-))
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Post by: alan colson on June 04, 2009, 08:01:56 pm
This was done with a tug at Alfold Charity Model Boat Show last weekend. But in the past the members of the Southwater Dabblers MBC towed a narrowboat along the canal at Loxwood, I am not certain but it maybe on Utube.
Alan
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Post by: andyn on June 04, 2009, 08:09:26 pm
We did this the other day with Bill's small petrol tug with our big heavy rescue boat, with me in it :-))
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Post by: dougal99 on June 04, 2009, 08:13:55 pm
Quite a popular pastime with our tuggies   :} :} :}
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Post by: dougal99 on June 04, 2009, 08:15:00 pm
Sorry about the duplicate picture the computer lied to me  >>:-(
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Post by: oldiron on June 04, 2009, 08:58:03 pm
I've pulled an aluminum rowboat around containing a rather robust passenger with one of my tugs. No problem. Unfortunately I don't think anyone got a picture.

John
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Post by: towboatjoe on June 04, 2009, 10:08:13 pm
Back in 1981 I built a pushboat using a trolling motor and pushed two jon boats with people in them.
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Post by: modelman66 on June 05, 2009, 07:26:32 am
Thats brilliant love the photos  :-))
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Post by: SteamboatPhil on June 05, 2009, 10:28:12 am
Here we go
Date: July 1932
Bedford

4 ft long semiflash steamboat with a 3/4 bore and stroke single cylinder slide valve engine.
In the rowing boat, my grandfather and grandmother, great Aunt and uncle and a fellow club member

 :-)) :-))
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Post by: das boot on June 05, 2009, 04:33:48 pm
Back in the day when U-117 was under construction, number one son, aged about nine then, sat in the bare hull and my old steam tug lookalike (a converted Bugsier tug) towed him and the hull on a lap of Princes Park lake in Eastbourne.

Rich
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Post by: modelman66 on June 06, 2009, 07:43:36 pm
Wow shame you didnt take pictures  :(( :((
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Post by: das boot on June 06, 2009, 08:12:41 pm
We did...took loads of pictures. Best you ask my ex-wife where they are, she don't talk to me, hasn't done for thirty five years now.      O0


Rich
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Post by: sheerline on June 07, 2009, 10:31:51 am
U-33, someone once said there was always something positive to come out of every apparent disaster!! :-))
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Post by: jonny shoreboy on June 07, 2009, 10:40:06 am
That's cool people.  {-)
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Post by: das boot on June 07, 2009, 10:49:14 am
U-33, someone once said there was always something positive to come out of every apparent disaster!! :-))

Chris...Roger Waters once said "give any one species too much rope and they'll   "screw"  it up...."    O0

Rich


Martin woz ear!    :-))
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Post by: ronkh on June 07, 2009, 12:49:51 pm
Martin woz ear!     :-))

 {-) {-)
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Post by: Bryan Young on June 09, 2009, 07:55:13 pm
This Tommy proving the efficiency of his then new tug.
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Post by: tugnut on June 09, 2009, 08:01:03 pm
THATS WHAT I CALL A TOW %% %%
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Post by: Brian_C on June 09, 2009, 08:22:48 pm
heres another tow on the same lake, many years ago, bob anderson being towed by his steam tug  HENDON
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Post by: riggers24 on June 09, 2009, 08:41:14 pm
Bri is that you at the back of the rowing boat :}
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Post by: portside II on June 10, 2009, 12:19:12 am
Aha found it , this was taken at the club at goole by one of the members of me in the recovery boat towed by my tug Brakengarth .
daz