Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: kaybrandt on August 11, 2015, 08:28:07 am
-
While I was going through my IT education in 1999 and onwards, I was so far advanced in my class that I was allowed in on the creative line at the other end of the school, to take part in a modelboat building project, which really only were for blokes and for students on that creative line.
it was amazing. We built the boats in glassfibre, 28 inches long, 32 inches tall from keel to top of the mast. Each of us got our own boat. First all the hulls were made, then the tops, and then each of us worked on our own, giving them our own personal looks. Mine was white with the same color of blue stripe as the grey-blue colors of this forum. I named it "Flying Dolphin" in beautifully cut out letters.
All boats were standing on shelves, on self-built wooden stands, and we were only waiting for the packages with the motors and radio controls to arrive, when the disaster struck... a fall storm came and knocked down a tall tree, which fell in through the roof and shook the entire room, knocked over the shelves and ALL our beautiful boats lay there, crushed into pieces... We were crushed... all that hard work and our pride... None of us found the strength to start over and the project just fell apart...
That was the last time I even thought about building any more boats, until now...
- Karina
-
An interesting story. You need to build that boat again, to complete the unfinished business! ;)
-
Karina,
You will find that Umi, who is a member here, is well placed and qualified O0 O0 O0 to help. :-)) :-))
-
thank you guys.
well, i'll never build that boat again - the school is now closed and nobody knows where the "negative" parts from the project ended up. but I think some day I'll build a smaller scale of that one.