Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: DavieTait on October 03, 2009, 09:26:25 pm
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We've had Gale Force 8 - Severe Gale 9 gusting to Storm Force 10 here today !!!
The large pelagic trawler Sunbeam FR487 ( 56.17m long and 1349GT ) sailed this afternoon about quarter past 2 and had only managed to get about 2 miles North of Fraserburgh Harbour by quarter to 3...
(http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/681/medium/sunbeamFR487-3oct2009.jpg)
The bay to the East looked just as bad
(http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/506/medium/4corners-storm-3oct2009.jpg)
Even bad enough to pick up water and make its own spray in the inner harbour ( we call that blowing smoke !! )
(http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/506/medium/frharbour-storm-3oct2009.jpg)
My wheelie bin has been literally flying about the garden all afternoon ............
First storm of the winter.... going to be a long hard winter for the boys in the Fishing Fleet yet again.
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Hi Dave im looking for a twin rig prawn trawler to base a model on a modern one about 65 ft would be ideal , any suggestions ?
I worked out of the broch for a while and it sure can get lively round those parts O0
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You may be right, unfortunately, Met office predicts warm wet winter- storm weather then!!!
Why can't we have freezing clear one for a change??????
Hope all the guys up there have a good winter- we don't sail when we've got 4 foot waves so i'm no seaman- but hats off to trawlermen of the north sea.
Greg
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Hi Dave im looking for a twin rig prawn trawler to base a model on a modern one about 65 ft would be ideal , any suggestions ?
I worked out of the broch for a while and it sure can get lively round those parts O0
It would depend on the hull your going to use Andy. If your scratch building then there's a few different boats you could use but if your using a bought hull I'd need to see the hull to see what we have up here to base it on.
Bill Wood in Aberdeen does a lot of hulls and plan sets for very reasonable money and has quite a few of the modern twin rig boats in his list.
Here's a few to think about
Valhalla FR268 - built in Spain in 1999 - Bill Wood does this hull
http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=36955
(http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/681/medium/valhallaFR268-1april2008b.jpg)
Ocean Reaper IV FR273 ( wooden 65ft MacDuff Shipyards built boat - again Bill Wood does a hull for this class )
(http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/681/medium/oceanreaper4FR273-1oct2009b.jpg)
Rebecca FR143 - 20m long built in 2008 by MacDuff Shipyards ( I Think Bill might have a hull but not sure )
(http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/681/medium/rebeccaFR143-1oct2009.jpg)
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I do envy you beggars who live in or around harbours. Even if it does get a bit windy at times.
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Me too :((
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Just to show how bad it can get up here
A couple of photos on the Trawlerphotos site by the Son of the skipper of the Rebecca FR143 ( just linked using IMG tags )
The North Pier Lighthouse as we normally see it back in November of 2007
(http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/506/medium/Broch_Lighthoose_2.JPG)
and as it was a few minutes later during one Northerly storm
(http://www.trawlerphotos.co.uk/gallery/data/506/medium/Broch_Lighthoose.JPG)
The lens on top is at a height of 26m..............
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Best to be underwater then, Davie...
Rich
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I was under water last night,....I had a bath, {-)
Wullie
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I was under water last night,....I had a bath, {-)
Wullie
Gosh, Is it that time of year already? :o
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Aye Davie was just as bad here on the west side ,not sure about Rebecca hull think its a one of maybe not though am sure he had something along that line in the photo of the three hulls
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Bills waiting to hear from Watties if he can sell hulls of the Favonious which is a similar hull but with the different bulbous bow to the Rebecca and the Fruitful Vine is almost the same as the Favonious I think
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I thought Fraserbburgh was allways like that --- at least it was when I was blown in there for shelter on survey ships... Spent many a day surging up and down the quay by the lifeboat slip W.O.W. or anchored in Aderdore bay or down off Garden town or Rosehardy sheltering from the W/x in the 70's and 80's
Freebooter
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hi, It is strange how the names of vessels seem to go round & round. In the 70s I used to crew
a 32ft yacht out of Blyth, that too was "Favonious".
Nemesis