I'm living with my girlfriend at the moment and all modelling stuff including my boats are back at my mums house.
After a few lovely afternoons down at the pond watching the local club (of which I've been a member for 3 years but never sailed in anger) I decide its time to go home and screw the deck on the Dickie, put in the RX and take her sailing. She's been about 6 screws away from "finished" for 8 months or so now but having a son born in December put all that on hold.
I get home, open the door to my hobby room and there's the Dickie, on the floor cracked and broken, deck laying next to it all the fittings strewn allover the place. My scratchbuilt items shattered and it in a condition I can only describe as unsalvageable.
There's a huge crack right down the side going over and up the other side covering 85% of the hull:
I've tried to push it back together and considered filling the gap but really all structural integrity has been lost and a good twist would have the hull in half.
She had an experimental brushless outrunner in and a programable ESC which I got developed for me by one of my suppliers in China which I deal with for electronic goods, perhaps one day I'll get another to put it all back in.
I'm not sure why but I'm totally devastated about this, really felt sick to the pit of my stomach when I saw it. It might only have started out as a £30 cheapie but I've spent so much money and time on her over the past 2 years.
In the meantime, if anyones got any boats to flog cheapish to help a guy get his hand back in I've got a thread in the Wanted section!
A very sad,
Alex
I'd sold all my other boats and just kept this one to "play" with and improve as time allowed. So now I'm entirely boatless