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Colin H

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Re: Some boats of mine
« Reply #25 on: April 22, 2006, 11:01:22 pm »

Hi Taylor,

You were right tried the masts in place to night, I tnink I will have to wait for a dry day and work outside when I get to the actual installation. Still plenty to do I am using a Hi Tech sail winch and so have had to build a support for it to get the drum to the right height.

I am now starting to think about wiring up I will make some alterations to Robbe's system as I would like more battery life am also thinking of putting a sound generator in to simulate the aux motor.

If I get the motor pack working well I will have the only yacht on the pond with a brake! Not a bad idea for someone with my lack of experiance in sailing.

Its 2255 hours over here so time for a shower and a large glass of malt.

Yours Colin H.
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« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2006, 12:08:33 am »

It may not be the biggest wake!

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Re: Some boats of mine
« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2006, 01:29:55 am »

It may not be the biggest wake!

That's a tiny motor bike aye!! :D
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« Reply #28 on: April 23, 2006, 04:32:48 am »

It may not be the biggest wake!

Damn, how many bunjee cords does it take to strap that on the back of the bike?   :o
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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #29 on: June 10, 2006, 07:04:20 am »

This one would fit on the bike.... all 12" of it  ;)

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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #30 on: June 10, 2006, 07:37:14 am »

Here's a Footy I built a couple of years ago from a hull casting.
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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #31 on: June 10, 2006, 06:41:09 pm »

Neat looking Footy Jason, looks like you have a good full size trophy collection there too!

The Footy in my photo above is an own design 'Kittiwake', it is constructed by my ply on foam core method. Sails very well for such a short boat.

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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #32 on: June 11, 2006, 12:57:23 am »

Thanks mate.
The trophies are from keelboat racing, not modeling. I use to do a lot of that before the old arthur-itis got me.
Your footy looks happy under sail!
Jason 8)
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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #33 on: August 28, 2006, 12:35:33 pm »

TSPARKS,

Can you offer any help on running the lines to operate the sails on a ketch as I have no idea,,

Or anybody else  thank you..


Roy
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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #34 on: August 28, 2006, 01:16:28 pm »

Sure Roy,  I'd be happy to help. Where exactly are you having the problem?  The Ketch I had, had a simple swing-arm arrangement on the sailwinch. With the mizzin sheet attached just a little closer in on the swing-arm, to reduce its travel.  If it's not very clear in the picture, I might be able to come up with a drawing, let me know.
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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #35 on: August 29, 2006, 12:10:26 am »

TSPARKS,

Any help would be appreciated as I have no Idea..

Roy
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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #36 on: August 29, 2006, 11:34:29 pm »

Roy,
Sorry, couldn't find the original drawings, so I made one up of my own efforts. (no one laugh at my squiggly lines! :-[ )  Hopefuly it will get across the gust of the idea.  I know there are many other ways to connect to the sailwinch, this is just the simplest and most direct way, if you have the room for the swing-arm, that is.

Also included some closeups from my old GoodSpeed, if you wanted to see the topside connections.

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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #37 on: September 16, 2006, 12:22:21 pm »

lovely boat you have there does anyone know where i can get plans of one or similar? id love to scratch build one some day.
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« Reply #38 on: September 16, 2006, 02:56:50 pm »

It was a nice day today.

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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #39 on: September 18, 2006, 10:55:34 am »

hers my 1st boat scratch built luna rosa from plans off the net!!
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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #40 on: September 18, 2006, 03:15:36 pm »

These are a few of mine


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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #41 on: September 19, 2006, 12:56:29 pm »

love the savannah Roy any videos of your fleet?.
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« Reply #42 on: September 19, 2006, 12:58:57 pm »

It was a nice day today.
Hey martin i think ive seen that boat some place else rcu? looks nice any vids?.
 oh cool name by the way!!
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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #43 on: September 25, 2006, 11:26:26 pm »

TSPARKS,

Can you offer any help on running the lines to operate the sails on a ketch as I have no idea,,

Or anybody else  thank you..


Roy
I did my pearl lugger with a system like I use one racing type boats. It has a drum winch below decks with a single line coming off the drum and up through a tube near the front mast. It goes up to the front of the deck- through a block and back to another block near the front mast and back right to the bow where it becomes an elastic jast before the last block. It's bitter end is attached to the bow sprit. This tackle has the jib sheet attached on one side and the 2 aft sails (main and mizzen) attached to the other. The main just runs back through a block at the mast and another below the boom and the mizzen goes back below decks at the main mast and comes back up through the wheelhouse to the mizzen boom.
 The elastic pulls against the winch to keep the tackle a bit tight and the sails pull their sheets out and are pulled in by the winch via the tackle.
Hope this helps.


The other way I do them is like the white yacht, the drum is on deck but it can be below deck for scale boats and have a return cord. The winch cord goes off the winch to a block and back to the other side of the winch spool where it winds on backwards with a seperater in the middle of the spool. There's a spring or would elastic as a link in the loop of cord for tension. The sheets come of this tackle on either side like the other system and run straight to the deck blocks under the booms or if it's below deck, up through tubes to the booms.
Jason


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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #44 on: September 26, 2006, 10:28:38 pm »

It was a nice day today.
Hey martin i think ive seen that boat some place else rcu? looks nice any vids?.
 oh cool name by the way!!
 mart
I think it was  rcgroups.com. For some reason, rcuniverse wouldn't upload them and I couldn't be bothered to resize them to see if that would work. No, I am not going to post a video and show everyone my poor sailing skills. Anyway, I haven't got a video and am still trying to work out how the point and shoot camera works. I like manual focus and am too used to 1/125 @ F16 with FP4 for a shot like that, with the added benefit of a claustrophobic dark room to follow. :-[
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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #45 on: September 27, 2006, 01:01:20 am »

JASON,

Thanks for the idea, but you already know the yacht I am talking about for Hans, Wen obtained it from you...


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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #46 on: October 03, 2006, 03:33:19 am »

Jason,

This is my latest just waiting for a couple of ESC's to turn up and it's then test time...


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« Reply #47 on: October 19, 2006, 04:52:31 am »

A few pics of my first boat.  Local design. Cedar planked, 1100mm loa, 1400mm mast and reasonably quick.

More pics in next post

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« Reply #48 on: October 19, 2006, 04:55:47 am »

A couple moe



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Re: Some boats of mine - Show me yours!!
« Reply #49 on: October 19, 2006, 06:29:34 am »

JASON,

Thanks for the idea, but you already know the yacht I am talking about for Hans, Wen obtained it from you...


Roy
Hi Roy
I think you're thinking of Steve Middlebrook who sold a ketch called Fubar to Tasmania a while back. It was advertised on my site, but not mine.
The only 2 master I've ever sold was a schooner called "Dove". That had the jib sheeted to the middle of the deck with no boom. Didn't have a motor either.
Regards
Jason :)
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