Johno, MikeK
It was scary
out there, I can tell you! Beam on, she rolled really wildly and I was sure I was going to get very wet indeed: this is definitely NOT a self righting design! As the original full size design was created to cope with North Sea weather, I thought I'd better try her out in a bit of a sea. Overall I was very impressed. The biggest problem was launching and recovery: my local lake is concrete walled all around, hence both for'd torp tubes now damaged. Oh well, I'll put it down to battle damage!
I love to see models being really tested by the elements, powered or sail. It is very satisfying to know that your model can cope with what the elements can throw at it. Also tests building skills and lets you see how strongly you really did build it. No matter how confident you are (and I wasn't especially as I had a change of clothes in the car!), you can't be certain!
I have a couple of vid clips which I'll try and post sometime soon, or at least link to.
Thanks for the kind comments.
Mike