Derek
Nice to hear from you again, thanks for the Laminate trimmer idea (Wish it had come sooner)I adapted a flexey drive to my dermal and using a 3/4" circle saw blade managed to hack out the required amount of timbering its knot very neat but it works OK and is still W/T. I've just sloshed 1/4 pint of marine varnish around her Innards
so work will have to stop for 3 or 4 days until it dries (I knew you couldn't resist building her {{
Side rudder an all]] Rickles 23
Thanks for the idea of the keel box, I must admit it is an elegant suggestion unfortunately it will add the amount of weight and take up space midships I cannot afford
The hull is so narrow that I will have to single bank the servos... I think I will have to reinforce the garboard's and bolt a 1/4"perspex keel about 12" long X 6" deep with a bit of lead on the bottom as she is to be a sailing model not a display model I think this might be the best idea
HER measurements are
LOA 32 1/2" BEAM 5 1/4" Draught 2 3/4" Freeboard 1 1/2" Sorry I can't get my old brain around this Metric stuff When I was in the Navy, a Brown job 75mm Gun was a 3" Gun to me A 4" Gun was about 100mm and so on [all wrong I know but it's close enought for Goverment work]
Jimmy