Thank you for your input RST
I've looked at the ships you mention (Google time!) and they are different in construction. I was stuck with the hull shape I had and considered alternatives but could find nothing that was similar so I went back to the Seabex design.
I suppose the variation would be in the deck furniture, so I'm placing stuff on board to fill her up.
Still working on them railings as new material stock has arrived so it's back to the work room for more tiny drilling.
ken
Hi Ken,
Nah-no worries. The hulls and superstructure were essentially the same at the beginning -think they had the same aft crane also as we used the original "tub" below decks as a rigging store (apart from the exposed moonpool(s)). It all went different afterwards, the sister had sponsons added later, the Seabex One was significantly modified (lengthened etc.) and is barely recognisable these days.
I take my hat off to you for modelling the Seabex anyway and I have hull plans but making from scratch would be allot of effort. Both ships were an absolutely awesome machine. Allot of guys I used to work with were on her and the Orelia.
Lots of azimuth propellors, some fixed speed -variable pitch, some variable speed, fixed pitch + tunnel thrusters the same. We had a fair few problems with motors burning out and loosing DP3 capacity. Great sea-handling boat though (too good-we stayed out when most newer boats went in for bad weather -total puke bucket for some project engineers!!). Pretty much the last to pull divers -stay in the field, first to put them back down.
Sorry -I'm reminiscing and digressed
Rich