Hi ya Toby
yes the model has been test floated but as yet no pics on the lake - she does sail well tho especially in windy conditions couple of garden pics of her when she was sitting in the garden. I noticed in another post you are after details of the SS Hunan am I correct? If so, Bryan Young has built this model and no doubt if he is well enough he may furnish you with all the details you require because his model is a beautiful model.
John
Bryans model
http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,39942.msg447146.html#msg447146
http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,43477.0.html
that's the nicest model of her I have ever seen, John.
knew the twins very well as a young man working for COSALT at Fleetwood during my uni holidaysfor 3 summers.
Cosalt used to provide the nets, bobbins warps and most other chandlery that kept these trawlers going, and one of my jobs was to drive the old Commer 1/4 back door model with all the gear on the back....we'd load the bobbins and nets first and then, like giant "slinky" springs we'd whip the first few rounds of the warp which was coiled in circles from the truck that we'd parked on the edge of the dock side and flick it over onto the deck of the trawler being replenished......dive clear and watch it flick over like a spring onto the deck if we got it right which was 99% of the time it would go onto the deck...……...on the odd chance it would end in the docks, and we'd have to get one of the dock cranes to hook it out with a grappling hook......and this would always happen just before we were due to go home.
another story of this and her sister ship the Boston Beverley, was that they were pair fishers, and would always race home, and arrive down the channel on a full tide ready to sail straight through the lock pits one behind the other..………….invariably the wash from the first through the locks would create a surge for the second of the two and that trawler would crash through the pits rebounding from one side to the other putting dents the full length of the hull...…..
so john, if your hull is perfect with no bumps scrapes of dents in it...….you can only ever show her as STRAIGHT FROM THE BUILDERS and before she got to Fleetwood.
.....and that was a very short episode in their lives...the skippers were very competitive and didn't give a sheet how they were treated.!!
both eventually were sold to Chile, and Fleetwood crews took them out there... you really have a lovely model there.
neil.