How long is too long that is a good question?
I purchased my Tsekoa in September 1996 at the 50th anniversary of Southend MBC from Dave Metcalf when he was with Model Slipway,
I do have other hulls that are older but I will stick with the Tsekoa for now.
In the twenty-one year’s that I have had this model I have moved three times so some of this time has been setting up new workshop’s, now the “BUT” on the last move Sod’s Law came into play, the wheelhouse and for-deck was damaged so I put her into the loft until some months back when I took pity on her and took her into the garage now come workshop,
O.K just contact Model Slipway and get some replacement part’s, email sent off after, a few day’s I received a reply saying that they were unable to help with replacement parts for the wheelhouse and deck O.K I can understand that as the parts for the wheelhouse are all on different sheets, so a call out to members of this forum and one member did reply and sent me copies of all the parts that I needed.
Wheelhouse put to one side and work started on the deck, after a week a new deck was fitted, still have all the deck fitting’s still to fit.
Now the wheelhouse I started by reveres engineering the wheelhouse and when I had it down to its component parts I then along with the copies I started to rebuild the new wheelhouse.
So is twenty-one years to long ???
When I work out how to resize my photos I will post them.
Thank you for your time
Fred