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ben hall

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Re: Dickie Tugboat / Seaport Workboat
« Reply #125 on: December 05, 2011, 09:31:35 pm »

hi what is the best way to remove the original coupling i tried plyers but it didint work
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Patrick Henry

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Re: Dickie Tugboat / Seaport Workboat
« Reply #126 on: December 05, 2011, 10:44:30 pm »

Don't ruin that coupling, I found the other half of it earlier today, I'll post it to you with a few more bits I found.




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ben hall

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Re: Dickie Tugboat / Seaport Workboat
« Reply #127 on: December 06, 2011, 06:45:21 pm »

thanks
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triumphjon

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Re: Dickie Tugboat / Seaport Workboat
« Reply #128 on: December 06, 2011, 07:03:27 pm »

what type of coupling is it ?
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ben hall

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« Reply #129 on: December 06, 2011, 07:42:21 pm »

if you go down the page to the pic that shows motor and batt its that same coupling

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Re: Dickie Tugboat / Seaport Workboat
« Reply #130 on: December 06, 2011, 08:14:57 pm »

it appears to be a ball / socket  type coupling ?  if so i also have some odd peices !
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Re: Dickie Tugboat / Seaport Workboat - Twin shaft?
« Reply #132 on: August 21, 2012, 02:09:07 pm »


Has anyone re-built a Seaport Tug as a twin shaft?   :-)


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Re: Dickie Tugboat / Seaport Workboat
« Reply #133 on: August 21, 2012, 03:35:54 pm »

This is my one at the Chantry Model Boat Clubs Tug Open Fun Day on Sunday.
It has the original motor/prop shaft and korts nozzle/ propeller.It now has a 6v sla battery.

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Re: Dickie Tugboat / Seaport Workboat - Twin shaft?
« Reply #134 on: September 12, 2012, 04:55:45 pm »


Has anyone re-built a Seaport Tug as a twin shaft?   :-)




I had thought about it but the stern is the wrong shape i think
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Re: Dickie Tugboat / Seaport Workboat
« Reply #135 on: September 12, 2012, 11:11:58 pm »


.......yeah.... I've been looking at my stern for a couple weeks,  (I've got a crick neck now!)  {-)  

 -  it could be done as it look a bit like the stern end of an old steam tug stern but I still think it would look wrong.  {:-{
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« Reply #136 on: September 12, 2012, 11:18:57 pm »


.......yeah.... I've been looking at my stern for a couple weeks,  (I've got a crick neck now!)  {-)  

 -  it could be done as it look a bit like the stern end of an old steam tug stern but I still think it would look wrong.  {:-{


You could alyays tak th ekeel but out & then make a new thinner one & put the 2 props on

Or if you want some fun 2 of these...

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« Reply #137 on: December 23, 2012, 04:53:58 pm »

nice

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« Reply #138 on: December 26, 2012, 09:45:48 pm »

that would certainly put a different slant on the Dicky tug  O0
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Re: helipad?
« Reply #139 on: February 12, 2013, 11:42:45 pm »

Better late than never, has anyone ever fitted one of these out with a heli-pad on the back end? and tried to land a micro-heli on the back of it in the pond? Preferably not an expencive Heli though, just in case!
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Re: Re: helipad?
« Reply #140 on: February 13, 2013, 10:06:48 am »

I'll give you a Fiver if you can land it on the tug, whilst on water, even onceO0
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« Reply #141 on: February 13, 2013, 10:11:24 am »

Is that your fiver or Phil's Martin ?
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« Reply #142 on: February 13, 2013, 12:55:30 pm »

 ok2 is anyone any good at flying R/C hellies then?? I will happily fit my Dickie up with a flight deck if anyone is mad enough to have a go!

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Re: Dikie tug conversion
« Reply #143 on: March 01, 2015, 08:34:57 pm »

Just to round this off for the followers,

Took her out on the local disused quarry (with kind permission from the landowner, of course) the Giant Cod Tx/Rx set worked well, started putting her through more strenuous turns, and noticed she was listing somewhat so naturally I start bringing her back to shore, about half way in she lost power and radio, within a minute her list was massive and she slowly slipped beneath the water.

I think I must have struck a piece of submerged rubbish and holed below the water line,  <:(

Thank you all for the support in my first venture into proper boating, needless to say it will not be me last and definitely not my last seaport tug!

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Re: Re: Dikie tug conversion
« Reply #144 on: March 01, 2015, 08:53:01 pm »


She was lost as sea?

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Re: Re: Dikie tug conversion
« Reply #145 on: March 01, 2015, 09:03:27 pm »

About 40 feet of water :(

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Re: Re: Dikie tug conversion
« Reply #146 on: March 01, 2015, 09:28:29 pm »


Sorry to hear that Sean, is that the firsttotal loss of a SeaPort tug?
I though that hull plastic was made out of nuclear waste!!!
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« Reply #147 on: March 01, 2015, 10:15:14 pm »

Thank you martin.

I honestly think it must be the hull is thicker than a dreadnought, its some 4-5mm thick in places!

This is also My first that was truly lost at sea as well, the others were either scrapped or sold, and my old Atlantic 21 was struck by speedboat in shallow water, so was recovered easily enough.

Definitely want another sea port tug now   O0 maybe I will add water tight bulkheads to my next one!

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Re: Re: Dikie tug conversion
« Reply #148 on: March 02, 2015, 02:02:04 am »

Hi Sean.
    curious to as to why you vessel hit the deep six, do you have any pix of the internal arrangement as there may be a clue in this to the sinking.  If it hit something you would have noticed the jolt. Sounds like it been flooding since it hit the water.  Did you do away with the ballast tank or keep it.
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« Reply #149 on: March 02, 2015, 02:47:54 am »

Hi Frank,

Unfortunately I don't have any pics of the interior arrangement.

I did do away with the top of the ballast tank leaving just enough of the sides to hold the battery, the inlet vents I had packed with 151 epoxy putty.

Other tweaks included a new prop shaft and prop, replaced all the electrical bits too. Having read a good number of posts I put the ESC, Rx, and such in a water proof box.

One other thing that may factor in is the boat had seen a fair bit of use when I was MUCH younger, in a saltwater lake, before being laid up for several years before this project. Do you think that may have something to do with it?

The only.others options I can think of is I might have made a hairline crack in the hull swapping the prop shaft, or one of the epoxy bungs failed?

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