A nice November day for a test run, the upgraded kit of the ESF Surveyor,
The model on the video is power by 2 x kondor motors on 6 volts the motors are linked through one 10amp speed controller and no bow thruster is fitted, the manoeuvrability is as the prototype down to the hulls design underwater and semi tunnel props.
THE MODEL. Scale 1/24 length 780mm beam 250mm
The model is based on a glass fibre hull with fender strips, hull windows, and port detail moulded into the hull. Computer generated plastic for the main deck and superstructure is LASER CUT from 1.5mm HIPs plastic and the superstructure to give quick and crisp assembly.
A full set of fittings in cast light alloy and resine give the finishing touch to the model adding the vital clutter that is so much part of this attractive research vessel with so much appeal.
A full set of water slide decals for the colour full markings and computer cut cast vinyl name decals.
As in all of the Deans kits a set of running gear is included, consisting of the propshafts, tillers and full instructions keyed to a FULL SIZE plan with embedded colour pictures to assist in the construction of the model.
you can see her on the test sail on you tube here.
E.S.F. SURVEYOR
The ESF Surveyor is a fisheries research vessel designed by CAMMARC Ltd of Worthing, and constructed by the shipbuilders HAMATIC of Southampton in 1991.
She was commissioned and run by the Eastern Sea Fisheries joint committee, and was stationed in Kings Lynn in Norfolk for fisheries research in and around the Wash and the north Norfolk coast. She has some very unusual design features in connection with her work. The complete bridge and wheelhouse is offset to the STB side with entrance doors only on the port side. This is to give clear space under decks and in the hold for the research laboratory that is capable of sucking up water, fish and bottom creatures, analysing them in a continuous manner and depositing everything back in to the water through a stern opening unharmed, Anything of interest can be stored and carried back to base for further studies, along with pollution detection features that assist in protecting the valuable fishing beds in the wash. All the information gathered is transmitted continuously back the H Q with the powerful and complex communications fitted to her.
She is flat bottomed with two skegs to protect the props and rudders to enable her to sit on the mudflats in the wash, launch and recover geminis or research staff back on board.
She has since been sold out of service and a new ship replaced her in 2011.
