Paddleducks
Other Marine Models => Sailing craft => Topic started by: Nemo on May 28, 2018, 06:26:55 PM
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I've joined this forum for help and guidance in constructing an electric side paddler. And very glad I have. :)
Over the past 12 months I've built a gaff rigged schooner and two sloops that sail like a dream from yesteryear.
Here a few photos by way of introduction . My personal blog site has a lot of info should anyone fancy getting into sailboats using familiar timbers.
Check out http://rcsailboats.pw (http://rcsailboats.pw)/ for information on where to get plans, and how they turn out!~
And a couple of YouTubes of the boats in action.
https://youtu.be/t5AiXT4gSSg (https://youtu.be/t5AiXT4gSSg)
crusoemal$18 (http://crusoemal$18)
https://youtu.be/SmDGE6mmJF0 (https://youtu.be/SmDGE6mmJF0)
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:bravo :beer :clap :terrific
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I particularly like the schooner it has a very American look about it . The two yawls are interesting- double ended AND spritsail rigged! There is nothing as beautiful as a schooner sailing (I have built three in my 71 years of modelling) EXCEPT a clyde paddler ploshing its way through the water!. Regards, Walter.
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Bought from hobby shop I worked for in the late 60's and built as rehab for my Dad after a nasty fall through a faulty manhole cover at a telephone exchange landing back down on a 44 gal drum floating below.
(https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/16/57/96/23/610.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/16579623/165)
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Hi Damien. That looks a bit like the old Emma C berry kit to me!. (No longer available). I built one about thirty years ago . Alas It never saw the water. I had taken it to a friends workshop to set the sail winch and while we were having a cuppa a shelf load of heavy tools colapsed on it, crushing it and two of my mates models to pulp - a very sorry day! regards, Walter
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Walter it is indeed Emma C Berry, with a few mod's I was sailing on Victoria Au's Albert park lake when a squall hit laying her sails flat on the water. Unfortunately I hadn't pinned the hatches.
After some thought I removed all the ballast from within the hull, cut a length of 3/4" copper pipe the keel length melted the lead and poured it in the tube and attached it to the keel.
With the lead a further 1 1/4" she was much more stable.
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My wife Jo found this model on a local buy swap & sell for $180 I couldn't resist.
hull length stern to bowsprit tip 115 cm or 45"static model.
(https://i.servimg.com/u/f90/16/57/96/23/img_1312.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/16579623/315)
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That looks a bit like a Bluenose model.
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It is indeed a Bluenose model.
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I received a nice gift from my wife yesterday a 10 cent Canadian 1978 coin with Bluenose engraved on it.
:s_cool :s_cool :s_cool :s_cool :s_cool
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Emma C Berry gone to new home. She now belongs to Damien Jnr