Lady of the lake.

[Mike]

 Hi Damien.

 Its looking very good again, well done.

   Prentice.

[DamienG]

Thanks Prentice 

[DamienG]

Finally finished the lathe and workshop up-grade as well as 2 airboats finally finished and skimming the water well.

So I was free to get stuck into  the Lady of the Lake and wired 2 x 5  AA flat battery trays to replace the original 10 cell packs and cut about 3/8" from the 2mm drive belts and re-heat weld them.
Paddle speed is a lot closer to the correct speed all done bar the ballasting which I'll do after I wire the new battery boxes for the Sea Road Lady I'll ballast them both together.

Damien.

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Damioen
Good to hear that she will be sailing again!
Hope for some pics!
Regards
Gerhard

[DamienG]

Time to ballast found her way to stern heavy and as this previous pic shows quite a bit of lead needed to ballast her.

Now that I can see better using the test tank this amount of lead would have put her below the water line so the ESC's and batteries must move forward before adding lead.
One battery pack will lay flat in the bow the other laid on edge against the forward bulkhead and the ESC's just far enough forward to allow the removal of battery packs for charging progress pic's shortly.

To reduce the weight of the stern I purchased on ebay some 4mm brass tube to replace the 4mm silver steel motor mount runners and the paddles spindle.

It'll take 3 weeks from Hong Kong.

[Tug--Kenny]

Is that King Kong's brother ? 

Seriously though, it's looking good Damien.  Quite a balancing act you've got on your hands.  It looks fun relocating things to level her out, but it's the way to go.

Cheers

Ken

[Gerhardvienna]

The Lady is taking a bath, very nice!
To be serius, well done, good work!
Regards
Gerhard

[DamienG]

   for the encouragement fellas.

[DamienG]

The brass tube has arrived motor slides replaced as is the the paddle spindle shaft, it looks good and cut the weight considerably I'm also considering  taking drill and dremel to the paddles to further reduce stern weight.

[the bombus]

mentioning drill and dremmel , could that maybe be the answer to the to heavy peugeot's on the ferry ??
i think dat taking the bottom out of them would reduce the weight considerably
gr from The Bombus

[DamienG]

Most of the cars have plastic bottoms so not much weight saving to be gained I might remove the ones under the bridge deck as they aren't readily seen and shuffle the cars around on the deck keeping the lightest ones forward.

The rest I'll sell to Renault car club members to retrieve some of $300+ /i spent buying them on ebay.

[NoNuFink]

and shuffle the cars around on the deck keeping the lightest ones forward.

Er... Presumably you meant the heaviest ones forward?  - or more likely the lightest ones back?

NNF

[Brian Gates]

Unless with the cars under the bridge deck removed, the vessel would be bow-heavy?

Brian

[DamienG]

Sorry I was not clear enough.
I'll not have any under the bridge deck as she's top heavy i'll only use the the light weight ones I'll have to leave 5 of the 10 cars off the model.
A lesson learned  be aware of weight distribution when converting a conventional ship to paddle drive.
 
Any further discussion on Sea Road Lady can be made on her build blog please.

Damien.

[DamienG]

Back to Lady of the Lake more repairs needed after my adorable 2 1/2yo grandson thought it'd be good to play with and tried to drag it of the shelf with the hand rails.
I can live with it hadn't seen them for 2yrs it was a fabulous 5 days.