I've been able to finish and mount the rudder.  Now I'm trying to work out the chain routing and how to attach it to the rudder and the servo.

I'm still not satisfied with the rudder linkage so I have been working on finishing some other areas of the boat for now.  My main holdup is that I have been assembling a sailboat I bought in February.  Several of us in my club have decided to try racing RC65 sailboats this summer as we have a new pond this year that is deep enough and clean enough for sailing.  It took more time than I thought, but I'm back to work on the drogher now

I have fastened down the boiler room and added some shelves for packages plus a bench and a water closet for passengers that might want to accompany their goods into town.  I also made some latches for the engine room and the front hatch.  It's just a piece of brass rod bent into a "U" that fits into two holes in the structure.  One leg is shorter than the other to make it easier to insert.  I also added braces under each motor as Jurgen suggested and my woodpile is still a work in progress. My next job is to roof the boiler/wheel room and then make a deck crane.  Deck cargo and cardboard boxes for the shelving are also on the agenda.

Very good work, the impression of the boat seems really original.

Thank you Thomas, yes I'm afraid it is entirely scratch built and bears little resemblance to any boat out there as there are no plans that I could find.  I looked at many pictures and read a lot of history on droghers and then built the boat I would have liked to pilot on the rivers back around 1900.
It is early summer/late spring here in Canada and there are other things to do, so work on the boat has slowed, but I have finished the boiler room and am now working on the deck hoist.  I'm planning on making it similar to Tomas Krejci's Lulonga.  I just have to make or buy the fittings for it.  I'm trying to figure out how the boom is connected to the derrick post.

Very interesting and well build model, Steven!

I've finished my deck crane and some of the deck cargo, although I will redo my double blocks later. I had to make my own as I couldn't buy any locally, and know that I should have done a better job. I just ripped a piece of maple into a quarter-inch square, cut it to length, sanded the edges, drilled some holes to represent the pulleys and glued some brass loops in and then stained it to a dirty grey colour.

I wanted the mast to be removable so I cut off the bottom couple of inches and glued it into the hull, and then epoxied a brass tube joiner onto the stub.  Now the mast and the smokestack are removable for transport and storage.  I cut the parts connecting the boom to the derrick out of 1/16 plywood and a small piece of maple glued and them into place to make a working pivot.

I just have to finish off the rudder linkage and build some more cargo to finish the boat. I also need to add a couple of passengers sitting on the bench and a deckhand/fireman to finish the project. The only ones I could find turned out to be extremely expensive because of shipping so I am still hunting for another source.

Very interesting boat, Steven! The details made the model lively. I would like to see her on water!

Thomas