Hi Eddy.  You made I smile   

Excellent point. The decking has not yet been varnished, so now is an ideal time to sub divide the planking with pen marks.  Mind you, Lord Nelson had his choice of forests, he might have found some big trees.

One quick question.  I shall try her in the water soon, so I've arranged the batteries as 3 of, 12 volt, 7 amp/hour, and laid them out into containers (restrainers in the event of collision?).

Am I correct in assuming the boat will balance at exactly the centre point of the paddle wheels?  I placed her on a tube at this point and re arranged the batteries so that she balanced evenly. One of the batteries is on a sliding rack, which can be finely balanced if needed.

Today I shall be fitting the sliding doors. Gotta make her like the real one with doors to slide forehead in the event of a sudden stop.  I seem to have accident prevention on my mind. Probably due to the costs involved so far!!

ken

Hi Ken, good to see the show on the road again

Incase you hadn't thought of it allready, i use a gangway with a lead base on the deck wich can be moved around for fine trimming the boat.

For collisons i build a brass or steel stem into the hul which usually prevents most damage on the bow and does tend to keep other boats out of the way or if hit they only tend to make the mistake once

For batteries i use velcro so that the batteries can be easily adjusted and there is a bit of give to allow for sudden stops without upsetting the fore and aft trim.

Probably nothing new to most but may help others

I like the idea of a gangway with a lead base for fine tuning - Something I hadn't thought of, but will be adding to my Marchioness of Lorne now you've brought it up Talisman.

Thanks
Eddy

Good idea.

Tell me, is there only one gangway?  I notice they rest it on the walkway when at sea. I don't suppose there is one each side. We don't want her listing with all that lead.   

ken

I think there's three gangways, one on each side, on the landing platforms and one on the deck in a convenient position for the next 'port-of-call'
(two of them can be seen in this photo...)

...and here we see the 'on deck' one tied against the railing when under way...

One of the gangways is wider than the others to allow pushchairs and wheelchairs access. Also they are a pig to manhandle, quite a few crewmen have had trapped hands and bad lacerations, Purser Jim  almost lost a finger a couple of years ago and I got a stomach hernia handling identical gangways on the Balmoral. (I have a 4 inch scar on my belly button to prove it!). Its a mans life on todays preaserved ships!. Regards, Walter.

Thank you everyone.

That's details I didn't know about. We shall start construction after the dreaded STANCHIONS are fitted. 200 by my last count.

Today I went out and purchased an extra length of 21.5 mm tubing for the MMB smoke generator. I plan to have both funnels belching the stuff on proportional control in time with the sound generator.

I'm really getting exited about her now. It all seems well worth the effort.  
                                           



Missing Gangplank photo added




ken

Today I assembled the MMB smoke machine to some additional piping and fired her up. (226)

I then placed on the funnels to see what the effect might be. (227)

The whole assembly was then fitted into the boat and another piece of the movie was made. (228)


The life raft assemblies were then attached to the deck, along with the green covered boxes. (I still don't know what's in them ?) (229)

I've noticed the exit doors on the waterline by the paddles were not painted on the lower section to match the hull black, so this was put right. I've also removed the lifebelts as this didn't look right.

There is now no excuse for not starting the stanchions, so here we go.

But first we shall attempt the gangways.  

Hi

Its all lookign pretty exciting, looking forward to seeing afloat fotos come online!

As for the green boxes you ask after on the forward ends of the sponsons, I believe the larger irregular shaped ones contain life jackets and the smaller ones astern of them the shutters that slide over the maindeck windows in inclement weather.

I will check this out when Im home, but my memory tells me thats whats in there!

Keep up the good work! Andy :-)

Hi PD's....& have I just woken from the fog?  ....... if I have this wrong Tug Kenny.....but was one funnel on Wayerley not a dummy water tank...& hence no smoke.......or am I having senior moments like some others ?  ....Derek

Hi,

smoke should be dirty black, I think? I also thought about this, because my Model of the PS DIESSEN has no smoke because of its gas firing. But I could fit a little cup with smoke oil into the hot funnel, then it would work, I think. But this oily fog could rest on the model, so I did not use this thought. PS Diessen has its exhaust in the hull as original right in front of the paddle wheel, there all oils will be mixed very good into the water and not come to the superstructure.
;-)

Andreas

See - http://www.flickr.com/photos/time_grabber/546974080/

I believe waverley did in fact use both funnels when first built, the boilers were fitted with the 'furnaces' at opposite ends so the smoke from them used one funnel each. When the boilers were replaced, the new ones were fitted so the smoke from both went into a kind of upside down Y-shape duct and into the front funnel only. I don't know offhand when this was but since this model has four lifeboats.... could it be from that time?

Quote from: Tug--Kenny on October 24, 2008, 05:22:47 AM

Good idea.

Tell me, is there only one gangway?  I notice they rest it on the walkway when at sea. I don't suppose there is one each side. We don't want her listing with all that lead.   

ken

Depending on state of tide or pier being used, would depend on where the gangway was / is deployed.
Worth checking a few photos out Ken as depending on the level of detail you want it makes a difference to your stantions as there were/ are gates to allow the gangways to be deployed.

How you doing your stanchions ? I can recomend james lane just ordered 400+ from him - a bit expensive but give a nice finnish to the boat - I would also recomend superglue rather than solder much easier / faster (imo)

Also i would recomend  Quay Craft lifeboats again not the cheapest but nice boats.