| Vigilant Star owned by Gerry |
 | Here is a video of our boat (Vigilant star) sailing at New Brighton boat lake on the wirral every Wednesday.
The boat is a semiscale (Coast Guard Cutter), designed by Hal-Harrison in Marine Modelling. I have doubled its size and put two 540/1 Mfa motors in, driving quanta 45mm props. She is 36" length 8" Bow, runs of one 12 volt 7Ah SLA battery.
It is made from Balsa/Fibreglass resin. Runs well no leaks to date. Gerry. |
| Sea Queen built by Robert Peberdy |
| Here is some "On board" video of my Sea Queen but this time it was mainly filmed at the other end of the pond. Unfortunately the batteries in my cam ran out before I was able to get all the footage I wanted but I had enough for a sample!
This time we are running with a Caldercraft 3 blade brass 65mm diameter prop which has a much finer pitch than in the last video. The net result was a good improvement in performance. Maybe too quick for scale.
Robert |
| Sea Queen built by Robert Peberdy |
| This is a video of my Jotika re-make of the Aerokits Sea Queen. Build
commenced in the autumn of 2006 and it was to be a winter build project for
when the weather was too bad to fly R/C elec planes. The boat was finished
mid 2007 and was launched in May.
My closest water to sail on is Lake St Clair, but one slip up and the boat's
next stop would be Canada. Its seen here sailing in the confines on an
ornamental pond In Wahby Park, St Clair Shores, Mi, USA. The music has been
added to cover up the sound of fountain just out of picture to the right.
The supplied motor has been replaced with an MFA Torpedo 850 which has
substantially more power and 3x the RPM.
A week before the video was taken I lost the prop and its seen here running
on a temporary prop while I awaited a replacement. The performance on the
video is a little more sedate than normal.
More info & pics in the photo gallery |
| 46 Inch Crash Tender Rescued From E-bay By Peter Harvey |
| 46 Inch Crash Tender rescued from E-bay. Currently in the process of total restoration and have had to scratch build the entire super structure. Have fitted a Merco 61 engine with tuned pipe (the noise is awesome).
Have gone for it with the radio control- - employing a Robbe F14 plus an extra 8 channel module with decoder. So far extra controls are : each monitor (scratch built using brass pipe & sheet) left & right (using Robbe pulley set to give me 270 degrees travel), two Irvine water pumps, (real car) hooter, winch (using gearbox from Maplins) and movement for jib and search light.
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| 46 Inch Aerokits Crash Tender Restored By Mike Cummings. |
| This is an original 46 inch Aerokits Crash Tender from c1966. It was restored by Mike Cummings who runs the Vintage Model Workshop group.
It is powered by a Graupner Speed 900. This video was taken in Bushy Park, SW London. |
| Completely refurbished Crash Tender. |
| Six months on and the boat has been completely refurbished and is seen here operating the fire monitor at Branston Water Park.
The video clip was taken on the Fireboat Funday where many of these models were on display together with other Aerokit models. |
| My Fireboat! |
| This is one of the Aerokits models, however it has recently been stripped down to the wood to apply a fibreglass coating.
These video clips show the boat undergoing trials before being completly re-fitted. |
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