PS Bournemouth Queen - Posted: 18th Dec 2009 by ianed57 Rate Post:
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Scratch-built paddler by Pete Smith. Model was built fom Richard Webb's MAP plans and electrically powered. Pete added a redundant IOM keel cut down to provide extra stability and the boat now performs very well having suffered the vices of most model paddle steamers. The boat is 54 1/2 ins long and 13 1/2 ins beam, plank on frame construction.
Twin Aerokits Fast Patrol Launches - Posted: 12th Dec 2009 by ianed57 Rate Post:
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Two launches restored and sailed by Kalamunda. The boats are powered by 400 size motors and are shown on their maiden voyage at Goodrington in Torbay.
'Petrel', a Lesro Sportsman - Posted: 4th Dec 2009 by ianed57 Rate Post:
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Lesro Sportsman kit built from new with MFA Torpedo 850 and 12v NiMH battery sailing at Goodrington.
'Scoter', a Dumas Osprey - Posted: 1st Dec 2009 by ianed57 Rate Post:
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Scoter was built from a Dumas kit ordered from America. It is a planked hard-chine boat reperesenting an East Coast fishing cruiser, She is 2 feet long with a Graupner Speed 500 motor running on 7.2 volts through an MTroniks 10A ESC. The crew are from George Turner Models, 1:12 scale resin figures.
Steam Patrol Boat 'Dunlin' - Posted: 3rd Nov 2009 by ianed57 Rate Post:
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This boat was scratch built from Harold Underhill plans, available still from Brown,Son and Ferguson. The hull was mahogany on 6mm ply frames. The engine was a Caton from Maxwell Hemmens supplied bya gas-fired Cheddar Puffin boiler. The propeller was a two inch four bladed brass job from Rivabo I think. The displacement of the boat is 25lb- a bit of a lump to carry to the water but it does work well once in the water. She has now been converted to electric using a MFA geared 540 type motor witha 7.5ah lead acid gel cell. Looking again at this video I begin to wish I had left it as steam but there is something to be said for 'switch on and go'.
I started building the boat in the mid nineties and it has now had a repaint- it always been a favourite. This video was taken in the early noughties at Crealy in Exeter.
Steam Launch Wild Rose - Posted: 2nd Nov 2009 by ianed57 Rate Post:
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Steam launch designed and built by me. I used a computer program called Plyboats to design it and it is a double chine ply hull. The power plant is a twin cylinder Cheddar engine, the Pelican I believe, which was a vee twin. The boiler was designed and built by me being a 3'' dia vertical firetube, gas fired.
This video was taken at Crealy in Exeter one summer evening in 2003 as a fairly new boat. She is now in need of a little TLC.
Police Boat at Vienese Evening - Posted: 4th Oct 2009 by Police Boat Captain Rate Post:
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Here's a video of my boat running at Vienese evening, powered by a brushless motor and LiPo battery.
HS93's Mini RAF Crash tender seen at Deans Marine - Posted: 8th Sep 2009 by modelboatmayhem Rate Post:
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HS93's Mini RAF Crash tender seen at Deans Marine. Tiny pool, way over powered, nearly ripped out the liner on first outing..... great fun!
Vigilant Star Bowlifting - Posted: 29th Jul 2009 by gerry Rate Post:
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New update of my Vigilant Star in Newbrighton 29-07-09
Another modification and now running at half the power/speed.
Hope to get another video at full speed soon,with water cannon display,Great fun and thanks for watching.Gerry
My SRTTL - Posted: 23rd Jul 2009 by gerry Rate Post:
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Boat is a wood kit built in the 1960 by a friend,built and stored in a shed.needs alot of TLC,doing my best to make it fit for the lake ,have rebuilt all of the superstructure.Was powerd by a lead acid battery/500 motor .Now powerd by a GP.7.2vNiCd 2000 Mah.And a cheap 50amp controller bought from Hong Kong on Ebay.Needs a lot more work to be done and been testing it at Newbrighton wirral.Thanks for watching.Gerry
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Its an RAF Seaplane tender, a few months old now, powered by a raboesch 400 motor on 7.2V
fast gets faster! - Posted: 12th Mar 2009 by pmdevlin Rate Post:
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gearbox fitted, tested today with 8.4v graupner, running on 19.2v nimh. GPS Data logger installed, measured at 14.63mph, sound like a jet turbine!!, and this video was the slower of the 2 props tested.
Improvements with gearbox, motor is stone cold (it is water cooled, but was still hot as direct drive) , quieter, longer run time, esc cold, now able to upgrade from 2 blade 40mm prop to 3 blade, and possibly 4 blade, amp draw much less. Video taken at Newsham Park, Liverpool. Handling is now difficult, as its going way too fast, but its great fun! and might go faster, with the motor thats been fited tonight, watch this space!!
Boats at Bournville Boating Lake - Posted: 1st Feb 2009 by Police Boat Captain Rate Post:
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This is a video of my completed Seaplane Tender on Bournville Boating lake in Birmingham.
The boat was completed just a few weeks ago, but the weather hasn't been right for boating.
The boat is powered by a 7.2V 400 motor and a 7.2V 1600Mah battery.
Seaplane Tender First Test - Posted: 31st Dec 2008 by Police Boat Captain Rate Post:
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This is my boat a Seaplane Tender on its maiden voyage.
It is a deans marine kit.
In the video it is running at about half speed which is about scale speed for this boat.
R.A.F. Crash Tender "On Board" - Posted: 10th Dec 2008 by Fireboat Rate Post:
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This is a video clip of my Fireboat at Southport boating lake in June this year.
The idea of an on board cam was thanks to another member who submitted a video last year of their Sea Queen (see video gallery), I liked the effect so thought I'd give it a go myself. It seems to have worked?
vigilant star test 3 - Posted: 4th Dec 2008 by gerry Rate Post:
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The boat is a scratch built and started life in the shed. It is a semiscale model at aprox 36inch, built with balsa wood.It is full remote control and fitted with two Mtroniks Vision 600 motors one 12volt 7ah battery,one seasprint esc.
It was built as a fun boat so I could sail with my friend Peter thomas with his variuos boats.
Several things have now been added since this boat was first built, IE smoking stacks, fireing torpedoes and magnetic pickups for colecting them. Also has working radar/moving gun + a home built bec.
Flag poles and flags/compas has been added on the superstructure.
Each motor draws 6amps at full power, I have measured the speed from one point to another at a spacing of 60mtrs, and timed at 15 seconds, but this is a bit fast for this boat as she starts to plane out of the water.
We sail her at New Brighton lake on the wirral most wednesdays. As the weather is now a bit cool I have just purchased a simular model to this at 1:48 scale 110ft Island class USCG Patrol boat so I can look at them both in action when the weather picks up. Anyone wanting info can contact me via this website.
Vigilant Star owned by Gerry - Posted: 29th Nov 2008 by gerry Rate Post:
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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 - Posted: 29th Nov 2008 by Robert Rate Post:
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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 - Posted: 29th Nov 2008 by Robert Rate Post:
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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 - Posted: 29th Nov 2008 by Pete H Rate Post:
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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.
46 Inch Aerokits Crash Tender Restored By Mike Cummings - Posted: 29th Nov 2008 by Mike Cummings Rate Post:
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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 - Posted: 29th Nov 2008 by Fireboat Rate Post:
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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! - Posted: 29th Nov 2008 by Fireboat Rate Post:
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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.
Aerokits Fast Patrol built by Robert Peberdy - Posted: 29th Nov 2008 by Robert Rate Post:
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Video clip of the Fast Patrol Boat as seen in the build blogs (click here)
OK, the build is pretty much done now. All I really need to do is add a flag and registered port.
I have just come back from the pond and had a "blast". Dare I say it but its "Even more fun than my Sea Queen". What I mean is that its quick, more agile, turns on a sixpence and fits in the car.
I pleased to say that the rear spray rails worked well and there was not a drop of water in the boat.
