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50' 1888 Gaff-rigged Ice Yacht by Jack12477 - FINISHED - 1:24 scale


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Beautifully done.  At the scale you build the ice yacht the details are especially great. You can add so much more.

You thought "outside the box" when building this yacht. MSW is not ships anymore. 

Marcus 

Current Built: Zeehaen 1639, Dutch Fluit from Dutch explorer Abel J. Tasman

 

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Many people believe that Captain J. Cook discovered Australia in 1770. They tend to forget that Dutch mariner Willem Janszoon landed on Australia’s northern coast in 1606. Cook never even sighted the coast of Western Australia).

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Hello Jack, Very nice job on the yacht, I am thinking that this is a great subject to model because it gives all the advantage of working with the sails and their configuration and attendant details without having to plank a hull.  Also because it celebrates winter.

By the way it snowed here overnight and is still snowing.
 

Michael

Current builds  Bristol Pilot Cutter 1:8;      Skipjack 19 foot Launch 1:8;       Herreshoff Buzzards Bay 14 1:8

Other projects  Pilot Cutter 1:500 ;   Maria, 1:2  Now just a memory    

Future model Gill Smith Catboat Pauline 1:8

Finished projects  A Bassett Lowke steamship Albertic 1:100  

 

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congratz on hr finish Jack.........this has been a very neat subject to build on :)    the sails look great and you did a great job with the rigging and the fittings.   really nice bit of modeling!

I yam wot I yam!

finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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Congrats, Jack. She looks just beautiful. The rigging detail is especially nice.

 

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3 hours ago, Jack12477 said:

Here's a link to her launch in 2014

That doesn't count.

 

That was the real "Boat". We need to see the 1/24th scale ride of Mr. Legoman!

Lou

 

Build logs: Colonial sloop Providence 1/48th scale kit bashed from AL Independence

Currant builds:

Constructo Brigantine Sentinel (Union) (On hold)

Minicraft 1/350 Titanic (For the Admiral)

1/350 Heavy Cruiser USS Houston (Resin)

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Very cool build!

Building: 1:64 HMS Revenge (Victory Models plans)

1:64 Cat Esther (17th Century Dutch Merchant Ships)
 

On the building slip: 1:72 French Ironclad Magenta (original shipyard plans)

 

On hold: 1:98 Mantua HMS Victory (kit bash), 1:96 Shipyard HMS Mercury

 

Favorite finished builds:  1:60 Sampang Good Fortune (Amati plans), 1:200 Orel Ironclad Solferino, 1:72 Schooner Hannah (Hahn plans), 1:72 Privateer Prince de Neufchatel (Chapelle plans), Model Shipways Sultana, Heller La Reale, Encore USS Olympia

 

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Beautiful build, Jack.   Yes, the movie would be great!!!!!

Mark
"The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me

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Past Builds:
 La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD           Triton Cross-Section   

 NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit                                                                            HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64               

 

Non-Ship Model:                                                                                         On hold, maybe forever:           

CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed                                                   Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned)         

         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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Well done, Jack. Like the gang says, get the boat on the ice!

Ken

Started: MS Bounty Longboat,

On Hold:  Heinkel USS Choctaw paper

Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1

Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section

 

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Jack,

 

Noticed the wood runners is that the norm, do they perform better than metal, and does the width have to do for performance, speed and turning???

John Allen

 

Current builds HMS Victory-Mamoli

On deck

USS Tecumseh, CSS Hunley scratch build, Double hull Polynesian canoe (Holakea) scratch build

 

Finished

Waka Taua Maori War Canoe, Armed Launch-Panart, Diligence English Revenue Cutter-Marine  Model Co. 


 

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Congratulations on finishing your Ice Yacht.  You did a beautiful job on this model and I like all of the details you added.  I hope to see this model at the Northeast Joint Clubs Conference in April.

Ryland

 

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On 11/3/2018 at 7:57 AM, John Allen said:

Jack,

 

Noticed the wood runners is that the norm, do they perform better than metal, and does the width have to do for performance, speed and turning???

John, no ! The real runner is cast iron set into an oak board. See Post #59 for a photo of an actual runner.  I simulated the runner with wood on the model  because I couldn't figure out how to craft a metal insert at this scale. My metal working skills are very limited. ;) If I figure it out I will replace the wood runner with a more accurate one. It's just bolted on. 

 

On the real boats the cast iron  blade is shaped at 45 degrees on each side, the actual surface contact with the ice is extremely thin, like an ice skaters skate blade. 

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20 hours ago, michael mott said:

working with the sails and their configuration and attendant details without having to plank a hull.  Also because it celebrates winter.

By the way it snowed here overnight and is still snowing.

Michael, the shipwrights of the mid-1800s looked at the Dutch boats and the cradles they used to sail their cargo boats on the frozen Hudson River and decided that the ribs and planking were not essential.  Their desire was to build a boat suitable for racing on the ice in winter and they were mostly financed by the families of America's Gilded Age, e.g., Roosevelt, Vanderbilt, Astor, Livingston, etc. whose homes lined the eastern shore of the Hudson,.

 

The rigging on this ice yacht was quite challenging especially the blocks controlling the boom.

 

Snow in October?  Lucky you, I guess ;) We have had nothing but rain for the last two weeks.

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2 hours ago, Ryland Craze said:

I hope to see this model at the Northeast Joint Clubs Conference in April.

You most definitely will.  It was also at this year's conference as a work in progress.

 

I will be taking it to our Hudson River Ice Yacht Club winter meeting in December also. I'll post pictures here later.

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Thanks everyone for your kind comments and Likes. It's been fun bringing you a taste of Hudson Valley history and our winter recreational sport.

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On 12/30/2019 at 6:33 PM, John@65 said:

Jack, just came across this article doing a search on  "ROCKET".  You  realy captured the essence of ROCKET in your model.  The Rocket Ice Yacht Foundation thanks you for your efforts, beautifully done!

 

John Holian, President

Thanks John.  Sorry for the delayed response, somehow I missed your post. 

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Nice Job! Reminds me that there is a lot more to modeling than hull planks and photoetch.....

 

Excellent subject and execution of it...

 

Well done...

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