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HEY POPEYE,

  GOOD TO SEE EVERTHING IS GOING WELL. NICE BUILD YOU GOT GOING ON HERE DENIS. I BE WORRIED IF YOU ONLY HAD ONE BUILD GOING ON BUDDY. TRYING TO GET BACK INTO IT.

YOUR FRIEND

MARIO

Hey Mark,

  How you doing buddy? Wow you really are on your way here. Looks fantastic. They slowed us up here at work, so i had time to read thru on your build. Maybe if things get slower, I might head back into modeling some.  Though gonna miss making some damn good $$$. But your boat(SHIP) here is looking really great my friend. Hope things are well. I have seen the new rules to keep CHIT CHAT DOWN on build logs. So i will stay the course. But have not been HERE in a very long time.

Take care my north west buddy,

MARIO  

Hi John,

  Just read thru your FRANCIS PRITT. Very interresting story. I look forward to following your build log. I had time to read thru your log because our bosses were getting tired of us making more money then our 2nd line supervisor's. So they moved us to a new time and tracking system. We are now in the one dog one bone effect. Another wards has slowed us up greatly. So now I can have a little time to modeling "I HOPE". So that is why I have time to catch up on some reading here. HAHAHA! i think a lot of reading to do.

Happy modeling my friend

MARIO    

_{HI BLACKIE,}

   _{I HAVE NOT BEEN AROUND FOR MONTHS BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT HAS KEPT ME AWAY FROM BUILDING. HOPE TO COMEBACK SOON. WISH I HAD SEEN THIS THREAD WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT.}

_{HERE'S MY LITTLE JIG THAT HELPS ME WITH MY MAST AND RIGGING}

_{2 PIECES OF HARDWOOD STRIPES...FOR ME 3/8 INCH}

_{LENGTH IS UP TO THE BUILDER TO SUIT HIS OR HER NEEDS}

_{DRILL HOLE AT CENTER OF LENGTH OR WHERE IT WORKS FOR YOU(BUT NOT TOO LOW OR TOO HIGH)}

_{BOLT/WING NUT}

_{ANGLE THE BOTTOM ENDS OF THE JIG TO SIT ON DECK PROPERLY}

_{ALL YOU DO IS PLACE YOUR MAST IN MAST HOLE AT THE RACK YOU WANT. WEDGE JIG WHERE DECK AND BULWARKS MEET. TIGHTEN BOLT N NUT AND THE JIG SHOULD HOLD YOUR MAST AT THE RACK YOU WANT. IT ALSO KEEPS THE MAST PERPENTICULAR TO YOUR HULL. THAT'S IT!!!}

_{WHEN I AM READY TO RIG I PUT THE JIG BACK IN PLACE. IT KEEPS THE MAST STEADY AND IN PLACE WHILE RIGGING. THAT WAY I DON'T HAVE IT LEANING TOO MUCH TO STARBOARD OR PORT.}

_{OH YEA I AM A CHAPELLE FAN TOO}

_{GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN}

_MARIO

Yup Mark,

   i just forgot to addthe picture. Its there now...........................

Hey I got a day off today....

Hi Qwerty,

    The Minnow! Wow that is back in my day when I was a kid. So young man like you knows the Minnow. I do have plans on that one too.

    But have you ever heard or seen the Vrolijkhied??? It's from the movie "Father Goose"....Now you other guys John, mark, John, and Bob you have to know. !964 staring Gary Grant and Leslie Caron. When I first saw the movie .....OH BOY DID LASLIE CARON STIR MY BLOOD A BIT. But I was lucky to get passed that and noticed the lovely cruiser in the movie. That will the next r/c build.

But when I'm away on the job I still will be research my Rattlesnake cross section I will be doing. I want it highly detailed so since a cross section and detailed 1/32 sounds about right and I will give it to one of my kids or a museum if nobody wants it. Because I like building but do you notice you hardly ever pay attention to them once they are just sitting there....haha!!!

But back to the orca. should add updates at the end of the month.................Later my buddies

OOOPS FORGOT THE PICTURE.....THE VROLIJKHIED

Hi John, Mark, and Bob,

    Sorry for the late reply. Been working too much. But thank you very much for your kind words.... I hope to finish the case this week. Just trying to find the free time to do it...

Hi John,

     Thanks for the kind remarks. These little models makes me appreciate the work on your little models. It is supprising how much detail you can put on little projects like this. The challenged alone makes for a lot of fun.

Hey David good to hear from you and Thanks for your kind remarks. I hope the family is well....

Hello my Friends,
Since my new job assignments has left me with very little time for research and building, I have decided to do a "FUN BUILD" , since I like to build more then research.
I have decided to venture into the realm of "REMOTE CONTROL" boating. Since I know nothing of R/C'n I am getting myself into a lot of trouble here. Scratch building the boat will be easy. It's the R/C stuff that will be a pain. My kids have been bugging me to build one so I have decided to build "THE ORCA" from one of my most favorite movies...."JAWS". Once completed i already have another R/C boat waiting in th wings to be built.
As for the Orca there is plenty of information on the WWW to pull from plus all the info I have on hand to assist me with the construction of the boat. My objective is as usual to make even a fictitious boat as accurately and realistic as possible of a world famous boat. The only part that might not have any detail will be the inside of the cabin. the reason is because the motor shell reside in the cabin area. If it sits low enough then you can bet your boots I will detail out the cabin. In the R/C world I have found out that the Orca is one popular R/C boat to build. So mine has to be detailed out to the max and make it my own.
Why the Orca, because it was the very first time my brother, cousin and I had to wait in line to watch this movie way back in 1975. Jaws was the first ever movie that bore the name of a "SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER". Another was I'm from Southern California and the beach go hand and hand in my area. But after watching that movie i really did not miss the beach too much that year. Ah what goes on inside a kids mind after watching that movie....HAHA!
The plans mention the boat being built completely out of Balsa. Well I do not like or care for balsa so I will be going with Basswood. The deck may be built from Teak wood. I hope to add as I go along a lot of "FACTS" and "FUN FACTS" about the boat and the movie.

HELP WANTED....
SINCE I KNOW NOTHING OF R/C RUNNING SYSTEMS I HOPE SOME OF YOU OUT THERE CAN ASSIST ME WITH THAT PORTION OF THE BUILD. MY OBJECTIVE IS TO DO A VERY DETAILED BUILD OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BOAT....PLUS A DETAILED CONSTRUCTION OF THE RUNNING GEAR SO OTHERS CAN USE BUILD LOG FOR THEIR R/C BUILDS THAT ARE BEGGINERS IN THE FIELD OF R/C'n AS I AM.....

The next update will be when the hull is complete. So it may be a bit depending again on my workload at my job, as to how much time I have to play.....So talk to you all real soon I hope and "HAPPY MODELING.

THANK YOU ALL FOR THE INPUT. I HAVE PLENTY MORE QUESTION TO COME. SINCE I KNOW NOTHING OF R/C'n.....

Hi John, Mark, and Bob,

    Sorry for the late reply. Been working too much. But thank you very much for your kind words.... I hope to finish the case this week. Just trying to find the free time to do it...

Hi Pete,

    great start. Thanks for the info on the decking. that was going to be my first question. it really looks great. Red, white, and blue. Another great idea.....! There are so many variations of day sailers I may to build another one for the fun...

Hi Casey,

    if you go here.....  http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/1221-muscongus-lobster-smack-by-teleman-midwest-124/page-1 you can see what I did... Hope this helps you out a little...

hi tom,

    looks good and nice fix on the transom. I had the same problem with my launch. I fixed it by not removing the transom. sorry I did not catch up with your log until now.

Hi mark,

   Long time no see. Nice work on your planking. swiss pear is real easy to w/w. Like the color too. Now as for 65 yrs of age. Hmmm..............man your old!!! LOL!.

   Sorry for not looking in very often, just too many 65 to 75 hr work weeks. I am living a slow death here. Visiting the 2 forums less and less because of work. I just hope I can start another project if not. Well there is always an hour of tv and then to bed. Looking real bad to do models right now. I'm at w*$& right now, as usual..............

later my friend I hope to stop by more often but just not sure anymore....

Hi All,

   Well I have been working so much, but finally had a little time to get back to my little boat. Well the display case is almost done. All that is left is to cut the plexi-glass, sand finish the edges and weld them together.

    I did away with Scott's display base for the simple reason is that my little boat will be donated to our church parish. So I thought it would be a lot safer to put it under glass and secured to the base. I also put a brief story behind the great discovery of the boat, so when it is displayed all can read about and not just see the boat. I also will be making my own basswood name plate located at the right lower corner of the base....

IT READS...............

An Extraordinary 2000

Year Old Discovery…

The Sea of Galilee Boat also known as the "Jesus Boat" was an ancient fishing boat from the 1st century the time of Jesus Christ. discovered in 1986 on the north-west shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The remains of the boat, first appeared during a drought, when the waters of the Sea actually a great fresh-water lake receded.

The remains of the boat were found by brothers Moshe and Yuval Lufan, fishermen from Kibbutz Ginnosar. The brothers were keen amateur archaeologists with an interest in discovering artifacts from Israel's past. It had always been their hope to one day discover a boat in the Sea of Galilee, where they and generations of their family had fished. When drought reduced the water-level of the lake, the two brothers examined the newly exposed beach and stumbled across the remains of the boat buried in the shore.

The Sea of Galilee Boat is historically important to Jews as an example of the type of boat used by their ancestors in the 1st century for both fishing and transportation across the lake. Previously only references made by Roman authors, the Bible and mosaics had provided archeologists insight into the construction of these types of vessels. The boat is also important to Christians because this was the sort of boat used by Jesus and his disciples, several of whom were fishermen. Boats such as this played a large role in Jesus' life and ministry, and are mentioned 50 times in the Gospels, though there is no evidence connecting the Sea of Galilee Boat itself to Jesus or his disciples.

The archeological discovery of this boat had validated certain questions that we had about this vessel. Prior to the discovery of this boat, all we knew about them came from art work on few pottery shards and a few brief mentions of them in ancient writings.
In the new testament there is a story about Jesus crossing the Sea of Galilee in one of the boats during a great storm. This storm was so bad that it frightened the disciples, many of whom were veteran fishermen of this body of water. The story says that Jesus was asleep in the boat with his head on a pillow. Prior to the discovery of this boat this story seemed to not ring true for two reasons. The first of which is "how could anyone sleep through a storm in an open boat?" We are surprised to find that these boats were not open but had two decks which now makes it possible for someone to be shielded from the storm by being under one of them.
The second question still remains, "why a fishing boat full of scales, nets and baskets would have pillows in it?" After all this was a working vessel, not a royal yacht. It turns out that the ballast bags that were used for setting the trim of the boat are still commonly referred to as "pillows" to this day. So now we can see that Jesus was asleep, shielded from the storm by the aft deck with his head resting on ballast bags! Once again archeological evidence gives new witness to the fact that these ancient writings are valid.

Hi Kirk,

   I had some of the same issues with my MW Smack. Go here and you can see what I did. They are pretty simple to fix....

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/1221-muscongus-lobster-smack-by-teleman-midwest-124/?hl=%2Bmuscongus+%2Bbay+%2Blobster+%2Bsmack

NICE LOOKING WHEEL THERE BOB. THAT MUST OF TOOK SOME TIME AND SOME STEADY HAND TO KEEEP THAT DRILL BIT ON THAT PIECE OF BRASS UNTIL YOU GOT  THE HOLE STARTED........

HI ALL,

   I AM PREPPING FOR MY FIRST EVER R/C SCRATCH BUILD. I PLAN ON USING ELMER WOOD GLUE FOR THE BUILD. I WOULD THINK THIS WOULD BE OK FOR BUILDING MY NEW BOAT. JUST AS LONG AS THE MODEL IS SEALED PROPERLY (AKA WATER SEALED).

TO YOU ALL EXPERIENCE R/C BUILDERS WOULD THIS BE OK OR SHOULD I USE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF GLUE???

I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH R/C'n SO I WILL BE ASKING A LOT OF QUESTIONS AS I PROGRESS ALONG. MAINLY ON HOW TO PUT THE RUNNING GEAR TOGETHER, BUT THAT IS A BIT DOWN THE ROAD AS OF YET.

RIGHT NOW ALL I NEED IS THE GLUE SITUATION SETTLED. THANKS YOU ALL FOR LOOKING IN ON MY QUESTION......

Hi Dave,

     The challenge is the hull. Scott developed the kit for intermediate to expert modelers because of the hull. The most difficult part of the hull construction is where the side of the hull go from perpendicular to horizontal to the water. The material is American mahogany. If you have not planked a hull as of yet, you might consider a easier hull to build. But if you have w/w wood before then it might be right up your alley.

   One thing that made it easy to bend that plank at the turn of the bilge is I soaked it and then microwaved it for 30 seconds witch made it pretty easy to w/w it.  But you have to answer that Dave.

   Here is the site for you. Scott is a great guy..........

http://www.scottsguitars.net/sea-of-galilee-boats/

Thank You Randy n Anja

Thanks Scott for letting me try your wonderful boat kit. it really was a lot of fun and a really good challenge with that hull!

Thank you all for your kind word  s my friends and your encouragement!!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR WATCHING MY BUILD LOG OF THE BEAUTIFUL LITTLE BOAT

SCOTT'S KIT OF "THE SEA of GALILEE BOAT" better known as "THE JESUS BOAT" is just a great little kit with a great practicum to go along with some very nice quality material to build her with!

Here are the final photos of the build thread











 

THAN YOU POPEYE and MICHAEL!