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  1. Jack12477
    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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    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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    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.
  4. Jack12477
    New Bedford ? As in New Bedford Massachusetts? Home of the Whaling Museum, and just down the road apiece from Battleship Cove Maritime Museum in Fall River MA ? And just east of Mystic Seaport ? That New Bedford ??? Is that the location for 2019?
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    Thanks, Lou. Why wait till this winter? Here's a link to her launch in 2014 on the Hudson River https://youtu.be/dzf-jeKhk4Q . Enjoy the virtual ride!
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    Completed the ice yacht last night. Could not find any scale grommets and attempts to make the from KS brass tubing proved to be beyond my skill level, so I opted to use a bolt rope instead of the more modern grommets used on the current real 1:1 ice yacht. Photos of the model are attached below. Sorry for the picture quality, can't get outdoors for better lighting due to the severe wet weather we're having. And yes that is a "little person" sitting in the cockpit with their video camera ready to take a wild ride.
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    I hope you are joking. Lee Valley has an incredible collection of miniature planes and chisels that are perfect for model work.
  8. Jack12477
    It's a new sub-forum of Shore Leave, Dave. Lots of interesting non-ship modeling.
  9. Jack12477
    Me too !
  10. Jack12477
    Happy Birthday, Jesse!
  11. Jack12477
    Maketh that a second Mead and a portion of black puddin, kind sir !
  12. Jack12477
    Photos are nice and sharp ! Looks like a good camera. Model work looks great also .
  13. Jack12477
    Nicely done , Robert.
  14. Jack12477
    Michael, have you looked at MicroMark Screws ?
  15. Jack12477
    Ah, yes ! Most appropriate !
  16. Jack12477
    Is that Mutt and Jeff ? Or Moe and Curly ?
  17. Jack12477
    Yea, I just got the same warning message myself a few minutes ago
  18. Jack12477
    Beautiful model. Congratulation on your awards.
  19. Jack12477
    Guess I will pull up a stool also Denis.
  20. Jack12477
    And it tastes very very very good better than popcorn even.
  21. Jack12477
    She only barks to alert not deter.
  22. Jack12477
    I'm here too. Brought the Corgi (dog) along; she'll bark loudly if anyone tries to raid the popcorn machine.
  23. Jack12477
    Ok, Mark, Kevin, Carl, Ken, slide over so I can join too.
  24. Jack12477
    Nice job, OC
  25. Jack12477
    Sounds like a good compromise, Robert. Yes, information on the lightships is hard to come by, especially the early years. When I was restoring our local lighthouse, I did a lot of research and found there's a lot of information on the lighthouses themselves but not much on the lightships. Another good organization, in addition to the USCG Historian's Office, that might have some useful historic information is the United States Lighthouse Society formerly in San Francisco now in Washington State. They have a section on their website which contains a list of downloadable books on lighthouses Your model is looking good BTW !

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