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Be thankful you have an Admiral that you have to answer to Denis. I pretty much have free reign about what I buy, So does she, so I don't have the limiting factor of having to explain about what I just bought. So I am forced to restrict myself!!! I do OK at least some of the time but sometimes the lack of accountability leads to a "OH SHINNY" purchase and I feel guilty for having done it and have no one to blame but myself!

I will have to look over your Swordfish build a little closer. That detail slipped right by me. I am also curious about the Curtiss Seagull GIB office now. In my research on he Houston the SOC Seagull is mentioned many times. Probably because at least two of the books were written by one of the Houston's pilots. That sparked my interest in the model, as almost always happens when I read a book and I was thinking of getting one. I am a bit of a seaplane nut anyway.

With the possible exception of the American sailor during he American Revolution, seagoing pay could be very lucrative. In merchant ships the crews often were paid by the cargo. A successful voyage made for good money all around. The same has already been said about prize money on warships. Privateers almost never had a problem signing a crew if the right captain was involved. I think the whaling industry was also done in much the same manner. The more whales the larger the payoff. There was more than one man who after a few voyages was able to buy some land of his own to farm or start up a small store or whatnot to provide a more comfortable existence for himself and his family. The big exception was as I already said, the American Revolutionary War. The Continental Congress had little or no money to pay crews and throughout the war years struggled to fill ship rosters. Sometimes the ship sat at anchor for months trying to get a crew together. There were no shortages of seamen or men willing to go to sea. But the privateers paid better and also out numbered the Continental ships,especially in he last few years of the war. Some Continental sailors, and officers for that matter, were never paid the monies owed to them from serving in the Continental Navy. By the same token it has been said that the Colonial sailor was also an independent spirit and did not take kindly to rough handling by officers or captain. Even the noted short tempered and tough task master John Paul Jones admitted that he at times had to go to great lengths in dealing with Colonial sailors.He was not always successful.

Love it! So obvious it's funny!

Hi Steve Been following your work and enjoying every post. When you put your "Sunday-Go-To-Pond" kit together get a turkey baster next time you go to the supermarket and throw it in with the rest of your boating gear you will want. Then if needed stick the tip anywhere you need it and suck the bad stuff out. You can use an old windshield washer pump from a parts store or junk yard but they are kind of over kill. Looking forward to more progress. I am kind of in the some boats covered and some not camp.

That's why you come equipped with ten fingers,ten toes, and.....TEETH!

/?Dumb question time. The GIB certainly didn't get much to sit on. Is his cushion mounted on slides allowing him access to what appears to be radio gear, while being able to turn around and man the gun to the rear? Or was he strictly a gunner and the gear behind the pilot seat is something else?

Even got the sun to peek in! Seems like no one can resist looking at good work!

Amen

Amazing

Probably need Adobe Illustrator to get a 1:1 copy that will not be distorted Patrick

I think that fits me to a "T", except I think I would have to change it to virtually ALL of the stuff she watches. Luckily I can pretty much tune most of it out out most of the time, That is the one thing that the earphones seem to be missing. It would be nice if I could select what I wanted to listen to while she was watching/listening to something else. But they will still allow me to share without blasting everyone else out of the room while allowing me to hear the details of the show the I now miss even with the sound turned way up. I had forgotten about restaurants and loud places Ken. In those kinds of environments I just sit in the corner and watch everyone. Everything that is said by anyone not sitting right next to me is just part of the background jumble of noise. Next week we will be having an extended dinner out at the Keg restaurant for my wife's birthday. For me it will pretty much be a sit and watch occasion as normally even that restaurant has enough background noise that people at the other end of the table are mostly just part of the background for me. Maybe I should just give up and learn to lip read. Oh, I forgot, I don't see as well as I would like anymore either!

Nice job Jack. The camo really makes her stand out while still looking authentic.

Helicopters, loud cars. years and years of way too many guns, with and without protection. Our flight helmets in the military left a lot to be desired. the net result is that today my wife yells at me a lot, (Well I must admit that may be for other reasons) and I am hoping for a set of these for my birthday: https://www.amazon.com/Headphones-Transmitter-Rechargeable-Connecting-HeroFiber/dp/B07KY651ND/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8#HLCXComparisonWidget_feature_div Getting tired of having the TV turned up to 100% to share movies with the rest of the family, I suspect they are as well.

If the fan thing does not get the job done you can take some aluminum or brass tubing and wind it around the motors. A little hard in this configuration especially with brass but from what I have seen your skill level is up to it. Drill another hole and install a pickup tube through the hull and another at your exit point. Connect the whole thing with small surgical tubing and you have a water cooling system that operates for free. Hard to tell fro certain what lake is which but it looks like you have a couple of very nice ones from the pictures. If they are shallow it they would look perfect.

Have you placed all this stuff in the boat and did a displacement test? No, providing extra cooling can not hurt, except for the weight penalty and possibly higher center of gravity. Your props are larger than I thought. It is hard to believe that a boat of that size would carry that large of a prop, but I suppose a 44" prop on a 100' plus boat is not that ridiculous. They had about 4000 HP to tie down. You will have a much higher proportional power ratio. I have no experience with mixing throttles. That kind of radio gear was virtually unavailable in my day, and what was available was VERY expensive. I suspect it is a result of the needs of the helicopter and quadracopter industry. My only experience with anything comparable was, as I explained before, the old Lindburg Elco PT boat when it first came out in 19??. All it wanted to do at first, was to have the stern almost running underwater and a bow wave that looked like Albatross wings! After modifying the bottom of the hull for RC operation the boat flattened out, the stern came up and the four foot wide gullwing bow wave was staying under the hull. It looked far more scale in operation and was MUCH faster on the same power. I am almost tempted to take he old lady off of the shelf, scrape 25 years of spiders and dust off and reequip her with modern day power. The results could be kind of scary! I never even tried stern trim tabs or ramped stern like the S boats had. Hope you have a big lake or pond to run in. These kinds of boats can eat up a lot of distance pretty quick.

Me too.

I guess I did Peter. I think I may have had Patricks comment stuck in my head getting in the way of my eyeballs!. Sorry

Very nice work Tozbekler. Your model seems to capture all of the grace and personality of the original.

I am assuming that you will be running at 6-7.5 volts. Here are some things you might consider. The 6 amps you stated may just be a starting amperage. As a rule DC motors draw more when the voltage is lower and when they are loaded down. So the current needs will go up slightly as the battery goes down. They will also draw slightly or even considerably more when starting up. They will draw A LOT when you go from forward into reverse or the other way around. You are running pretty small props, I would suspect 1/2" or even less and you are running a motor for each prop. That is almost no load at all for motors like these and unless they are very high rpm motors wound for lots of torque like the airplane people use you should not need to worry that much about heat or amperage load on the controllers. I would recommend that you place the boat in a bathtub or whatever body of water you have and hook up a motor with a multimeter in series and see what it draws. No need for a controller or electronics for that other than the meter. Your electronic controllers are rated at 10 and 20 amps continuous load. I think you will find that the heavy controller will easily handle the two outer motors and one of the "lite" would be more than enough for the remaining prop. With admittedly limited information that I do have I also think you will have no need for heatsinks on the motors unless again they are really wound "Hot" . If they are that powerful you may have problems just keeping the boat in the water, to say nothing of trying to turn without flipping over! Remember you are not building a hydro. With the length and narrow beam of this hull I think you will also find that you will never, or almost never use the outer props to steer with. With the narrow beam and the props being so close together the response other than at dead stop would probably not be worth the effort. The rudders will be all you need. Being able to run on one, two, or all three props on the other hand can be a very nice feature. If your Lurssen effect works as well as it should, you may find that you are able to achieve very high speeds even without using all three props. Using one prop for tight maneuvering or docking also makes that kind of stuff easier making it less likely you will over control and run something or someone down. Your boat and your design. Just consider me background noise if you have some other information, after all I think your rudder/servo arrangement is better than what I was envisioning. This could easily be the same.

Hi Peter I am by no means anywhere close to being anything remotely resembling an expert but I think you may have it a little backwards. You have plenty of bulkheads in the midships area and stern, possibly more than you need as there is very little curve to that part of the hull that you will need to bend the planking around. On the other hand in the bow where the planks are going to have to bend the most you have none at all. If you want the planks on the bow to follow the proper flare you will either need to add additional bulkheads or carve/sand a solid bow block. Even with additional bulkheads you may have to fill it in to assist you in planking. This is a VERY blunt bow with a lot of curve. Just a thought, like I said I am NOT an expert.

What is the amperage you expect these motors to draw?

Very nice work Craig. I am amazed at your progress in these builds. I would still probably be at the cockpit stage and you are already starting to run out of parts!

BB-8 is celebrating too!