paulsuttton

Thanks Omega I do have to make another mainsail as this one has a loose area around the leech. and its not quite the correct size.

Yeah thanks she sails quite nicely 

And at the first sail down at the lake.

Some of her on the stand in the driveway.

Hi all I have not been around for a while busy with life I guess. 

I have just finished a RC sailing boat using a fiberglass hull of a Muscongus Bay Sloop made by a guy I met down at the local lake one Sunday sailing a 1 MT class yacht.

We got to talking and he offered to sell me the hull for around $50 plus a handful of wood and lead for the keel ballast.

 So I set about building her using a Gaff rig and twin jibs, I already had the rc gear left over from my model aircraft days although its a 8 ch set Overkill for a 2 ch yaucht.

Took me a few months to get her finished as I had never built a yaucht before lucky for me my dad is a shipwright and a accomplished sailor from way back.

had to build everything from scratch including the sails from witch I made out of cotton poplin.

made a fiew stuff ups for instance I made the boom half the length it should have been and had to make a second set of jibs as the first set were compleat crap I still have to re make the mainsail as the luff has a sag in it. 

anyways her are some picks of her My wife asked me to name her Wiggles after our red kelpie who loved walking around the lake sadly se passed at the age of 18.

I have another AL model ship its the Le Hussard/1848 I have made a start on the hull but its been sitting around for a long time perhaps just as long as the king of the Mississippi as I purchased them both at the same time.

finally got this model finished.

Slightly of topic  This is the room I work in . Built the table and desk top unit myself.

Bow and fittings. this is what I am up to at the moment.

The lower hand rail is also scratch built.

rear top deck seat and flag.

This model did not come with any doors for the lower room so I made some.

More scratch built hand rails.

made a balsa spacer for the post spacing lol.

Scratch built hand rails

And this is one of the parts I had to make the Mississippi name plate.

The biggest problem I have with this model is most of the cast parts have become brittle and broken.

So I have had to make some parts from scratch.

Ok so I did have a build log up here before the forums changeover.

So here it is again lol.

This model is the old one and by old I mead around 15years old.   I have had it stored for a long time.

so I will throw up the photos.