Bedford
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Keith, I wonder if the ball valves (as we call them in Aus) might be for fire fighting. The handles are red which often indicates a specific use and is nearly always used to indicate fire related items on my side of the planet anyway. There would be a few outlets and probably a few redundant systems so that could explain the number of valves. Whatever they I'm looking forward to see how you make them. -
Just for fun, this pic was taken from another boat at the Boats Afloat festival at Narooma. It's the first time I've seen the boat motoring, my son and his girlfriend are the crew and interestingly with them in the boat she went faster than ever before. previous full throttle was 6.3 knots but with the extra weight distributed evenly she made 7.4 knots!
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I've shortened the legs on the stand and it looks better, still seeing what I like. The rudder is fitted and it looks just like the real one. Tiller is next on the agenda.
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Ouch! I feel for you Keith One of the most important skills of the modeler is the ability to overcome such an error and I know you'll come up with an interesting fix
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The rudder hinges
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I love it when a plan comes together, the oars fit the rowlocks beautifully
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Don't you just hate it when you put in the time and effort, get it right, then break or lose it.
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Yeah John, I see what you mean.
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I'm trying to decide if I like this idea for a display stand. I want something that isn't flash so it doesn't detract from the model and I want it tall enough that I can display the boat with the centre board deployed. I came up with this stand which is inspired by the stand I built the full size boat on. The oars can be stowed on the stand below the boat.
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Can someone tell the four oarsmen of the apocalypse their oars are ready! I scraped the back of the leather to thin it down and it seemed to work reasonably well, made a clamp jig with all the holes in it for the lacing and tapped a brass nail through each hole to create the collar then applied glue to each end of the cord so I could poke it through the holes and lace them up.
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Just a thought, what about using shellac to glue the pins in, it's cheap, easy to clean up with mentholated spirits AND you could dissolve the joint with metho if you need to remove the shackle.
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Four oars made, now onto the dreaded leather!
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Time for the oars, first I cut the spruce to 7x7mm at 1 foot, yes I'm throwing in an imperial measurement because the oars are 8 feet long so at 1:8 scale... 1 foot! I beveled off the corners and sanded down until I had 5mm diameter shafts. Next was the blades and the shafts are too thin and flexible to plane 80mm long flats for the blades to attach to so I cut more spruce 7x 16x 80mm then had to find a way to accurately drill a 5mm hole through them. Answer, remember that the lathe headstock has a 3mt taper as does the mill so place the mill chuck in the headstock, insert about 5mm of the 5mm drill bit to leave enough length to go through the 80mm blade then pack up the blade blanks in the tool post and feed into the drill. Glue blanks onto shafts then a little planing and sanding.....
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There's some very nice work going on there and I'm really enjoying the difference between your traditional type of boat and my modern glued lapstrake design.
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What can I say mate, it's a tough gig but someones got to do it ! 😊
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Thanks Gary Yes I love rowing her and can normally maintain 3.6 knots if the tide isn't against me, 4 knots with a tide. Still a lot to learn about sailing but I love it. One of the putt putt skippers came up to me after the parade on Sunday to have a better look at the boat and commented on how well it rode in the water and that it just "looked right" out on the water. I was motoring with the Torqeedo outboard and had 20 litres of water up forward for ballast so it's good to know I seem to have the ballast correct.
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Yeah that was inspired by a similar joke I remember from way back!
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The chain plates and stem head fitting are now done, the chain plates were cut from 1mm brass plate while the stem head fitting was revealed via the mill from a solid brass off cut from a part I made for the real boat
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Keith, my eye bolts are 1/8" O.D. I cut the various O.D's for the pin, base and eye then drove a "V" into the stock at either end of the eye to give the rough shape then just used a small file with the lathe running to round it out. After the milling and drilling I filed it more to shape using the drilled hole as a sight guide. After cutting it off the bar I held it in a pin vice to finish the shaping.
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Thanks Michael, on the rowlocks/oarlocks, I had the full sized boat in the Davistown putt putt and wooden boat regatta on the weekend and while maneuvering for the start of the grand parade the master of the heritage ferry Protex called out that he loved the rowlocks and where did I get them?
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I've now made some eye bolts for her, I used the same manufacturing process as the rowlocks but these are much smaller. The eyes in the transom breast hooks are what I attach the mainsheet horse to when sailing and I attach steering blocks to them when motoring.
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