I have an unfished example of what I Believe from the plans for I that I have not seen for a very very long time 'Barbara' and a bit of googleing comes up with photos of a Bassett Lowke model designed by John Langford that look very much like it. My example was started by my grandfather in the 1950's The Hull is largely completed, it is painted and the deck planks looks to have been inked in? (I will get photos, working from memory) the super structure was built and painted but no windows fitted or mast/rigging, there is a hole for a funnel but this was either never made or lost at some time before the 1970s (when I first remember it gathering dust) It was originally intended to have a 4 cylinder side valve petrol engine which my father was building (we still have that as well) but the engine never really managed to make any more power than it needed to idle and was never fitted although the engine mountings are present in the hull. My plan is to go electric with it. I have a lot of spare radio gear from years of RC cars and aircraft but as I recall a prop shaft tube is present in the hull but no prop shaft or rudders so I am going to need help on what motor/prop combinations to use, I also have a collection of speed controllers, mechanical and electronic. Given the chances of finding the original set of plans I have bought a new set.

So the first questions is what motor and prop should I be looking for with enough power to get it up on the planes? Battery type may also be a consideration at it would need to sit nicely at rest

Oh having looked up the 15cc Seal engine, that is it! although Dad's one has magneto ignition.. (don't ask how I know!)

I have already checked for leaks by putting it in the bath!, and found none. As it is it does sit level (well level enough for my eye!). I think the first plan of action is to sort out the rudders, It has two tubes for them fitted but they were either never installed or have been lost in the intervening 6 decades. This may require the deployment of the lathe to make the rudder shafts fit (Given the two rudders is there anything else to look at? is there an ackerman angle for boats?). Then work on fitting the radio gear, do I keep the servo rods short or fit all the electrics in a box aft of where the funnel will be (When that is fitted are there smoke generators?)

The idea is to get all the internal hardware worked out and test fitted at least before sorting out the paintwork, The hull was very nicely painted, and in most places still is, but the action of the seasons on the wood over the decades has taken its toll and there is some cracking which is to be expected I guess and some of the joints have become visible as a result, I am tempted to rub it down and fill. Later questions will involve reinstating the deck planking that was drawn on but will be lost when it is rubbed down

Stewart