TYNE Class Lifeboat build

OK, Thanks Neil

I won't mention it again

All the best, my mate

Bob

last night I used my woodworking skills to cut, shape and configure the rear launching skeg.

made it from a lump of obeche, a band saw, some plasticard, which was the detailing and glued to the timber simply with plastic weld glue, and some sand paper...…...

no more explanation really for this one.

i'll fix it to the keel after I have fitted the trim tab., which lies under it.

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 29/05/2020 21:12:56

I have wanted to build a Tyne Class lifeboat from the first time I say our boat sail down the River Wyre in 1989 to become Fleetwoods new lifeboat, the sound of those General Motors V6 diesel two stroke engines, were just incredible, and I knew I just had to build my own representation of her.I WANT MY BOAT to have bells and whistles built into it.

tonight, I mounted my 2 rudder tubes into a block of obeche, making sure to drill the holes on my pillar drill to make sure they were square true to each other and upright.
I used 2 part epoxy.
I haven't mounted the assembly into the boat as I want to clear all the paint out of the propeller tunnels and sand the tunnels smooth, so that I or my friend, or should I say can paint the boat properly with 2 pack paint.

Hey, Neil

How about a few pictures of the full size craft for reference?

Don't seem to recognise the parts you are making at the moment

Bob

Interesting trim tab Neil.

Looking forward to seeing how it operates.

Tim R

just like the normal trim tab on any lifeboat Tim...…….just different in that the thing is tucked under the boat rather than standing proud. but as Bob asks....here are a couple or so photos of the real boat set up.

Thank you Neil

Why was this hanging down flap required?

Bob

they have them on almost all fast moving craft, Bob, especially lifeboats.

when on full song racing to a casualty the boats almost get up on the plain, but this gives an uncomfortable very back jolting ride. and so to level the boat up from a bow high profile, the coxs'n lowerres the tab to around a 20 degree angle which levels the ride of the boat out somewhat...…...and it actually also works to some degree on a model boat too.….

many competition ICE modellers use trim tabs on their racing boats.

the Tyne was an exception with lifeboats as she was the first to actually have trim tab configuration, but her tab was a single tab across the stern.

now a days the modern lifeboats like the Shannon, [picture of my model below] have them more or less at the two extremities of the transom so that on a tight curve to port or starboard the coxs'n can use the trim tabs individually to level out the fast turn., and the tabs are external fittings to all modern lifeboats.

they are not clear shots but the tabs are below the two water jet drive units with the "horn" shaped "buckets" which give the reverse thrust to the jet power...….the tabs are linked by hydraulic rams on the real boats ..on the models linked by aeroplane servo plastic "snakes".

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 31/05/2020 15:07:03