Hello

[old boyParticipant @oldboy]

      help my name is john i have a bait boat i use for fishing it drops my bait and hook

      where i want it as my arms cannot cast out with a rod i think the p.c.b.has goon

        can anybody tell me how repairs boats

        

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hello John

We would love to help and diagnose the problem but first we will need a little more information so could you describe the boat and what happened or what you were doing when it went wrong, please write in simple terms so that we duffers can understand.

Paul

[RonParticipant @ron13902]

Paul,

 You made a very useful comment about the "f’only" lathe that I suggested might be worth members looking at. I now have a different question for you or anyone else out there.

I am in the process of making the yacht Britannia – I have posted pics, in a new album in the gallery – and am very near to painting it. I am hoping that someone might know what the original colour scheme was. I do not need the exact as I know that a little bit of license is allowed but I would like something as close as I can possibly get. So far I have primered it and varnished the top two planks. I am hoping – time allowing – to get started end of this week, realistically, next weekend.

 Ron.

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hi Ron

This info is not in my library but if you look at http://www.modelshipmaster.com/products/ocean_liners/britannia.htm you will see an excellent model which might help you in your quest.

Hope this helps meanwhile I will keep on looking and asking some chums.

Paul

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hi Ron

Not found out much today except a picture of the builders model

But you probably already have this.

However I have sent an e mail to a friend who lives on Clydebank where his father used to work for John Brown Shipbuilders and asked him for some help. His father was working in the yard during the early 1950s so there is also a chance he actually worked on Britannia.

I will let you know how I get on.

Paul

[ARHParticipant @arh]

Here,s a few pictures of a scratch built model, you will not find a better one,

[old boyParticipant @oldboy]

hi paul

             thank you for answering i sent the boat out across the lake noticed it was not controlling properley i retreved the boat opened the access door to the recever unit it was hainging loose as i touched it smoke came from l.e.d. connection the boat recever unit has an on/oof switch 40mhz antenna,l.e.d. connection, pump and batteryconnections and the handset has a lever for forward and bait drop and a lever for left and right with a telescopic aerial i hope this helps

                                                                                   john        

[Mervyn NeedhamParticipant @mervynneedham82489]

its guna be grand as grand can be

[DickyDParticipant @dickyd]

The Fat Controller wrote (see)

Hi Ron

Not found out much today except a picture of the builders model

But you probably already have this.

However I have sent an e mail to a friend who lives on Clydebank where his father used to work for John Brown Shipbuilders and asked him for some help. His father was working in the yard during the early 1950s so there is also a chance he actually worked on Britannia.

I will let you know how I get on.

Paul

Hi Paul I think you might have got the wrong Britannia as Ron said Yacht not Royal Yacht Britainnia, I think he may be on about the one with sails.

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

According to the great Sandy Cousins, the yacht with sails was gloss black hull and had a copper bottom

I`ve made his model and there`s a picture of it in my gallery

SC`s model was a masterpiece of fine detail and features!

Bob

[HS93Participant @hs9317166]

Hello – where are you all?

[HS93Participant @hs9317166]

Did I miss the two years on line Party?

 

17/04/07  was when it went back on line , its changed a bit in two years.

 

Peter

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