Moonbeam

[Daryll EatockParticipant @darylleatock26391]

Hi all this is my first post on Model Boat Ian trying to locate a set of drawings to build a Moonbeam yacht with a wooden Hull not plastic can anybody help please many thanks

[Daryll EatockParticipant @darylleatock26391]

[redpmgParticipant @redpmg]

Hi Daryll

sure about the name ? have a racing yacht plan "moonshine" not moonbeam

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Moonbeam has been featured in Model Boats magazine.

Daryl – if you want to build the same size you could always buy one of the kits and copy the hull design and then use the other parts for your build? Or produce drawings to a different size if you want to go bigger/smaller. Not the cheapest route but I can only find plastic/gf hulled kits.

Chris

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Dave Abbot's 2014 review of Moonbeam can be seen here:

**LINK**7

Colin

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

Daryl,

Which Moonbeam do you mean? One of the full-size yachts, designed in the early 20th century by William Fife (see e.g. **LINK** and **LINK**)? Or the pond yacht replica produced and sold by Dave Metcalf of Metcalf Mouldings?

If it's the former, the Fife Archives currently seem to be in the hands of a company called Fairlie Yachts (William Fife was from Fairlie on the Firth of Clyde) in Southampton (**LINK**, see bottom of the page). If that is what you are looking for, it might perhaps be worth inquiring with them … ?!

If it's the latter, I am not aware of any plans other than those that come with the kit, and which would not be any help in building a wooden hull to the same shape, as there are no line drawings at all. As someone already suggested, you could buy a kit, and then take the lines off the GRP hull, although that would of course be a fairly expensive way of going about it. And then again, it would only be fair to Mr Metcalf, whose intellectual property that particular Moonbeam is.

Another option might be to see if you can find somewhere a set of line drawings for a generic pond yacht of early 20th century vintage, and design you own replica. There are, I believe, various clubs and organisations around the UK dedicated to i.a. vintage yachts, that you could contact to find out what might be available. At a guess, the Vintage Model Yacht Group (http://www.vmyg.org.uk/plans.htm) could perhaps be a good place to start?!

Mattias

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[Daryll EatockParticipant @darylleatock26391]

Many thanks for the response to my first post on model boat I appreciate all your replies and interest we are in the process of contacting people regarding MOONBEAM drawings

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