Pond Yacht in need of TLC

[Tony BoundyParticipant @tonyboundy68046]

As a newbie, I raise my hands and say I know very little about Pond Yachts. I have made models of power boats, cars, hovercraft for the best part of 30 years. Sadly, my sister's husband (who is 80) has been unwell for some time and 4 weeks ago they moved house. In the process, my brother in law's Pond Yacht was de-rigged (if that is the term) without any record being kept of how it was!

As a model maker, my sister has kindly given me the task of putting everything right above deck. I do not know if the yacht is a static model or has ever been sailed, although I suspect that at some time it may have been sailed because somebody has put expanded polystyrene in the bow and aft sections.

If size helps, the stern to bow length is 48", the stern to bowsprit is 67", the beam (at widest) is 12", the combined mast height is 58" and the keel to deck height is 15".

My question is can anybody kindly throw some light on this yacht, specifically where can I find rigging plans so that I can make her shipshape once more and make my brother in law happy again.

I have created an album which I hope provides some detail at least.

Many thanks for taking the time to read this thread.

Tony

Edited By Tony Boundy on 26/02/2018 11:22:27

Edited By Tony Boundy on 26/02/2018 11:42:23

[Tony BoundyParticipant @tonyboundy68046]

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hello Tony

Welcome to our little corner of the world.

Your brother in laws model is called a Gaff Rigged Cutter and very similar to this example.

This is a typical rig layout for a full size Gaff Cutter so it might help you out and this is the LINK to the website

Hope this helps sort out your problem but please let us know how you get on.

All the best

Paul

[Tony BoundyParticipant @tonyboundy68046]

Paul,

Thank you very much for the welcome and I am sincerely grateful for your help and guidance. I may of course come back on his if I get stuck (I hope not), but I will certainly send you some pics of the finished article.

With kind regards,

Tony

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Tony

No problem, glad to help.

Good luck

Paul

[mike farrell 1Participant @mikefarrell1]

Hi Paul , ,A littel off the subject but first the stent has been removed so back to boat building . .Heard a story about a sand yacht racer in one of the camp sites so set out to build it .

subject, relative simple in design but steering a short problem .Sail is a fixed solid canvas , steering as on a model car but sail has to be controlled .Any advise welcomed michael

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hello Michael

Good to hear that you are on the mend after the stent.

We shouldn't take over Tony's thread but depending upon the overall size and weight of your model I would think that a standard sail servo would control your sail and a micro servo should serve well for steering.

For a more robust frame I would opt for aluminium tube and providing that you don't want brakes the model could be controlled via a 2 channel system.

Paul

[mike farrell 1Participant @mikefarrell1]

Hi Paul

Sorry for my error so will start a new tread in the hope of getting things right

Apology to Tony I should have known better

[Tony BoundyParticipant @tonyboundy68046]

Hi Mike,

No problem, but understand Paul's comment – thanks for the post.

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