Todays Boating

[Trevor HollowayParticipant @trevorholloway99134]

A fork was the first thing packed !

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

But……

[Trevor HollowayParticipant @trevorholloway99134]

Yes, I forgot the transmitter !

Still a pleasant afternoon at the pond.

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

Nice to see my fellow lunatics today and nice to see Woddy’s as popular as always ( he was the only one small enough to fit in a bag)

Trevors memory hasn’t got any better during lockdown, maybe it’s the beard he’s grown since I last saw him? 😂

ponds still stinky, had to wash the boat off when I got home, very gungey!

Ricky ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Yes nice to see Woddy again,,…?

A park man said when interrogated with a razor sharp spinning prop hovering over his throat that…

the park staff don’t manage the valves sluices and so on, it is a private company (name forgotten) so I think we can assume that their staff have been furrowed and so the RoyalParks can’t get the valves twiddled.

You can see what's happening. As we sat (unsocially distanced..after all, if you were sitting socially you would be sitting close.??) the scummy muck (not those on the jetty, they were just scum) and leaves etc were being blown to the silted corner, just piling on the vegetable matter big time. It piles up, sinks then rots. Yuk.

Swordfish ok, barring the rudder catching debris, so some rudder alterations will take place today to get the top of the rudder behind the stern so the muck slides off, and a couple of underwater strakes to be added as water was climbing up the side just a bit.

Jet lander not as good as hoped for but hampered by the esc which is obviously set for Lipo,and cut out twice on a Nimh before we twigged it. Will enlarge the inlet a bit, and the was some clag in the tube so assuming that half the issue was the scummy stuff being ingested.

Ashley

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

On the Bushy Park website there is an Email contact button. Might be worth enquiring there. Bottom of page)

**LINK**

Colin

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

I think that’s the one I used. It would be worth others moaning about the state of it. Must be a health hazard as well?

Ashley

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

I would imagine these organizations personnel who maintain things have been furloughed ??

Councils on the coast are not opening the loos either 😕

Regards Ray

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

That’s what was intimidated by the parks chops.

Ashley

predated spelling, I hat to it!

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Councils on the coast are not opening the loos either 😕

Another contribution to rising sea levels…

Colin

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Strange, but a lot more people were rushing into the sea than normal

Regards Ray

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Warms up your trunks though…🤭

Cycling thro the park yesterday and it is quite apparent that there is now NO water coming into, or leaving any of the ponds. All the lips of the sumps are dry and all the outlets blocked. Very bad.

Not today, as it’s Sunday and the park will be busy, but Monday I will walk round the plantations, where there are loads of small streams and see what’s what.

I can’t see that this is good for the wild life either, and will ruin the gardens if it goes on much longer.

Painted the rest of the cammo on jet lander, and made the inlet a bit bigger. I suspect clag in the inlet was stopping mind blowing performance last week. Need to look out a non Lipo esc. The one I used I don’t think can be programmed so will have to bear that in mind if I use it again.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Weds 1pm at the jetty for another exciting episode of “model boating in the nude”.

Just joking, I will have sox on.

And shorts/tee shirt.

Hopefully snaps of Swordfish with new small Lipo.

Requirements: snax, fork, boat, batt and transmitter. I will have 7m recovery pole.

Ashley ⛵️

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

I am intrigued Ashley by your list, I can understand all but the fork, is it a fork to eat your cake with or a garden fork?

Eddie..

[Trevor HollowayParticipant @trevorholloway99134]

We arranged to meet for lockdown lunch and boating by bike.

First week I packed the salad but forgot the fork to eat it with (ended up being very messy).

Second week I remembered the fork but forgot to pack the transmitter !

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

Thanks for the explanation, I can now sleep easy..

Eddie.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Sorry Eddie, we tend to be a bit cryptic here!

Tomorrow will be scorchio, and the cold cider will be flowing. We will have a good chat as I am without inspiration at the moment, although I fancy building a bag-friendly “Mintanic”, for a larf.

Ashley

[Nike BelliParticipant @nikebelli51568]

Posted by Kimosubby Shipyards on 07/03/2011 17:03:39:

Hi Larry, Ashley and others,

 

beware coming back late from your Sunday sail with the lads, or this could be the result!

 

 

Strong girl that one! Good job I married her too!

 

Kimosubby

She is trying heard but She needed help with someone!

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Hi Nike, not sure how to respond to that one!

(same reply as per 2011)

Didnt boat today as light rain. Sat in Trevor’s garden and mulled over a possible Mintanic, amongst other things. Perhaps Sunday?

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Sorry but the idea of a Mintanic has lodged in my brain, despite that I have a Titanic.

it stems from the seaside “Titanic” I bought years ago (guess how they converted it to a Titanic?), which although does not have a deck suitable for r/c conversion, is a decent nice “bag” size….viz..20” x 4”.

Surfing on the inter web has shown me several ‘schools project’ cardboard Titanics, none of them good of course, but a couple more than passible in that you can see exactly what it is supposed to be at a glance.

so…out with the 4mm ply and a rummage on the spares box….

Ashley

[NoelParticipant @noel26080]

You mean something robust and portable like the wind-up Tri-ang boats? I've got a Pretoria Castle which is a nice size but not too big.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

I also have a Triang freighter but it is electric, and I had to adapt the battery compartment to take rechargeable as c cells didn’t seem to want to fit.

it also has the buckled deck that they suffer from, partially sorted with the old hot water treatment.

You bandsaw is larger than the small one I was thinking of and should be ok to hack your ply about. Having a stand is a must!

Mintanic is on the stocks. Looks kind of like I thought, will wait and see before scrapping.

Ashley

[NoelParticipant @noel26080]

Bandsaw marvellous. I now have a bundle of 4mm ply strips 12mm wide by 8 feet long.

Keen to make a start on planking the Ark, but one question.

If I plank horizontally for most of it, when at the bow, itwill need a bit more curve, and diagonal planking might help. Is that right? If so should I bring the horizontal planks up to the first frame or the second one (see below).
There needs to be a break in the planks anyway because the hull is more than 8 ft long so only at the keel will an 8 ft strip make it all the way between stem and stern!

Or, do I use balsa block for the bow area and lots of carving and sanding?

All suggestions appreciated as I've never planked anything like this before.

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Noel,

I would use styrofoam infill for the bow & flared section between the stem & bulkhead 2 & Glass cloth & resin, easy to carve and sand to shape 😄👍

Regards Ray

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

Like Ray posted, a combination of different materials won’t matter as your going to fibreglass the whole hull anyway. It’s getting the shape right first before you put the hard stuff over it, altering it after needs a lot of filler and a lot of rubbing down, good work out though !👍

Need to get the hull as smooth as possible before the fibreglass so you only need a thin coat of filler to finish. I use a fine weave fibreglass cloth as you don’t get lumps like the standard hairy stuff. Brentford fibreglass shop (when it’s open) is the place to get your stuff when ready, very helpful guy who runs it and cheaper than online.

Ricky ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

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