Todays Boating

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

Hi Harry, nice nozzles, that’s gonna have some grunt! Mind it will have to with all the weight it’s going to have to push around.

Big tugs always weigh in a bit on the heavy side so launch and recovery can be an issue and it’s always people with mobility problems who build them. My stuffs a bit on the lumpy side but it hasn’t thrown my back out——-yet!

Still it could be worse, you could be building an 8ft aircraft carrier, eh Noel! 😂 We’ll have to build a Camel- Laird slipway to get it in the pond!

Ricky ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

[harry smith 1Participant @harrysmith1]

Hi Richard

I think he will be using a car trailer with ramps and a four launch trolley!!!

His four wheel drive has a upgraded from a V6 to a V8 5.7 litre !!!

Harry

[Chris EParticipant @chrise]

Ashley

What were your final thoughts on the best drive system (motor/voltage/prop type & size) for your 20in Landing Craft?

Do you have a picture of one at full speed with this combination?

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Chris.  snap at speed  of my original lander, the first one I made, and I don`t think its going quite flat out, and the ferry.

They have all been fitted with 385 motors and S35mm two blade plastic props. A 7.2Nimh fits nicely and depending on how far back the motor is, an 8.4 will fit as well for extra oomph.

A 380 or 400 would of course fit to make it a bit quicker and you get a nice bow wave, but I have kept to a 385 as I often let kiddies drive the landers and generally they just go flat out forwards of back, so the slightly lesser speed is handy. It means they run forever as well!

Ashley

 

Edited By ashley needham on 14/08/2020 08:12:23

[Chris EParticipant @chrise]

Thank you Ashley. I think it looks a good spec/speed for my great nephews. I hadn't thought about full speed astern!

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Yes the poxy auto wotsit wrote of instead of ‘or’… forwards or backwards should have been.

Paul Thomason did some nice CAD drawn plans for the lander, available on pdf for a small donation to a charity wot escapes me at the moment. Very simple construction, no more than about 12 flat bits and a few strips , all 4m ply.

It’s a wonder more people don’t build them. Excellent sea boat, great recovery boat, bullet proof, can be accessorised no end and is amenable to being built a bit larger (sized for 1/32 scale to suit Airfix etc soldiers) Although not strictly accurate, it is almost there and with a bit of tweaking could make a Really decent model.

Ashley

[Chris EParticipant @chrise]

I don't really need plans for a models this simple. If it looks right it is right.

The information here is more than enough:

Build

Plan

When you look at the design the crew were very sadly really easy targets.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Ah yes, that`s the one. I should have had that as a free plan in the mag at the time eh?? Just follow that for guaranteed success!

Tomorrow sat I will recce the pond and see what the state of it is, and post.

Ashley

Edited By ashley needham on 14/08/2020 17:07:03

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Just been to the pond. Jetty weeded up for 20 foot or so! Masses weed about. Not worth going tomorrow I am afraid, unless we have the mother of all storms tonight lasting hours and hours.

Saves having to decide what to take!

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Headline news on ‘t inter web news….RN Humiliated as brand new warship breaks down…engine faillure….had to be towed into harbour by tugs.

Realty… probably one engine (out of two) broke down….they made it back to Gib under their own power, and seeing as they only had one prop working, called for tug assistance to berth.

Pet hate….press inaccuracies and doom mongering, always doing the country down.

If they want bad ship news, they should report on the American Zumwalt's, or the Ford carrier…or their “littoral” frigates which are all being flogged off.

 

Breaking news….just seen the front cover for September mag. Really weird boat on the cover or wot. Should be a fantastic article inside. 😎 great even 🤓🥰

Ashley

Edited By ashley needham on 15/08/2020 15:41:59

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Ashley

Its not just the press that deals in fake or misleading news as we can all recall going to war over weapons of mass distruction.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Yes. Politicians also a pet hate.

Followed by….

grumble grumble

Ashley. Bah humbug.

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

An excellent example of a contradiction in terms: …… A politician telling the truth.

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

As long as a politicians lips are moving he or she is lying.

Danny Devitoe classic interview comment.

Bri

[harry smith 1Participant @harrysmith1]

Hi Ashley

I see the model boats and knew it was of your interesting floatily things !!!!

Top job again, will make interesting reading when it arrives.

Harry

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Harry. I try hard just to keep you amused!

Will struggle with paddler gearing this mornin* in lieu of boating (as weeded up big time).

An interesting set of wheels arrived with my red plastic gear wheels. Several possibilities present themselves.

Ashley

[Chris EParticipant @chrise]

Posted by ashley needham on 14/08/2020 12:17:58:

………….Paul Thomason did some nice CAD drawn plans for the lander, available on pdf for a small donation to a charity wot escapes me at the moment. Very simple construction, no more than about 12 flat bits and a few strips , all 4m ply.

It’s a wonder more people don’t build them. Excellent sea boat, great recovery boat, bullet proof, can be accessorised no end and is amenable to being built a bit larger (sized for 1/32 scale to suit Airfix etc soldiers) Although not strictly accurate, it is almost there and with a bit of tweaking could make a Really decent model.

Ashley

I guess more people might build them, including the beginner that you recommended them to yesterday, if they were aware of them and there had been a build article and a plan that they could find. As you say it would have made a good free plan and an article that could have been made available permanently on the magazine web site. There isn't even an "album" of the model so I guess new boaters won't find out about them very easily.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Fair point Chris. I will explore this matter further.

Ashley

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

Hi chaps, Wednesday looks wet all day so I will be going Thursday morn as it seems the lesser of two weevils.

Ricky ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

[harry smith 1Participant @harrysmith1]

Hi Richard

That's knot wet that's liquid sun shine !!!!

Harry

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

Fine if you’ve got plastic sails! Got caught out last year in a downpour, took a week to dry them out and all the rigging shrunk! Took ages to stretch it out again, anything wetter than mist forget it.😂

Ricky ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Pond fairly clear as seen this afternoon. Weed over far side, but other than that seems good.

Are we aiming for Thursday then ? or tomorrow if it looks fine????

Ashley

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hi Ashley

Now that you have time on your hands you could build a weed cutter, something like big landing craft with hedgecutter attachment slung underneath.

Paul

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

I was thinking more snow plough…..sucking up, chopping and then chucking it on to the bank!!

Ashley

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

A garden vac might be an ideal tool

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