Todays Boating

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

Skidding being the right word with absolutely no response from the rudder! Hope to have cured that, will find out tomorrow! Hold tight lad I’m going for full power!

Gromit ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

OK. I am going to spill the beans.

Richard has a hot 540 installed (the sort with adjustable brush timing) with a flexidrive and a (poss Beryllium) racy prop.

It did exceed expectations, and a test in calmer water will give us a better idea of how well it goes.

The slipper is very nose-up, and to be honest, I thought this was ok considering the novelty of the design. I squarer shelf fitted at the stern, possibly in acrylic so as not to be noticeable would/might help to keep the nose down.

Although it was going very well, some more performance might be available if Richard could get rid of the obvious cavitation that`s going on. Essentially this would call for a larger and possibly surface piercing prop (which work better than normal props when a bit of cavitation is present) but might strain the 540. A speed 600 could be easily fitted I suppose and this might turn a slightly larger prop than that fitted.

HOWEVER….is all that work worth it??? It went really well considering, and was a great larf. I suggested that perhaps a bit of half-round section wood/plastic/woteva could be fitted around the `welt` of the slipper to prevent some of the spray that is causing internal wetness, but it may have been that the fairly severe weather conditions were more to blame than any shortcomings in the design.

Camera at the ready for tomorrow!!!

Ashley.

Edited By ashley needham on 28/09/2020 17:44:49

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

Yes Ashley, a less choppy test is needed before I start chopping and changing things. Always change one thing at a time then test, always worked for me with all my projects.

Ricky ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

p.s. great pics Ashley👍

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

It’s not great out at the moment, however it is actually quite mild, and it may clear up by 9-9.30??

I might suggest we try for a slightly later 10-ish meet today and hopefully it will be ok???

Assuming all ok, I will be Devastating, Ex-jet landering, and Swordfishing (with go faster fins)

Ashley

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

Good call, see you 9.30 ish. Need to get a Slipper run in today!

Ricky ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Will pop down. Almost bright now, rain “in the air”?.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

As it happened, a very nice morning! Wish I had taken something else now, but there we are, it looked bleak at 9.30.

Another surprise from the slipper. It didnt go as well on the dead flat calm pond that was today, as well as it went on Sunday!!!

We put it down to the chop actually helping by lifting the thing up and down. Then it broke.

What to do??? Richard will no doubt let us know.

Ashley

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

Underside of Slipper is having a refit, more buoyancy needed. The soaking it got on Sunday seems to have fried the receiver or the Cheepo speed controller did, anyway, tested the receiver tonight with a 6 volt pack and it started getting hot so it’s dead. Need to track down a replacement Planet ts2 receiver, any ideas?

So, not a great morning but had a nice chat and it was nice weather for Woody and the Brigantine, not a complete loss.

Ricky ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Close shave!!!

Not the best shot, but I am saving that for summat else…

Ashley

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Nice one!

Chris

[geconParticipant @gecon]

Good that you missed that iceberg. It's the soft type but kan give quite a peck which may hole your hull -and spoil your day 

George.

Edited By gecon on 02/10/2020 12:12:17

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

Sunday’s weather looks rubbish, think I’ll defer till Tuesday or Wednesday depending.

Ricky ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

It looks to be the case. I will check 8-ish and see what the weather looks like and post, just in case.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

No boating Sunday due to rain, but this morning looks very nice, possibly a bit blustery.

Will have Bluebird and Swordfish for photographic purposes, and saucer …Trevor please bring Buzz.

ALSO the ex-jet lander, now just a lander, but quick on its speed 40 and 25mm brass prop.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

More like Jurassic park than Bushy park today. The big stags with antlers are busy bellowing at each other and running all over the place. Its quite a primeval sound.

They were going across the pond and/or standing a bit close and/or moving towards us and at one point, one ran at the grassy knoll and leapt over the spot where Richard puts his schooner (which was sheltering at the far side of the pond, rations running low) and trampled on his sail box…..

Bluebird conked out….servo seems to have jammed hard over (but otherwise was ok) and drifted back at a deer-less spot.

We were glad to get back into our safe and cosy tin boxes after that.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Working on a skimmer. have had to order multiple parts due to changing requirements and issues found with the build so far.

Hate the delay incurred waiting for mr postman but there we are.

A complex item is the tail, and this will be today’s job: hinges, skids and servo horn all need to be incorporated.

Ashley

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

Demented Morgan three wheeler minus the JAP V twin! 😂

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

A bad day at the reservoir today. At the end of the first race we watched the winners boat go windward and nose dive. The boat never recovered and slipped under the water. We can only assume the main hatch came off.

£200 quids worth of Df65 laying in 60 foot of water.

We are going to try and get it on Sunday.

Bri

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Geezer! 60 foot of water!

Grapnel? bathysphere? Mermaid??

Ashley

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

The boat went down between two buoys that were close together. <40 foot so trawling for it should be easy. 🥴

I will make a light weight grapple hook tomorrow to try to get it with

Bri

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

Christ! That’s hard core sailing! Good luck with that Bri, thought I had it bad with my waders and a foot of mud. 😂

Ricky ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

PS post how it goes👍

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Bri,

At least she went down in a blaze of glory winning 😀👍imagine how it would have felt it she was in last place and sank 😢,

Good luck with the fishing, but stay safe ! It's only a model !!

Regards Ray

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Best of luck but it could be difficult, once under water objects tend to slide around (think Titanic) and can end up a considerable distance from where they were last seen.

Colin

[Chris EParticipant @chrise]

I wish you all possible luck with this.

Be prepared for things on the bottom other than the yacht to grab you grapple.

I have never tried to do this but if I did I would think of using a disposable grapple and a double line through a hoop on the grapple so that i could always recover the line if the grapple got jammed.

Edited By Chris E on 09/10/2020 13:15:01

[Richard BarnettParticipant @richardbarnett67129]

I lost a stern lamp off my Galleon by the jetty in 2 ft of water, have been dredging that area for the last three weeks sill haven’t found it so best of luck Bri 👍

Ricky ye pirate 🏴‍☠️

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