Todays Boating

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Ashley did a great job, very artistic. Possibly he might have been better situated upstairs with the main boating exhibits but you just never know really. I certainly enjoyed seeing all the models in the flesh.

A couple of photos below, I'm keeping the ones of Ashley doing handstands for the magazine report….

Colin

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Many thanks, Colin

Nice stand, Ashley……..I would have enjoyed looking at your exhibits first hand

The posters look excellent and make a nice back drop to the stand

Bob

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Very well done Ashley

The stand looks fantastic and I hope that you enjoyed yourself. I would really have liked to come and see you but sadly it is just to far for me to travel.

Looking forward to seeing the handstand photo and I hope that you won the bet.

Paul

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

And I will show you the ones of Colin doing continuous backflips across the floor….

I have a number of plans from past mags along with the build articles (these are not as full as one sees now in the mags) which are to be binned unless someone wants them at postage cost. I have had them all 30years and am never going to use them. PM me.

THIMBLE…small fast electric by Les jones;

BOSTON BLENHEIM stern trawler by Dave metcalf;

NINA Windemere open steam paddle launch by Basil Harley

MABEL Victorian steam launch also Basil Harley

67ft Thorneycroft RAF rescue launch by John Pritchard

VICKERS VEDETTE 100 ton warship/OPV by Vic Smead;

HMA AMBUSCADE type21 frigate by Glynn Guest;

PANACHE 30" scale type ocean racer (sail) Vic Smead

KRISPIE 36" restricted class yacht by Vic Smead

TALISMAN inshore fishing boat Glynn Guest

TYNE class lifeboat by Dave Metcalf (31&quot

SRN5 hovercraft by Mark Porter

(you also get an article in theis mag regarding steering course design by the the MPBA secretary <1986> a certain COLIN BISHOP)

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

"And I will show you the ones of Colin doing continuous backflips across the floor…."

– Ashley doesn't know his own strength, I only asked him why the HoverVan was floating on tinsel.

Colin

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Ashley

I'll take all three of the Vic Smeed plans, please. Let me know by PM how much you want and how I should pay it and I'll send you my home address (although you may well have it already from my ACTion days).

Dave M

[The Long BuildParticipant @thelongbuild]

As stands go I think that is absolutely great, and a great advertisement for a magazine, name forsakes me at the moment !!.

I hope you are proud of that display..

Now the jumper…..Well that's another matter…..

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

DM. No probs. Will check up at home re address. wont sent anything out until after christmas in any event.

LB. Display yup looked ok, jumper…its christmas !!!!

Cheers Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

This Sunday probably no show as the mrs wants car for shopping (yes the S word) unfortunately.

However sufficient batts remain charged if it is that I can get out.

Mex show stand in quite a good posn as everyone who wanted to see the boats had to walk either side of us. Not sure there would have been so much interest if with the battleships and so on/..?

Ophicleide safely tucked up in loft ! (nice) <bit bigger than anticipated> <<box HUGHE>> !! Gig bag due early next year, good stuff or the thing becomes untransportable if no car. All I need to do now is learn how to play it!

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Rubbish christmas. Mum really ill with this coff/cold thing thats goingaround and on antibiotics. Spent xmas afternon takimg her to hospital to see a doctor as v bad and also had fallen over (why cant she keep the poxy wireless phone with her?????) . Missed after dinner prezzy opening (not the same on your own later, and not seeing suprise of those opening well chosen and expensive pressies) and to boot was not feeling that well myself and now have developed horrid cold.

Humbug.

Nice crisp morning but feel c##p so staying in.

After this years project No1 languishing a/w spraying I want to make a paddle boat. Would like to make a steam paddle warship but put off by all the rigging. Suggestions for British paddle boat subjects on a postcard plse. Alternatively may think about a surface/sub-surface craft off the telly using similar technique as for Sunderland et al. Will have to make card mockup to see if simplification is feasable.

Ashley

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Hello Ashley

Deepest sympathy with your health problems over Crimbo……Kind regards to your Mum and hope you both bounce back to normal health ASAP….. Your health is the first priority

Looking forward to your next paddler project and please don`t keep it secret this time?

All the best……Bob

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Bob. Thanks for that. Always another christmas to look forward to!!

Projects are generally kept secret if they are going to appear in the magazing (or at least, be submitted for possible inclusion). Likely a paddler will not appear in the mag as being too ordinary unless i find a real gem. My models appear in the mag mainly for their novelty/unusualnes or differing construction/material usage, and not the teriffically high standard of detail work! A paddleship may not have the former and certainly not the latter.

A GE was on the cards some while ago as being a nice slab sided solid design but someone has aired theirs and thats put me off!

I do have an idea for a modern liner exploring just how much detail you can get away by using paintwork or printing only, and having virtually no "detail" in th accepted sense of the word.

Ashley

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Any interest in the high speed super cavitating thingy, I proposed recently

I would have thought it was just up your street?

This one……… **LINK**

Looks a winner and a mag scoop!

Bob

[Kimosubby ShipyardsParticipant @kimosubbyshipyards]

Get well soon Ash, and hope your mum is recovering too.

BTW we didn't get your cold, so the hugs and kisses failed to contaminate this small Island.

Aye, Kim

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Ash

I hope both you and your mum get well soon.

Kim

Bugs don't do well on the island, it might be something to do with the rugged strength of the population or it could be the large amount of alcohol that the island floats in.

Paul

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Paul et al. getting better, rear end of cold now. Mum eating and so on.

Bob. Not so interested in yank milkitary hardware. Impressive videos, great specs. Wonder how it performs in any6 really rough waether? How cheap do you suppose it is to run?

Ash (sniff)

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

STILL sniffing. Not likely to boat tomorrow even if the weather improves as its currently HORRID down here.

All boat work has come to a full stop. Stuff loitering in shed still not put away from MEX show. All the models had boxes made for them and I now need to revisit the storage arrangements.

Ashley

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

If you are bored Ashley, just check out your BT Email. Editors make work for idle hands!

Colin

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Colin. Noted.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Batts charged. Chaps, need to take a few snaps of your boats, Could do with skimmers hovercraft and stuff not bought down for a while. Some fast ones as well plse. I would like any snaps of your boats plse as well if at all poss. You have my mail address

Will be taking BFB3 Midge and LCT…you will see what for tomorrow.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Well, v bright today and sunny but J cold.

Weather deceptive. Pond appeared to be very calm but the wind got up a bit, enough to make inaugural run of iain`s fabulous new boat tricky, for a number of reasons, but a very good first run out. All things considered, great initial outing, could have been much worse, considering the odd shape and unknown c of G location. Pictures I think later on when perfected.

had unusual occurence today and had eye off the ball and…..disaster!!! the BFB went under. I think the wind must have caught the rather long wings and a combination of list and waves flooded the thing, completely. Other that it wont actually sink, due to the foam and so on we had to effect an LCT rescue as unbelievably it was out of reach of my 10m pole first off !! I ask you.

THEN, a whole BUNCH of families turned up with obviously christmas RTR fast types, about a dozen or so and utter mayhem ensued as they thrashed,crashed and dangerously ran full tilt into the jetty. Didnt they LARF!!!

I am all for kids getting into boating, but…

Kris turned up late with a quite large Griffin style military hovercraft, recently constructed and also on its first outing (traditional kitchen floor test does not count)..I am not sure but this may be BARRY`s handiwork?? Went well-ish…not tried in anger due to possibly dodgy lift ESC and also by this time the wind was definitely not hovercraft friendly. Needed some mods, we discussed this…. had a large brushless lift motor and we thought that the window air inlets were no where near big enough…it could do with a cut-to-fit three bladed lift prop and even despite the wind appeared to be a touch underpowered in the go dept. Could simply be improved upon by trying different props.

This may sound like a bit of a disaster but not really. All mods very easy to do and merely tinkering to improve upon the modest performance. on a clam day it would have been fine. My hovervan is even worse in any wind and on the same day if I had had a first outing, would have been contemplating the crusher.

Lastly Trevor turned up to show the latest stage in the construction of a real oddity, and a find I am very jealous of. Other than getting it to work properly which may be a big challenge, it is just so cool….a 1930`s design of really simple shape but outrageous art deco appearance. I would tell you what its called, as this would not give the game away but I have conveniently forgotten. This is a great project and apart from getting (again) the balance right, the most difficult thing will be the propulsion. This is unusual, and not exactly difficult, but inefficient in a model…and unfortunately an item we discussed just HAS to be there as it is a part of the design oddness. All to play for.

Too cold and wet to continue with this years biggy, so at a loose end. I may revisit a model started 8 years ago and shedded…propulsion diffs or at least difficult motor choice but with the advent of high torque brushless motors of reasonable size I may re-jig the mechanics a bit.

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Tomorrow; Hopefully, as it got very cold about 1030 when we were in Kingston and we actually had snow for about 5 mins!

Ferry, Hasty and Alvis. Batts charging hope I will need them..

Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

jolly cold today and raining on arrival. Peter down with new-ish cabin cruiser , recently finished upperworks. Going well, a strapping 54 inches and brushless. Jolly brisk even on 7.4V LiPo.

Played with the Alvis for an hour or so, pleased to report no leaks this time, dry inside again, phew.

Two others down decided boats better in boot of car, j sensible. Just an hours boating. Pond very high, landing stage partially flooded. Ashley

Guess what ???

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Sunday (25th) Picture says it all.

However a couple of chaps down to chat with. Trevor had his project No1 down (lets call it SEAGULL, just so we dont get it mixed up with my project no1) and he has widened certain components . mad a figure to guage scal by and now obtained the small brushless motor needed for propulsion. Ingenious method of motor mount I must say and initially not appreaciated until I saw where he was coming from..The mount is very adjustable and I have a feeling he may indeed need all this adjustment to get it to work. Thats not to say it wont work but this craft has to perform in a certain way so its all to play for.

Underneath we have a somewhat younger Ashley when on TS Royalist in Weymouth. Sorry about the quality, scanned pictures, snaps not too good to start with. I was stuck out at the end of the yard-arm, one foot on a stirrup and one on the main wire walk. Getting wet canvas in is no fun in a squall I can tell you !!

Ashley

 

Edited By ashley needham on 26/01/2015 09:15:22

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Ashley, impressive pics re Royalist. I have seen her often enough out in the Solent when I had my own boat but luckily I could manage the sails from the deck without having to climb those scary looking ratlines. You must have had a lot of fun though!

Colin

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