Vintage Gentleman’s Cruiser

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Two years I think before my p45 and a full 5 days a week creating fabulous oddities, and I have discovered a veritable TREASURE TROVE of oddities to make, each one more awe inspiring (and implausible) than the last.

After every oddity I wonder "gosh what on earth can I make next that no one has bothered to make yet" and lo and behold, up it pops.(the idea)

Bob, just keep on adding bits to the boat, makes it soooo interesting. The Abell drive is just to die for, even if it is inefficient and takes up space…but that is not the point..it looks fabulous.

Do your own thing. Ignore the others.

Ashley

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Dave

Almost correct but owing to your classical education you should have done better…. 5/10

Ash

I have discovered a veritable TREASURE TROVE of oddities to make, each one more awe inspiring (and implausible) than the last. Just wait and see what I have lined up, all fresh off the drawing board and very futuristic.

Bob

I have submitted all of the competition entry forms so now its up to you to make them look pretty. looking forward to it.

Paul

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Dave

May…June…July…August…September…….Smart Alec!

Thank you, Ashley

I'm pleased somebody can talk a bit of sense!

I repeat…..I'm building the model for personal interest and amusement and I'll do it my way!

I may have a sail shortly……In the wee small hours…..Just to get the monkey's off me back!

Bob

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Paul

I shall try to be at least 200% correct next time. BTW What happened to the last two very futuristic things from your drawing board? Did they disappear into another dimension?

Bob

Follow this very closely – you can use your fingers to count on if you wish because it's quite tricky until you get the hang of it –

In one month's time it will be mid-June;

In two month's time it will be mid-July;

In three month's time it will be mid-August;

In four month's time it will be mid-September; so

In five month's time it will be mid-October. QED.

Alec {Oh – and there's no apostrophe in "monkeys"}

Edited By Dave Milbourn on 15/05/2015 15:18:33

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Dave

It`s now early May

Then comes early June

Then comes early July

Then comes early August

Then, surprise surprise…..September!

Five months has elapsed

Bob

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Bob

Early May ……….0

Early June ………1

Early July……….. 2

Early August ……3

Early September ……4

Where has this monkey comes from and will it have a cabin in the boat?

Dave

I became bored with Ghost and its redundant technology but Banshee is still there along with Cerberus (triple hull hydroplane stealth torpedo boat)

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Paul……Who`s side are you on?

You can`t say May is zero….Still got a long way to run yet!

Let`s have some model talk and less of this silly stuff!

Getting bored with it

Bob

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Bob

I'm on this side of reality …………..well at least in my lucid moments.

How many fingers do you have?

Including thumbs you have eleven……and its easy to check………just look at your hands and start counting from the left hand side……10……9…..8…..7…..6 + 5 from your right hand……=11.

But seriously Haydock is getting closer and you haven't even started your Glynn Guest model yet.

Paul

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

How thoughtful of the Club Committee to install a special launching ramp

I'm sure they've built it with Lady Joyce in mind?

Thanks to Mike the Fixer

Bob

[Ralph PinchParticipant @ralphpinch41762]

That looks good Bob should make launching Lady Joyce a piece of cake, is that a black bungy rope I see ready to fire her into the middle of the lake!!

Ralph.

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Hello Ralph

The cords around the landing stage deter the Geese from soiling the area………It works well too

Another good idea from our Mike the Fixer

Will you be fitting the transportation wheels to your boat?

Are you a member of a club?

Bob

[Ralph PinchParticipant @ralphpinch41762]

Hi Bob,

thinking of combining a travel cradle with a wheeled launching trolley.

It will always be a two man job to launch so just need to be able to get it into my car on my own, its a Honda CRV so will fit easy.

Not a member of a club yet, there are not many around my neck of the woods {Deeside in North wales} think that Ellesmere Port is the nearest.

Ralph

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

The Leader of the Silent Lurkers has been on the phone crying for something to lurk at!

So this will have to do for the time being…..The Dinghy project, still in progress at the moment

Bob

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Just added the cabin grab rails

Bob

[Diede van AbsParticipant @diedevanabs87670]

Hi Bob,

Nice little boat you have there on the roof, although green would not be my personal choice of tube material. Grey or orange would be more realistic I think. But hey…

What I do miss though, is either a pair of oars or an outboard motor fitted. Also a grab rope along the tube or handles would be handy. And please do cut off these bolt ends! It hurts like hell when you try to board a boat over the stern wich such steel bars protruding…

Your handrails look lovely! That's definately an advantage to building large-scale; you can actually make the handrails and other items like the real deal.

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Hello Diede

What are you on about?…….I've already said, the dinghy is still on the production line

Why don't you rissen?…..lol

I really wanted a yellow dinghy, but didn't have any yellow paint!

The oars are in the pipeline and even a mo'or

There's really no end to the amount of fine detail that can be added…..If one has the time?

Bob

[Diede van AbsParticipant @diedevanabs87670]

Hi Bob,

I never rissen, you know that did you

Time is on your side, it appears, at least you take lots of it so that shouldn't be a problem for the details. And truth be told, the details look stunning.

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Thank you, Diede

Will be fitting a pair of grab rails to the other cabin roof now

The narrow walkway has been legging me up for months……That's why the main hand rails have not been fitted

But with the grab rails, they now make some sense

Like the new phrase……"Legging me up"….?

Tarra……Bob

[Diede van AbsParticipant @diedevanabs87670]

Now now, don't make me stumble over grammar jokes, Bob

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Sorry Diede……But it wasn`t a grammar joke……..It was a common English phrase…..lol

I was short of just one 5mm dowel for the cabin roof………Drat!…..Only had 6mm in stock

I had previously noticed that as I pushed the grab rail through the eye bolts, a tiny slither of wood was shaved off

This gave me an idea!………So I drilled a few holes of various sizes through a piece of 1.5mm sheet metal…..6mm…..5.5mm…….5mm and countersunk the holes on one side…..and got a very sharp cutting edge

Starting with the 6mm , I tapped it through the hole and a nice shaving was skimmed off…..All the way down!

Which was quite interesting and pleasing……..I also noticed that pushing the dowel through again…….More wood was shaved off

Repeated the process using the other smaller holes and ended up with a perfectly round 5mm dowel

I put the other grab rails through and they were all standardised to 5mm………Nice!

Bob

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

The cruiser just keeps looking nicer and nicer all the time, Bob!

The drawplate method of producing dowel is incidentally the one used and reommended by the late, great Harold A. Underhill in his seminal "Plank on Frame Models and Scale Masting & Rigging" (**LINK**) …

/Mattias

Edited By Banjoman on 21/05/2015 10:46:41

[Diede van AbsParticipant @diedevanabs87670]

Hi Bob,

That is a good way of creating dowel indeed. I'll remember that one!

as for the grammar and phrases; I saw something about narrow pathways and legs, so I figured stumbling would be in place

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Bob. Let you get away with the green on the other boat, but the dingy is just too much. Stripes I can live with, but..

Ashley (disclaimer..personal opinion only)

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Thanks Banjo And Diede?……BTW……Do you two know each other?

Ashley

You are not the first to pooh poo the green dinghy

I'll bow to public opinion and paint it orange…….When I can get some paint

Not many shops sell those little Humbrol tin lets these days

May have to go Mail order!

Bob

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hello Captain Bob

You could paint it grey then it wouldn't detract from the main boat

Paul

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