Wild Duck meets Eventide

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

On the subject of motor sailors, my dad and uncle bought the GRP mouldings for this tiny 19′ 6″ long Colvic Watson almost as wide as it was long at 7’6″ beam, total fitting out over 5 years, they liked it, and kept it in the water at Gillingham Marina on the tidal Medway for 10 years before they lost interest in her and I had the task of selling it !! she rolled on wet grass, motored fine and only sailed down wind really 🙂

Am I tempted to make a model of her for old times sake ? Absolutely not 🙂

Regards Ray

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

We do have standards Ray!  🙂

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

This is more relevant to Wild Duck with its external rudder but I can’t find a thread on Ray’s build, was there one?

Anyway looking for advice on mounting the rudder on Fisherman. Will be making the hinges soon. I know that with full-size boats the pintles all face downwards to facilitate mounting of the heavy rudder but I guess with a model with its very light rudder there is a danger of the rudder coming off, though with Fisherman there will be a rod from the servo which will offer some restraint.

So, is it best to have one pintle facing up and one facing down?

On a different note, relevant to an earlier post, I came across an episode of Howards Way and watched it last night. I remembered some of it from the first time round – unlike some programmes it hasn’t dated too badly really!

I see Charles Frere has my registration on his Rolls Royce!

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Chris,

I have the whole series of Howards Way in a dvd boxset !!

I’m a fan of tube gudgeons and a continueos pin as on my TSB Portlight brass tube soldered to brass screws or bolts arranged so the rudder can’t fall off 🙂

Regards  Ray

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Cheers Ray.

I can stream all the episodes but i was going to have a look and see if they were available on DVD!

Chris

[Tim RoweParticipant @timrowe83142]

Wild Duck got finished in time for Christmas as it was a present – but that was the Christmas before last!  Eventide did not make the same deadline and then a house move, setting up a new business and other modelling distractions got in the way.

I have built the mahogany hull for Nimbus the IOM and now waiting for some parts from SailsEtc,  Skinny Jeans (Spooky) has had a successful sea trial in the harbour and the other RG 65 Laerke is in paint which from experience with Skinny Jeans, I can’t rush.  The lovely little Mirror dinghy that Ray gave me has advanced a bit and now it is Eventides turn to get completed.

Everything is ready to be assemble except a few small details such as cleats, anchor chocks and some cabin-top winches.  I have the radio gear and have bought a couple of simple transmitters from Ebay so the two boats can be sailed together.

I was not happy with my experiment for the portholes and when I saw the glazed brass ones here one the forum I knew I had to change them.  This involved more work than I thought cutting out the holes and making good the paint. Probably one of the reasons I got so distracted.  Anyway, Eventide is back on the bench and the paint and varnish being finished off.

Tim R

 

[Tim RoweParticipant @timrowe83142]

Catching up eventually with Eventide.  The rubbing strakes needed a bit more varnish, hence the masking.  Oh and there was a lot of dust inside!!

The portholes are very nicely made and finished. The glazed ones are perfect and held in place with the lightest smear of clear silicone wiping off any excess before curing with a cotton bud.  Time will tell if they are watertight but I probably shouldn’t be sailing if the wind is strong enough to immerse them.
The portholes are drilled for small pins.  I have decided to leave them out because the effect works well enough.  There would be nearly 50 pins and a risk of miss hitting at least one.

Here is a close-up of one porthole.  Interesting how the camera that close shows up all the little imperfections.

Here is the horse for the jib.  It is a relic from the original Galileo built around 55 years ago.  Originally it had a short piece of aerial tube as a slider but being chrome it didn’t look right. I unsoldered the end brackets and discarded the slider.
It is very close to the mast so I couldn’t put a sheet guide on the centreline attached to a new slider. This would have meant different sheeting position from one tack to another.  The solution was to solder a loop in the centre of the traveller with a guide loop offset on the cabin top.  It no longer functions as a horse but that doesn’t matter because the jib has a boom and other types of control.  It still looks the part though.

The little brass plate on the front of the cabin top is for the kicking strap.

More to follow

Tim R

 

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

That’s very nice work Tim, rather better than my Silver Mist which is now progressing again. I used the plain glazed portholes.

Colin

[Richard SimpsonModerator @richardsimpson88330]

Looking really smart Tim.  Close up camera work is definitely not kind to our modelling as it shows up absolutely everything.  Perfectionists use it as a tool to help to identify things that need a bit more attention.  Some simply don’t take close up pictures!

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