Good days sailing

Yesterday was a good days sailing though it did start out a deluge ! though by the time we had had some lunch at the cafe it had cleared up and was great for the rest of the afternoon. Not many members sailing, but plenty of watchers and questioners from the public side of the landing, (the usual "How much" and "How fast") The weather must have put the fair weather sailors off !.

I finally got the rudder gear in so its full steam ahead with the rest of the deck now and whilst waiting for glues to set I've not been slacking, I've made a stand which is needed now the running gear sticks down a bit

Stay posted for the next idea for the stand !

Running gear in

Yesterday went well with the running gear fitted, with such a short prop shaft it didn't take much lining up

As you can see I use cable tidies to secure the motor to the mount, not seen it before but thought if its strong enough to hold stroppy prisoners its going to be strong enough for my purpose and its never let me down use this idea on all my boats. It beats fiddling with screws in a confined space and easily replaceable. The only thing is you've got to plan for it in the build to get a space under the mount !

As you can see I've put in the steering servo mount, didn't use the platform from the kit but went down the road used by Glyn Guest in his review of this kit in Model Boats a few years ago.

The rudder mount went in next and the small  wooden mount was already in the kit, a nice little feature in the kit.

Whilst these items were setting I finished the front well deck ! and see the long view of the boat, No that's not the final ballast inside, only weighted to keep boat flat until I get the rest of the formers in.

All in all a good day's modelling

Bow deck fitted

Yesterday fitted the bow deck which was a bit of a pain as it was cut to 45 degrees and the hull kept springing it out , a big 6v 10amh battery cured that. I used epoxy glue and it was a good job it was the 20 min dry time I used with all the messing about I did. Bulkhead No 1 was next followed by Internal front bulkhead inside bulkhead No1.
The well deck side and front panels were next fitted and went in quite easily.
My Mate Bob did me another job on his lathe, Cut down the 6" prop-shaft to 4" so the running gear would all fit into the rear deck compartment which I hope to fit to-day. What an engineer that " Bob the Builder" is with all the machinery to do any job, no wonder he builds such nice boats

Model Narrow boat video

Found on youtube a nice model that has been built by a real narrow boat owner




Nice model hey, hope mine turns out and sails as well as this

Model Boat Weekend

Had a good boating weekend, with our Etherow regatta on Saturday which was very well attended ,must have been the good weather for a change !. the last two years regattas have been plagued with rain same as a lot of county shows which have had to close for good what with lack of funds and insurance problems,  luckily it hasn't closed us down and we had a good turn out from the public and members.
Then on Sunday it was off to Bury to their " end of season open day" not end of sailing I might add ! then at dinnertime back down to Etherow just in time for the fiesta racing to finish and the free sailing to start,so the rest of the afternoon was sailing our boats with a few good friends.
What a good weekend and all this for What ....10p per day if that.

Bury Metro Waters, if you haven't been before, this is a picture taken on a non-club day of course.

Day out at Prestatyn

Thursday went to Prestatyn with the two younger grandchildren,had a good day flying kites, going on the new kids play area and walks along the beach. What a difference the weather makes doesn't it. Pepe enjoyed it as the children can run faster that I can. What a nice polite couple of children they are, though I say so myself

Couple of cool dudes.

Started a stand for the Narrow Boat yesterday between the shopping and the trip to Etherow for Velda to plant some more flowers ready for the Regatta today.

Lunch out

To show we do other stuff besides model Boats :

Yesterday we went to Chadderton Hall Park and had  a nice lunch ( a hot pot and red cabbage to die for)  and then dropped back to Ashton and gave Pepe his first look round there ( That's him in the picture my mate Bob took of him) and visited  Roundabout toys and got my U/J (I'd thought I had one at home when we visited Birchwood show, it was the wrong size) and some brass rod to go inside some plastic strut to go on top of the Narrow Boat for the hand rails , the wood bead in the kit was too bent and flimsy looking. Its a good idea for rails picked up from Model Slipway kit "Aziz" nice looking rails and completely covered in plastic rod, you will see the effect when I get to that part of the build.