As the Goole club is on the site of the last remaining coal hoist i thought it would be appropriate to build some pans and push them around the pond , so to work .
As i didn't want to lug around representations of the full size pans i decided on some that would look the part on the water as loaded one's . For the base i cut a rectangle of ply 12"x 18" and rounded off the corners , then glued it to pollystyreen , four post's were then drilled and glued to each corner and a pin fitted across the tops for ropes to attach .
The whole thing was then sanded and painted with emulsion (blue) and left to dry , before sailing i managed to give a couple a paint over with mat black and a boarder of red . To stop them drifting side ways i routed a slot and dropped a keel/ skegg in .
The end result (when i get all 9 of them fiinished there should be 19 of them
)should be a train of loaded pans long enough to cause an obstruction and a challenge for the tugs .
daz
