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[manx venture]

my current build has just started, the 70ft automateded scallop dredger Evening Star PD.1022
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using a hull suplied by Bill Wood of aberdeen, hull originally for the Ocean Venture PD.340, thanks to bill for building the stern up for me, hull has been sanded and cut to suit
and marked in were everything needs to go, waiting for materials to arrive then can get deck on and crack on, will be a static model only so no electronics in this 1

my last build was of the Valonia PL.63 for the Isle of Man Fishermans Mission and is now on display in peel cathederal

[manx venture]

getting on now, deck on, wheelhouse poles an forrad exhaust mast built, tipping doors and spreaders on aswell

[Cam Watterson]

shes coming along well Darren. ive just bought a hull for the Dawn Maid, hopefully have her and the Vervine pair trawling one day. haha

[manx venture]

these are older pics, cudnt get my most recent ones off my old camera, got it pretty much done now, all handrails done, hatches,gilson winches done, 1st coat paint done, just the fiddly bits like deck lights nav lights n that to do, oh and the landing crane to build!
dawn maid sounds good, what hull you using?

[Cam Watterson]

from a firm called BP Mouldings, not on the internet. i met them at a show in england, they built somethingsimilar the Crimson Arrow (N reg.). the hull suits the Dawn perfectly.

[manx venture]

model near finished now, few little fiddly bits to make and touch up of paint and shes ready






yeah cam, crimson arrow and dawn maid same kind of size and same sterns really, shud fit well, any pics of the crimson arrow model?

[Cam Watterson]

no sorry but i did find a company who are doing scallop bellies, might save you some time http://www.modellingtimbers.co.uk/37.html

[manx venture]

they look good them cam, bit dear tho, wud need 16 for this model, cud by a real bellie for that!  think al stick to makin my own, made in same way those are and can do whatever size i need too

[Cam Watterson]

heres a pic of the boat that looks like the crimson arrow http://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo?album_id=875370998&photo_id=7227550168#7227550168 , thats the hull im using for the dawn maid

[manx venture]

yeah that hull be spot on for dawn maid, were u get hull and how much?

[Cam Watterson]

BP Mouldings for £90 it was meant to be a kit but i just got the hull from them. i have their number but i cant find it, when i can i'l give it to you