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John Richardson - The Yacht. |
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Attached are some pictures of the construction and testing of the boat also of the sister boat sailing on my 'Home ' water....Penn Pond in Buckinghamshire. The boat framing really was constructed from kitchen cupboard . They don't make such knot free material any more ! It was cut down on my 45 year old bandsaw. The hollow mast was broomstick sawn and then milled out to provide the track, The keel is reinforced with stainless steel ( Concrete reinforcing steel from a friendly builder ) The bow and stern blocks were from redundant 'Queen Anne ' legs from a damaged piece of furniture. The rigging turnbuckles were from the wire wing stays of a Walrus flying boat...the turnbuckles being gifted to me years ago by a WW2, Naval airframe rigger. Rigging wire is model aircraft control line wire which is immensely strong. Lead ballast was from the local roofer ( Bought I have to add ! ). Sails are of Nylon / terryene lining material intended for dress linings. Paint was domestic Dulux Gloss. Radio Control is in this case rudder only, Sail winch yet to be installed...rudder only control is more demanding anyway. Apart from the sweat of the brow the total cost of the 1 Metre craft, , was that of the 1.5 mm. ply, lead, PVA glue, lining material and control wire was about £ 20..............not bad for hours of pleasure Regards and best wishes John |
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