OK, here's some more.
About 10 or so years ago, my father decided to have a go building a model as well. Whereas previously the plans had been obtained from Groves & Guttridge directly, we had to get the plans from the NMM - unfortunately, they didn't supply any lines with these, but from the half dozen sections and the lines of a 52' Barnett (not
too different...), the hull shape was worked out, and he came up with this :
Again, double diagonal, plank on frame - mostly from scrap lying around in his shed - all the blue painted ply in there is from the remains of our old Mirror dinghy, and the keel is a lump of oak from a wardrobe.
And that's how it stayed.
After Dad died about 5 years ago, the hull went into my loft, and there it stayed until Neil started posting about his 3 model kit development. As I'd finished the 41' Duke of York, I thought I'd drag the hull out and see if I could finish it.
The hull wasn't too bad, although the curve of the bow was a bit strange, so some laminated ply was built up to the correct profile, and faired in, and the whole boat sealed and rubbed down. It needs a fair bit of filling to get the hull absolutely smooth, and that's where we are at the moment (as you really shouldn't try to use constant width planks on a hull this curved - some will twist in weird and wonderful ways and you can end up with a rippled surface
).
THe grey part of the keel is the shape of the iron keel on the real boat and is currently removable. The idea is to cast this large lump in lead, to avoid putting all the ballast inside the hull. Whether this will work or not I don't know. It'll need to go into water first to determine how much weight is going to be needed in the first place.
The rudder shroud will have to be replaced, as it's currently quite flimsy - Notice the difference between Neil's 'Mary Stanford' and this one, that we have an internal rudder, not an external one hung on the sternpost - makes connecting a rudder servo
much easier!
That's where we are at the moment. I'll post updates as and when they happen, but as my boats seem to take about three years each to build don't expect rapid posts!
Lance
P.S. Note the motors (if you can see them) in the previous post - they were electric, but from the outside looked like scale petrol engines - well, she did work in a professional modellers workshop!
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Topic: And the next one... 51' Barnett, "The Rankin" (Read 5319 times)