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   philjohnwilliams | Oct 31, 2008 05:04am | #1

   BTW I have some RC experience with planes.  Unfortunatley, that hobby got to expensive

   Well then it is a good thing you got into a nice cheap hobby like woodworking

    

   -pjw

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   Quickstep | Nov 01, 2008 02:06am | #4

   I posted your question on another forum. You won't be able to reply without registering, but you should still be able to read the replies. Here's a link. If it doesn't work, post up and I'll find another way to get you the feedback.

   Here

    

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   EdHarrow | Nov 01, 2008 04:24am | #5

   It's got to hurt - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuawMl4lOo

   I've got a tippicanoe (sp?) free sailing boat, oh 18" long, but no experience with their RC stuff.  I have an antique 'pond yacht' and I'll contact the man who did much of the work on Barbara for his thoughts (he's very involved in building RC sailboats).

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   WillGeorge | Nov 01, 2008 06:47am | #6

   WOW.. It even trims in the water floating!

   Thanks for the video link.. I needed that.. Long ago I had a Champion? Helichopper..

   I lost it on the first flight..

    

   Edited 10/31/2008 11:53 pm by WillGeorge

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   Lapun | Nov 02, 2008 01:25pm | #8

   A classic, Ed.I am back into finishing a Marblehead variant which I started three years ago. Next step is running up some sails.I will probably be into free sailing, so it is encouraging to see your Barbara looking so good.Lapun.

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   EdHarrow | Nov 02, 2008 07:34pm | #9

   "MR", now I know I'm in trouble... 

   As for Barbara, everything she's got she owes to Abe.  Very thorough research and consumate skill.  Barbara's rags came from Black Sails in So Calif.  The sails are exquisite. 

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   WillGeorge | Oct 31, 2008 08:53pm | #2

   I cannot answer.. I cry even now.. Maybe 1970... I made a steam driven model of an old German Sub.. I took a year to build it... All hand made by me.. The Radio parts maybe Japan at the time?

   It worked Perfect... Untill it sunk in BIG Lake on the east side of Chicago!

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   dgreen | Oct 31, 2008 10:46pm | #3

   I know how you feel, in 72 I built a 3' model of the Missouri complete with rotating turrets and twin motors. She's at the bottom of a lake on NAS Memphis. 

    

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   Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.~ Denis Diderot

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   nhpyb | Nov 01, 2008 09:30pm | #7

   Hello TWG,

   Posting here at request of Mr. Harrow.

   No, not aware of any wooden pond boat kits other than those at the Tippacanoe site.

   Check the AMYA website:

   http://www.modelyacht.org/

   Or the USVMYG site:

   http://www.swcp.com/usvmyg/

   Often a member may advertise a boat for sail.

   Because we race and attend sanctioned regattas, all of our designs are expected to meet class rules. Although it isn't wood, most of our members at the local club sail the CR914 as well as vintage wooden models.

   http://www.cr914class.org/

   abe

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   oldbeachbum | Nov 03, 2008 08:07am | #10

   Way to go guys.  Just when I had the world by the tail you have to wave THIS topic under my nose.

   Now, let's see............tools, wood, kites,  hanging out at the beach, canoe, photos, food, meds, wife, ...................RC boats?   hmmm....meds, wife.....wife, meds?

   OK, I'm in.    ;0)

    

   an old childhood dream I'd forgotten about.....until NOW!

   ...The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.  -Mark Twain...Be kind to your children....they will choose your nursing home....aim low boys, they're ridin' shetland ponies !!

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