Model Boats

May 17th, 2009 by Steve

Model Boats | Fairey Marine Huntsman Building project has been very slow of late and I have had little time to dedicate to the project. We have had a major engine failure on our real boat Blue Marlin II which has absorbed my time together with a once in a lifetime trip to the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne this year and some very busy times with Karens antique silver business.

In the meantime Mike has been cracking on with the Seal Engine build and I have been left feeling guilty about slacking.

Well I can now report that most of the template pieces have now been cut out from tracings from the plan.

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As you can see from this display on the garage floor most of the pieces of the jigsaw are now cut out. (you can tell I am no model engineer!)

Mike has been over and advised me to build a frame to support the boat as I build it.

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I have started to attempt to make a frame so that I can start glueing the keel together to start to build the boat proper. I must say building the frame is going to be as much effort as building the boat but mike tells me it will be worth it!

I shall post again when this bit is complete. I have not done an update on the traffic and earnings this month due to the reasons above and the fact I changed blog templates and lost the tracking code for most of the month. I will however update after a full months traffic.