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Making all the edges flush

 Well at last I have made some time to revisit building my Fairey Marine Huntsman. I managed to get an hour in the garage today and decided to spend some time finishing off the keel. Having glued all the sections to the main keel I decided to file and sand down the uneven edges to provide a flush smooth finish. The keel is now quite heavy and a lot stiffer and several positions were necessary in the vice to get at all the angles.

Having now made a decent looking keel I decided to start adjusting the other sections and bulk heads to ensure a proper fit. The plan shows the need for a breasthook. Having already cut one out I spent several attempts at shaping it to fit exactly as the plan suggests.

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In the Objective for this blog page objective 3 reads: "To use affiliate marketing to offset the cost of materials and try to pay for the build"

In the Earn money from your hobby page I set out how this is to be achieved.

The purpose of this update blog entry is to show the performance towards these objectives.

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Fairey Marine Huntsman was a classic sports cruiser and I am trying to replicate one in a model. This blog record my efforts to date. I have been absent from the garage for several weeks now due to many reasons including a increase in sales in my wife antique silver business but at last today has seen some progress on the build at last.

Following a recent visit from my brother Mike who is the real model engineer in the family I decided to take his advice and build a frame to start the assembly of the model following completing the cut out of all the bulk heads from the plan. Mike is building the seal engines which will eventually power this boat.

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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. Read more

In the Objective for this blog page objective 3 reads: "To use affiliate marketing to offset the cost of materials and try to pay for the build"

In the Earn money from your hobby page I set out how this is to be achieved.

The purpose of this update blog entry is to show the performance towards these objectives.

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Blue Marlin II under tow!

If this is true then I am holding my breath for the next mechanical failure. Yesterday I put an update post on the blog to explain the lack of progress on the boat build of the Fairey marine Huntsman I am building as a project. The delay has been due to the engine fialure of our mercury 1.7 turbo diesel mercruiser fitted to our quicksilver 630 sd Blue Marlin II. This engine failed on our last fishing trip and you can read all about it here.

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A hole where our engine should be!

Well I have not had any chance to continue the build here of my Fairey Marine Huntsman due to big problems with our real boat a Quicksilver 630 SD. Read more

Little progress to report this week due to the weather! Have just spent an hour in the garage in the freezing cold and have decided to call it a day.

I have managed to trace and cut out the mian keel section though. This is one long piece of 1/4 inch marine ply and was quite tricky to get right .

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In the Objective for this blog page objective 3 reads: "To use affiliate marketing to offset the cost of materials and try to pay for the build"

In the Earn money from your hobby page I set out how this is to be achieved.

The purpose of this update blog entry is to show the performance towards these objectives.

Read more

Having attempted the first bulkhead I will admit to making a bit of a pigs ear with it. Having cut it out with the Axminster Jigsaw I was quite pleased with it until I held it over the plan for comparison. It was not quite of the quality and accuracy I was hoping for. It has now become a piece of scrap for use later in the build!

So it was back to the drawing board, or should I say tracing board and start all over again. This time I was hyper cautious with the cutting phase and B1 has now been cut and sanded down and is remarkably accurate (in my humble opinion). Read more