Friday, August 10, 2007

Fishing boat hull


Hull
Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker.
We’re a bit out of sync with the picture here as this happened a few days ago. What you see is the first sailing of my model fishing boat. It’s not even got a deck yet but the weather was nice so it seemed a shame not to have a go.

Quite a bit of large lead shot (from an old divers weight belt) was poured in the bottom to get the hull something near the waterline. Without it there was a lot of cavitation from the prop.

With the weight in the bottom the hull romped around the water. It’s incredibly manoeuvrable to thanks the massive rudder. Top speed is untested as the bow wave threatened to come over the top of the bullwarks. A little less weight in the finished version I think !

Most importantly there weren’t any leaks so I can carry on with the nice building bits.

No comments: