Hi Owhogo
I am a new member here. I am an experienced model boat builder having built among others the Endeavour and Victory (from kits) and a Sea Trawler "Sea Lady" from scratch.

Whilst I currently live in Australia I am originally from Liverpool/Bootle in the UK. Because of this I joined the Bootle forum some years ago and have been an active member for some time. One of the members of this forum has a son-in-law who has just been accepted into the Sennen Cove Lifeboat crew and some photos of this new lifeboat have been posted on the forum. This has pricked my interest into building a model of this boat.

Do you by any chance know where I could get plan details of this lifeboat. They don't need to be to scale as I was a draughtsman in my earlier life and I could adopt them to suit the scale I wanted.

Thanks in anticipation
David Jack

hI Dave, I search a good engine for my severn 1:12 - I start now to build it. can you help me and tell me witch Motor you would bulid in a Severn Lifeboat 1:12 ?
Thanks for answering
Silvestro

Hello,

I saw the picture of your beautiful 48ft Solent class lifeboat, scale is 1/12th. Now I got a few questions for you.
A few months ago I purchased via eBay a second hand model of this same model.
I live in the Netherlands in the regio n of Eindhoven area. I do like the RNLI lifeboats, especially the 47ft Watson and 48ft Solent class type of lifeboats.
I'm now in the process for renovating this modelboat I.e. painting the hull, putting new railing stanctions etc.

Also I want to put a new radiomast on top of the wheelhouse. I do have some questions about
this ! is there a online shop which can supply me these mast fittings especially for the 48ft Solent class lifeboat model from Aerokits?
Or did you make the radio mast yourself ?
And this applies also for the cross directional finder antenna also located on the wheelhouse.

I hope you can guide me in a direction for finding me these fittings.

Many thanks in advance for your help in this matter.

Johan

Hi,
I have just aquired a hull for a 47' watson I have got drawings I was wondering if you could send me a picture of the back of the cabin what appears to be a shelter on the drawings.

Lovely lifeboats by the way

regards Les
modusman

hI my email address is paul1@fsmail.net I forgot to put on email thanks
paul

HI I am building an arun and it looks like yours would it be possible for you to email drawings and electrics please in plain simple english as I am a complete novice at all of this I am willing to pay for plans etc if not could you direct me in the direction I should be going thanks
paul

I had a similar problem trying to find a local model boating club near Camberley, Surrey - the nearest I knew about was the Kingfisher Club North Camp Farnborough - when I went to visit the pond had been left and was all overgrown - have you tried the website:

http://www.modelboatlakes.co.nr/

hope this helps, regards, Paul.

Thanks Very much, some great ideas, will be contacting the local council asap, and in a few weeks time I've got a canal restoration job to survey, so will be taking the boats down to wales with me to sail in the basin's between the lock systems.

thanks again for the ideas, really useful advice 😊

Firstly, have you tried an internet search to see if any boat clubs in your area?

2/ try contacting your local council, see if they have any pools in their parks, which could be used with their permission.

3/ british waterways canal system is free to use for model boats, but if using them, try to pick a "turn round point" or basin, so you have plenty of space just incase a canal boat/barge decides to come past, as in such a narrow water space, it can cause some heavy swell!

I was stuck for somewhere to sail my boat, and did all of the above to find a few pools etc.

I found 4 model clubs in area, one of which was that stuck up its own **se they wanted to "vet" me in person, to see if they would let me join,[so steered well clear of them] the second 2 welcomed me with open arms, plus a cheque for annual membership.The 4th has not even replied to the email message I sent off a link of their own web site, so how they get on for new members, I dont know.

The local council, put me in touch with their "parks dep't" and they proved very helpful and have 2 council pools I can use free of charge, you just have to watch in the summer months, Kids wanting to paddle and all that!
british waterways took some getting through to, but got their in the end, they were very helpful as they contacted their local officers to check water useage, obviously just be wary of anglers and wildfowl on the water.
Thye also let me know the names of the local boat clubs they were allowed to use their pools too, so works a bit of "both ways".

Please dont give up, it may take a few weeks to get some details, but worth it in the end!

HI out there,

Has anybody got any ideas where I can sail my boats in the Hereford area?, the fireboat will be finished this summer and I've had a yacht for 7 years that's, only ever seen the inside of a bath tub, for a county that floods every year there's no boating lakes and any open water seems to be taken up by fishermen who aren't to keen to have model boats upsetting the fish....can anybody help?

thanks