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Interesting video but personally I think you are better off with 4 x AA LSD NiMh rechargeable batteries that will give good runtime and don’t require any mods to the radio at all and you can still replace the NiMh with 4 x standard AA batteries if you inadvertently get caught with a flat battery when sailing.
Experience has shown that decent NiMh AA cells will significantly outlast LiFe batteries when looked at whole of life use.
Actually Kermit, that is a very good idea. (I was thinking along the same lines this morning – check under Calendar event)
This was posted by Kermit (I just relocated it for him)
This is addressed to Longtall and Predator but others will be interested I’m sure. DOODS in reference to Longtall’s proposed sail configurations for the 95 and 65 for all our boat sailing on the pond to be in uniform except for sail material there isn’t a lot out there about the set up for the sails for A+ I believe if the SESSION WAS FILMED by the one and only Predator showing the set up for both boats that would be the bees knees. Some of us old farts forget so a reference to come back to is the logical way to go. There is a another plus in this and that is both Longtall and Pred are film video experts who know how to to do it so gentleman what’s your thoughts who wants to be the next Whineberger ….. opps .. not him Clint Eastwood
With regard to the Brother Design n Print Vinyl cutter, I found this handy hint online, tried it out today and it works a treat.
A lot of materials stick too well to the cutter mat and when you remove them often backing material remains which creates an uneven cutting surface and reduces the tackiness until eventually your material won’t stay in place.
The trick is to clean the surface with “Wet Ones” but you must use the #18 Antibacterial hand & face wipes and definitely NOT baby wipes (which contain baby oil which destroys the tackiness).
The antibacterial wipes quickly & easily remove all the debris from the cutting mat WITHOUT destroying the tacky surface, just clean & let dry and the tackiness returns.
There are numerous other suggestions online regarding what to clean your cutting mats with but most state that after cleaning all the tackiness is gone and you need to re tack with glue stick or similar.
I have only cleaned my mat twice so far but there is little or no difference to the tackiness using the antibacterial “Wet Ones” hand & face wipes.
Will update if anything changes down the track.
Looking good but will it float once you get several middle aged and slightly rotund skippers on it, or perhaps you have a one man, one boat load limit?
Looking at your tag line, it looks like blue, purple, orange & of course green will need to be the NEW sail colours for membership of this VERY EXCLUSIVE Gentlemens Club eh?
Yes, & I’ll bet they were very tasty.
You will have a very nice
frog pondtraining facility there when you get it all finished Mr Kermit.I was just tidying up some photos getting ready for the New Year and I found these from our lunchtime BBQ on 22nd Dec which ended up being our last sail for the year due to the less than ideal conditions last Saturday.
Anyway our good mate Kermit provided good old Aussie Pav with all the trimmings to fatten us all up ready for Christmas, problem was we were a bit short on eating utensils so there was a bit of adaptation going on.
And the classic
Well I might not have finished it for Christmas as I had hoped but at least its finished this year.
9 hours till 2019 & the rear hatch cover (the very last bit) has almost completed printing.
All the rest is completed & fully operational so will be back in the water at our next sailing event, Saturday @ the Canal if weather is OK or Tuesday @ Puddleduck.
Edit: 21:15 and it is all done & dusted. (Here are the pics to prove it)
That’s it, all done!!
Happy New Year
Got the painting all finished on Friday then left if all day Saturday to harden.
Today it was time to cut & polish the new paint job and then start the reassembly.
As the sail-winch is now mounted inside the hull rather than through the deck it needed a new mounting support. The winch support was made from aluminium angle and the mounting block was 3D printed complete with provision for captive nylock nuts to make later winch removal nice & easy.
The block was then epoxied into the hull.
While waiting for the epoxy to cure I started on the vinyl printing. Got it all printed (except for the Axes – different colour) and at least some of it installed
For the BattleAxe name I opted for the Raunch LET font that had previously been used on Obsession. At the time my commercial printing man (Ken Stone – Vinyl Solutions) said it was the worst font he had ever tried to vinyl cut, so I just had to put it to the test on the Brother DC200. Must say that it cut it perfectly but it is a tad fiddly to separate the waste from the print. Just took it slow & steady and I reckon it came out just fine. Over time (without clearcoat to protect it) a bit of the very fine detail gets knocked off but it still looks good on the N12.
Now just need to finish stringing the winch, screw & seal the forward hatch into the deck and print a hatch & fixing mech for the rudder & servo access.
