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09 April 2013, 12:17
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Country: UK - England
Town: Royal Wootton Bassett
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Radio Controled Ribs
Has anyone built one? Is there a mould available?
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09 April 2013, 12:29
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Town: Littlehampton, W Sx
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"Can ye model it? For if ye can, ye understand it, and if ye canna, ye dinna!" - Lord kelvin
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09 April 2013, 12:34
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RIBnet admin team
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Length: 4m +
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09 April 2013, 12:49
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Quote:
Originally Posted by willk
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Whisper even contributed to that thread! 
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09 April 2013, 12:56
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Originally Posted by HughN
Whisper even contributed to that thread! |
A long memory can be a terrible curse. Sometimes I think I'd be happier living in the fuzzy, dopey "did I do/say/drink that" haze that some seem to 
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09 April 2013, 15:04
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Town: North Lincolnshire
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Here is some more i nspiration,
Atlantic - Lifeboat Models
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09 April 2013, 16:34
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Town: Oakland CA
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09 April 2013, 21:28
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Country: USA
Town: NorCal
Boat name: SHARKY
Make: AB
Length: 4m +
Engine: Honda BF75 & BF5
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This Futaba radio is going to show up at my door tomorrow.
Below the black framed part is the drive unit that will be radio controlled, and mount under my SIB, with saddles made of ABS and thermo formed to the boat, that mount under the bow, which makes it radio controlled. I still need to hack the wheelchair control joystick so I have both controls. Not what the OP meant, but it is a radio controlled boat of sorts 
The hitch carrier is to be mounted to the front of the wheelchair, yet removable, for hauling dive gear across the beach. Plus to give me a ride back to the vehicle parked at the top of the hill, at my favorite shore diving site.
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09 April 2013, 22:11
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Country: UK - England
Town: Bristol
Make: Ribcraft
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Engine: Yamaha
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What about a radio controlled big sib
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09 April 2013, 23:02
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Town: Royal Wootton Bassett
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Hummmmm, I reckon I need a donor boat to play with and to pull it to bits....
And possibly a launch vehicle too.....
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09 April 2013, 23:05
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Country: UK - England
Town: Dorset & Hants
Boat name: Streaker/Orange
Make: Avon/Ribcraft
Length: 4m +
Engine: 50Yam/25 Mariner
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I think we need to find that one seen at the boat show, bung a big petrol engine in it somehow and of we go!
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09 April 2013, 23:21
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Country: UK - England
Town: Bristol
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Yeh. You could put a big engine in . Mount it centrally in something like a avon 340 rib sib thing
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10 April 2013, 00:40
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I've got a spare sib and outboard here....
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10 April 2013, 00:58
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Town: NorCal
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Originally Posted by whisper
I've got a spare sib and outboard here....
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Wouldn't be hard to make most any boat radio controlled as long as it has steering cables, and throttle cables. If it is fly by wire you just have to hack the electrical system. If the boat has cruise control just hack the cruise control for throttle control. Shifting can be managed fairly easy too.
Please if anyone is actually going to undertake a project like this, use a PCM radio that will be more reliable. It will cost far more than the $26 radio I purchased off fleabay, but will be more reliable over a longer distance.
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10 April 2013, 01:00
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Country: UK - England
Town: yorkshire
Boat name: little vicky
Make: avon ex RNLI
Length: 3m +
Engine: tohatsu
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Has anyone built one? Is there a mould available?
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I Built 2 model Atlantic 75s though they were not R/C from scratch about 12 years ago using ply for the hull from an old wardrobe & pipe foam lagging for the sponsons ,
One was for display use at Rnli events the other one i gave to my lad that floated though it only ran at slow speeds as i just used cheap toy battery powered outboard motors .
The scale was dictated by the diameter of the foam pipe lagging then everything was just scaled up from that .
I once also made a very basic model of an Atlantic 21 about 15 years ago same size for use in rnli talks/presentations that was made to show how the re righting bag worked with the bag made from the stole of an old lifejacket .
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10 April 2013, 20:29
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Country: UK - England
Town: Enfield/Switzerland
Boat name: Zonneschijn II/Vixen
Make: Shakespeare/Avon
Length: 7m +
Engine: Evin' 175 DI /Yam 90
MMSI: 235055605
Join Date: May 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by whisper
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I have what I think is a delta mould if you wanna borrow it
Pm me as I won't remember to look back here!
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15 April 2013, 13:10
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Town: Fareham
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20 May 2013, 00:07
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Country: UK - England
Town: yorkshire
Boat name: little vicky
Make: avon ex RNLI
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13 years old now so Just gave the old girl another refit,
At this rate she's had more refits than he real one
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with plans of glueing pipe lagging around to form the tubes, which should then make a good filming platform for the gp.
