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QuoteMy first real boat (a wonderful 12' Whitehall row/sailboat, built by Shew and Burnham in Maine), was named 'Dumb Luck'.Wow, I could tell you have good taste. Dick Shew and Cecil Burnham are two of my best friends. I've known them since about 1978. I helped build their boat shop, and on more recent boats I make the brass tags with the Coast Guard required data. Sadly, they are getting pretty old now, Dick still works in the shop, but mostly in the vein of puttering. Cecil still builds a few skiffs each year for the local fishermen, and repairs some of the whitehalls.You should see their tug boat- about 26 feet of the finest kind. It has a feathering prop, behind a GM 6-71 diesel, turned by a coupling I made. Two pieces of durabar cast iron 6" diameter, weighed 36 pounds to start, yielded an 18 pound part.That photo of the differential on the main rails is just outstanding. Amazing work.
My first real boat (a wonderful 12' Whitehall row/sailboat, built by Shew and Burnham in Maine), was named 'Dumb Luck'.
I hate to sound like a broken record...I love this thing. Great job Chris.-Bob
Rather than fondling castings like Jo, I tend to collect plans and try not to drool on them too much...
Quote from: crueby on March 17, 2017, 04:08:37 PMRather than fondling castings like Jo, I tend to collect plans and try not to drool on them too much...fondling vs collecting Keep in mind she does both. I'm betting you do as well. Collect the plans and fondle pore over them.I do the same.
I am still following along Chris, just haven't commented in a few days. The differential and its mount look wonderful. You are outdoing yourself and that ain't easy to do Bill
Yeah but imagine how TINY all those chain links would be and the differential would look more like a watch I bet. Bill
Not really- the gas Lombard is as big as the steamer. There is a fully restored one in the Maine State Museum, right next door to the state capitol. And that is just past the 1849 LION locomotive- one that I think desperately needs to be modeled. I started it, but in G scale it became watchmakers work and I quit. My start is at http://pleasantcovemodels.com/lion.htm