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Chandlery - New Products and Services for Marine Modellers
Sail Free - The Editor with new from the RC sailing scene
Diary Dates - What's on, where and when?
Powerplus - Rick Eyrich offers advifeon boat design for rough weather running
Workshop - Andrew J White offers some hints and tips for timber hull planking
Live Wires - Rich Eyrich looks at the current NAMBA racing classes
Meeting Point - Show and Regatra Reports
Is It the Battery? - Roger Suitters suggests some simple checks for 'on -board' batteries
Hobby Engine Sport Club - Jeff Meade reports on a rather tasty luxury sports powerboat
BB11 Missouri - John R Haynes' latest museum masterpiece
Ravenna - Jim Pottinger offers plans for a fast motor cruiser. Ravenna is a very stylish classic motor powered cruiser, possibly for use as a fishing boat or for pleasure trips in tropical waters. (FULL SIZE PLAN)
Waveney Keep - Jim Clark builds a large version of the MMI plans for the Oil Challenger
Robbe Valdivia - Terry Small starts to build up the superb sailing schooner kit
A Shearwater Hull - David Heaps describes a cheap and 'simple to copy' building method
This free plan is of a fast motor cruiser of a type designed to operate in the tropics, and primarily used for sport fishing in these waters, and is a change from my more workaday plans. Drawn at a scale of 1" to 1ft (1:12) and of hard chine construction, model size is 29: (736.6 mm) overall length, and 9" (228.6 mm) beam.
I have given the hull a moderate degree of curvature in the planking above and below the line of chine, not so much as to give difficulty in planking, but this gives a better appearance than purely flat sides.
This model should be relatively simple to build, and may prove an ideal 'first' for scratch model makers. Construction can follow the usual method of setting up frames on a rigid backbone, to be skinned with thin ply, single or double as preferred. Two layers of thin ply may ease construction of the more pronounced curvature at the transom.
