Shipbucket

That's why we have FD!

On a Fairmile related note, any plans to do the Cs. MGB-314 deserves to be in the archive.

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There are both the B's and C's to be done B.B.

If someone else wants to do them that is fine by me. I had a good drawing and pics to work with for the D's, I do not have the same for the others.

On the D's, there were so many different variations of armament I could spend a long time trying to do a few extra. This is the sort of small escort vessel people could use for AU's and whatever armament they put on would already have been tried on a 'D' by the RN.

Lovely drawing Krakatoa

I know where the boat is in chatham... She's a sorry sight though, just rotting off of Sun Pier, at the back of Crown house, by Staples

http://gyazo.com/9599c29a3e90f364356158711054fa0a

She's the vessel in the middle of the screen with the grey roof, and the funny grey symbol on

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Old torpedo boats are very difficult to restore. Shipyards know all about
steel and fiberglass. Historic ship people know all about wooden planking.
How many people know about steam bent plywood that is primarily
joined with glue? By the 1950's torpedo boats had steel hulls. Plywood
sheathed hulls are really a lost art form.

Well... we do it all the time in smaller shipyards in Norway... specially since we still have an huge fleet of wooden fishing boats in Norway. Even I have done it for a couple years ago, when trying to find my type of work. So yes I can build a wooden boat, where all the blanks are steamed.

The technique for steaming plywood isn't gone. Just go to the furniture industries and you find it. (I for example work in furniture industry, and we have some sofas and tables that are steamed in to shape, made of plywood.)

It isn't hard to steam plywood, and glue it all together, that technique are still around. The only thing you have to be thinking carefully about, is how the fibers in the wood should cross each other, to make that extra hull strength, thus also allow to reduce material needed.

CHATHAM Historic Dockyard is literally within a stones throw away from where she is... They renovated HMS Gannet, a wooden Victorian Sailing Man of War.... They were also heavilly involved in the restoration work on the Tea Clipper, Cutty Sark.... The also house and maintain the National RNLI Historic Fleet, most of which are built of wood..... They also rebuild/maintain/renovate/etc. many wooden ships boats and barges and it certainly wouldnt be beyond their capabilities to fix up this poor old lady. The problem is, she's privately owned, but I would assume the owner has either lost interest in her, or can't afford to do her up, but doesn't want to give her away either

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