Large Tugs

[ThrustTugKeith]

Anyone in the group building Large Tugs? I'm new here and would like to hear from you. I have a Mr Darby 47" model Tug, and I'm always open to pictures for detailing. I havent completley checkd out the site, and wonder if we can post pictures.

Thanxs, all Scott :cool:

[Knotaddicted]

First, welcome! Pictures can be posted. But, you might want to remember to resize pictures, or limit the KB for the picture, otherwise some might have a problem loading them. There are many tugs being built/already built in the Scale section. I know I'd like to see a picture of your tug.

[CG Bob]

I have a 51" long model of the USCGC TAMAORA (ex-USS ZUNI). a WWII Fleet Tug. Here are detail (http://www.tamaroa.org/gallery07/index.html) and underway (http://www.tamaroa.org/gallery15/index.html) photos. Some more photos are at the Cleveland Model Boat Club (http://www.clevelandmodelboat.com/sections-scale.html) site. The model weighs about 30 pounds. Power is from a 12V 7AH battery.

[ThrustTugKeith]

Nice shots of the Tug! It looks to me that you need still more ballast to get the tail further into the water. Is the black line on the Hull your waterline? When I put my tug into the bathtub, I had to add 15 lbs of lead (yes, real lead ) in the stern, and 5.5 lbs of steel into the bow (with the battery) to get her to the waterline.
I'' try to post some shots of mine underway, as well as still in the water. Mind you, I'm not done detailing, as these were taken on the " shake-down " run.
A friend of mine has 3 of these and called me the other day. He's short of money for X-Mas, and offered me one (less reciever and speed controllers) complete for $500.00 Canadian.
Why do I always get offered deals when I have no money????????

Scott

[ThrustTugKeith]

Heres some shots of the boat. It has been re-named James Keith after my late father.

[CG Bob]

The TAMAROA is ballasted properly.

The black line on the hull is the boot top, and from the USCG Painting regs here is the placement:On steel, iron, or plastic vessels the boot-topping area shall be defined as follows: the bottom edge of the boot-topping shall coincide with the normal light-operating waterline of the vessel. For vessels 150 feet and over in length, the top edge of the boot-topping at amidships will be above the normal full-load waterline a distance equal to 1/~ the freeboard measured to the full-load waterline. For vessels less than 150 feet in length, the distance between the normal full-load waterline and the top edge of the waterline equal 1/6 the freeboard measured to the full-load waterline. At the bow, the distance from the upper edge of the boot-topping to the full load waterline shall be 1.33 times the distance amidships above the full load waterline, and at the stern the distance from the upper edge to the full load waterline shall be 0.66 times the amidships distance. The boot top is tapered, being higher at the bow than the stern.

These underway (http://www.tamaroa.org/gallery15/index.html) photos were taken when the model was about 90% complete and I hadn't finished the final ballasting of the model.