During the peak winter month of February I decided to put a boat model together. I wanted to build it on a counter in my living room to take a break from the daily garage shop routine of repairing and retro fitting RC planes for awhile. Being a small model I could keep my work isolated to a small area. This thread here was just going to be a short time build originally just to make a display example of a general post war tugboat example. I am not concerned about making the exact tugboat Despatch No 9.
A short history.
Standard Oil Co. tugboat Despatch No 9 worked in the movements of oil barges in the San Francisco Bay areas and was based in the Richmond, California as a base. She is equipped with the modern niceties in the end of the wartime era. She had an electric towing winch, a bow electric winch capstan, watertight doors, etc. It was an Army design that was built for the U.S. Marine Corps in 1945. It was later sold to the Standard Oil Co. The cabin design was to accommodate extra crewman if needed. It is possible it may have had a couple crew bunks below the deck in the bow also. She was originally built with a 20mm cannon on the pilot house roof.

30Sec. Video Update water shot. August 20, 2022

8 20 2022 RC Micro Socony Tug Despatch Nicolaci Float Fly (0 min 31 sec)

So a bell went off while I was priming the parts and looking over the instructions, The house structure ends up in one piece and fits to the deck snug over a coaming. Hmmn!! I think I can actually...Continue Reading

I built this model in the mid 80's when I was in a Fall River, Mass. Model Boat club. It was a beautiful kit that may still show up for sale on occasion in eBay or even here in RC Groups. I have a very large amount of postings of my model Aircraft, Boats, and club activities in the Bristol County Radio Control Club of Dartmouth, Massachusetts. I could get more exposure here in RC Groups. I took it upon myself to support my club website. So here is a link to the Emma C. Berry model schooner with loads of supporting info and plans. I will post a few of the pictures here also to see what this famous vessel of an era of fishing and private sail. The vessel is now fully restored to it's original look from the year 1866 as a Noank fishing smack. It was a gaff rigged sloop those days. In 1933 it became a schooner until about 1947. Then it went back to it's origins as a gaff sloop again.

Note that if you look also into the index of BCRCC website under - Electric Planes you will find many more posts of my aircraft along with other subjects in all parts of the hobby.

Here is a Build Log by Skipper on theEmma C. Berry
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...4-Emma-C-Berry

Visit the Emma C. Berry. So much more here:
http://forum.bristolcountyrc.org/vie...7&p=1072#p1072...Continue Reading

Last year 4- 2011 I scratchbuilt the Kawanishi H8K2 Japanese "Emily". (Click my Avatar to find it) in My Blog. It was a 3 month project with plenty of interest..
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This year, 2-2012, I have started the new build of the early version of the Martin Mars that had the twin rudder. I have the fuselage framing started. I am basing the model on Ivan Pettigrews plans.

To acces the Martin XPB2M Mariner Build Log go here:
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show....php?t=1597636

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You can contact Ivan by emailing him. Here is his email address:
ivanp@dowco.com

Scale 1/20
Wingspan: 120 Inches
Length: 72 Inches
AUW: 13 pounds. as I estimate.
Wing Area: 1515 sq. in.
Wing Loading: 15.7 oz/sq. ft.
Airfoil: Eppler 197 with NACA with washout built in on outboard wing sections.
Power: Hex DT-750 brushless. MAS 10x7 with opposite rotations Nanotech 4s 5000Mah 14.8v Lipolys Turnigy 5amp UBEC.

The model will not be true scale as there are modifications on the plans that are not exact. I am going to divert from the plans some to use a mix of Depron foam and spruce wood and balsa also I am first going to upload some pictures and drawings and maybe some notes of this version Mars.


Photobucket Picture Depository
http://s1190.photobucket.com/albums/...20Build%20Log/

Updated: September 19, 2013

5th Annual John Nicolaci Float Fly Event

9- 8 -2013 5th Annual J. Nicolaci Flo Fly - Martin Mars Flight #2 (5

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I started building in April-01-11. It is 2 months into the build here. The motors are Hextronic DT-700 and 750's. The battery is a Turnigy 5K mah 40-50C 14.8volts. The motors produce under 1k watts and 69 Amps of power use. The props are APC 4 blade 10x6 pitch.The plane is at 16.5lbs. The wing is 100 inches. Fuselage is 78 inches.

See the build log here:
Totally built in 3 months time. Have a look at it.
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show....php?t=1417974

I updated 8-8-11 to 4 newer motors that were installed doubling the thrust for the Maiden flight. A lot of bang for the buck.
http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store...idProduct=5113

Here is the latest video. Many others there also.

10-22-2011 Best of Emily - Nicolaci EloatFly.mp4 (4 min 2 sec)

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This was an older Cub model I rejuvinated as an E-power model. It has a neat unique style of a plugin motor and battery nose module. I also made the setup for sea and land flights. Have a look at this setup. It would be very good for short nose and radial motor WWI and WWII planes with every other plane in between also.

https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show....php?t=1420773

The plane has all the bugs out from the maiden now and it flies very scale like now. It is so pretty in flight. Very realistic look flying.
Here are the links to the Albatross. This one has all the info and the start all the way to the finish. This is in the middle of this thread.
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...=554256&page=6

This is a thread now defunct. It had a gorgeous Albatross by Stef. There still may be some video of the plane in here. It was a museum piece that destroyed in the maiden. I have some notes in the end also.
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=704955

11-13-10 Albatros Hu-16a Homebuilt Electric RC Plane (3 min 54 sec)

The plane has all the bugs out from the maiden now and it flies very scale like now. It is so pretty in flight. Very realistic look flying.
Here are the links to the Albatross. This one has all the info and the start all the way to the finish. This is in the middle of this shared thread.
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...=554256&page=6

This is a thread now defunct. It had a gorgeous Albatross by Stef. There still may be some video of the plane in here. It was a museum piece that destroyed in the maiden. I have some notes in the end also.
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=704955

I have a shared build log with John Morgan and Zsolti. My build entries are spread out in the Build Thread. Here are the photos of my finished Bf109G6. Going backward some pages you will see the cockpit interior also with othe buuild components, This a scratch build glass fuselage from a foam plug I made.
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...rkFlyer/page66

I posted videos over the past few years here as I built home builds and some manufactured kits. I also like to do home builts just to keep busy. Many of them are posted and are all mixed in. There may be some notes under the video about the plane in question there. Have a look as it may be entertaining. Enjoy some or all.
UPDATE!

Use the YouTube links below. Thanks.

Me-109 G6 - Ground Control and Sound test

3-2-11 Messerschmitt Bf-109 Motor Controls test.wmv (4 min 57 sec)

Try SEARCH for ne0ns1 in the YouTube - Main page-Search here
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh_...KSmRqQ/videosv