Hi all
Thanks Sandy for posting the NICE BIG picture of V105 taken of her leaving the harbour complex at last years Model Warship Weekend, at Glasgow Richmond Model Boat Club. This probably answers a couple of Neptune's questions. There is sufficient freeboard to keep the model safe and dry during normal sailing conditions. The bows, as you can imagine, are dry pretty much all of the time.
The aft deck gets quite wet but only when sailing in choppy water and speed has to be reduced a little. I subsequently fitted silicon seals to the two removable deck apertures after sailing in some very (non scale) rough conditions and finding some water had come aboard and was sloshing around in the bilges! I will talk about this later in the build.
The simple answers are:-
The model performs as I would expect the original did.
Again careful attention to getting as much weight low down realy helps.
The most delicate rigging (the WT aerials) is well up and away from potential damage.
The stantions are surprisingly robust.
All the deck detail is designed to be unaffected by contact with water.
The biggest risk is getting the model to and from the pond.
If anyone puts a fast electric model on the pond, V105 beats a hasty retreat back to the harbour.
All commons sense realy.
I will post more sailing pictures when this build article is completed.
Thanks again to Sandy for the picture and in the mean time if anyone is interested in this years (2013) National Model Warship Weekend event, go to
www.glasgowrichmondmbc.co.uk More build details in the next post.