So after a couple of weeks I found time for the shipyard ...
*blowingawaythedust*
... what did I find ???
And everything started in such a nice and easy mood ...
*gettingwetmouthbyrememberingallthedeliciousthings*
... but dark clouds started to gather on the horizon!
A certain Monsieur R. V. from A.*** already started to moan about the buoy before the meeting *lookingforthedevilsmily*
(For legal reasons we blended out his face with a red square.)
Buoy ropes should be tarred and not � la nat�re and the buoy slings be smarted ...
... also the lenght of the buoy rope was questioned ...
... and-and-and ...
...
Back at home same procedure as usual ...
... first the buoy rope tarred - not to dark - and about 20 fathoms long and thickness a third of the anchor cable - a heavy tool needed to break free the bower from the ground.
http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/top ... ntry230141
Then tarred the slings with white glue and black paint to make disappear the gaps to look like the right one ...
... but at least the fingers looked spectacular ...
... and then my misinterpretation - the buoy itself � la nat�re and not tarred ...
... and V2 goes down the drains
Then the discussion goes on about the thickness of the slings: Usually the slings and lanyards have half or a third of the superior rope�s diameter.
So new slings done, 1/3 of the anchor cable and 1/3 of the buoy rope ...
... looks ridiculous
Got it, the slings are not to transmit force its just to hold the buoy. Ok, discard V3.
By then Bernd showed a nice version in our german forum
http://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/t7 ... l#msg44816
... that brought me back to the testing grounds
V4 was another try with slings of white glue, thick black paint and brown casein paint ...
... but realised half way that they represnt much more a rubber duck than a buoy slings ...
... that is why I stopped and ...
... to be continued
"every decade the dafi manages to finish something" good productivity my friend 
