[15/09/2014]
UPDATE 16:
Got some final touches done yesterday, still not quite there but I managed to get the nameboard on!
So she was finally at a point where I was happy to get her on the water, very exciting. Here's some idiot connecting the battery...
What can I say? She sails beautiful, I just had to remove one lump of lead as she was sitting a little low, and she could do with a little more at the stern. But she glides through the water lovely, at a nice speed.
Unfortunately it was a bit short lived as she suddenly lost drive after half an hour or so lol, luckily, being a boating lake, there was a chap in waders sorting the pedalos out who kindly rescued it for us.
It seems the motor linkage had slipped, I was relieved to find it wasn't anything more serious, so I'll have to sort something out a bit more robust.
I also have an old RTR boat somewhere in the loft which I'm going to convert into a rescue boat for this kind of event lol.
Still some stuff to do on her before I'm calling it. I'm about to order the 6 Oerlikons, and some crew, and there's still some railings around the bow to put on.
Is it bad that I'm already eyeing up the 1/72 Type VII to stalk her with? lol
TBC...