High Speed Raf Rescue Boat??? Is It??

nellie-mac · 11-09-2007

Hiya all, Can anyone plese help me identify this boat please?

I'm told it is an RAF Rescue boat from WW2 ?? Any Ideas folks

This model is 1200mm long, I hope to power it with a larger Brushless Electric motor and a couple of 7.2V ( 14.4V ) buggy type Battery packs.

I Have no idea however as to what size prop I'd need, I would like it to honk around quickly on the plane....

Thanks for reading, hope there's some help.

Cheers, Paul

Oops... pictures coming as soon as I learn to resize them!

jankers · 12-09-2007

Nellie mac,

Can you add further details; is the boat hull made of wood?, what weight? beam measurement?

Without seeing the boat and never having used a brush-less motor i guess that you will have difficulty in getting any speed from a wooden hull, no doubt other members will advise with their own experience of these motors.

J.

nellie-mac · 12-09-2007

Sorry jankers.... I don't know how to add pictures??

Can someone help me to put pictures up please? I can find anything to enable me to do it other than using an Http... got me stumped!!

Paul

crash93 · 12-09-2007

go to Additional Options lower down press Manage Attachments press brouse , tag file and it will be placed there, OH and make shure the file is not to big

Peter

nellie-mac · 12-09-2007

Here we go ( thanks for the help with pictures )...

RAF 1.JPG

RAF 2.JPG

RAF 3.JPG

Now hopefully someone may be able to indentify it, appreciate any help

cdsc123 · 26-09-2007

It's the Walton HSL 2642, a prototype RAF rescue launch which was deemed to fragile for active service and was used successfully in a training role. She was built by Walton Yacht, Walton-On-Thames. Her post-war fate is sketchy, some say she ended up as a shipping agent's service launch in Gibraltar.

MartinH-K · 28-09-2007

Using two geared buggy electric car engines, I managed to get a similar sized wooden model up to a quite respectable planning speed. Weight though is a critical factor as is the prop size and gear ratio.

nellie-mac · 04-10-2007

Awesome!!! Thank you very much for that. Would there be any more pictures of it around? I don't think mines colour scheme is quite right. Cheers, Paul

nellie-mac · 04-10-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by MartinH-K

Using two geared buggy electric car engines, I managed to get a similar sized wooden model up to a quite respectable planning speed. Weight though is a critical factor as is the prop size and gear ratio.

Thank you too Martin, mine just has a single prop in her though. What sort of gearing ratio and prop size did you use?? Thanks again

sx976 · 11-10-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by nellie-mac

Awesome!!! Thank you very much for that. Would there be any more pictures of it around? I don't think mines colour scheme is quite right. Cheers, Paul

Hi everybody from a newbie to this site.

I would imagine that the colour scheme should be more like this. There are photos of this model on
http://www.wicksteedparkmbc.co.uk/nick%20brown.html

I have never seen a photo of the full-size 2642, only ever the sketch shown above. There was a plan published in the 1950's in Model Maker. It is still listed on the X-List (MM103). This is the only scale documentation I know.

Does anyone know of other 3-views or photos ? The Walton Thames in the John Pritchard plans list is NOT this craft.