Specific Ships

Lumpy was knocked off of her perch and fell over five feet to the cement floor!!!

Thank goodness that no one was hurt.

The only dammage I have found so far:

Motor had broken away from the hull with the motor mount.

Cross brace that hold the rudder solenoid, broke away form the ribs.

Two seams in the skin will need some silk skin. 

The foam wedges I had made held her firmly in the transport box.  I feel that is what saved her from some major hull dammage.

On July 16th, USS Missouri set out to engage all opponents upon the Alta Mons Sea. A Reconnaissance Report indicated a substantial minefield (moss) that would restrict Missouri's operational area. While no hostiles were encountered, the day did not proceed without incident.

Missouri was testing out her new more redundant propulsion system, which worked with mixed results: Her starboard engines ran without problem or failure the entire day - marking her first meet that she did not require some form of recovery. Unfortunately, the port motor kept blowing fuses (and still is even on the bench a week later - there is some weird ground short which even took out my multimeter fuse this evening, putting debugging on hold until morning).

Drew has been trying to sell me on the idea of LiFePO4 cells for a while... has have Stephen and Keri... and it looks like they are about the only thing that is going to fit. Tonight I cut some dowels to the size LiFePO4 18650 cells to see what fit where. As I posted earlier I thought the 18650 cells would be the best fit. However, when I started trying to fit cells in the ship it was hard to get an eight cell (4s2p) pack to fit anywhere. No matter how I laid out the pack the cells were just barely interfering with rotation or touching the CO2 bottle.

The adventure begins . . . I received the plans for the USS Cimarron last evening. It appears that the first project will be roughly 3 ft 10 inches with a beam of 6 1/4 inches. I have a very excited son who is ready to jump right into shipbuilding. I have been reorganizing my workshop and plan to been done this weekend. As my work on the ship progresses, I will post progress updates to my blog with pictures.

Here intailed will be the story of how a tired worn down broken ship shall be rejuvinated and set back out on the sea in all her fighting glory. The story begins with the day she made port in the Dollar shipyard after a long and lonely time, locked away in the black crushing depths...(of a UPS shipping tube)