R/C Naval Combat

What is the status for everyones battle readiness?

I've got the sheeting on the Suffren ripped off and 98% of the superglue that someone used to sheet it with chiseled off.  New sheeting has been silkspanned on one side and hopefully this weekend the new sheeting will go one and get sanded down and then silkspaned and doped.

Suffren still needs her motor and gearbox remount job completed, which I will probably do this week while the sides are off.

After sheeting its off to the paintcrew to make her pretty again. 

Suffren should be fully operational by the upcoming battle.

The Mystery Maru has had the proper ballast allocated to the proper locations, but still needs water channeling, sea trials and to be fitted for a pump when in use as a target ship.  She will be ready for sea trials at the next event.

The Orfey class destroyer project (teeny tiny thing) is moving along slowly.  The framing is complete and has been fiberglassed, it's sitting in my brothers garage though while it outgasses.  Probably this weekend I'll go sand it down and trim the excess off.  I have everything for the ship that I need to finish it since it will not be armed.  She will likely come with to the next battle, and has a decent chance of being ready for sea trials.

Mutsu has her stern structure mostly rebuilt.  No skin on the aft 6 inches of hull yet. Radio box was totally disassembled and one of the poppets replaced. She should be mostly ready to go by the next battle.

Mogodor's pump has been located.  A replacement ESC has arrived and needs to be wired in.  Hull damage from transport need to be repaired.  Should only require a couple of hours to get her ready.

I did talk to Hovey.  He hasn't done much on the ships for several months but has rearranged the garage so he can actually work in it.

I haven't reached Kelley recently.  I called the last time I was up in the area but no one was home.

The challenge is keeping several ships working really limits the time to build a new one.  I hope to make progress on her over the summer bit we are probably looking at fall before she is on the water.  I don't want to wait that long and the work on the radio box won't be lost as it will be used in the next version anyway.

Posted By Greg McFadden on 05 Apr 2010 12:11 AM
Good luck. I think we should try for an IRC sanctioned battle at the june battle, hopefully in cle elum, if things are ok there that early.

-Greg

Is there a particular rationale for a sanctioned battle?  Extra effort required, etc?

Yeah, not much time left. I have been working on her and hope to do a sea trial on my pond soon.  Also I might have a small surprise finished by then but no promises.

We will do Coal Creek again.  Plan to be ready to battle about 11:00.