Thank you for your interest in this kit by Modeller’s Workshop, of Montreal, Canada. We hope you like it and hope you have as much fun constructing this boat as we had doing the research and the design. It has several interesting features that put this model in a new class of kit construction.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Charles Drown Mower (1875-1942) of New York was a noted yacht designer and author, and was at one time design editor of the Rudder magazine and a contributing author to Motor Boating magazine.
He started studying yacht design in 1895 with Arthur Binney and later Bowdoin B. Crowninshield, moving on to a partnership with Thomas D. Bowes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1911. During the first World War he served as a lieutenant commander in the Construction Corps, Naval Reserve.
After the war Mower worked either alone or in partnership as Mower and Humphreys Ltd. He was also a chief naval architect at Henry B. Nevins, Inc., at City Island, New York, and in 1937 was associated with the office of Nelson & Reid, Inc. He was also official measurer of the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, the Cruising Club of America and the New York Yacht Club.
Most of his surviving designs are held in the Mystic Seaport Library, where a total of 433 sheets represent 107 designs.[1] A lot of his work was destroyed in the 1992 Noreaster and 1954 Hurricane Carol storms that attacked Connecticut. All of the surviving boat models once owned by Charles P. Mower (Mower’s son) are with Mildred Mower Pastula, granddaughter of Mower, and her sons; David, Stephen and James Osler. At times models have been loaned to Yacht clubs in Greenwich CT.”
The model is designed by Rick Shousha and is 1:8 scale and is 42 inches long. The kit includes the following features:
An optional parts package for the model includes the following 3D-printed parts:
The design started with a simple line drawing, and a few pictures.
First, we create a 3D hull shape using software designed specifically for making organic shapes and then this 3D model is inserted into the manufacturing software, where we add internal parts as well as the designs for the parts that will be 3D-printed later on.
The intention was to make a revolutionary kit design where the internal stringers look just like what they would on a real boat, and that is to have them follow the curvature of the hull. Most kits I have seen either have no internal stringers or they have a few straight ones.
The 3D-printed parts are available as a separate kit. Note, the cutwater is a fairly complex part. A modeller can use the part or can create their own chrome surface on the bow of the model.
As with most models, one needs to be very careful with the beginning of the project as early problems tend to get magnified as an assembly progresses. When installing the T-rail please make sure it is installed onto a flat surface and carefully attach the T-rail to that surface so it is solid, and all the parts are perfectly aligned.
Please note that all the parts have a little bit of wiggle-room. This allows modellers to dry-fit the parts easily but it also means that one can get carried away and build, build, build, without carefully checking alignment.
Note that one should verify the keel aligment as well the T-rail alignment.
Once the alignment is completed and the keel is installed, it is time to install the stringers. Please note that the stringers are designed as decorative elements of the model. They will look really cool when the model is flipped over. This means it is important to make them look good where they will be visible but the ends themselves are not that important as they will not be seen.
However, it is important to consider the space around the stern, where the rudder post will be installed, if one is planning on making this a remote-control model.
As with most models,
As with most models,
As with most models,
Yup, that's me in front of the Gaspé, in Quebec
George Crouch’s Baby Bootlegger From Wikipedia: “Baby Bootlegger is an American wooden-built speedboat. It was designed by George Crouch for Caleb Bragg in early 1924, and
L.E. Fry’s 1909 Suwanee The original boat is in the Antique Boat Museum, in Clayton, New York. From the museum’s
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