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Old 02-25-2013, 11:37 AM
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I have so much to learn.
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Bill:
I have been searching for Graupner 700bb turbos 9.6v and all that is readily available are the 12v. What do you think of those for the Dauntless? Are you using the astro 208 esc's?
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Old 02-25-2013, 04:56 PM
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Speed 700 turbos can be found here: http://www.v-eastonline.com/categori...eatured&page=2

Some extroadinarily fine fittings can be found here:http://wetgoose.com/


Old 02-25-2013, 07:13 PM
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Well my boat's new electronics have shipped and should be here any day. She'll have dual 40 amp ESCs to replace the single 30 amp ESC that went all Chernobyl on me. Also a 6-ch 2.4 ghz radio to replace the 2-ch AM system.

Rich that's a nice ride, congrats! I've got a 4-dr truck and right now my boat rides in the bed, but I don't like it being back there at all. Even if I tie down the wooden stand, it still slides around, especially when I have to brake hard for a clueless wonder pulling out in front of me. last time I literally surrounded the boat with old pillows for protection . I slow to a crawl when going over railroad crossings. I'd rather put the boat across the back seats but with two kids car seats it ain't happinin for a while.
Old 02-25-2013, 07:32 PM
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hi if you look on the open web there are lots of them heres one www.westbourne-model.co.uk
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hi df did you buy the same ones i got what did you get for your escs
Old 02-25-2013, 09:10 PM
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Hi Dauntless fans!

Could somebody please post pictures of the model Thunderbird or p.m them to me?

Thanks

Mike
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Old 02-26-2013, 04:10 AM
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Mike, not my pics but go to this post http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showp...postcount=3620

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Old 02-26-2013, 05:58 AM
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Ahem..the running gear in the Thunderbird is by MACK...I'm just sayin!'

-Rich.

Old 02-26-2013, 06:07 AM
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Hey Dauntlessfan,

The Chernobyl comment was hilarious! Congrats on getting newESC's and TX for D, i'm sure you'll be pleased with her range and reliability. For ESC protection Bill and I have fuses protecting the ESC's so there is one coming in from the battery and another going to the motor on each ESC. This way if the prop catches something and stops the fuse will blow rather than the ESC. It's an inexpensive but effective insurance policy for your ESC's.


I picked up waterproof fuseholders at Autozone for cheap.

-Rich.
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Thanks Rich for the fuse tips, I'll definately add those.

Deep - I bought two of the Mtroniks Viper 40.
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An interesting find at the WRAM show. Ships and Things was offering a 2.4 Spektrum 6 channel Xmtr modified to dual throttle for $300. The nice thing about this one as opposed to my Harbor Models Tactic is that it has memory for 10 models!

Rich, that may be true about the TBird but the Pawling Dauntless has Dumas.

just sayin'

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Old 02-26-2013, 08:32 AM
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Hey Bill do you know if there is a kit out there to convert an existing 6-ch Tactic to dual throttle sticks?
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Don't know of any DF but you might contact Harbor and see if they can help. They do their own (or have a guy do it)

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Rich, that may be true about the TBird but the Pawling Dauntless has Dumas.

BILL
I replaced most of my running hardware for MACK during the overhaul which includes, rudders, rudder stuffing boxes, tiller arms, prop struts and prop shafts. The only Dumas part left on her is the stuffing boxes for the props. This I will not likely change unless it is urgent because the stuffing box guards that I built would be a bear to remove.

-Rich.

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hi captains here is the latest pix got a bunch of small trim on the wood rail around the hull i added some trim around forward windows not done yet.seems like we are allways adding too
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I've tried to respond three times, lost everything I wrote, even thought I copied it, three times so therefore I quit trying.

Deep,

Way to go!

Welcome aboard to the new Dauntless Captains!

Bob

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hi captains here is the latest pix got a bunch of small trim on the wood rail around the hull i added some trim around forward windows not done yet.seems like we are allways adding too
Very Very Nice Deepsky!!! I love how you added tons of stained wood details!! She is looking like a floating Bentley!

Keep going man!!

-Rich.

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Hi Deepsky,

Here's some more trim work for you.

In the aft cockpit there is trim around the side window. In the picture below it is painted gray but it was originally stained wood. Also, the window was plexiglass so that water wouldn't spray in while she was underway.

-Rich.

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Leave it to Rich to find all the obscure little details
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thanks rich that is on my to do list i am going to trim all windows and the curves on top the rear windows
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Hi captains,

Today I made an amazing discovery...I have a photo album that was given to me by a former owner. In it is many pictures of the D both inside and out. Anyway, there is a gorgous classic yacht that was taken from the bridge aboard the Dauntless. It looked like both yachts were sailing together. The yacht was named 'The Presidents' and in a google search I didn't find any yacht that went by that name. Today I happened to be on youtube and a video of the former presidential yacht 'Honey Fitz" surfaced and what do you know...that happens to be the yacht that I have a photo of. The picture I have the yacht is in mint condition and it was taken in September of 1983. Thanks goodness that they used to stamp the back of photos. There is a sticky note on it that says: "Unknown- Taken from Dauntless". I'm sure whoever owns the Honey Fitz would love to see that picture...

The Honey Fitz was a presidential yacht to JFK and a few others.

When I have a moment I will scan and post it.

Here are videos of the yacht that sailed along with Dauntless on that day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vv9u0qgYhs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp-BfkbbCog

-Rich.


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Well I did it. Spent more of my kids inheritance and bought the Sound Design PTboat sound system with 2 motor sounds for twin sticks, For the Dauntless of course.
Guess I secretly want to be like my buddy Rich.

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Rich
Honey Fitz is a 92-foot commuter-style motoryacht that was built by the Defoe Boat Works in Bay City, Michigan, and christened Lenore II in 1931 by Sewell Avery, who ran Montgomery Ward and vigorously opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. Stories differ on how the boat passed from Avery to the U.S. Coast Guard in 1942. Whether Avery sold her or the government expropriated her is unclear, but the yacht saw service during World War II as a picket ship off Rockaway Point and Fire Island, New York. She also served as a training ship for submarine crews, and in June 1945 was refit to serve as tender to successive presidential yachts, the 165-foot USS Potomac and the 245-foot USS Williamsburg.

When Eisenhower assumed the presidency, he sent the lavish Williamsburg back to the Navy, where she had served as a patrol gunboat and communications vessel in World War II. He preferred the more conservative 92-footer, which he renamed Barbara Anne and used in Narragansett Bay and on the Potomac.



When Kennedy entered the Oval Office, he also renamed the presidential yacht. He called her Honey Fitz—the nickname of his beloved maternal grandfather, John Francis Fitzgerald, a two-time mayor of Boston. And as Kennedy enjoyed the yacht on the Potomac and in Newport and Palm Beach, Honey Fitz became part of the lore of Camelot. Sold off during the Nixon Administration, the yacht has been in private hands ever since.


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