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The pelican was unstable, am working on a different design sailing keel. Will reevaluate, but it may end up as a static model.

An update. Bouncing round between Tennessee, at the farm and the lake; and a winter home in Houston Texas. Still trying to finalize new layout plans for the lake house, and the Bungalows work shopp. My current layout won't fit in either location. In the meantime, Union station has...

https://www.zealot.com/threads/eastern-tn-logging-on-the-dg-cc-w-rr-1928.164383/ here is the link https://www.zealot.com/threads/a-new-mini-hon3-layout-started.172542/ and a link to a portable that has become my winter retirementhome's layout layout

in the logging mining and industrial section Eastern section Logging in Eastern TN on the DG CC and W RR some 60 pages of documentation. some what stalled retirement has me wirh two locations, each with less than half the soace, have serious planning block...

very impressive work; up to, and including the disastrous end

keep a 17 foot canoe on the dock, will have it unlocked an in the water , with paddles and live vests on board before I float the Pelican. the lower section off the Pelican's hull is full of chunks of styrofoam, , and all but the sail control servo is...

Since my last Post ; I have sewn sails out of old cotton bed sheet, made a dock stand that will accommodate the Removable sailing keel, scratch built anchors, and scratch built cannon. It is ready for lake trials when I can get back to the lake. Possibly as soon as next week, as we...

how close to fitting does that monster motor come. usually the bigger the motor, the better the slow speed.

Some more detail shots of the Pelican. Ready for lake trials.m

lot of unsettling going around. look forward to some Whiskey River adventures

If you look back on the picture of our dock, I keep a 17 ft. Aluminum canoe , and some cheap paddles and life vests on the dock. The canoe's combination lock is ornery, so I will probably unlock the canoe before launching the Pelican. It's radio gear is all installed and working. Not as...

Starting the fanciness oun the outside of the starboard wheel.

Started this a very long time ago , but my trains are on hold while I establish my retirement residences, One of them is on a bay off of Kentucky Lake, the largest man made lake east of the Mississippi. My most recent work has been scratcbuilding the wheels out of brass and copper, and the...

Have simplified you photo posting issues. My ancient I pad's photos work on zealot without editing. One issue solved. Last year the wife I've had to move to Texas to help make medical decisions for her elderly patients. She is a pediatric nurse practitioner, and was able to get a...

Looks like photos from my ancient I pad might work on Zealot. Look for a thread , or continuance of a thread in the RC section!

reporting in. do most of my photography with my phone, don't have clear guidance on maximum file size , so editing them to size is hit and miss. have figured out how to do photos from my camera, but my camera is in Tennessee at the lake, and I'm in...

testing editing procedures. Old #4, recently serving the Strong & Perry Lumber company

Back last spring one friday, I uncharacteristically checked my work email before leaving the farm to go to work, and saw that school was closed while they decided what to do about the virus, by the end of the weekend I was off for 6 days. before...

I see a lot of your images didn't make the transfer to the new format as well. has anyone heard what the maximum file size is? I have a setting on my camer that I think works, but if I knew for sure what the maximum was I could edit stuff from...

with most of my railroading activities pretty much on old, and not being able to share pictures off my phone, on this forum, I have been absent a lot here. but here is a locomotive project from last year. it is a United V&T Original Reno. Identical in...