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Building of Stars & Stripes

When I left my last employer, I was lucky enough to get as a farewell present, a Victor Model Products kit of their Stars & Stripes 12-meter yacht.

However, not long after I left, I discovered the EC12. Then other 12-meters including the Nautic12 and the A2 Class Australia II, so Stars & Stripes languished in the garage. I simply did not have the time to build her.

Until that is, yesterday, the 1st of September 2007, when I started assembling her. What better time to commence this project than on the first day of Spring. I have already built a Victor Products Australia II so I am hoping this build will not only be easier, but quicker as well.

Below is a diary of activity of the building of Stars & Stripes
Hopefully these comments will assist people wanting to build Victor Model Products' boats

26 January 2008: The pictures below are a bit of cheating, but only sort of. The pictures are actually of my Victor Australia II but I will be using the same idea in the Stars & Stripes boat. They have been put up simply to show others how I did it. And maybe someone else can benefit. The batteries are mounted under the board itself and secured by two cable ties. You might just be able to make them out in the pics. There are pulleys on both ends of the sail arm and they are fixed to the aluminium arm by way of a universal swivel. Swivels and pulleys from Radio Yacht Supplies Australia. Radio gear from your own favourite supplier(s).

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01-02 September 2007: Nearly two weeks but I did this weekend have a chance to actually start the building of S&S. Nothing exciting. Just marking the inside of the hull with a line to assist with the placement of the balsa shear strips, (1/32nd of an inch below the top of the hull), hunting through the washing basket to pinch enough pegs to act as clamps and gluing the shear strips to the hull with thin CA. I had forgotten how strong the fumes of CA can be. So outside we went, the CA, the hull and I, where hopefully I will have withstood the effects of the fumes long enough to securely fix the shear strips to the hull, and without becoming a wild-eyed problem to the local community.

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Circa 19 August 2007: I had just sailed my recently completed A2 Class Australia II for the first time. She was beautiful, and I was now fired up with enthusiasm once again, so I went into the garage and retrieved my long ago given present. I brought it inside and unpacked it. I examined with some admiration the lines of the hull. Very very similar, if not the same as, Australia II. Damn they are beautiful boats! But a work day tomorrow, so I had to leave her for the time being. No construction. Just looking.

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