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Frank Andruss
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 Posted on: Dec 26, 2014 - 6:30am
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Andy, the job you are doing is simply wonderful. It is so refreshing to see the HUCKINS boat being built. It is just one of those boats that is lost in History because it didn't see action. Lt. Les Gamble, the CO of Ron 26, wrote in the forward of my book, HUCKINS boats were without a doubt the smoothest riding PT's we had. Keep up the good work on the build, it looks great...................
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Andy Small
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Posted on: Dec 26, 2014 - 7:09am
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Smooth enough to take the First Lady out for a spin back in March 1944! She and RADM Train sat comfortably on wicker chairs positioned on top of PT-98's engine compartment. This day outing was during Eleanor's 1944 tour of Panama:
My Day - 29 March, 1944
- Andy
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David Waples
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Posted on: Dec 26, 2014 - 10:38am
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That is excellent work Andy! Thanks for sharing your progress.
Dave
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ROSS FISHER
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Posted on: Dec 31, 2014 - 8:12am
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Andy,
Your workmanship on the Huckins boats is exceptional. I did enough competitive ship building back in the day (1975-1985) to appreciate your craftsmanship.
I was a 1/72 builder; kit-bashing in that scale will help keep costs down, but niche marketing being what it is, these will still be very expensive to produce.
With 3 cast Packard engines, bulkheads, brass tubing, etc, they could be quite costly. Wikipedia informs me that the Navy paid
$265,500 per Huckins Boat. But you should be able to bring the per-kit cost in under that...at least the 1/72 version.
(Throw in an in-scale Lt. Les Gamble and Eleanor Roosevelt in a deck chair and all bets are off.)
Ross Fisher
(I've been out of ship building a while, what does GRP stand for?)
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Andy Small
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Posted on: Dec 31, 2014 - 9:02am
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Hi Ross,
Thank you for the kind words. I do low volume kits as my hobby business, but these kits will be a bit more than my usual ones due to the custom hull work. Glass reinforced plastic is the GRP I referred to. No estimates on kit cost.
Andy.
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