Page 6. MAINE COASTAL NEWS July 2009
BlueJacket's Newest Model - An Army ST Diesel Tug
SEARSPORT – Over the last several years
BlueJacket has released several new models.
These models consisted of the clipper ship
RED JACKET, the battleship MAINE and
OLYMPIA, the AEGIS destroyer ARLEIGH
BURKE and the four-masted schooner
CHARLES NOTMAN, all of which were
challenging to build and expensive. As they
looked for a new model to do they decided to
do a series of work boats, which would be
affordable.
The newest model was created by Al
Ross of BlueJackets who said, “Suzie and
Jeff (owners of BlueJackets) wanted to
create a new series of kits in a more affordable
range than some of the last ones that we’ve
done and they wanted to do a series of
American work boats. The first one is an 85-
foot tug, which this particular design is Army
design from 1944. We built a pile of these and
then after the war a lot of different companies
picked them up as surplus. They are
traditional looking diesel harbor tug, which
BlueJacket's newest model an Army ST diesel tug.
was seen in harbors all around the United
States.” snap the formers out and since they are model. We are keeping this particular site set boats to death and the other type of regional
Ross added, “This is a traditional underneath the cabin so you don’t see where up for the series. So when the next kit comes boats have almost totally been ignored.
BlueJacket kit in that it has the machine they were.” along there will be teasers up on that site to Since these models are being built 3/16
carved hull. There are a lot of laser cut pieces, Difficulty is relative, but one should see what is going on. Once people start of an inch to the foot, or S gauge, this should
like all the superstructure is laser cut. The have a little experience before they try to building the tug, hopefully they’ll share their make the model railroad guys happy, since
stack is resin, which is the only resin piece in build this one. “It is like the rest of our experiences as they go along.” this is a scale they like.
the kit. It is a little unusual, or a little out of the traditional wooden kits,” said Ross. “The With a number of these already shipped Besides building this model Ross has
traditional mode in that because of the way hull is mostly carved and the only thing to customers they are now thinking about been busy doing custom models. He has just
the tug bulwarks were formed, they had you’ve got to remove is a lug on the front and the next one in the series. They are thinking finished a four stack destroyer for a
tumblehome. There is a laser cut deck with back from where it was carved. We have maybe a Florida shrimper, a New England customer, as well as a Hinckley Sou’wester
slots in it that screws down over the hull. templates if you want to get really, really eastern rigged dragger, or possibly a West 42, a minesweeper and a seaplane tender. He
Once the hull is shaped there are temporary precise. The instruction book is about 60 Coast tuna boat. still has a couple more to do, which will keep
formers that go across the deck so that when pages and is a standard step by step with Owner Jeff Marger said, “What we are him busy through the summer and into the
you bend the laser cut bulwarks in place exploded parts diagrams for the whole boat. trying to do is come up with iconic American fall.
these formers keep it at the right angle as it I also make a CD that goes with all the new boats. Everybody has done the Chesapeake
curves around the stern. Once everything is models which will make building the model
set and dried, you take a pair of pliers and easier. We also did a website while I built this
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