May 2012 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 15. Boat And Ship Yard News
BROOKS TRAP MILL & MARINE SUPPLIES
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This is a very exquisite model of a 1955 29-foot semi-enclosed Chris Craft built by Classic Yacht Models of Camden. The detail put into making this model is simply impresive.
New Jersey inside being repowered, as well as some minor repair work.
This boat arrived with a 3208TA Cater- pillar diesel engine, which has been replaced with a 410-hp Sisu. This meant that several other things needed to be changed and up- dated. The steel engine beds have been re- moved and replaced with fiberglass ones. The shaft, which was 1¾-inch has been changed to a 2 inch shaft and they added a shaft tube with a cutlass bearing. The iron rudder has been replaced with a stainless steel one. The same propeller will be used, but they have added 2 inches more pitch. With all of these changes it is estimated that they removed approximately 1,000 pounds of weight. When she arrived she had a speed of approximately 12 knots and they think she could do 20 knots with all of the changes. Presently they are redoing her bottom, and removing a number of layers of paint. They said she must have gone through the water like a rake, since the last person to have painted her, painted over the barnacles and anything else.
This project will be done in May and then it is out fishing.
Model builders are constantly doing amazing things. How about a 1:192 scale model of a 13-foot DASH (Drone Anti-Sub- marine Helicopter-unmanned) found on FRAM’d (Fleet Rehabilitation and Modern- ization) destroyers in the 1960s. This DASH model is posed on a dime, to give you an idea of the actual size. This is part of BlueJacket’s
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The DASH sitting in a dime made for the destroyer Gearing model kit being created by BlueJacket Shipcrafters in Searsport.
USS GEARING, DD-710, circa 1961, which the kit of is nearing completion.
Why was DASH developed? During the very early stages of the Cold War the United States was becoming more and more con- cerned with the Russian submarine force. What strategists wanted was to develop a weapon that would prevent these subma- rines from approaching to close to the coast of the United States. One development was the ASROC (Anti-Submarine Rocket), but it was decided that it would not be prudent to launch a manned helicopter from the deck of a destroyer. At St. James, Long Island, New York, Gyrodyne Company had been working on a coaxial rotor system, which eliminated the instability from torque. This company worked on developing small, one manned helicopters and the Navy asked for a un- manned version that could be launched from the deck of a destroyer at any time of the day and in sea conditions with waves up to 20- feet in height. The first helicopter developed
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