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  1. JerryTodd

    Baltimore Clipper Schooner Pride of Baltimore 1981 (1:20 scale radio-controlled sailing model)

    On my 21st birthday I reported aboard the schooner Pride of Baltimore as a deck-hand and gunner. Five years before, my first paying job was on the construction of this very boat. I spent nearly two months on board Pride and a year later acquired a set of plans from the designer, Thomas Gilmer...
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    Constellation, First Class Sloop of War. 1871-today

    Somewhere near Annapolis Maryland in 1871; this is the earliest known photograph of the First Class Sloop of War Constellation. She had just received a major refit in 71. A 100pd Parrot rifle and an 11" Dahlgren were placed on her gun deck with corresponding enlarged gunports. Her 8" shell...
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    Constellation, the sloop of war c.1856 in 1:36 scale for R/C sailing

    I have a project I started back in early 1999. I'll place this "build log" for it here, but first we need to go back in time and get caught up... I've built working model boats of all sorts, but most being smallish tended to bob like corks in Baltimore's Inner Harbor where I sailed them. I...
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    Here I am

    Donnie found me online and suggested I come and check out his forum, so, here I am. I live in Maryland, near Annapolis. I been a model builder longer than I've been a wargamer, Civil War reenactor, or even worked on sailing vessels as a job. I think the only thing I've voluntarily done longer...
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