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Looking for boat plans or model kit

Carl W

Carl W

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I have been searching the internet for boat plans or a model kit to build a CG 100's series Rum Chaser from the 1920s & 1930s prohibition era in the United States. I have found lots of photo references but no real boat plans or model kits. I have 1 drawing of a side view but that is all. See drawing. Also see a real photo of boat. My plan now looks like I will scratch-build one using my 3D software using photos unless I can find something more. Please let me know of any sources you may know of.

Thank you,
Carl Whitten

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Thanks Allan,
I have searched some of these and mostly come up with photos and newspaper stories. Not any CG boat plans as old as I want. I will continue to look.
 
The USCG 100 Series 75-foot patrol boats were a standard design. The entire set of engineering drawings for these vessels should be in United States National Archives. At one point the sea services kept their own plans archives, but about 20 years ago there was a reorganization, and the Navy Bureau of Ships and the USCG turned all their archived vessel plans for vessels not currently in service over to the National Archives. All extant government ships plans for vessels not presently in government service going back to about 1780 are now located at the Cartographic Research Room of the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. (Obviously, this isn't just one room. That's just what they call it. They have huge warehouses full of ships engineering drawings stored away the same way they stored the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The government never throws anything away. :))

Copies of ships plans in the National Archives can be located, identified, and in some instances accessed online in digital format, or ordered as printed copies, by following the instructions on the National Archives website: https://www.archives.gov/research/cartographic/ship-plans

All the extant plans for all USCG vessels can be located online in Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1785 - 2005 found at https://www.archives.gov/research/cartographic/ship-plans. Realize that there will probably be a fair amount of drawings that won't be relevant to making a model, such as electrical wiring diagrams, plumbing schedules, internal mechanics, and the like, so you'll want to sort through the plans index to decide what you'll want and what you don't need.
 
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A friend of mine is currently building a model of one of these 75 foot patrol boats. He hired a researcher who found drawings in the National Archives. (Expensive!)

The Coast Guard also built a number of larger boats, I believe 84 or 86 foot. Otherwise they closely resemble the 75 foot boats. Plans for these are included in an old issue of the Nautical Research Journal; prior to the year 1975. You can find these on Volume 1 of the back issue thumb drive sold by the Guild. See NRG.org

Roger
 
Dear fellow Ships Of Scale builders,
I ‘m looking for plans for the Artesania Latina’s:
“Le Hussard 1848”.
I’m willing to purchase them. If anyone has these plans please get back to me. Thank you, and have a great weekend.

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Roger Pellett said:
A friend of mine is currently building a model of one of these 75 foot patrol boats. He hired a researcher who found drawings in the National Archives. (Expensive!)
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You bet it's expensive to hire a professional researcher! That's another thing experienced scratch builders do on their own at no expense. I wonder if the original poster realizes and appreciates how much money we saved him by doing most all the research for him online. All he has to do now is look up the specific vessel in the USCG index and order the plans copies he wants mailed to him by the National Archives at their nominal copying cost or order a PDF of the Nautical Research Journal back issue. Maybe we ought to start selling what we know instead of giving it away for free?
 
jpmapm5000 said:
Dear fellow Ships Of Scale builders,
I ‘m looking for plans for the Artesania Latina’s:
“Le Hussard 1848”.
I’m willing to purchase them. If anyone has these plans please get back to me. Thank you, and have a great weekend.
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You may get a larger response posting this as a new thread, but, in any event, if you haven't tried already, I would suggest you contact Artisania Latina and ask if they have a copy of this kit's plans. Artisania Latina provides PDF copies for most of their kits at no charge online, but I don't see the Le Hussard kit listed there. They may have it and haven't uploaded it yet. See:
artesanialatina.net

Old instructions

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I agree, Bob. Fortunately I’m at a stage in my life where I neither want nor need the responsibilities of running a business , no mater how small. It is a bit frustrating for these sort of posts to vanish into outer space space.

Roger
 
Bob Cleek said:
You may get a larger response posting this as a new thread, but, in any event, if you haven't tried already, I would suggest you contact Artisania Latina and ask if they have a copy of this kit's plans. Artisania Latina provides PDF copies for most of their kits at no charge online, but I don't see the Le Hussard kit listed there. They may have it and haven't uploaded it yet. See:
artesanialatina.net

Old instructions

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Thanks!
Bob Cleek said:
You may get a larger response posting this as a new thread, but, in any event, if you haven't tried already, I would suggest you contact Artisania Latina and ask if they have a copy of this kit's plans. Artisania Latina provides PDF copies for most of their kits at no charge online, but I don't see the Le Hussard kit listed there. They may have it and haven't uploaded it yet. See:
artesanialatina.net

Old instructions

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Thanks for your help. Sadly the plans of “the Hussard” aren’t on their free downloadable pdf files list, but I’ll try to email them directly.
 
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