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(...) Yeah, I figured they were way too small for a ship by themselves--my thought was to install a dozen or so (for a whopping 180 BHP)...but the problem with the three-deck model is that the ship isn't full-hull, it's waterline. I wish I could (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Oh, I would say they look _great_ as far as a small boiler goes...in fact, they look a lot like a boiler I may get the chance to help retube at school...but it supplies steam to a 15 BHP engine...so not all that much power...and our steam car (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I fell in love with those tiles as soon as I saw them. Must aquire fire-grates... Steve (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats)
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James is right, but I still like the way they look. L, you're right, those star wars elements even kind of look like a grate looking into the firebox. I could see using these boilers inside a small machine shed in an older factory. The problem with (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Lets put it this way, if they are that selectivly compressed, each one is about big enough to power a boat 2x the size of a rowboat! They would be in real life MASSIVE structures, on the order of 15' across each, and the same high. Small ones (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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Hi all, I've been having the biggest trouble filling my new ships with machinery. I have, for your consideration, a rough .jpg of a pair of small-bore oil-fired boilers on a display plate with a little naval officer for scale (yes, they're (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates)
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These have been claimed. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.boats)
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I'm parting out a 6560 and wanted to know if anyone needed the bow sections (2 white, 1 blue, 1 tapered blue plate). They are free and searching for a new home. Jackie (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.boats)
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Hi, Well it's just a beginning, and there are no pictures up yet, but right now Seaborn Lego Cruise Line has a homepage. got to> www.expage.com/page/SeaBrick Tell me what you think (Note: I still have ALOT of work to do on it!!) Erin -- (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) front (...) the (...) question (...) I guess my main problem when finding a suitable bow, will be the decision to seperate another boat from its bow. As I don't have the 311 ferry, if I won it, I'd have to keep it intact! (what a dilemma) (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.general)
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(...) Didn't someone in B-S-T have just a red boat hull for sale or trade? I've posted this there with that in mind. (Wow, all the referents...what an awful sentence!) best LFB (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I think I saw an auction for a different tug last night on eBay, no it was a 311 ferry. I think the hulls might be compatible. I do see these hulls every once in a while on eBay. (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.general)
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"RK" == Rachel Kingston <Kingston@spirit.com.au> writes: RK> My three yr old got to a small tug(?) boat of his fathers this RK> week, and broke a small piece off the bow. He was so sad about it, RK> (father and son actually) that I thought I'd do a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.general)
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(...) also. (...) Sorry for answering my own post here, but I've just found the boat in question and it was on pause. What threw me was no writing on the side and I've only got the hull here in front of me. No cabin or mast etc. The writing was (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.general)
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Hi everyone I don't normally post to this group, but I have a question that I am hoping that someone can help me with. My three yr old got to a small tug(?) boat of his fathers this week, and broke a small piece off the bow. He was so sad about it, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.general)
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Just got the polic City Center Boat was was a bit puzzled in how the packaging came. There was actually two packages in the box. One to build the police boat that would look more like a speed boat and then another package that when you add to the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) Hey! I'm with you on this request. I'd love to see a yaht. Or any sailboat for that matter. I'm personally not exctied by motorboats. But I love watching the Cup race on television. ..All that technology put into what's essentially a low-tech (...) (25 years ago, 25-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.boats)
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To everybody who wants to know what happened to Seaborn Brick: I'm sorry that I haven't gotten around to getting a webpage up. It's just that I have been really busy (and sick) in the last 4 months. In October I was really involved with my sports (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats)
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Hi Legofans, I received many want lists, and I want to thank you for your trust ! Don't hesitate to send me your want lists the next year, all the days, all the weeks...! I search for you; I find for you... Regards, Emmanuel. E-MAIL: (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats)
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Mr L F Braun wrote in message <385F388B.AA3ED961@p...su.edu>... (...) piratical (...) "proper" (...) thing I (...) Hm, it's sounding like Virginia would be a reasonably central location that most of us could get to. I really need to start building (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats)
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(...) I like that coinage, "PirateFest '00." (...) That's OK. I'll just bring one ship, if it fits in my car: (URL) the other hand, I'm not sure I need to actually bring it. I can probably just fire the HG from here in Jersey, and just bring the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats)
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Hi Legofans, I invite you to send me your want list, your lego references wished, by mail. See you later, Emmanuel. E-MAIL: dya.shopping@wanadoo.fr (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats)
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Erin Windross: (...) If we imagine that you didn't write "few pieces", I have a reasonable solution. At sea level you start with a row alternating between 2*3 bricks (black) and 1*4 bricks (red or yellow): F F F TTTFTTTFTTTF TTTFTTTFTTTF F F F On (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats)
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Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to make a large dock without Dock Plates or cutting Road Plates, using very few pieces? I'm in need of a BIG dock for Seaborn Brick and right now she is just sitting on the launching ramp with nowhere to go. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats)
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[ XFUT lugnet.boats lugnet.town ] Allan: (...) The Town Jr defence seems somewhat juniorised. You might want to out-source your defence (or just use plain ordinary industrial espionage) to get a "proper" defence. ;-) (...) Nice ship (it has a link (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.boats, lugnet.town)
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Susan Hoover <hoover@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:8E94B6339rumple....63.236... (...) Not the playmobil motor, but same as it. Since it is very standard for powering toy boats. I had one when I was a small child and it was nor lego neither (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) That does sound like the Playmobil motor. (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats)
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Hi Susan, Last time I spoke to Lego over here they said they had stock of a third party torpedo styled motor that was recommended for use with lego floating boats, it is supposed to fit on the bottom of the stern area. Mark H. (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats)
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The title says it all--a new 6280-based turret ironclad, destroyer pictures, and the folding seaplane that appears on all my capital ships' fantails. (URL) and let me know if they look OK--I'm new to digital cameras. Any good tricks for avoiding (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) Well, I made an elevator without a motor once (it used a pulley) but I'm sure you could use a motor. On the top of the cab I put the a weird flat circle with loop on the top (2x2x something) - I found it in the divers theme (on top of the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.boats)
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Well I've chosen a captain for my ship....it wasn't an easy decision....and the new captain is.........Timmy *hears people yelling and screaming* I know it is an odd choice for a captain and I know Timmy is a pimply, clumsy, stupid, little annoying (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) Sure. You'll proabably have to do some experimenting though... If you have a bunch of technic chain, you could try lifting the elevator using the chain, a motor with a gear hooked into the chain, and maybea counterweight. Try taking a look at (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.boats)
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Is there any way to make the elevators on my ship go up and down with the use of a motor, battery box of some sort? And could I make lights actually light up in the cabins? All help thanked in advance Erin -- (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) Thats great, I'm going to rush out and get one today! Does this fit onto all the Duplo boats do you know? Cause I have three, all different sizes and shapes. I noticed that even the pirate ship in Playmobil floats in the water! Rachel (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.boats)
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Susan Hoover: (...) Actually LEGO at some point openly referred you to the Playmobil spare boat motor pack for a motor for your floating LEGO ships - at least in Denmark. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL: (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.boats)
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[FUT lugnet.boats] (...) FYI, in case it has not been mentioned in awhile, the Playmobil boat motor fits very nicely in the stern of the LEGO floating boats. ;-) Also, if you have a friendly neighborhood toyshop, they might order a "replacement" (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.boats)
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Hi Jacob, The Platesville originally did not have a helicopter. But with the rash of boat sinkings, plane crashes, and illegal activity occurring on the high seas in Legoland, it was deemed necessary to add a chopper to the ships arsenal of rescue (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.boats)
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[ XFUT lugnet.boats ] Joe Davenport: (...) I like the helicopter too, but isn't Platesville a teeny bit too small to rate a helicopter? (not that I have a good solution to the problem - a LEGO coast guard cutter _has_ to have a helicopter ;-) Play (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Yes to the swimming pool :-D, no to golf :-( (...) $100 lego bucks (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.boats)
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