HO Scale Lifeboats (and some larger vessels, too)

[JaBear]

"Offending Photo" ????  For something like the "Manitowoc", it is quite rare to find a picture like that overhead shot !!!!

Yeah,"offending" in the sense that I wish I had seen that photo when I was in the early planning stage.
Otherwise, it’s a great shot from an unusual angle. If the accepted date is 1953 or thereabouts, it has aided me by giving me  a backdrop option, shows that what I think is a hydraulic ram on the weight arm of the counterweight mechanism isn’t present, so Hooray,  one less item, actually two, to model, and a view of the Windsor yard.  
Having it at the design stage would have helped me with side clearance issues.
A Confession. If you look at the construction photos of the funnel support superstructure on page 5, you will see that they are square. (I know now that they’re a little wide but I’ve got over that). If you look on page six you will have observed that the forward one now has a taper. That is because after I had laid the track I checked out the superstructure clearance using an Athearn BB 40’ box car, it was tight but ok. Talk about brain fade, especially when I had photos clearly showing 50” cars.  

   

Having rectified that OOPS and also seen photos with TOFC cars on board I thought that I should checkout the height clearance, which has also proved ok, and now with the construction of the cabin underway thought that I would again check the clearances before its too late.
Over on the other forum, a member commented that seeing the ferry project reminded him of crossing from Windsor to Detroit, in 1973, on a GTW ferry as the C&O private car he was on couldn’t use the St.Clair tunnels because of the propane on board. Though I had seen photos of passenger cars on ferries in the early 1900s, so out of my time zone, I thought I should see if passenger cars would fit just in case the Lachlan River RR has to move some. It is a very close but they do fit.

   

This is one of the tasks I was not looking forward to,   making 180+ stanchions for the railing, but a couple of weeks ago, I was in the mood, and made them in three separate batches without too many dramas.

   

Thanks for looking,
Cheers, the Bear.