I remember this vessel in the port of Vlissingen in Holland in the 1980’s, seen it many times but sadly never made photos of it in those days……

hi sir

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Body helalth good scykal

When are you fitting the cyclemaster?

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Brilliant Bruce! Great job!

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Thanks Bruce :-)

Very good 👍🏻 love it

love the attitude! ahhahaa

What a great idea!!

Very mint and beautiful unit, you should just leave it as it is. I have a rusty one and hoping to do a restoration because some parts are already not the original.

Schicker Sessel!

VARY VARY GOOD YA BAI KITNA KI DANI HA

No history is told about this tugboat. It was originally build as “Maasbank” together with sistership “Vikingbank” for Dutch towing company “Smit havensleepdienst NRS” in the Rotterdam harbour to assist large seagoing cargo vessels. Unfortunately “Vikingbank” was lost in a storm and crashed into the pier of Hook of Holland in The Netherlands. “Maasbank” and later as “Banckert” served the Rotterdam harbour for many years. Legendary tugboat for a lot of Dutch people!

Why would you want to ruin a lovely piece of history by putting a motorized unit into the Raleigh ?

Can I get this one please

You did a fine job of restoring and modifying this tug. And I like the music on this video, very "down home" and earthy. Who sings it? Wright Flyer, USAF (1968-1972).

Your forks are bent backwards a little bit. More worrying is the way you've got the rod brakes assembled, they shouldn't have to bend over each other like that! You have put the rocker from the left lever on the right and the one from the right lever on the left. Dangerous! "superbe" is pronounced "superb" not "super bee" which is a car from dodge.

Nice work Bruce, Would you be able to tell me where you sourced the rub strip that is on the bottom to top seam?

Loving the content. About to check some of your other uploads! If I was you I would look into using promosm!! Ever since I started using it on my main channel my videos are ranking much better!

congrats on a fantastic resto, I think you had a good one to start with which helps, I have got 4 of them in various states of repair unfortunately most of them were flogged to death so piecing them together is somewhat problematic!! By the way the tyres can be a problem for this as rim size is odd (26x1-1/2 x 2) but you can fit a new 27.5x1.5 (40-584) and they are correct for cyclemaster rim sometimes the front rim of same size was fitted as a kit I guess, two of mine have this same diameter rim with hub brake fitted.

That is really cool!

What colour red did u use

very noice

very noice

Excellent work. I’m actually in Westbank, BC 40 min. From your cousin. I looking for a RC tug kit. Found a few that I like on line. Have yet to find many in Canada. Mostly all U.S. Do you know of some kits available in Canada?

Billings boat kits are by FAR the worst kits I have ever built. thank you

Mine has blue seats white wheels

nice video cheering sameeruno

well done on the restoration, it looks fantastic

Very nice. I bought one already built and it’s “rough as guts.” I’m repainting part of it, putting in a new Servo and speed controller, Reballasting and adding a few bits. It’s been damaged, too. Your $40 buy was a steal!!!

Wow, just found this, I live in Victoria and would love to find out how to get into rc sailing, Joel....

I'm curious what the RG class has to do with a DF 65

that's one bloody dirty water to put your nice boat in

Hello Bruce, I just started building my Dumas 1940 Barrel Back kit It is the older model with the frames touching the mounting board not the shear. Do you have any tips or ideas in building this R/C? Thanks for your reply, Pat, Michigan

as I sit here at my work desk looking at my own unfinished model tug, I often wonder where my model will end up after I'm long gone... kinda saddens me to think it will end up in a dusty pawn shop some where with a "move quick" price tag....

Nice...

Could you please advise what prop have you put on your tug ? Thanks

Hello, Sorry to be the harbinger of doom, I have built many of these for other people. Bankers was a twin screw tug with Becker rudders on fixed knozzles. If you find she works ok for you, ignore my comment. Good luck and happy building. Andy.

Very very nice job :)

Hi´ Bruce Very nice work