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MODEL BOAT
PLANS & MANUAL BASED ON THE
SELWAY FISHER RANGE OF YACHT & BOAT DESIGNS |
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Welcome
to the makeamodelboat.com site which has been set up to offer to model
makers construction plans based largely on the full-size Selway Fisher
designs. For those of you not familiar with Selway Fisher's range of
designs go to www.selway-fisher.com
where you will find well over 300 designs for craft ranging in size from
6' to 60' covering a very wide range of craft from canoes and dinghies
to yachts, motor boats and steam/electric launches.
Some of these designs will be used as the basis for a range of plans to
be sold from this site for the construction of model boats using various
different techniques and wood materials. the Model Boat Plans page will
give you a flavour of what some of these plans will be. |
What
is on this site?
- this is a new site, set up in July 2011. You will see from the links
at the top of this home page that we so far have sections on Useful
Links to suppliers (in the UK for the moment), Model Boat Photographs
(for the moment these are of models built from the manual but will
eventually include pictures from those who have built to our
designs from what will be an expanding collection of designs), the Model
Boat Building Manual and to the Model Boat Plans section.
Ordering details can be found below.
Note
- 2 new pages added on the 23rd December 2011 - Model Boat Construction
and A Treasure Trove of Model boats.
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Ordering
Plans and the Manual
- there are several ways in
which you can place an order with us - these are separated into 2 mains
methods :-
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Directly with your credit/debit card whilst you are
on-line - we have added an Ordering Cart system
which allows you to add the plans etc you wish to order to the Cart
before going to the secure area to place your order. You will find a
"Buy Plan Now" button under the description of each item.
Please Note - for the moment, the On-Line Ordering Cart does not
add the cost of Postage (Shipping) to your order - however postage
& packing charges will be added - for a note of these P&P
charges please see below.
All card
transactions are in Sterling.
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By Post, Fax,
E-mail or Phone - go to the Contact Details page (link at the top of
this page) for postal/phone and e-mail contact details.
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Note
that there are 2 "Buy Plan Now" buttons for each set of
plans -
one for UK/EU customers which includes VAT and one for
USA/Elsewhere customers which excludes VAT. Catalogues and Manuals do
not incur VAT for UK/EU customers and these items therefore only have
one "Buy Now Button".
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P the US Dollar prices given in the price lists are estimated
at an exchange rate of 1.6 USD = £1 Sterling and therefore our US
clients may find the amount charged on their card statements will vary
(up or down) from the US price given, if the exchange rate at the time
is different.
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By
using Paypal -
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Paying
with PayPal |
PayPal
is an increasingly popular way to pay for purchases on-line. For
those who want to pay using their PayPal account, Selway Fisher
Design/Makeacanoe/Makeamodelboat now has it's own PayPal account which you can pay into.
Unfortunately, due to the complexities of setting up an efficient
system of paying for postage and packing with PayPal which does
not over-charge the customer for multiple purchases, we have not
been able to use PayPal's simple buy-now set-up.
This means that to use your PayPal account you simply need to
transfer the total amount of your order including Postage &
Packing into our PayPal account using the PayPal transfer system
on your account. |
To
pay using your PayPal account :-
- Calculate the
total amount of your order including P&P (see the Postage table
below) - or contact us
(either ring +44 1225 705074 or e-mail us at paul@selway-fisher.com)
when we can confirm the total cost for you and give you our
PayPal account paying-in details.
- Go to your
PayPal account and transfer the amount to our Paypal account.
- E-mail us at paul@selway-fisher.com
telling us that you have made the transfer and giving us the
order details plus the address to send the order to.
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Postage
Rates |
| Item |
UK |
Airmail
Europe |
Airmail
US/Elsewhere |
| Model
Plans |
£2.00 |
£3.00 |
£4.00 |
| Manual |
£3.00 |
£5.00 |
£7.00 |
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List of Latest
Site Updates
- 12/03/12 - The Tideway
and Fanny models have been given their own pages and more photos
have been added - plans will be available shortly.
- 04/03/12 - More photos
of the Fanny and Tideway models added.
- 25/02/12. - First
photos of models for the 17'9" Fanny the Fantail steam launch
and Tideway 14 pocket cruiser added to the Model
Boat Plans page.
- 06/02/12 - Photos of
the finished Rufus 17 model added to the Model
Boat Plans page.
- 31/01/12 - More photos
of the Windsor 25 Slipper Launch under construction added.
- 23/12/11 - 2 new pages
- the first page shows the step by step construction of our latest
model design - the 25' Windsor Slipper Launch - go to Model
Boat Construction. the second page has loads of photographs of
over 26 Selway Fisher Designs plus pictures of my early models (some
using MAP plans) and an array of half models built for both
presenation purposes and for developing some of my designs - go to A
Treasure Trove of Models.
- 03/12/11 - Drawings
for the 25' Windsor Slipper Launch added.
- 19/10/11 - Drawings
for 17' Rufus Motor Boat/Work boat added.
- 30/09/11 - Drawings
for Christine canoe added.
- 27/09/11 - Drawings
for 4m Mini Yacht added.
- 17/09/11 - Drawings
for semi scale Power 225 available.
- 10/08/11 - plans for
the Edwardian 26 steam launch available.
- 19/07/11 - the site
starts.
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| Where
to next? -
simply go to the
and click
on the links to the various different pages - keep visiting the site
because we hope that it will grow and expand rapidly as new model boat
plans are introduced and as new sections are added. I have it mind to
eventually start a forum for those building to makeamodelboat.com plans
as well as a FAQs page.. |
| Paul
Fisher BSc. MRINA - the Designer
After
a youth messing around in all sorts of boats on the Thames, I gained
my degree - a
BSc (Bachelor of Science) in Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding from
Newcastle University in 1974 and shortly after l became an Associate
Member of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects.
Straight
after University l worked in the design office of McGruer & Co.
Scotland for 4 years - famous for high performance racing /cruising
yachts beautifully crafted in wood (cold moulded as well as
conventional clinker and carvel). We were also involved in major yacht
refitting and repair and the fit-out of GRP commercial craft - this
under James and George McGruer on the Gareloch (north of the Clyde). l
then became Technical Manager at D.M. Russell Marine - formerly Jas.
A. Silvers yard just up the road at Rosneath, for 5 years - famous for
their motor yachts - this period found me sailing/cruising in all
sorts of craft around the coast of the UK and regular racing in
everything from Dragons to the IOR fleet on the Clyde.
Selway
Fisher Design was started in 1982 to produce a range of yacht and
small boat designs for both the home and professional boat builder and
you can see the full range at www.selway-fisher.com.
In my youth I built a lot of model boats mainly from the Model Aeronautical
Press range of plans. Both during my time up in the yards in Scotland
and since then, I have always built model boats of my full-size
designs, mainly as static models for exhibitions. So now I am
returning to my early days and producing plans aimed specifically at
those who enjoy model boats.
Enjoy
the site!
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