This is a pretty good sized boat. Only about 30-40 ft longer than the larger cruisers, but soooo much wider. And beautiful.
Quick question.... is this an italian ship or a french? i see the Italian flag on the superstructure, but the colors of the french on one of the bow turrets....
That's a french tri-color that she is wearing. The French flag is red white and blue. The Italian I think is red white and green. Mike D
That's a fine looking ship Mikey... I hadn't looked in a while All the painting/renovating and moving has distracted me quite a bit, but on the plus side, I got quite a few power tools donated to my shop when people found out I was going to have a big one. Yesterday while boxing things, I uncovered my Tirpitz frame pictures (need to glue them to some thick ply and cut 'em out) and that helped motivate me to get done with the house crap So dd your Strasbourg pics
You can see a drive motor in the one picture, does it actually push that big beast around? It looks pretty small.
The motors that I have in her at this time are Wah-Mings (12 volts), very efficient. They do get her up to speed just fine, but I have to admit that I have been looking for something larger, in the way of motors, just because they look too small for the application. They have been just fine for all of the trials so for. I used them in my small-gun Jean Bart (24 seconds). She is around 38 lbs. The Strasbourg will be more like 70+ lbs, but is also slower. So to make a long story even longer. The Wah-Mings seem to be doing fine, but I plan to replace them with something bigger, if I find something. Mikey
Well...if it has four shafts you could put 1 motor on each. Plenty of power. Otherwise gear 2 motors to each shaft.
I expect that at our speeds, one per shaft would do it. I hope. Cause if it doesn't I lose even more room!
You need to fight that monster at a MBG battle... #1 no one would ever sink you #2 everyone would be afraid of you
