Back in my youth, I spent the summers in Connecticut ( USA ) working. While there, I spent my off hours at the local small airfield ( Goodspeed airport in East Haddam ) as well as going to small ports to see the ferries and boats go about in Essex harbor along the Connecticut river. I really loved visiting and especially a very small river tub called Pooh ( I suppose as in Winnie the Pooh character ). My wife ( my girl friend at the time ), did join me and we took pictures on that boat.

So that is the background.

Now, in my RC boat collection, I have two tug boats, but those are models of much larger tugboats and I have a soft spot for them.

What I am looking for is to get/purchase a hull ( hopefully with a motor and prop ), that I can build the structure on top from wood or even foam board to resemble the Pooh boat. It would be a gift for my wife as a sort of a reminder of us being together dating back in 1977.

Requirement : I would like the model to be approximately 4 ft long

I do not know the original boat length, but I think it is about 30 ft long. So the scale is of no importance to me. I just need to to be large model.

If someone has information on the actual boat, it had a Delaware😎 registration DL 3205 D.

Any suggestions as to a close enough model out there I can use as a basis of conversion?

That is my challenge 😎

Isaac

Here is one of my pre built plastic tugboat model. It is small at approx 30 inches length.

I can use the hull and build a new top.

But my preference is a larger size.

For now enjoy this video

Isaac 😎