It appears there was a lot of spray on the high seas this trip.

@MCLegoboy said:
"It appears there was a lot of spray on the high seas this trip."

Obviously the boat has capsized, as you can tell by it being wet. Maybe they should have dried it first, as this shows the ship was prone to tipping over, so it might have affected sales?

I'm assuming the boat actually floats

From the good old days when boats used to float. I remember one of my friends having a red LEGO boat but I think a shorter one, probably one of the larer ones, and his brother had a police boat. We used to play for hours with them on the boating lake in the local park. The downside was needing string to pull them so they didn't get stuck in the middle. I had a wooden sail boat and frequently had to wade in to rescue it.

@MCLegoboy said:
"It appears there was a lot of spray on the high seas this trip."

Or it's a cargo submarine.

Those ship hull pieces were both interesting and a bit too... well over-specialized? Later ship hulls had way more depth to build in.

Also I am curious how so many people managed to break those ridge things off - almost 90% I find used are broken. But to me they feel very rigid and hard to apply that immense force to. Just how?

@Al_S said:
"illegal building technique for the (?) radar dish (?) on the bridge of the roof!"

And very clear from looking at the full size blow up of that image, the reason why it’s deemed an illegal technique now.

Does anybody know what the most recent set containing that particular technique is?

This does float my boat!

Car go ship, ship go port, car go back on land again

It's crying salty tears... :(

@Sandinista said:
" @GSR_MataNui said:
"I'm assuming the boat actually floats "

They do, these hulls are a ton of fun to play with. Beneath the hull are anti-studs for specialized ballast/counterweight pieces to keep the boat steady"

Was it my imagination, or did they make a motor that clipped onto the underside of those counterweights?

@8lackmagic said:
" @Sandinista said:
" @GSR_MataNui said:
"I'm assuming the boat actually floats "

They do, these hulls are a ton of fun to play with. Beneath the hull are anti-studs for specialized ballast/counterweight pieces to keep the boat steady"

Was it my imagination, or did they make a motor that clipped onto the underside of those counterweights?"

I don't have any boat sets (or any sets at all) that old, but the back cover of 4011's instructions said, "In some countries propeller motors (not made by LEGO®) are available from model shops. The notch in the bottom of the hull allows these motors to be attached." Looking at the images of the ballast piece and the hull on Bricklink and Rebrickable, I can't tell if either of those pieces had such notches. 4011's instructions also said to remove the internal ballast brick if you used one of those motors, for what that's worth.

> Was it my imagination, or did they make a motor that clipped onto the underside of those counterweights?

Yes, but the motors might not have been Lego, but from a third party. They came also with suction cups for generic use. Oh, and the early ballasts (from this model I think) did not have the male part of the clip.

Also, this is a tanker.

@TrailWing said:
"Yes, but the motors might not have been Lego, but from a third party. They came also with suction cups for generic use. Oh, and the early ballasts (from this model I think) did not have the male part of the clip."
Back in the 80s we indeed had a motor from Playmobil that also fitted those Lego keels. Probably one of the few times they made something interchangeable...

I love the old float-able hulls. I also marvel at the ingenuity of the creators of this set and all earlier sets. Knowing that LEGO was its own 'scale' and you had to make do and be creative with what was in the tool box as getting a piece created was a heck of a lot harder than it apparently is now. Not like the models today where it appears the attitude is 'Just create the piece, or use these x pieces, in place of one, for 'detail'. It does not matter, we will make the consumer pay for it".
Of course back then, the CEO did not need to have a 'Ferrari fund'.

@WizardOfOss said:
" @TrailWing said:
"Yes, but the motors might not have been Lego, but from a third party. They came also with suction cups for generic use. Oh, and the early ballasts (from this model I think) did not have the male part of the clip."
Back in the 80s we indeed had a motor from Playmobil that also fitted those Lego keels. Probably one of the few times they made something interchangeable..."

Just done a search on google, assume you mean https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1435007294/vintage-playmobil-geobra-underwater?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details Never knew such a thing existed before today I had the cargo boat as a child. I still have the hull pieces (with badly applied stickers) and the keel.

@CCC said:
"From the good old days when boats used to float."

https://brickset.com/sets/tag-Floats-On-Water

They still do, you know!

@LegoStevieG said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
" @TrailWing said:
"Yes, but the motors might not have been Lego, but from a third party. They came also with suction cups for generic use. Oh, and the early ballasts (from this model I think) did not have the male part of the clip."
Back in the 80s we indeed had a motor from Playmobil that also fitted those Lego keels. Probably one of the few times they made something interchangeable..."

Just done a search on google, assume you mean https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1435007294/vintage-playmobil-geobra-underwater?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details Never knew such a thing existed before today I had the cargo boat as a child. I still have the hull pieces (with badly applied stickers) and the keel. "
It looks slightly different than the one we got (or at least different from what I remember...), but this might just be a newer version of it. But yeah, that's the thing indeed.

* Floats in gelatin.

@Atuin said:
"Those ship hull pieces were both interesting and a bit too... well over-specialized? Later ship hulls had way more depth to build in.

Also I am curious how so many people managed to break those ridge things off - almost 90% I find used are broken. But to me they feel very rigid and hard to apply that immense force to. Just how?"

Yes, the corners of the top of the hull would break off where it extended beyond the white base. Unbroken ones are gold.

@madforLEGO said:
"I love the old float-able hulls. I also marvel at the ingenuity of the creators of this set and all earlier sets. Knowing that LEGO was its own 'scale' and you had to make do and be creative with what was in the tool box as getting a piece created was a heck of a lot harder than it apparently is now. Not like the models today where it appears the attitude is 'Just create the piece, or use these x pieces, in place of one, for 'detail'. It does not matter, we will make the consumer pay for it".
Of course back then, the CEO did not need to have a 'Ferrari fund'.
"

Of course back then, TLG was still a very tiny company that nobody would have expected to eventually unseat Hasbro as the largest toy manufacturer in the world. And then things changed.