56201 56202 Tamiya Yamaha Round the world yacht

[kalsh]

I was lucky enough to pick up one of these second hand recently on local trading site which I will add to my showroom once access is sorted. It is in relatively ok condition, one broken stay, mast joiner snapped but has two new mast sections (I will probably joined with some brass rod or the likes) and the keel moves up and down a little and I would like to remove it but she is well are truely stuck - I might just live with that as probably won’t put in the water as a result (I did want to have one sail with it). Has electrics but No transmitter (like many of you I have plenty of those lying around).came with its original stand, manual, and pre painted sailing crew which are still in their box. It has had a real journey as the owner lived in Asia where he built it for his kids but he moved back to NZ and it was taking up room , not being used and kids have grown up and all live in different parts of the world. Also had some stickers from the race

Any suggestions on how to remove keel without drastic cutting measures naturally would be very welcome.

[OnTheTrail]

That looks amazing and needs to be sailed in my opinion.  Never knew Tamiya made such a craft.