Busy day at the lake, 18th April 2017.

Today at the lake due no doubt to the good weather, there were plenty of sailors and spectators!

Of interest today was Al the Comm's Submarine.

That's his 10 hatch coaster in the background too!, an Ebay purchase I was told!.

Sub here gives a new meaning to Topless!

Going down!!.

No show without Punch!

Now for a couple of movies!

Click here for video of MTB at the lake today

And there's more!

Click here for the Enlarged version of Silver Mist.

Good day today, good company, nice weather what more could you ask for!..

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Sign on a plumbers truck,

You don't have to sleep with that drip tonight!.

Fitness club closing,

Going belly up!!.

Sign in a police station,

In god we trust.

Others we polygraph.

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3rd December 2015

3rd December 2015.

A cold and windy day at the lake but didn't deter the regular Thursday crowd!

Gone to the Pub??, don't think so, more like the Cafe for a hot drink and a Sausage buttie, is your boat here?.

Eric's Model Slipway 10 hatch coaster.

Nice mover as are all Model Slipways model's!.

A new bench put in the other day in front of the Yacht Clubs landing stage, think these are by private subscription as the Council don't seem to be putting much in the kitty these days though are quite happy to take our yearly fees aren't they!.

 

The recent bad weather has certainly raised the water level in the river and as you can see its quite rough down there.

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Next Events  

2000  9th December      Wednesday              AGM                              Clubhouse

12th and 13th December      Poynton Model Exhibition.

1100  27th December  Sunday       “Frostbite Sail”     Landing Stage and Clubhouse                                   Soup and Mince-pies after a frosty sail.

Steering Day at The lake, 18.10.2015.

Steering at Etherow, 18.10.2015

 Here is Geoff doing his usual good job of organising the steering competition every month, laying out the course and marking the contestants efforts.
Good job as always Geoff!.

After the steering there was free sailing and Adrian was there with his new trimaran, "Skate"

Here is his boat on the move!

Today at the lake 22.10.2015.

A few of the boats at the lake today

Garth's superb model, "Amenity"

 Plenty of detail there!

Eric's "Retriever"

Chris's "Englishman"

And last but not least Dave's Tug

Next Event's

1500    25^th October      Sunday                        Club 500 Racing          Landing Stage

2000   28^th October    Wednesday                 Club night                    Clubhouse   

                                                 Quiz and Hot Pot                                        

1st November          Sunday       1100hrs   Judging of Boats       Landing Stage   2nd Judging of boats to take place on Wednesday 11th November at Club night.  Need show only once

That's all for now folks.

New builds at the lake.

Over the past week or so there have been quite a few new builds on the lake, so I thought i would give you a run down of them.

First of all there was Mark Jarvis with his tug.

Mark

Mark's Tug

Tranny Bag

But of more interest to me personally was the tranny Bag that Mark had, I'd ask one of the other members about one of these the back end of last year and he had said they were about £30+ (I think), but Marks bag from Hobby King was only £7+ and the postage which makes it very interesting.

Mark advised to make sure you order from their UK warehouse and not the International warehouse as the postage would cost more than the Bag.

I've ordered one myself and will publish my findings and bring it to the next meeting, when I get it of course.

Next new boat on the lake was Eric Presleys 10 hatch coaster, very nice build as usual by Eric, and I know about this Model Slipway kit as I've had one for a few years!.

Sits nice on the water, this was the first time out so Eric was still working on the weight to get it onto the waterline and stop the cavitation at the stern, hence the roll of lead on the deck just at the back of the hatches.

Next on the table was Rob's Tornado 80, he had had this one at the lake a few days previously to test it for water tightness and brought it back with a refit of a brushless motor, receiver and better batteries, which balanced the boat better and brought the bow up more!.

 As you can see its a bit nose heavy on this picture.

Name's Bond, James Bond!.

As the following video shows, its alright now and going like a bomb, not too much speed at the moment as Rob's getting used to the speed of this craft.

                            

Last but not least another flyer, This is another new member with a boat that he's taken the i/c engine out and installed a big water jet propulsion unit run by a big brushless motor.

 And here it is, too fast to get a video of it with my small camera, perhaps next time!.

I thought you couldn't had a reverse on a water jet boat, but this is how you do it with this servo controlled scoop!, still what I know about these high tech things I could get on the back of a stamp, there again they are too dear to be writing of them these days.

The last club meeting if you didn't manage to get there was a talk by Michael Street on the trials and tribulations of getting his Submarine to float right and rise and submerge properly, will try to get a picture on the water for you next time he's out.

Good talk and plenty of chances to ask questions on this subject and the In's and Out's of  Ni Cad batteries!.

There again catch Michael at the lake if you want to know anything else about this subject as it's not my thing.

The small boat and transmitter on the kitchen shelf there is the boat to be used by all entrants in the Commodores challenge this year, see the tab at the top above the Red Boat to see the details of this event.

Well that's it for another day, off for a wash and brush up and down to the lake with the faithful hound for a bit of lunch and check out the scene on the water today!.

Next Event

1000hrs 14th September,  Sunday,    Commodore’s Challenge   Landing Stage

 See Tab at top of Blog for details of this years challenge!.

Colwyn Bay regatta, News at Ten, Duckie!.

What a wonderful day it turned out to be for the Colwyn Bay Mayors regatta!.

After setting off from home early in cloudy weather, it soon brightened up as we got into Cheshire and beyond. 

On arrival (after stopping at McDonalds on the way) we were met by old friend of our's and our club, Ray Benson who guided us to a nice parking spot, there was a Pop festival on at the park and they were trying to get £5 out of people to park!.

I'm glad to report that there were quite a few of our club members there with their wives as well enjoying the weather and the good company, Alan, Colin and Pam, Bob and Joyce, Charlie, Kean to mention a few as well as some of our newer members!.

Our Vice.

Ray did introduce me to a chap who had visited our Etherow venue that had had a non too nice experience whilst visiting, he said no one out of (four sailors)  was interested in speaking to him when he wanted to know about starting up in the hobby and perhaps joining the club, that was soon rectified as I made sure everyone of our members there introduced themselves to him and his family, bet he wished he'd never mentioned it, still can't let that kind of thing be passed round, gives the club a bad name doesn't it.

 I think every club has a few grumpy's don't they, and unfortunately this chap met all ours on the same day!.

On to the boats.

Still setting up

Colwyn Bay stand

Someone with my own taste in boats Narra Boat and Coaster 

Some new types of signage coming onto the scene, showing boats of their club members.

Can be used like this or indoors at shows.

Hoylake For sale section

The unusual.

Thai boat and Mine layer

Rigor Mortis

elegant.

The highlight of the day for me was this sinking ship 

Finished up just the bows sticking up out of the water!, then popped up again, no doubt some type of submarine mechanism inside!.

But there again, I tell a lie that was the second highlight of the day, the main highlight was dinner at

"Le Campa Restaurant"

where Bob, Joyce, Charlie, Pepe and myself had a nice cooked meal and at a very reasonabell price, having to listen to each other nattering on and putting the world to rights!.

Nice one Joyce!.

Well thats all for now, hope you enjoyed yourself as much as we did if you went and if you didn't manage to get there this might give you an idea of what you missed.

Can't wait for next year.

Nearly forgot here is another DO you might like to attend and take your good ladies to, its by the seaside again!.

Could be a another good DO!.

That's all folks.