Tug boat Cruiser

Tuesday I was at the lake with the Fur ball Pepe and I was surprised to see only two yachtsmen there Andy and Colin, though a couple of others came a short while later, George and Alan!

 Alan got his Minesweeper on the water and had a good sweep round in case of any mines (shopping trollies) 

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Rear view with sweeping tackle, plenty of detail there, but that's always the case with Alan's boats.

Then after rigging up it was the turn of the "J" class yachts which are beautiful and graceful to watch, they are on the following video!

Alan's second boat on the water was his tug "Cruiser" and its barge, as you can see Alan runs a Spektrum Tranny, 10 models in it's memory, no need for any others.

Hooked up

Full steam ahead

Fair bow wave there.

And here are all the boats and sailors on the day!

To-night at the club meeting (13th June) it's, Mr Bob (BBC TV)  Abell himself, giving a talk on his Great Eastern Paddler which some of you will have seen on the "Coast" program on BBC 2 which was screened on the 20th May at 2100hrs, so you can still catch it on BBC Iplayer if you want!. Or you may have been at the Jubilee Event at the lake, if you missed both of these events, now's the time to catch up with the trials and tribulations of the Trans-Atlantic laying of the first telegraph cable, and the start of the communications industry between GB and the USA.

Well that's it for now perhaps see you to-night!
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