Fiesta report 3/8/2014

Hi to all

Fiesta report for 3/8/2014. We had a good day, with wind for a change. Weather was OK. Eight turned up too sail. Had ten races, with the wind being good if not a little heavy at times.

Just one sailor dropping Charles, he helped out doing OOD, thanks.

The results are :-

Trevor Radford 1^ST, Terry Miles 2^nd, Tom 3^rd, David Lee 4^th, Andy Glen 5^th, Harry 6^th, Andy Spencer 7^th, Charles 8^th.

Thanks to all of you for coming to sail, it was a very good turn out keep Um coming.

See you all next month David Lee.

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After the fiesta racing and it was free sailing, here is Rob with his Tug, and David in the background finalising the Fiesta results.

The last club meeting was a talk on Servo's given by Geoff Garside, whose expertise with electronics was an eyeopener for most members, certainly for me!

Geoff explained how you can do all sorts of things with a servo and had numerous boards rigged up to explain his talk.

Geoff even stated than if you see him and tell him what you want to do with any item on your model him will customise a box of tricks for you, you can't get better than that can you!

Sold this boat on the day the previous week before it even got on the "For Sale" section, and after the fiesta racing on Sunday, Eric the buyer bought the hull to the table and as he predicted took it home in bits!,

but it was a very constructive session with one of our clubs best modellers delving into the boats innards

Here is Eric, "Can't look"

But Alan working his magic and straightening the line of the motors and propshafts, moving the rudder servo and giving Eric a good idea what to do when he got home, as usual Pepe sticking his beak in as well

Donald here with Secretary Andy, even brought Eric the plans for this model which he had at home!, that's what being in a club is all about isn't it, helping each other out and picking each others brains.

Alan, Eric and Charlie

So Eric went home a happier and wiser modeller,

During the previous week I had also taken a drop of fairy liquid and a foam pan scrub to the lake and given the signs a bit of a touch up, I am a great believer that a past Mayor of New York once said, that if a place looks derelict it will be treated as such, so for a touch of Fairy Liquid and a bit of elbow grease made a bit of difference perhaps.