2nd -3th March, Busy club weekend, Ellesmere

This past weekend some of us went to Ellesmere Model boat show and others to the show at Event City in Manchester, what a dull world it would be if we all thought the same hey.

Bob Abell and I travelled to Ellesmere in my car, and had a nice breakfast on the way!.

Whilst there we met other members and though we didn't have a stand there this year, we were surprised how many people remembered us from last year with the Great Eastern.

People of note we met were Laurie and Jackie White of Model Slipway, Jackie remarked on the number of views on John Teal's views of his "Maggie M" on Model Boat mayhem site 5000+.

Laurie and Jackie now semi-retired don't do the shows any more but it was nice to see them still in circulation at Ellesmere.

Another person we chatted to was this chap!

That's Neil Howard Pritchard on the left, retired kit designer and modeller, with Charlie Smith clutching his purchases and yours truly in the Tilly hat, yes Tilly hat not silly hat Bob

I was surprised to hear that Neil has our Website on his PC favourites and my own blog "One man and his dog" as well, we must be doing something right!.

An ex member of our club Ray Benson and his better half was there with their club in full swing as usual 

"The Colwyn Bay Model Boat Club".

Although Ray has now moved to Wales he has always kept an interest in our club and always made us very welcome and looked after us at their yearly "Mayors regatta" (as I try to do at our Do's he attends,) I hope a few more of our members make the effort to go to Colwyn Bay this year as it's a great show!.

I took lot's of pictures there, too many to put here, but if you look at the tab's at the top you will see Ellesmere 2013 click on tab or

Click here for Ellesmere pictures

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For another report off Bob check out his thread here

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I am waiting for someone to send me a report of Event City but from what I heard at the lake yesterday it was another success, with plenty of people there but not many traders!.

Let's face it with Mountfleet burning down and Graupner in financial trouble, it could be the scratch-builders who are the only modellers left, still the Chinese might buy Graupner hey, them seem to be buying everything else.
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Back to the lake, yesterday saw the start of the 2013 Fiesta racing and as usual Dave was on the ball and sent me the results of the first race day as follows.

Fiesta Report 3/3/13

Hi to all

We had ten races in all, weather Ok, but not much wind as per.

Six turned up to race.

The first races were only round Bouys 5, 3and 1 then finish, for the last five

Races we did the full course as the wind got better.

Trevor came  1^st, Bob and Terry joint 2^nd, David 4^th, George 5^th, Harry 6^th.

See you all next month.

David Lee. 

Hope you all had a good weekend and I think the club has been well represented all round.

Bye for now folk's

Maggie M maiden voyage

Yesterday at the lake my son and I had the maiden voyage of his nearly finished project the fishing trawler "Maggie M"

If you would like to see his project from box to on the water you can follow it on 

http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=38892.0

He had a successful launch and had a bottle of champers to celebrate the occasion, 

There was only a slight snag when the boat seemed to loose power and after it was brought in by the rescue boat it was found to have a plastic bag wrapped round the kort nozzle and prop, once that was removed it was off on the water again, had a good turn of speed and the turning circle was superb has its got a Becker Rudder as standard, not quite finished yet as John has a bit more detailing to put on so watch the link at Model Boat Mayhem.

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Terry was at the lake to-day (Sunday) with the "Beady Eye" mentioned in the last post, and what a little mover that is, could only open it up so far as the lake isn't big enough to open her up all the way, but a beautiful modelled boat and a credit to Terry's workmanship.

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Other points are that its nearly time for the coach trip to Warwick and there are still places on the coach so if you are going and haven't booked yet phone Mike Now on 0161 336 0306, you can see him at the next club meeting, if you can't make that, ( don't forget its Auction night) then you can pay on the coach, but book now!! £18!! you can't buy the petrol for that!!.

Chris has had his Knee operation and I'm sure you will join me in wishing him a speedy recovery.