Tuesday,25th.4.2017.

Nice and sunny there on the day, but don't be fooled it was very cold and after taking these pictures was walking round the lake with Pepe and it started to SNOW!.

So the sailors on the day spent more time in the Cafe and Clubhouse, and who could blame them, its quite a cold corner on the landing stage, with the wind blowing down the big lake!.

"J" Classes  seems to have given way to One metres!.

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Can a half-wit work park time for NASA?.

Do illiterates get the full effect of Alphabet soup?.

Al has invented a new gadget for speeding up work on production lines,

Its called a Whip!.

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Bournville MBC.

Went to the Bournville MBC sub dive in,

good weather, lots of subs, put the club name on the map.

Lots of chat about subs and lots of sailing,

Mrs B is suffering from withdrawal symptoms after being so close to Cadburys.

Al the Comm.

Looks like it was a nice sunny day!.

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Have you checked out the "For sale" section lately?.

Tidied it up and dropped out the items that were obviously not going to sell, either not wanted, or too dear and the already sold items, in case you couldn't see the wood for the trees!.  

Duckie Teal.

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Next events

2000    28th September  Wednesday        Club night      Clubhouse

October at Bugsworth Basin                  Watch this space for Dates and Details of the event. ..........................................................................................      1500    1st October      Saturday           Club 500 Racing          Landing stage 1000    2nd October            Sunday            Fiesta Racing              Landing stage 2000       12th October      Wednesday    HOT POT AND QUIZ       Clubhouse

Sunny October, 2015.

Sunny October, 2015.

1st October turned out to be better than most days this summer. 

Here is a video of some of the boats on the day.

Small river cruiser

Al the Com's Submarine

The close up

This beautiful Schooner was a museum exhibit, now motorised by one of our members 

Some boats from a previous sail.

Sausage buttie break.

That's all for now 

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Next Events

Sunday 4th October at Bugsworth Basin

1000     4^th   October            Sunday                       Fiesta Racing              Landing stage 

2000     14^th October       Wednesday                  Club night                   Clubhouse

                                  Auction Night      MEMBERSHIP BADGES MUST BE WORN

1500    11^th October           Sunday                        Club 500 Racing          Landing stage

1100    18^th  October          Sunday                        Steering Comp             Landing stage

1500    25^th October           Sunday                        Club 500 Racing          Landing Stage

2000   28^th October        Wednesday                 Club night                    Cluhouse  

                                                 Quiz and Hot Pot   

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7th November 2015.

Telford Model Show.

The details for the Telford trip are now finalised and are as follows:

Coach is £8 per person and Entry tickets have to be purchased at the Door on arrival as they do not do block bookings or purchases of tickets.   Prices for tickets are

£10   for normal Entry

£7  for Concession

Under 16 are Free

Coach pick-up times are 8 AM  at Morrisons Denton.

                                        8:15 AM at Wicks in Stockport

 Members who are interested Coach Money to Mike Hodgson.

Regards

Andy Glen, Secretary 

Coach trip.

Coach £8.00.

Entry fee, £7.00

See Mike Hodgson for further details.

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This week at the lake, 16.9 2015.

This week at the lake, 16.9 2015.

Wednesday, saw Bob Abell and myself at the lake with his "Brutus" boat, a refit with two brush-less motors, I sailed it whilst Bob took the nice stills with his camera and then Bob sailed it whilst I took the video. 

Nice mover isn't it!.

Pepe was in Bob's camper with Lady Joyce whilst we were enjoying ourselves, then we all retired to the Andrew Arms round the corner for dinner.

Thursday at the lake saw a full TT team plus a few others ie

A nice little refurbished tug boat that had been bought on EBay!.

Chris's navy model, you can get an idea of the scale by the duck in the background

Trident Question!, the submarine pen at Etherow is alive and well!.

Al the Comm's, Sub's

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Check out the "For Sale" section for some nice boats and equipment!

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Next Events.

1100     20th September      Sunday                      Steering Comp            Landing stage

2000     23rd September    Wednesday                Club night                   Clubhouse

1900     30^th September      Wednesday                Club 500 Racing         Landing Stage

Sunday 4th October at Bugsworth Basin.

A Summer Thursday August 2014.

This Thursday (21st August), saw a good selection of Motorised and Sailboats at the lake.

A bit cool for August but at least the rain stayed off and the food at the cafe was nice and hot!.

  

                                  

The duck and goose deterrent is still working well on the landing stage and the floor is looking all the better for it and no brushing and sweeping off before starting to sail, boat on the water straight away and off we go!.

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Next events.

23^th-24^th August, Model Boat Convention 
          Haydock Park. Club Stand 

 Model Boat Convention

           Haydock Park. 

Club Stand.

Model Boat Convention 

Haydock Park Racecourse

Newton-le-Willows

WA12 0HQ

Contact: Jean Barlow

Tel: 01492 583433

Mob: 07789 348817

Website: www.modelboatconvention.co.uk

2000hrs 27^th  August  Wednesday  Club night               Clubhouse
                                                         Venetian Sail/BBQ     

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Poynton TMS show 7th/8th December.2013

The club was out in force again on the weekend of 7th & 8th of December 2013, I wasn't able to attend but got these nice pictures for you from Chris the Commodore. The club was certainly showing their expertise and modelling skills and with the club banners on show there was no doubt where we are from.

I attach 5 photos for the club website showing our two stands at the Poynton TMS show 7th/8th December.

 

Kind regards

Chris, Commodore.

Club well advertised, Roy and Andy.

 Plenty of boats on show.

The warship guys great models making a nice show.

And the Lifeboats too

Andy and George relaxing before the rush!.

Nice showing for the club and Andy tells me there was even a signing up over the weekend so welcome to you Paul Blyth and may you have many happy hours sailing on our beautiful waters.

Well done the guys who attended and made such a good showing for the club again!.

Thats all folks.

Message from Philp Laxton.

You may have had this in an email last week but just in case your details are not up to date here is the message again.

Hi all,

                On the 9th October,  we are having our yearly Auction at the sailing club hut.

We will be starting the auction at 8.00 pm.

If you have any models,  model boat parts or tools we will hopefully sell it for YOU.

Before the auction  register the item you have brought with us. If you want to put a reserve price on the item just let us know the reserve.

On the 23rd October, we are having our “ Hot pot supper and QUIZ.

Start time:- 8.00 pm

Teams of four.

Prizes for the winning team.

The Quiz,

First part questions are general knowledge and boat orientated, only 40 questions .

Second part of the quiz, Blockbuster questions from the t v program. 

Philip Laxton, club 500 secretary

Thanks for that Philip.

Here are a couple of pictures of Alan Breeze's Submarine at periscope depth, a bit rough if it was a real one!.

 Nice one Alan!.

Copy from the diary for October.

1000hrs  6^th October        Sunday       Fiesta Racing         Landing stage

2000hrs  9^th October      Wednesday  Auction Night       Clubhouse

(membership badges must be worn)

1500hrs  13^th October      Sunday          Club 500 Racing   Landing stage

1100hrs  20th October     Sunday          Steering Comp     Landing stage

2000hrs  23^rd October    Wednesday   (Quiz and Hot Pot)    Clubhouse

That's all for now folks!.

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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.