A day at the lake.

A day at the lake.

While at the lake the other day had a chat with Charlie, just a distraction as he is getting too good these days at sailing his Fiesta.

Glyn was also there with one of his cruisers.

Eric said he had bought this aerial top as it reminded him of someone in the club who wasn't sat a million miles away from him. Having said that Al the Comm was there too with his Atlantis WW2 freighter.

  

Alan had sent me an earlier email with his latest project and here it is.

What a whopper!.

Here is Abdul, with his wallet, just had his lunch in the Cafe.

While at the cafe I'd noticed something shining on the landing stage, so with the zoom on my camera saw that it was a steel ramp down into the water 

 On closer inspection and information found out that Mike (the fixer) had been out again with his tools and fitted the ramp to help getting the rescue boat in and out, it's been getting a bit knocked about lately and this will help to preserve it a bit longer, the price of a new one is quite a lot as you can imagine. 

Another nice job Mike!

  That's it for now Folks, off to the lake again to see if there's anyone there!.

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 Anyone into bird watching here are some of the baby Coots, away from the activity of the landing stage.

Cute hey!.

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Frozen.

Frozen 2.2 2015

Today at the lake it was frozen, luckily there were no sailors to disappoint!.

So it was a walk round the lakes with the dog!.

Deserted

View across the lake

Skaters

Cormorants in the trees on the big island on the big lake.

No boats, but thought you would like the pictures by the fire, without the coldness. 

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If you want a good read on model boat projects read here.

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Bob the Abell's present build, full illustrated in the Model Boats magazine forum, that should fill a few hours and give you some good tips on building plank on frame!.

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Cold Cold Saturday!.

Cold Cold Saturday 

Went to the lake this morning and I wasn't disappointed to see no one there, it was quite cool and come to that there wasn't many in the park!, I had the Cafe to myself and my solitude was only broken by Abdul (The Wallet man) and his Carer and even they didn't have their boat with them.

Not that it mattered as most of the lake was frozen over, and from the headlines in the paper this morning we are going to have a white christmas, so don't forget the hammers for frostbite sail on the 27th Dec, always the day after Boxing day!.

No doubt most of the members were at the Poynton Show Today and Tomorrow!, much warmer in there!

Still a few places for the birds to swim in.

As there was no boats to photograph, how about this little fellow searching round the benches for any food scraps that Trevor might have dropped from his sandwiches, I suppose it doesn't matter if its got garlic on this weather, anything to keep the energy up!  

Also there was King Tut, Tut, Tut, looking out for his swans

And there's a message for you all on the notice board 

To put you in the mood for Christmas!, use your imagination and hear "White Christmas playing in the background. 

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Next Events

 2000hrs  10^th December    Wednesday  Club night           Clubhouse  AGM

Saturday,   1100hrs     27th December, Frostbite Day Sail.

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A Tuesday in the park Plus Haydock park details.

Whilst in the park on Tuesday, found these boats being sailed by members in the nice hot sunshine. Though there wasn't much wind for the yachts everyone was in high spirits with the weather, with comments like "I can decorate when it's raining" and "the grass will still be there when I get home" my sentiments entirely!.

 Alan's fishing boat

David S's coast guard cutter, good turn of speed though only on 6Volts

Dave Lees warship USS Iowa

A nice Fiesta sailed by Andrew Spencer.

 Eric's dragon force.

  Last but not least a small flotilla of late arrival babies a bit further down the lake away from the hussle and bussle of the crowds.

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Next big event

Details 

Haydock Park Racecourse - 23/24^th Aug. 2014

Theme of this year is Naval Vessels and Submarines

     Exhibitions and shows are coming thick and fast at this time of year, the next big one is the above show. They are a little stricter than most so everyone needs to be aware of the procedure if they intend to go and/or exhibit.

Exhibiting

     If you are exhibiting on our club stand you will need separate passes for Saturday and Sunday, please see me. Boats should be delivered to the stand on Friday between 3.p.m, and 7.p.m., or on Saturday morning between 9 and 9.30.a.m. and should not depart until after the closing ceremony on Sunday.

Disabled parking will need to be applied for beforehand, again see me. Your disabled badge will also need to be displayed.

     There are a number of competitions at the convention, all boats must have been made by the entrant. Anyone wanting to enter the various classes, please see me for details or maps to get there etc. as details must be submitted in advance of the show by 9^th Aug.

Also I need to have all details of boats that you intend to exhibit, I will try and get as much as possible on club night but please contact me if necessary. Do remember that you just can’t turn up on the day if you are exhibiting, I need to know in advance so that I can send in their forms.

I have been asked by the organisers to remind all members that only a pass will provide free entrance to the show, and that only exhibitors will be provided with a pass. Being a member is not an automatic qualification for a pass.

The show itself is open between 10.a.m. and 5.pm. both days. Refreshments and snacks are available on site, as are disabled facilities. Admission is £6 for adults (without a pass), £2 for children 5-16 and free for under 5’s.

Please see me if you need any more information or want to give me details of your exhibits – remember naval boats or subs’ only.

Gordon Longworth – Exhibition Sec.

I know it is not for a few weeks yet, but I have to have all the paperwork to them by 9th Aug.

 

Gordon

Details will be in Tabs under the header until after the event!.

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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

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Fiesta Report, July 2014.

Fiesta report 6/7/2014

Hi to all

Fiesta report for 6/7/2014. We had good day, with not much wind for a change?! Weather was OK. Nine  turned up too sail. Only had eight races, with the wind being so light, but got windier, later on and much windier when we finished!!

The results are :-

Trevor Radford 1^ST,  Terry Miles 2^nd,  Andy Glen 3^rd, David Lee 4^th, Bob 5^th,  Tom 6^th,  Andy Spencer 7^th,  Alan  8^th. Harry 9th.

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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Sorry wasn't able to get to the lake for the Warship Do, hopefully someone will send in a few pictures of the event and how we did on the Help 4 Heroes, side of the day. 

On the continuation of the duck saga as reported in the last couple of posts, the landing stage has been completely free of duck poo since the new edging and string duck deterrent system was put in place, though on Saturday when I went to the lake I met Eric Smith and we saw that there were a few ducks sat sunning themselves and Eric pointed out to me that they were Limbo dancing under the entrance gate and also under the string near to the boat box where it is a bit shallower  !.

Still clean though

Limboing under the string.

So the system is working for keeping the geese out, but needs a bit more tweaking for the ducks, possibly a bit of an extension on the gates and a few more strings (Net) on the rescue boat end hey.

Well its nice to go on the landing stage and not have to get out the ladle and brushes every time, 

Here is a picture of that Bloke who keeps coming to the landing stage with a camera and a small yapping dog, sailed today on the nice clean landing and after the clouds cleared away had a nice quiet lonely sail!.

So you see, I do have boats and have to add my own here when there's no one else there!.

That's it of now, see you at the lake!.

Peter

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Next event on diary,

Colwyn Bay Model Boat Club – Mayor’s Cup Regatta

Sunday 13^th July 2014

Colwyn Bay MBC are again holding their regatta this year and we have been invited over for the day to sail on their lake behind the Colwyn bay Civic Offices.

There is plenty of free parking within yards of the lake and there is no admission charge.

The ‘Commodore’s Regatta Trophy’ is open to any visitor who displays a boat and fills in an application form. There are two classes, 1 – actually sailing on the lake, 2 – static display.

Arrivals from 08.00am, most people depart around 4.00/5.00pm.

For those who have not been before, go down A55 and turn off at junction 22, left on to ‘The Promenade’, to island. 4^th exit ‘Abergele Road’, turn right at Civic Offices to end of road. Alternatively plug LL29 8AR in to your ‘Sat Nav’.

You will notice that this event is in the tabs a the top of the page so you don't keep having to scroll back here 

Danger men at work!.

Went to the lake yesterday (Wednesday 2nd July 2014) as I had heard the work was going to be started on the landing stage edging, purely in my role as, Duckie Teal, News at Ten (am).

 With Le Commodore watching over proceedings 

Sections being made up ready for drilling and tapping to waters edge, Mike and Geoff seemed to be in charge, though most of the committee were there.

They didn't want to announce the occasion as there wouldn't have been room to move, thats why Wednesday was decided on I reckon!, its usually a quiet day.

Patent maker Geoff 

How many more Mike?.

 Tricky bit here.

Nice of the Commodore to tip Mike wasn't it.

Hold it for me lads!.

Right to the end 

Alan weiding his big stick, oh no its a brush isn't it, doing his pointing of the flag stones 

Nice job Alan, Gardeners World next hey!.

 Any sausage Geoff.

What was that!.

I'll never get home at this rate

Finishing touches and Andy winding down

Gate end, the uprights and string are hopefully going to keep the wildlife off the stage, if it doesn't work Mike says he will take them off again.

Rescue boat end.

Finished job and all cleared up!.
A big thank you to the workers and a superb job!.

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Your next events,

1000hrs 6th July          Sunday         Fiesta Racing          Landing stage 

After the fiesta racing!

Warship event in aid of the Help 4 Hero's fund

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Colwyn Bay Model Boat Club – Mayor’s Cup Regatta

Sunday 13^th July 2014

Colwyn Bay MBC are again holding their regatta this year and we have been invited over for the day to sail on their lake behind the Colwyn bay Civic Offices.

There is plenty of free parking within yards of the lake and there is no admission charge.

The ‘Commodore’s Regatta Trophy’ is open to any visitor who displays a boat and fills in an application form. There are two classes, 1 – actually sailing on the lake, 2 – static display.

Arrivals from 08.00am, most people depart around 4.00/5.00pm.

For those who have not been before, go down A55 and turn off at junction 22, left on to ‘The Promenade’, to island. 4^th exit ‘Abergele Road’, turn right at Civic Offices to end of road. Alternatively plug LL29 8AR in to your ‘Sat Nav’.

You will notice that this event is in the tabs a the top of the page so you don't keep having to scroll back here