First Week in June 2013, 2

This first week in June, I went to the lake on Saturday has posted earlier, Sunday was my trip to Buxton with Bob the Abell and then down to our lake again on Tuesday and was pleasantly surprised to see George Barrett sailing there amongst the regular yacht sailors. 

George as had a lot of trouble since he was knocked off his motor bike and broke his ankle a good while ago so it's stopped him sailing.

He had brought his freighter "Cuddington" to the lake and what a beautiful example of modelling it is, as you can see here

   And the video.

                               

This is completely scratch-built even the winches are working model's, the hull is made of that thin metal once used by the printing trade to set their type up on, its called Lithoplate and moulds like thin lead, as you can see on the video a superb model and a credit to him!.

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It was reported to me that there was a good turnout of sailors at the lake last night, the weather certainly brings people out or did some think it was club night?.

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For the Twitcher's amongst you , the only surviving Greylag goose chick from an earlier post is still around and doing well, that white minder certainly does his job, nearly had Pepe by the scruff of his neck whilst I was taking these pix's.

Gerrr off.

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Well that's all for now folk's

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First weekend in June 2013

At the lake on Saturday there were a few sailors in attendance and I took a couple of video's, the first one is of 

John Glynn's MTB.

                       

The second was of James Stead's fishing boat "Lochinver"

                       

Another boat on the bench on the day was this other fishing boat,

Popular boat this, there are a few of them in the club.

Panoramic view of the lake.

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On Sunday there was the Fiesta racing and here is the report for that.

Fiesta Report 2/6/13

Hi to all

Weather much better this month, even had wind.

We had ten  races in all, weather OK.

Six turned up to race. I only had six races, trouble with my Fiesta, the winch servo packed up, but we had good day.

Trevor Redford came  1^st, Terry Miles 2^nd, Bob Dunkey 3^rd, Andy Glen 4^th, David Lee 5^th, Charlie Smith 6^th.

See you all next month.

David Lee.

Thanks for that Dave

Peter.

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Bob the Abell and I went to Buxton Toy Fair and then down to the lake to see about having a sail sometime in the week with Bob's Great Eastern but there was no one there, must say it was dinner time and perhaps  they had all been and gone!.

For our trip to Buxton, see the link below

                               Click here for our Buxton trip.

For to-day's visit (Monday) there was a couple of sailors at the lake, including the Treasurer Geoff with his Rescue boat which was one of the entries for a previous Commodores challenge.

Self explanatory really and was involved  with a rescue whilst I was there!.

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Well that's it for another day folks, enjoy the weather 

Bank Holiday Monday, May 2013

Was at the lake again to-day to see what was going on there. 

Met Donald and Charlie there and Steve Bradbury was sailing his paddler Jeanie Dean's.

Though not many at the lake or the park for that matter it was a pleasant experience only slightly put off by the dull weather and threat of rain.

I did manage to get this video of Steve's paddler, it wasn't until I got home I realised I've got one alreally on YouTube, still as they say you can't have too much of a good thing!.

So that was the end of the Bank Holiday, I think the car parking would have put off a lot of the members who have had bad experiences in the past, still I enjoyed myself and those who went on holiday I hope did too!.

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Fred got a letter from his wife.

 "I missed you last night, come home and let me have another shot"!.

Life begins at 40 they say, but you could miss a lot if you wait until then.

A senior couple were relaxing on the beach on their holiday when the wife jumped up and yelled "Oh my god I've just remembered I left the oven on at home !"

"Don't worry" replied the husband "The house won't burn down I've just remembered I left the bath running".

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Bank Holiday Sunday 2013

Well in the previous post I did say that Pepe and I would be going to the Dog show but in the end decided that he isn't too happy with a load of other dogs round him!.

So it was off early to the lake to see the Raft Racing and just managed to get a place near the Cafe as everyone else was after a place near the main event on the big lake.

But there was no places up there, as you can see the spaces near the landing stage were all taken over by stalls of every description, the weather was great for a change as you can see in this shot. 

Whilst having the usual bacon buttie and coffee, noticed that some of our guys had got there earlier than me (I) and were already sailing on a beautifully sunlit lake.

One of the models on the day

And a guard dog was required with all the strangers around!.

On to the Raft Race.

Quite a lot of ladies in this event 

Look at the crowds here

"The George" pub has some nice advertising on this one

The BBQ going well in the back ground, if its not the Yacht club is in trouble

Didn't fight my way though these crowds so all my pix's taken with the zoom from our landing stage

Might as well get in on the advertising as well!.

And I always thought the Fire Brigade was into Heath and Safety!, not so for this vehicle parked across the path.

Hope this gives you a flavour of the event on the day, another nice day at the lake for those who braved the crowds, hopefully they had Long arms and Short pockets, for these two great charities,

The Christie Charity and the Fire Fighters Charity.

 The bar and BBQ where certainly doing a roaring trade when I left at 1-00Pm to go for my Sunday dinner to John's.

That's all for to-day folks, perhaps more to-morrow after my trip there again if its a nice day again, you can always do the housework when it's raining can't you!.

Bank Holiday Saturday, 25th May 2013

After a terrible Friday start to the Bank Holiday, the change in the weather to-day was amazing and everyone was out in their summer best.

                       At the landing stage to-day there was Henry Hollis and his friend Andy Wagstaff.

Henry had his Monsoon yacht out and Andy had this nice Tug out that I've posted still pictures of in the past, but it had to be a video to see it at it's best and I had the chance to do that to-day.

Henry's son and daughter-in-law paid Henry a surprise visit to-day and brought his grandson, I think he was more interested in Pepe than the boats though.

Start em young hey!!.

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And I thought the Heron never moved all day, but there he goes not very far but at least he moved!.

Well it's the Raft race run by the yacht club to-morrow, but Pepe and I will be going to the Manchester  Dog's Home Show at Debdale Park before going to Son John's for Sunday Dinner.

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When the guy's wife said she was going to change the baby, he said "Well get a quieter one"!!.

That's all folk's

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The new Titanic

There is a chap in Australia who is having the new Titanic 11 built by a Chinese boat builders!.

these are the pictures and information on the new version.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287163/Titanic-II-We-knew-rebuilt-amazing-new-designs-really-WILL-1912-again.html

Well I hope it fairs better than the last one did!.

Back on the home front there is another nice model yacht for sale, Eddie Higham the present owner tells me that it's fully operational and just needs a charge in the batteries and its on to the water for a sail.

 I have one of these and it was my first build and introduction into the club with a lot of encouragement and help from the late Charlie Ricardo who I'd met on the landing stage one afternoon and stopped for a chat, I was hooked!!, he was there to help with the terminology and part's I wasn't sure of though I'd done a bit of railway modelling

As I've always said to people thinking of starting out in the model boat hobby , you can't beat joining your local club. This was highlighted a couple of weeks ago when I visited a members house to photograph an item he had for sale and mentioned that he and his friend were having trouble with their build's, I gave him my opinion for what it was worth and said next club meeting bring it in, there will be more experienced builders than me that will sort you out. Last night I went to the club meeting and I'm happy to say that this chap's problems have all been sorted, thank's to the members who helped out and it just goes to show the system works!.

It was mentioned last night that the Marple Lock's Festival is this year on the 30th June 2013. and was we going to have a stand again as this event is very good. 

One of the committee members are going to try and contact someone as the website doesn't mention the organiser

click here to see event venue

More to follow.

Update

Just been informed that we have definitely got a stand at the festival!.

There will be setting up from 08-00am, and the show will open at 10-00am until 5-00m.

The set-up will be the same as the last show as seen below.

There will be more spoken about this at the next club meeting, until then get your thinking caps on to decide which boats you will be taking to this great one day show.

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Pictures of our previous involvement, can you see your boat there, I can see my "Aziz" in the back on the right.

This was just at the setting up stage but a lot of interest when the show opened!.

Well  that's all for now folk's, check out the "For sale" section at the top.

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A Thursday meeting.

I wasn't at the Club 500 meeting on Wednesday Evening, but my roving reporter Bob the Abell was there and sent me these pictures for you.

The pits

They're off!.

As you can see the weather was the usual cold but sunny intervals.

I was there at the lake to-day and video'd this selection of boats.

We also had a visitor from the Buxton Model Boat Club with his boat 

This nice Fairey Huntsman.

He was also the Web-master of his club and had seen our Web blog many times he said.

Nice to meet someone else with the same job.

Click here to see Buxton club Web

As you will see there is a welcome to all visitors!.

Garth was there and asked me to advertise a boat for sale in the "For Sale section" 

Check it out at the top !.

That's all for now folk's