Fiesta Report1.3.2015

Fiesta report 1/03/2015

Hi to all

Fiesta report for 1/3/2015 We had good day, with wind for a change ? the weather was OK. Eight  turned up too sail. Bob did the score keeping for us, as he had a problem with his Fiesta, thank you Bob. Had eight races in all.

The results are :-

TREVOR REDFORD 1^ST, David Lee  2^nd, Terry Miles 3^rd,  Andy Spencer 4^th,  Harry Tootell 5^th, George 6^th, Charles 7^th.

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Thanks to all of you for coming to sail, it was a very good turnout for the New year, keep um coming.

See you all next month David Lee.

Thanks for the report David.

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All the boats mentioned in the last post were auctioned off and sold at the last meeting, waiting for mail from the Commodore with the results and figures.

Have you seen the Engineers tools and equipment in the "For Sale" section, plenty of good items there, all belonged to the late Graham Harling and you know he didn't deal or build any rubbish!.

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Australian Magpie playing with a dog.

Next Events.

7th and 8th March the Ellesmere Port Model Boat Show

2000     11^th March       Wednesday                     Club night                    Clubhouse

That's all for now folks.

Boats for sale

Boats for sale .

At the next club meeting 25.2.2015, there will be a number of boats for sale.

I will add them here and you will be able to view/buy them at the meeting. 

I don't know anything more about these boats other than it will be Alan the Commodore bringing them and selling them at the meeting so if you need anymore information about them before then please contact him, could be via auction or best offer on the night.

If you want to make an offer before the meeting I'm sure Alan will be open to reasonable offers.

 Next events.

2000     25^th February   Wednesday                  Club night                       Clubhouse                                                            

1000     1st March         Sunday                           Fiesta Racing               Landing stage

7th and 8th March the Ellesmere Port Model Boat Show

Sunday sailing, 8.2.2015

Sunday sailing, 8.2.2015

This Sunday it was cold, dull with fog! and most important NO wind.

So there was no one there when I arrived, perhaps sailors had been and gone disappointed with the conditions, after a bite of lunch in the Cafe,saw someone on the landing stage so wandered across and met Norman Gibson who had arrived to pay his subs!.

He showed me his two new RTR tugs in the back of his car and then put this one on the water, the Barge is scratchbuilt from the packaging from the tugs, the other tug is the Southhampton of the same scale.

A note from the Exhibition Sec

To all the Club ‘Exhibitionists’ 

 As it’s only a few weeks now to our first exhibition of 2015 I thought it might be a good idea to circulate all of those stalwarts who normally enjoy (if that’s the right word) putting a boat or two onto our club stand. I will be announcing the various events as usual at the club but it would be a great help if I know in advance who is likely to be able to commit to the various events for this year. Announcing the events on club nights only, as in the past, has proved to be a rather hit and miss affair when not everyone can always attend, so hopefully this will help. I appreciate that not everyone is on the internet so if you know of anyone who is interested but not contactable this way, or who has not exhibited before and would like to participate, please pass this on. I have a list of all the boats and people who have exhibited on our stand (to which this letter is circulated). If you are coming please fill in the information below and let me know as soon as you can. If you are exhibiting separately then it would still be helpful if I know. IMPORTANT – If you wish to enter a boat for judging at Ellesmere or Haydock, I have the application forms – I need to know now as the forms need to be send back ASAP. (Especially Ellesmere). 

Dates 7/8th March Ellesmere Port 

4/5th April Bugsworth Basin 

5 th July Marple Locks

19th July Colwyn Bay

29/30th August Haydock Park 

3/4th September Bugsworth Basin (provisional) 

  12/13th December Poynton 

1) Which shows will you be exhibiting at?

2) Name of boat/s

3) Value of boat/s

Gordon Longworth – Exhibition Secretary Tel: 01663 810288 e.mail: gordon.longworth@ntlworld.com

Thats all for now, please contact Gordon direct re; the above notice.

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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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Fast Boats.

Fast Boats at Etherow 

Sunday 25.1.2015. saw Alan & Eddie Higham at the lake, both with their fast boats.

Alan's had a very small brushless motor in his, no bigger than a 10p piece, marvelous the speed of these motors for such a small size.

The bigger of the two boats was Eddie's, not sure the type and size of the motor in his boats but still very fast 

                        

Hope you enjoy the video, didn't stay too long as I was off for my Sunday Dinner!.

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No rain, but also no wind!,22nd January 2015.

No rain, but also no wind!,22nd January 2015.

At the lake today there were the usual Thursday sailors, but they were not happy chappies as there wasn't a lot of wind about, plenty of hot air as you can hear on the video, but no wind!, still it meant a bit more trade for the Cafe and you know what they say "Use it or lose it", so no problem in that area today. 

Lovely sausage and bacon butties, can't be bad, not very good for the old arteries but it keeps out the cold hey, thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it!.

 You will see that the rescue boat had a mind of its own today and drifted off up the lake whilst everyone had stopped for their lunch, soon got it back and it gave the sailors a bit of a challenge on how to get it back!.

                             

Perhaps you will excuse the lack of posts the last few days but its always a bit slack at this time of the year isn't it!.

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Dumb 

She thought an Aperitif was a false set of dentures.

She thought a bigamist was a thick Italian fog.

He thought polyunsaturated was a parrot in a rain coat.

He thought a polygon was a dead parrot.

He thought a cross section of the public were taxpayers.

The small group in the first aid class was getting a lecture on how to stop bleeding.

"Off course you all know what a corpuscule is" said the instructor.

"Most of us do" said the Commodore "but you'd better explain for the sake of those who have never been in one".

Its the way I tell em.

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Thats all for now folks.

Scratchbuilt Narra Boat, 2015.

Scratchbuilt Narra Boat, 2015.

Been to the lake today, as well as the usual yachtsmen there was this nice scratchbuilt Narra Boat, designed and completely scratchbuilt by Andrew Heywood one of our newer members and though I'm a bit biased with Narra boats I think you will agree with me he's made a fine job of it, sit's well on the water and even the load of bags of stone look very authentic!.

This will be just the job for our event at Bugsworth this year won't it!.

Had lunch in the Cafe with Alan le Comm, Colin and George Taylor and the usual chat putting the world to rights.

Alan still not managed to get his mini "J" class working so it will be back to the drawing board for him when he get's home, think the trouble is the Crystals in the boat when he bought it, no doubt it will be alright next time he comes to the lake!.

Quite a bit warmer today but not a lot of wind, usually the way isn't it, can't seem to get them both at the same time!.

Have you checked out the "For sale" section lately?, there are some good bargains on there at the moment!.
And how about the "Wanted" Section!.

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