Alford Show 2007
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Hello Martin,

Just a short note on the Alford show. What great weather, absolutely perfect. As usual a great turn out. I nearly landed up buying a boat from the bring and buy stall, which was crammed with boats and other ‘bits’ for sale. I changed my mind and decided to finish one of my boats and used the opportunity to go around the traders stalls, which there was a great turn out. By having the traders there makes it so much easy to look for parts quickly and also to notice those bits you always forget to put in your mail/internet order. There was a great tools trader there, who I brought the best set of side cutters I have in years, really good quality and well priced. As usual the boat owners were very friendly and helpful, especially the Life Boat Modellers, who went to the effort of bringing their boats out from behind the stand so I could get some better pictures. The standard of all the models was magnificent. For the first time I saw the multi oared ‘galleon’ on the water, what a graceful model. It seems the oars are driven from a car wiper motor! One of the obvious perceptions of the day was the lack of the younger modeller, when I mean this, I mean under their late thirties! I spoke to a number of people on the said subject and it seems we come to the same conclusion, games consoles = the death of constructive life. But I also seems that the likes of ‘Hunter Systems’ are doing their part to address this buy producing a very cheap small easy to build kit (peanut), which I believe will also be involved in a Schools competition, to build and use etc…. hope I understood that right. I might even try one of these kits myself, but first I must get one of the myriads of boats I have finished!

 Other highlights for we was the Lego boat and submarines, which the owners even had the bravery to submerge, with not only the issue of the weed, but other surface models going around, hats of to them…. At times there was quite a few boats on the pond, however, wait until the 2.4GHz systems are prolific, then the completion of trying to cover the pond with boats so you can’t see the water must be possible, could be interesting!!!

 A great show, thanks to all the efforts of Southwater Dabblers, especially Alan Colson.

 John

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