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[Martin (Admin)]

After a marathon round trip, ( due to me trust the stupid Crap Nav, 5 ¹/₂ hours to do a 4 hour journey  >:( )
I'm back in safe 'flat lands' of East Anglia ( these mountain things will never catch on! ), back home and back to work.......groan!

Just quickly while I'm on tea break:
 
Well done Stavros, worked like Trojan all weekend.
( Stavros' knee was playing up and had to go home at one stage in obvious agony but was back a little while later all Drugged up and dashing about keeping everyone happy.) 'Hats off' to you sir!   Stavros knows how to put on a show I can tell you. The 6 low level flypast's by the mountain rescue helicopter was most impressive!

Steamboat Phil supplied a loads of equipment, including Free tea, coffee and biscuits.... and good entertainment.

Well done to Margaret for making the tea.... what a fun lady!
 

Highlights of the weekend....
The venue - the most picturesque model boat venues I've even been to ... one of the most picturesque Anything I've been to!
The OMRA racing,
The "Owl & the Pussy cat" in the rescue boat.
Margaret in the tea marquee.
The Colwyn bay MBC display.
Fouling Hanna's Springer on a obstacle mooring line.....
Doing exactly the same thing to Big Don's Northsider five minutes later... subsequently being banned from the lake!
Phil loosing at Straight Running again!
Great to see some very old boats (mainly 2nd hand from flebay) restored and working again.
The Suzy Q speed ski boat........ with working driver and skier!
Unpressurised sales talk from Mark - A Model World - and parting with money.
Unpressurised sales talk from Ian - The Component Shop - and parting with money.
Jay's totally indestructible speed boat - hit every rock at least 10 times and flew up out of the water at least 6 times and was still the last boat running!
Meeting up with many Mayhemers.
Meeting TigerTiger.

Parking within 10 feet of the water.... for everybody!
Facilities and toilets with 2 minutes walk.
The Vivian Diving Centre lake.
All the free slate.
The Slate Museum ( a MUST see! )
'Pete's Eats' breakfast.

Great cooperation between all all parties attending, (apart from one stroppy canoeist who tried to make a point of setting of between all the model boats...)
Friendly atmosphere of all attending.
Long unhurried chats with fellow modellers.
.... The venue and scenery... truly spectacular scenery.

Photos to follow......

[Bill D203]

Hi Andy
The Stinger shaft is worn out. loads of slop around the prop now. I know a man who can fix it. Off to work now to pay for it.

[gaznjant]

hi bill. yea got that servo done. i can now hold the rudder and the boat moves !! got feelers out for an exhaust.

[andyn]

hi bill. yea got that servo done. i can now hold the rudder and the boat moves !! got feelers out for an exhaust.

Luvly stuff

Any pics so we can 'inspect' your work?

[gaznjant]

better than that andy..im hopin to take her out tmrw (on our local roads if this damn rain dont stop) and get some video footage of her turning proper !!!

[andyn]

Welcome to all OMRA people to the new Llanberis OMRA Forum, after some conversation with Martin, we have a nice place to natter about the proper boats from Llanberis Where hopefully our posts wont get pulled for expressing our freedom of speech (bet this one gets pulled...)


Anyway, on to business,

So you got that lovely big servo then gaz?

If you cant afford a new Ex. pipe, you could try one of Bonzi's Race Silencers. You need to specify it's not for a bonzi pipe, tell them what pipe you have, and then you can choose between 7 shiny colours!

I've been reading some of these posts and none of them seem to have much meaning  because theyre missing answers etc, wierd huh?

Andy ( going off to laugh at 'hes been pulling our posts') =]