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[Kleban]

My blunder occurred yesterday !

Our club met up at a lake and I brought along my two boats, a Club 500 and a tug. As I'm new two RC Model Boating, I only have one crystal which I use on both boats.

After having my seaport tug modified, I sailed it and it went very well. I then put the Club 500 on the water and pushed it away from the river bank. As it drifted off I had no response from the transmitter. So my club colleagues used their boats to push mine back.

Guess what was the cause? Yep, you've guessed it! Yours truly forgot to take the crystal out of the tugs receiver and put it into the Club 500 ... 

What has been your blunder you can laugh at 

[manx venture]

put my model slipway Our Lass II in the water for 1st time and pushed it off, gave a kick ahead and a burst of life then stopped but motor still turning, luckily enough my little brother was with me in his wellies and boat retrieved, cause: prop fell off! luckly enough it jammed btween the nozzel and rudder, quick screw back on and tighten and away she went

[Martin (Admin)]

I once had a multi boat (flattie race boat).

I  started it up threw it in, my hand caught the toggle switch, turned off the radio as it left my hands, shot across the lake at
 full throttle and 6 feet up the bank on the other side!!

 I gave up racing after that....  

[Bryan Young]

I once had a multi boat (flattie race boat).

I  started it up threw it in, my hand caught the toggle switch, turned off the radio as it left my hands, shot across the lake at
 full throttle and 6 feet up the bank on the other side!!

 I gave up racing after that....  

Martin.......a very good example of why you need 3rd party insurance! Just imagine losing your home because of a simple error! BY.

[Martin (Admin)]

I did have MPBA insurance at the time.

 .... it would have only hit golfers in the next field anyway so no damage would have been done! 

[nhp651]

I did have MPBA insurance at the time.

 .... it would have only hit golfers in the next field anyway so no damage would have been done! 

for want of a better punn......it'd have been a "hole in 1"

[triumphjon]

which is why ic race boats are now fitted with a fail safe system !            i did go to run my model a few weeks ago and had left the battery packs at home , thankfully my water is only a two min walk from home ! !

[Nordsee]

When I flew Model Aircraft I arrived at the field( a good 40 minutes drive away) to find I had left the Txs behind , both of them! I remembered putting them on the drive as I loaded the models and shut the Tailgate. Panic!! After a mad drive home, there they were still laying on the drive where I had left them, lucky or what?

[Tombsy]

Throwing in a boat upside down (it's easier than it sounds), starting the motor backwards on an outboard and throwing it in........

When I was young I had a Cox .049 dragster that ran along a string to guide it. The starting end was anchored to a big rock and at the finish the string was a big vee to slow and stop the car with a little bead that shut down the motor.. So I fired it up and it ripped along the string and slowed and stopped fine at the vee then from the tension in the string it started rolling backwards, the motor fired up in reverse and I watched helplessly as it sped backwards along the string to smash into the rock at the start.

[dodgy geezer]

I have started a small .049 in reverse before. It was the lift motor on a hovercraft, and it took me some time to realise why the craft had clamped itself to the ground and refused to move at all...

[Nordsee]

Most of the small Cox motors ran happily in either direction, I think we have all launched a model plane with the motor in reverse! Mind you, when building a Pusher it made life easier...

[dreadnought72]

I used to fly slope soaring gliders, years ago, with some work colleagues. We were so bad at flying landing that each trip out would invariably result in us bringing home bags of bits to rebuild for the next outing. With some lateral thought, one of my mates built two gliders, so that he'd have one to fly even if the inevitable happened, so that his flying could continue for the day.

So far so good. But within five minutes of launching glider #1, he lined up for a landing, knowing there was "a spare", and then proceeded to smash it directly into the fuselage of glider #2, sat by his feet.

How we laughed. 

Andy

[knoby]

I once went to a 1/12 scale national car meeting in Manchester, which was a good 5 hour drive from here. I signed in & unpacked only to find i had packed everything, but forgotten the car !!!! 

[nhp651]

I have started a small .049 in reverse before. It was the lift motor on a hovercraft, and it took me some time to realise why the craft had clamped itself to the ground and refused to move at all...

i used to be able to start my bsa bantam in reverse, just by pushing it backwards, great party trick as a young hooligan....until i ran into a plod one day, and my mates did the fastest 100 yards ever, lol.

[JB]

Way back in 1967, I was 14 then, I 'built' the Aerokits Sea Commander, a friend who was 5 years older (and could drive) sailed R/C boats at the Fleetwood lake in Lancashire, I'm sure some will know the club, FMY&PBC.

My friend found a second-hand diesel engine and collected and fitted all the other gear for me as I didn't have the experience myself...obviously!
The boat was 'free running' as I hadn't enough saved to afford the R/C, it did come later...a Climax 2 ch propo set...too late as it happened.

I made a reasonable job of building but my painting skills were...er...rubbish...
Friends dad offered to re-paint the boat and he made an excellent job of it, the hull and deck looked like glass, he always used 'Valspar' paint, remember that ?

After a few runs in a circle at a fairly slow speed at Fleetwood lake...it was my turn to go it alone...started the ED Racer...set the rudder and its off...oops...too fast and far too little rudder set !
My friend said. I’d start running if I were you! we were at the end near the bridge next to the large boating lake, I ran across the walkway and along the far bank...too late...I was about 50 foot away when the Sea Commander hit the concrete bank..and started to sink...

I did recover the boat before it went under...but the skins were off half way back down the hull, undeterred I bought the Vernon FPB and a Merco 61...unfortunately my friend discovered girls and I lost my transport to the lake...it was about 20 miles away...too far on my pushbike! so it all ended there...until now

Here's a photo taken in September 1967...MB magazine ..see that young lad at the end of the jetty about to release a multi racer ? That's me 

[Tombsy]

I once went to a 1/12 scale national car meeting in Manchester, which was a good 5 hour drive from here. I signed in & unpacked only to find i had packed everything, but forgotten the car !!!! 

  A buddy and I went fishing once and forgot the boat.