Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: Neil on July 17, 2014, 10:54:08 pm
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Just thought I'd start an new topic and hope it runs nicely without argument, bad comment or any other animosity..........for a long while.............gives us a nice insight then as to where we all sail..........nothing simpler
and that is of our day's sailing down the lake.......
just a date time and location is all that's needed.
So to start it off...........Fleetwood this evening, and a lovely sail it was too.lovely and calm...........perfect lifeboat weather, lol
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nice looking lifeboat you have there Neil :-)) lovely calm water, hope mine looks that good when it's finished
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Taken Wednesday morning ,first trials at Bluewater shopping centre Kent No 7 lake.
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:-) beautiful clear water you have there tugmad O0 .....SUN XV11 vessel looks great too.... :-)) .....
Why is it the seventeenth? ......................or do I mistake or have the name numerals? >>:-(........Derek
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more lovely shots..........we are having a fantastic summer for sailing this year.........
now common guys get posting your shots and lets see the lakes you sail on please.
cheers, neil.
thanks for the comments Mersey ferry...........and lovely one tugmad. neil.
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heres were i sail ... all mine ....if any sink well im afraid is bye bye no way im going swiming in a old mine shaft www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TzMFInD5C8&list=WL#
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an old mine shaft???..........amazing it's open to the public??...........hate to think how deep it is or how many old things lie down the bottom of it?.............very pretty lake though. neil.
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:-) beautiful clear water you have there tugmad O0 .....SUN XV11 vessel looks great too.... :-)) .....
Why is it the seventeenth? ......................or do I mistake or have the name numerals? >>:-( ........Derek
Hi Derek Sun tugs of London had a fleet of tugs all starting with Sun and when they started to run out of names they had Sun, SunII, SunIII etc up to Sun XXVII, but there was NO Sun XIII or XIV for some reason. Geo
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Our Turtle Lake, Hamilton Gardens, and the wee test lake in the bush above Turtle Lake
cheers
vnkiwi
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Gresford Flash nr Wrexham.
Faulty pictures removed. :}
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2897/14668773066_9809afe7ac_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/omeibs)
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very nice model you have there robert :-))
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yes indeed..........and some lovely sailing waters being shown as well.
thanks.guys.
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Not today...but the last time I went sailing.
Rich
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VnKiwi. That's an old photo. Im in it. Had the Missouri there and have only ever sailed there twice. The first two years of the Missouri's commission.
Its all ready for Cambridge this year. Hope to have new RC gear so will be sailing her in that lovely big lake.
Adrian.
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Hi Adrian,
Yep, is old, but didn't have any whole lake photos from the last Turtle lake day, only individual boats. Will be good to see you again at Lake Karapiro, just hope the lake will be smooth as it was last year, otherwise with my wee boats, would be like a rowing boat in a mid Atlantic storm, same as the big lake in Hamilton.
Post up a photo of your local lake.
cheers
vnkiwi :-))
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I do not have one. That's why I go to Cambridge. Are you going to Waihi in September. May pop up if time allows.
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Sorry but did sail on the Ohiwa Harbour once. Never again. Salt water too much trouble to clean after.
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very nice model you have there robert :-))
Thanks for saying so :-)
It's a little something I knocked together over a couple of months as a feasibility study more than anything. Anything that sails on that lake needs to be bulletproof in the 'not sinking' stakes - let's say the lake monster has claimed a few over the years :}
I see flickr is playing silly beggars with my pics currently… what's more annoying is that the pics are all still there and unaltered!
I saw this this a waited until you altered them. As you cannot i have removed them for you.
Ken
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Thanks Neil for starting this all off - I really like your first pic, not from any technical standpoint, but from the feeling of a nice relaxing warm Summer's evening.
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Not actually today - last Autumn to be precise, but it does give a good impression of our water - Cawcutts Lake, near Cambridge. Its also not quite as idyllic as it seems, there is rescue attempt going on.
One of the boats on the left has picked up a crayfish catching net someone had left in the water. The lifeboat is trying to rescue it.
Barrie
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A couple of photos of our lake at Cleethorpes.
Ned
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Smashing pictures. :-))
What happens when a yacht goes under the waterfalls ? Does it affect it in any way ?
Cheers
ken
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Yachts are ok Ken,
They are well sealed.
They just get a good wash :D
Scale models dont fare so well if they break down and drift close in
Funnily enough 2.4GHz sets are not affected when the model is the other side of the fountain.
Ned
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I was concerned that the downward thrust might be a force to recon with. :}
I should imagine the 2.4 Ghz could get through the air gaps in the waterfall, so you will appear to get away with it.
Cheers
ken
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just had an evening sail at Roker Park Lake in Sunderland - MSC Archer (tug) and the Glynn Guest HMS Penelope - nice evening's relaxing sail - but you know what I wasnt half disappointed in Roker lake its gone scruffy - didnt used to be like that.
aye
John
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Runcorn Hill Lake. Lovely day for sailing today.
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OOps done it again forgt photo
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haven't been able to sail the model boats down at our lake recentley because of work so this'll have to do, taken yesterday morning a few miles south of the Isle of Man, on the hunt for some queenies :-))
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Smashing weather there Can.
Did you get a good haul?
Ned
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yeah was a nice day, there was a few on the go
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Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells. Lovely evening.
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Remember sailing at Dunorlan Park with my first boat over 20 years ago lovely setting :-)