Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: gary r uk on April 14, 2006, 08:59:35 pm
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Hi guys
Bad news one of our members little Jack Thomas lost his fishing boat Orchard to the wind conditions sailing at Black Park on Thursday at Black Park Country Park Slough all hands were lost next of kin have been informed.
RIP
gary rowe
bpmbc
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Ouch!
No local diving clubs in the area?
That's the one aspect of model boating I don't like. I'm paranoid about losing a boat :(
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Its allways sad when we loose one to the deep. I hope there is a chance of recovery or he gets a replacement soon.
Is there a local sub-aqua club near or does anyone know a member of the police who may be pursuaded to get one of their divers on a 'training exercise'.
Are thoughts are with him
Daryl
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Daryl has the right idea, contact the PR dept or similar at your local cop shop ( or your local bobby if you have one). Our local underwater search unit do training exercises every week, where something has to be "hidden" in a pond or canal, so I'm sure yours would be interested in doing a search with a purpose. If as the note suggests the model belongs to a child, even better for press coverage.
They have to train anyway so no one can claim it's a waste of resources, and lets face it, the worst thing they can do is say no !!
Aston
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The Royal Navy has done a similar thing for training and good publicity.
Worth a try.
Hope things work out
Daryl
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No one got an RC floating crane? ;)
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Hi Just can't let this one go. As a person who sail at Black Park for may years in the seventys and eightys are you sure it just sank or was it one of the large pike that had it .I have many happy memorys of Black Park in the sixties when we would go to Cowley jaz club and the after would end up at Blsck Park skinny dipping ..................AH those were the days
Bob B
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are you sure it just sank or was it one of the large pike that had it
A mine sweeper with working depth charges sorts those ;D
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Hi guys
As much as i like the idea of a monster pike taking it no it was the wind something to do with leaving the jib sail up anyway i am pleased to say that our normal divers Ricky and chums are coming to the rescue on Monday so little Jack ( aged 75 ) will be sailing again soon.
cheers
gary rowe
BPMBC
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Hi all little jack has he's boat back, in the process of dying out.
Youngat65 if you get the urge to skinny dip please dont do it Thur's afternoons or Sunday
mornings and remember those Big pike are still there.
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Huh... Some people 'skinny dip'. At my age and shape, it's called 'chunky-dunking'.
- 'Doc
PS - Don't remember where I stole that phrase, but it fits.
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you mean when you climb in you displace all the water from the pond? ;D
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Hi all
I used to sail at Black Park in the 80's before there was a club. Are there still those strange mini 'Bermuda Triangles' scattered around the water ? Every so often there would be small (2-3 ft across) areas where all control of the model would be lost. They weren't constant and the theory was that it was some sort of interference from the local hospital gear.
I spent one afternoon mucking up a film scene shoot from the studio where a load of Cossacks on horses chased some raggy bloke to the lake and he jumps into a dinghy. I surmised that the period they were trying to show didn't include a radio controlled Marbelhead yacht, so every time the flood lights came on I would sail the yacht in close. Off would go the lights until I sailed it out of shot and so on. Finally some bloke with one of those monocular thingies round his neck came panting round the lake looking for the owner so I decided I had better let them get on !! I know - little things please little minds etc - but there was nobody else around to have a race with ! ;) ::)
best regards
MikeK
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Hi all
I used to sail at Black Park in the 80's before there was a club. Are there still those strange mini 'Bermuda Triangles' scattered around the water ? Every so often there would be small (2-3 ft across) areas where all control of the model would be lost. They weren't constant and the theory was that it was some sort of interference from the local hospital gear.
I spent one afternoon mucking up a film scene shoot from the studio where a load of Cossacks on horses chased some raggy bloke to the lake and he jumps into a dinghy. I surmised that the period they were trying to show didn't include a radio controlled Marbelhead yacht, so every time the flood lights came on I would sail the yacht in close. Off would go the lights until I sailed it out of shot and so on. Finally some bloke with one of those monocular thingies round his neck came panting round the lake looking for the owner so I decided I had better let them get on !! I know - little things please little minds etc - but there was nobody else around to have a race with ! ;) ::)
best regards
MikeK
Hehe...great story ;D
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Almost as good as one of the skippers that used to fish out of Aberdeen. "Mad Jackko" of the inshore trawler Loch Maravaig used to wait until the Red warning flags were flying at the Blackdog army firing range just north of Aberdeen before steaming in at full speed and shooting his net......... lets just say that he did have a few minor "repairs" needed when the guns were fired just as he crossed into the range.... didn't stop him either :o
Davie
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Still in a nostalgic mood - do you still have the uniformed park rangers Gary ? Every time I sailed anywhere near a swan (accidently, honest guv !? ::)? ? ) a bloke dressed up like a senior ranking boy scout would appear like magic from behind a tree and give me a rollicking for frightening the wild life ! Also where do you have the club house, is it next to the snack bar ? (long since moved away from the area)
best regards to all
MikeK
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I can remember the first model boat I built was a free plan calle snapper couldn't wait to sail it, so off to Black Park on a cold winter Sunday parked the car (free in those days ) and down to the pond only to find it was frozen over. Then one of the more knowledgeable model boaters said just break the ice and you can sail in that area , end result miniture re-enactment of the sinking of the Titanic. So off to the other side of the lake for a ccup of tea and a pie , happy days , I remember a father and son who used to come down from High Wycombe they had a crash tender and a swordsman both with home made tuned pipes and beautifully painted wonder what ever happended to them
Cheers Bob B
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Come to think of it my first models - not counting school days - were both launched at Black Park as well. I bought a Veron Coaster kit as the first project. Before I had finished it I decided to attempt a yacht by gridding the lines off a single page plan in the old style M.B. on a Marblehead called Dik Dik (South African beastie evidently !) and blowing it up to (near !) scale. I had so much enjoyment scavenging the bits to make the yacht that the coaster never got in the water for ages ! When it finally did it was on a day like yours, Bob, with just a few feet of open water around the edges and no wind for the yacht. Unlike yours it didn't sink, but after doing all the various manouevres, including ice breaking, I thought 'now what' ? and that was the point that I never went back to scale power and stuck strictly to sail.
Anybody still awake ?? ;D
regards
MikeK
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Hi guys
Sorry for the delay in relying.
Yes the small areas of interference are still there about 25/30 feet out between the pathway from the carpark and the peg board not constant but still there .
Yes many times over the past winters we have broken the ice to sai us boaters are a mad lotl
The rangers are very relaxed about what we get up to now but as BPMBC members are a very disaplined anyway and the wild life are used to us now and are not bothered when the fast electrics are raceing the ducks are very happy to sit and watch
No club house but the rangers have given us a bench, we meet at a local church
Is there any chance that those of you that have moved away could come back and see us for our regatta on the 3rd September .
cheers
gary rowe
BPMBC
chairman
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Hi Gary
Regret to say it is highly unlikely I will be in that neck of the woods (literally ;D ) for your Regatta, but best wishes for a successful show. Strange that those interference patches still show up - sounds like the same places too. Very Bermuda Triangle.
I seem to remember that one of the rangers had a tied (or is it tythe ?) cottage near the lake and he had a big model railway set up round the garden with a station in the garden shed, I would think he is long retired by now.
Best wishes
MikeK
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Hi Mikek
I will certainley ask the Rangers my son does work expereiance there every Thursday
cheers
gary rowe
BPMBC
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Whilst I would like to come back to Black Park it is too far for me for a day 350 mile round trip but I wish you well and hope that the weather is kind to you
Cheers
Bob B
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BobB
Our regatta offers free overnight camping & free parking now that's gotta be a deal closer
gary rowe
BPMBC
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Gary
I think the simking of Orchard may be more sinister than just weather conditions, there seems to be a submarine stalking the ships last Sunday. We need to demand a public enquiery.
Holmsey
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See you Sunday
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Hi Gary
Regret to say it is highly unlikely I will be in that neck of the woods (literally ;D ) for your Regatta, but best wishes for a successful show. Strange that those interference patches still show up - sounds like the same places too. Very Bermuda Triangle.
I seem to remember that one of the rangers had a tied (or is it tythe ?) cottage near the lake and he had a big model railway set up round the garden with a station in the garden shed, I would think he is long retired by now.
Best wishes
MikeK
that was pat the head ranger, he had a huge garden railway layout, he retired about 6 yrs ago, and his cottage and the adjoining cottage were sold off..... we still see pat from time to time, he comes for a walk around the lake.....
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Hi all
I used to sail at Black Park in the 80's before there was a club. Are there still those strange mini 'Bermuda Triangles' scattered around the water ? Every so often there would be small (2-3 ft across) areas where all control of the model would be lost. They weren't constant and the theory was that it was some sort of interference from the local hospital gear.
I spent one afternoon mucking up a film scene shoot from the studio where a load of Cossacks on horses chased some raggy bloke to the lake and he jumps into a dinghy. I surmised that the period they were trying to show didn't include a radio controlled Marbelhead yacht, so every time the flood lights came on I would sail the yacht in close. Off would go the lights until I sailed it out of shot and so on. Finally some bloke with one of those monocular thingies round his neck came panting round the lake looking for the owner so I decided I had better let them get on !! I know - little things please little minds etc - but there was nobody else around to have a race with ! ;) ::)
best regards
MikeK
Hey Mike K you must remember members like jon sandall then, he had a huge Sct Knud tug, and a little fisihing boat called eileen ?- and also arthur townsend, ( he used to be called the commodore, every sunday he arrived with a different boat... he had one hell of a fleet )
then there was the charachters like bob gaines and his 9ft long kingswer castle, , and then there was don newly with his swan wearing a bow tie and top hat...... AAAHHH those were the days we would arrive on a sunday morning and sail for a while, then we used to sail across to the cafe, and drink copious amounts of coffee and eat the great hot pasties......that little cafe was great... a real hub of the club on those cold mornings in winter- and especially on the boxing day morning sail !
steve the cafe owner always popped something into your coffee on boxing day to keep you warm, he knew everyone by name too.....
sadly the dell cafe has now gone replaced by some huge faceless place serving chips and greasy junk food...... but black park in the 80's brings back many great memories, plus you could park for free too...........
those were the days.........
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Hello there, Guy
Thanks for the update on Pat the Ranger and how much the place has changed. Your description of sailing over for coffee and hot pasties brought it all back !! I can't remember much about individual people - I used to be mainly with the sail crowd on Sundays. there was one chap - Sam (Hodges ?), from the West Indies with whom I later joined Three Rivers Club when it was just forming. He eventually returned across the big pond taking a whole bunch of yachts with him to get interest in the hobby started on his island. I also remember something about a chap with a speedboat and tunnel vision (not an ideal combination !!) who managed to shoot the thing straight under the little bridge over the overflow stream, and then airborne into the woods !! As you say aaahhhh memories and all of them good of Black Park.
Best regards
MikeK
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Don't forget the skinny dipping after Cowley Jazz Club in the early to mid sixties on a Saturday night
Cheers
Bob B
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would not like to skinny dip in there at the moment..... with all the recent sunshine there is a thin film just starting to form on the surface, a sort of slime.....
a bit of good old rain will sort it out.....
young at 65, was there rangers on site when you went skinny dipping in those days ? - now we need everything in triplicate to sail after dark for our nightsails......
the rangers are alot more chilled nowadays than in the 80's......
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Yep there were rangers but it wasn't the mamby pamby world we live in today little bit of green slime on the water so what had to go through a lot worse water than that in the army bit of dirt didn't do anything except help the imune system
Cheers
Bob B
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too right..... good on yer..... sod the authorities !
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are you sure the green slime is natural, thoughs of 'HI KARATE' lubricated skinny dippers springs to mind - uuurrrrrgh
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Long before Hi-karate was even thought of and Brute come to think of it. ;D :o
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I seem to remember that Old Spice was the first venture into the ordinary men's after shave 'smellies'. Or do you know different ??
MikeK
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BO was the first ;D ;D