Colwyn Bay's original model boating lake was .....
. This lake is to be lost now for a new housing estate and we are in the middle of moving to a much larger lake 150metres to the west.
Old-ish Jim? Wish we had some more like it today!
Know what you mean about the wind Jim
Our launch and control position at the
lake faces East and nowt between us and
Siberia.
Gets darn cool at times.
Ned
If you have a long commute for work then it will sadly take hours each day. A friend of mine lives in Somerset and communtes daily to London and so sets off at awful O'clock in the morning and if the trains are on time etc gets back at 8:30 in the evening so can understand why it is so hard for some people to find time amongst all the real life stuff to model and sail.I leave for work at 6.30am, and get home about 7pm, yet in just over 3 months I have got half way through planking up my hull, the trick is 10-30 minutes per day, every day, even if it is just fitting 1 rib, a little every day gets there eventually, so even working long hours it is possible.
I expect some of these chaps in the period photos worked long long days.
These old photographs are just wonderful,what a great topic!....Lakeside Bob
... I spent many, many happy hours sailing my "Star" yacht.
Set the sails, push off and run round to the other side of the Lake to catch the boat !!.
Good fun and plenty of exercise !!.
John.
The swans were a problem even then lol, and were those 3 guys wearing their kapok life preservers the ones who had sailed across the Tay, or just overly cautious at the pond size.That was the rig of the day for the cross Tay event. Provided by the RNR who provided the boat for us on the day. Not normally needed for the pondside although we have had a few members falling in over the years.
If the latter, I thought the members at Fleetwood were a rough boisterous lot, but never seen anyone wearing one of those, even in the rescue boat at a regatta, {-) %%
Jim.
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Nice to see the old places with no vandalism, graffiti or litter.
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Bethnal green?!
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It looks pleasingly steam punk with all the linkages and tidy little funnel.
It is good to know that some of the old models still exist and are cherished. Mind you some do come up on auction sites in a right state, but all the same it is obvious that many managed to escape the skip or bonfire.
Re Colwyn Bay lake. Is that the Wireless College in the background? I can't see the aerial mast. or was this pre electricity time. I was there in 1960.
Cheers Kinmel. When I left in '62 I lost touch. I never got a ticket I couldn't get past 14WPM reading morse. When I get some more time I will go through it properly. Dave.The 14 WPM test was always a big hurtle. I think it was only 12 over here send and receive I could do 16 in a practice session, but as soon as you said TEST I chocked and could never pass the mark. I understand they now have a technician's test that does not require Morse.
More old model boating photos hear
http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,44056.msg445969.html#msg445969
john
On the gyratory junction of Christleton Rd and Tarvin Rd a fantastic model shop. I believe it closed because it kept getting broken into and the council said the security shutters made it look nasty, so he had to take them down. So he closed. IIRC. Another opened further down Tarvin Rd by the canal but was not open for long.
Hi Vintage, those steam boats in the picture above went along at a fair old speed.
Will you be going to the Toy Boat regatta at the North London club based at Colney Heath, between Watford and Hatfield? There was a Streamlinia in steam there last year.
regards Roy
Adding photos failed.
The ultimate weapon in the 50's was:-------->>>
This is a model my brother-in-law from Bundaberg built in the late 60s or early 70s. The main feature of this model is its engine, a 25cc 4 stroke, petrol fuelled engine designed and built completely from scratch by said b-i-l. From memory the model was around 48 inches long. The photo was taken on a farm dam near Bundaberg, by me, in 1977.
Peter.