I can remember my first model boat, it was built last year, me and the missus often take our first born grandson to the local park on a sunday, and after a nice walk around the park used to sit around the model boating lake and watch the lads sail their model boats, while baby Alfie crawled about on the grass, as the weeks of watching the models turned into months watching the models, baby Alfie now about 18months old started to take a keen interest also, so I thought it would be nice if I built him some sort of boat that we both could sail together when he was older. After a day trip to Bridlington I saw various Yorkshire Cobbles and thought it would be nice to build a model based on a Cobble, upto this point I have never indulged at all in model making of any kind. I took a few photographs and then set about building the "Alfie James" (my grandsons first and middle name). While the finished boat is not a work of art, I couldnt believe the fun and satisfaction I had while the build progressed. I installed some R/C into her and again was quite amazed that she floated and moved quite nice. Also while the build was going on, we were blessed with yet another grandson and was told by "nana" that I would have to build another boat as I couldn,t leave one out. Nana brought me in a billings model kit, of an inshore fishing boat, that she bought on a local car boot sale. Upon opening the box, the hull was only 300 mm long, not nearly big enough for R/C so I used the parts in the kit as a template to double everything up and built it 600mm long in plywood frames and obechi planks. The "Harry Edwards" is nearly completed and again had such fun building it. I now think the bug has bitten and am already thinking of my next boat to build.