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The first sailing of the year for our little Club, three out of a membership of four was a good turnout. Alastair's fishing boat and my Pilot boat on the pond at the Scottish Maritime Museum.
This funerary boat and some smaller items were found in the tomb of Amenhotep II.
Tomb of Amenhotep II, KV35
18th dynasty
NMEC National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Fustat Cairo
A sunny spring day in Bournville, heading along Bournville Lane towards the Bristol Road near Selly Oak.
The Valley Parkway - seen from Bournville Lane and Woodbrooke Road.
The park has a boating lake which is used with a licence by the Bournville Model Yacht & Powerboat Club (aka BMYPBC).
model boat - RNLI 13-02
During one of my Selsey walks, I came across a number of model boats being sent across a pond near the sea front. There were a number of people walking about with the controls - but I especially liked this chap who had two chaps watching his every move. No one likes a back seat driver, but this gent had two.
Cropped the picture a little and toned down the saturation a tad.
A surprise along the Irish loop are the beautiful handmade floating model boats made by Max Morgan. Once were displayed and made for "Storybook Kingdom" and are now displayed in the river along side the main southern shore highway between Witless Bay and Mobile south Of St. John's, Newfoundland Canada. Along with the gorgeous boats, there is also small fishing scenes displayed along the river and as well as Max's model lighthouses.
This photo shows the Florida East Coast Railway Society N-Trak Model of the Jupiter, Florida Draw Bridge. I photographed this Model Bascule Drawbridge during an N-Trak operating session in our conference room at the Miami Airport Embassy Suites Hotel. Florida State Road 811 (aka: Old Dixie Highway, Aka: Route A1A) runs parallel to the FEC Jupiter Bridge over the Loxahatchee River (aka: Intercoastal Waterway). US Route 1 is a short distance to the East of Old Dixie Highway (A1A), which serves as an alternate to US Route 1.
The Railroad Bridge which is automated and is normally in the OPEN Position so that boats can navigate the river. However when a Train approaches, the bridge issues a Loud Warning Sound before it automatically closes so that the train can cross the Loxahatchee River. I believe that the Highway Bridge Modeled (here) is the US Route 1 Bridge because I believe that the A1A Bridge is not that high. There probably wasn't enough room on the N-Trak Module to fit both Hwy Bridges.
N-Trak is a model railroad assembled with individual modules to form an operating N Scale Operating Model Railroad that can be quickly assembled for Shows, Displays, Festivals and Conventions. The standard module is two feet wide, and four feet long. See:
Not my finest creation, however it kept me busy for a few days during this lockdown, using odd bits of plywood and plasticard. She works, in the bath, but stability is a problem.
This model was built by my grandfather, Dr. A.J. May of Hayling Island. He built this in 1937 - totally scratch built. It is about 4 foot long, lights up internally and still has the original light bulbs he fitted back then. It was left to me when he passed away in 1968 and has been my pride and joy ever since.
When you live to be a hundred you get many chances at retirement. My friend Captain John Russell is a hundred now. I took this picture five years ago when he was only 95. He had already retired from several careers including (for a short time) as schoolteacher and (much longer) as sea captain; when I took this picture in 2002, his most recent occupation had been an author -- he wrote an excellent autobiography, called "Memories of a Lifetime." Here he is in his little office, a comfortable shed behind his house; it is where he wrote most of his book and where, once he finished it, he turned his hands to building model boats. Captain Jack will turn 101 in four weeks.
EDIT, 10 May 2012: Sad to say, Captain Jack Russell, Uncle John as he asked me to call him, died today. He was 105.
Official opening ceremony Provisionally planned for 15 October 2015, when we hope to fill the pond with lots of Models.
Part of "res noscenda" / aquarius / boats on the dry ~ auf dem Trockenen / memory photograph album / allotment
DMC-G2 - P1630594 - 2013-06-27
Operation Pluto (Pipe-Lines Under The Ocean) was a Second World War operation by British engineers, oil companies and armed forces to construct undersea oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and France in support of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
For the first time this year three of us managed to spend a couple of hours relaxing at the Scottish Maritime Museum Pond. The old Veron Marlin Cabin Cruiser in the foreground is now 72 yrs old and still sails well. Not bad for a £3.15 kit!
retired but busy in his workshop he builds small fishing and Coast Guard modelboats for tourists and collectors
At first he denied but later he 'forgot' me and I was able to get the pic. A colorprint three days later was my 'Dankeschön'
Just Realised that the real thing is now 70 years old and still sailing. The model is a mere 23 years old so has a way to go still! (This picture originally posted in June 2011.) No apologies for the repost.See more about the real VIC32 at www.savethepuffer.co.uk
PS the original boiler from her (the real one) is on display in the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine.
This is a work in progress: a 1:24 scale diorama of the ranger station and dock from the old Flipper TV series.
Spent a couple of hours at the Irvine beachpark Pond with the TGB model on Wed evening, very Quiet, NO other boaters and very few dog walkers!
My model of the converted Clyde Puffer VIC32. Now in her 28th year and still sailing as gracefully as when i built her in 1990.
Great turnout of spectators for our display at the Scottish Maritime Museum on Saturday as part of the Making Waves festival. Unfortunately we were rained off on Sunday afternoon.
A stroll past a boating lake and... the local model boat club was out playing :-)
This model is, I think, an Aquacraft Rescue 17.
Venue is the lake at The Knap, Barry, UK.
The model boating lake at Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast, UK. Boats, children, parents and grandparents watching and relaxing. Ice-cream. Dogs. Swallows chattering and swooping overhead. Nearby, the ever-present presence of the sea breaking on shingle. The shingle that stretches into the distance. Countless pebbles that seem to go on forever. Nikon D200 - also going on forever.
Radio controlled model boat enthusiast beside the lake at Papplewick Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire.
Note diver as well as Action Man !
Yes, the Gipping Valley Model Boat Club is back, this time with a slightly different set of vessels!
I liked the way this one was really cutting a dash (and a wave) though the ripples!
This model was recently donated to the Scottish Maritime museum, and the lads from the Irvine Model Boat club got it back into running order in time for the Museum's model weekend. Here's hoping the Museum have lots of fun with it.
A beautiful collection of radio-controlled models of some of Sydney's Manly ferry fleet from over the years.
PS Brighton was almost as big as the much later South Steyne.
Built in Scotland and launched in 1882, it sailed to Sydney via the Cape of Good Hope, in a dramatic 89 day voyage, surviving many storms, and arriving in Sydney with much damage. She served the Sydney to Manly route for 32 years, and her hulk can today be found in Port Stephens NSW.
. When your First Minister says do NOT leave your house for three months then a man has to do something! The aircraft are from kits and the larger one actually flies. The boats are freelance scratch built and sail with radio control. Now looking for another interesting project.
This model shows Britannic as a hospital ship. Following the sinking of the Titanic, the Board of Trade insisted that her sister ship Britannic should be fitted with additional lifeboats (and the correspondingly large davits). This wooden model is over 40 inches from stem to stern (= 1/250). Apart from the additional lifeboats around the fourth funnel Britannic differed slightly from Titanic - notice the additional raised after decks - one above the right-hand red cross and the other over the stern - with even more lifeboats.
The Britannic is a 'rescue ship' in more ways than one - it was started as RMS Titanic by an old gentleman who sadly died after only completing the hull. I was asked to finish it by his relatives in his memory. As I had already built Titanic it was agreed that I should build the superstructure as Britannic. It became a major project as there were many subtle (and some not so subtle) differences.
It has been pointed out that the stripe and crosses should be green - unfortunately I am colour blind and had no idea of my error.
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Operation Pluto (Pipe-Lines Under The Ocean) was a Second World War operation by British engineers, oil companies and armed forces to construct undersea oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and France in support of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
A cardboard model of the well known Titanic, completed this morning. It come in the form of a book of cardboard pages, with each component shape cutout, folded or bent, and then glued. Unfortunately lost the ventilator cutouts during the build, but I'm happy with the result. It was quite a challenge.