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General => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: Tug--Kenny on May 10, 2008, 05:22:23 AM

Title: ----What do you look like----
Post by: Tug--Kenny on May 10, 2008, 05:22:23 AM: As we are approaching 1000 members, I though it might be a good idea to let others know what we look like.

The pictures can be in boaty surroundings or proudly showing your models ( wood & Plastic type :D)

I would like to start it off by showing my 'Orrible Mug' at the local club, with two of my boats.

Cheers...Ken
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: Eddy Matthews on May 10, 2008, 06:25:05 AM: And here's my ugly mug - Holding a partly built 1:6 scale model of the World Water Speed Record holder "Hustler".

Regards
Eddy
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: bogstandard on May 10, 2008, 09:38:29 AM: Yours truly, stopping the miller from falling over , in my second home.
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: Roderick Smith on May 10, 2008, 12:02:46 PM: I placed two photos of me on PS Ruby in my messge of introduction:
Paddleducks > General > Introduce Yourself > Introducing Roderick Smith
One was on Ruby, when I was 17 and it was a houseboat.
The other was on Ruby at 204 Wentworth Junction Rally.
I appear in my avatar photo: as a passenger aboard replica PS Mary Ann in the 2003 Randell Cadell fleet for the 150th anniversary of the original voyage.
At Paddleducks > Paddler Information > Preserved Paddle Ships > PS Mary Ann replica [Australia] (page 2) there is a closer-range photo, showing me steering PV Matthew James to the Ferguson Tractor rally at Wentworth in 2006. This page also has one of me in period outfit aboard PS Ranger at the 2003 festival. It also has one of a very-young Sean steering an Echuca paddlesteamer.

There are lots of photos of Sean with Grebe in General Discussion (Large), although he is much older now; also photos of Michael with Sundowner in the same area (and where he introduced himself, Paddleducks > General > Introduce Yourself > Hello Good-thanks).

There are photos of Sean and the trio (all in period outfits) aboard PS Adelaide at the 2006 Echuca Heritage Festival: Paddleducks > Paddler Information > Preserved Paddle Ships > Echuca heritage festival, 7 & 8.10 [Australia] page 1

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: Harold H. Duncan on May 10, 2008, 01:09:52 PM: Most recent time I got caught in front of the lens.
Lake district, UK Aug '05
:o
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: derekwarner_decoy on May 10, 2008, 02:22:21 PM: Hi PD's.....here is the latest snap of me taken at HMA Garden Island Naval Dockyard on the 2/10/1985 when we lifted off the TARTAR or GMLS13 missle launcher from the stern of the DDG HMAS Brisbane [for the first time in OZ]

I am the one in the dark clothing.....to the right of the SNOW FLAKES....[white overalls].... people [professional & naval weapons engineering officers] :nahnah

From memory.....I was the Senior Foreman in Above Water Weapons @ GID at the time :hammer...but we don't talk about those things these days .... :nono
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: Tug--Kenny on May 10, 2008, 08:17:46 PM: Very good Derek 8)

Got anything in colour newer than twenty three years ago. :D

Ken
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: derekwarner_decoy on May 10, 2008, 10:46:00 PM: Hi PD's......well yes & no Ken......camera broke in 85.......sorry
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: Bob Golder on May 19, 2008, 08:48:49 AM: Hi All Not having any photos to hand showing mugs with models here's one of Walter and me at Balloch standing on the newly restored slipway with the "MAID OF THE LOCH" in the background. I'm on the left and Walter's the one wearing the paddlebox hat.
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: mjt60a on June 13, 2008, 05:03:52 AM: This is the most recent and relevant pic I have, a few years old now but I still look much the same, just with greyer hair!
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: Eddy Matthews on June 13, 2008, 05:15:58 AM: The hair may be greyer Mick, but at least you've got some!! Take a look at my mugshot, that's the time you have to worry!! :(

Eddy
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: towboatjoe on June 14, 2008, 02:32:33 AM: Here's a few of me doin what ever I find to do.
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: sandystrone on June 15, 2008, 07:55:33 AM: Me and my favourite girl at Tynemouth in May 2008.
Alex.C.Thomson
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: Eddy Matthews on June 15, 2008, 08:08:22 AM: Quote from: sandystrone on June 15, 2008, 07:55:33 AM
Me and my favourite girl at Tynemouth in May 2008.
Alex.C.Thomson

Fantastic photo Sandy! No not you, the Waverley!! :hehe

Eddy
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: derekwarner_decoy on June 15, 2008, 09:16:53 AM: Hi PD's......Sandy....that is the first real snap I have noted for a model Waverley rudder - :hammer

1) is the rudder balanced...30/70?
2) is the rudder scaled up...in length?

I can understand your expression of 'your favourite girl'.....she looks great :bravo - regards Derek
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: Tug--Kenny on June 16, 2008, 04:41:47 AM: Now that IS nice. The boat's allright as well. :great

Ken
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: sandystrone on June 16, 2008, 07:43:51 AM: Hi Derek,
Yes you are right, my WAVERLEY rudder is semi balance in the proportion you state.
On the real ship she has a very small rudder in proportion to her length, Walter Snowdon and I were just discussing that, last Tuesday at the Lake.
My late cousin was the last Caledonian MacBrayne skipper on her, and he said she was a bar steward to steer and like all females - had a mind of her own! I think he was in command of her when she took it into her own mind to go "sail about" off the shoal at Arrochar and break her foremast.
At the Tynemouth Club, we have to build to take into account the prevailing blustery conditions
and thus we all build our models over steered and overpowered.
Sandy
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: derekwarner_decoy on June 16, 2008, 05:31:31 PM: OK PD's.......Tug -- Kenny...this is a really important point...no point of building a vessel that cannot have good steerage :darn...possibly Sandy could elaborate more in your Build thread :breakcomp...on alternate rudder dimensions etc ...... :beer....Derek
Title: Re: ----What do you look like----
Post by: Eddy Matthews on June 17, 2008, 03:57:20 AM: Here's a couple of photos of Hans Freund (scotfriend) - Guess which company he works for! :)

Regards
Eddy