hello from kentucky!

[ky paddlewheeler]

hi guys I'm new to the big rc boat world and being in the nitro rc truck hobby for a half a year and not finding too many tracks around here I tought I go in to this hobby by buying the dumas creole queen,any heads up on the kit and the probs I might find in build up would be nice.



  ps. tow boat joe is there any rc boat shows or clubs in or around ky?

[Eddy Matthews]

Hi Ky,

Nice to see you've joined our little band :-)

I used to have a model of the Creole Queen, though I have to admit I bought it as un unfinished project, so the hull was built when I got it, so I only had the superstructure to build.

As with most Dumas kits I found the quality of the wood supplied was poor, so I used it as templates to make my own parts from good quality marine ply etc.

Apart from that I didn't find any particular problems building the model, it all went together fairly easily, and it sailed like a dream.

[towboatjoe]

Hey, nice to have a fellow Blugrasser on board. I don't know of any shows in KY. There's a club in Cincinnatti that usually puts on a showing at tall stacks.

I'm a member of the St. Louis Admirals and they put on a show the third weekend of September each year. There's the towboat festival in Grafton, IL June 24 & 25. The club will be showing there. The Toledo boat show is July 15 & 16. Sometimes the club puts on a fun run in Paducah. I haven't heard any date on it yet.

I tried to get a club going in the Ashland area back in "95, but only one other person seemed interested. As you know around here the big r/c thing is cars and planes. What area are you from

[ky paddlewheeler]

well there realyisnt any rc car or trucks around here to but like you said alot of airplanes, and the reson Im kind of winding down on my rc truck is because all the tracks here are way to small Iv got a grand in it and cant race cause of that reson [ps my truck is a monster gt with a lrp z.28 spec 2 and a spektrum dx2 and alot more!]

 I live in nicklasville just south of lex some good ponds around here I was going to start a club and as you found not to many people here

[towboatjoe]

I have to be in Lexington tomorrow and next Thursday. I usually make one to three trips there a month. It's a two hour drive from here. Maybe we can hook up one of these days.

[ky paddlewheeler]

sounds good my family has a large pond here or lake mingo its going to be some time befor I get to queen done [ps lake mingo is usualy all mosey but thay do clean it some times and you got to put up to all the kids qustons so I reomend are pond]

  you hunt or fish any are place by the pond is the bomb!