Mike Mayhew?

[Edward Matthews]

Does anyone know what is happening with Mike Mayhew? I've emailed him
twice to get details of his paddlewheel kits but he doesn't respond
to my emails :-(

I'm building a model of the Waverley, using the fibreglass hull from
Dave Metcalf, and I need to sort out the drive system before I can
continue on to the fitting of the deck etc.

Mike, if your having problems with your email, please contact me on
01642-873954 - Thanks.

Eddy

[GJ. Nelson]

Hi Eddy,

Can't help you there but if you don't already have them
the drawings of the Jean should be there any day. More
then a week sense I sent them air parcel post. To large
for air mail.
Gary

[Edward Matthews]

That's great news Gary, thanks. The plans haven't arrived yet, but
mail from the States generally takes about 10 days to get here, so
there's no need to worry about them yet.

I'll send you an email when they arrive so you know they've made it
okay...

Regards
Eddy

[Tony Mattson]

Eddie wrote:

"Does anyone know what is happening with Mike Mayhew? I've emailed him
twice to get details of his paddlewheel kits but he doesn't respond
to my emails :-("

I regret to say "ditto". During the various email exchanges late last
year and at the start of this on the subject of feathering paddles, I
too emailed Mike, with a similar request. But sad to say I have received
no reply.

I seem to recall Mike posting last yr to Paddleducks that he is a victim
of spam and doesn't check his emails as a result?!?

Reminds me of our club's Sailing Commodore, who turned on his computer
after a month, found 35 emails in his in-tray and declared, "I can't
cope with all of this! I'm not going to do that again!"

Kinda makes a nonsense of having an email address don't you think? :-(

Regrets for negative comments (but after all a spade is still a spade)
Tony
Auckland NZ

ps. work on Reliant progresses, albeit very slowly at present.
Business-related activities have taken their toll of spare time I
regret. Still, the hull is completed to paint stage, and inroads have
been made on the superstructure. As to the feathering paddles? Well I
confess to having purchased a set of Graupner wheels to get me on the
water, while I continue to file and grind and solder and swear at
inanimate lumps and rods and fillets of brass on my workbench.

For skill-challenged metal-bodgers such as myself, the Graupner solution
is a starting point worth considering - and an interesting prototype to
use for reference purposes as well I might add. It's one thing to view a
set of plans, another completely to be able to reference a working
model.

[Edward Matthews]

Thanks for that Tony. It seems a shame that Mike isn't answering
emails (for whatever reason). He did post a message here a month or
so ago saying that details of his paddlewheel kits would be posted on
his website soon, but nothing has appeared there either :-(

Oh well, I can only assume that the kits aren't being produced, and
I'll have to source something elsewhere or build my own.

A fellow club member (and good friend of mine) Walter Snowdon, has
agreed to help me, so hopefully between the two of us we can come up
with some paddlewheels that will at least look the part.

Regards
Eddy