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Offline Walter Snowdon

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Rocket Boats.
« on: December 13, 2007, 08:36:53 AM »
This coming Sunday sees the unique annnual rocket boat competition At the Darlington Model boat club. ( Home of Walter, Eddy and Bob Golder) and is a pre Christmas knees up and a bit of fun. The rules are simple (as is everytrhing we do in this club). I provide a batch of identical cheap FIREWORK rockets, minus sticks and exploding heads and members design and build a model round the rocket. The aim is to get as far across the club lake WITHOUT LEAVING THE WATER. Have you ever seen a rocket powered submarine or a boat which just refuses to move?. We have them all! Remember these rockets only burn for about 2 seconds and the initial thrust is extremely high. The results are hilarious!! As long as there is no ice it will be a great morning. Hopefully Eddy will post some photos. I know its not paddlers, but you have to be serious sometime!!!. regards, Walter.
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Offline Eddy Matthews

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« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2007, 08:40:01 AM »
Quote from: "Walter Snowdon"
Hopefully Eddy will post some photos. I know its not paddlers, but you have to be serious sometime!!!. regards, Walter.


Eddy will post some photos if he remembers to take his camera!! ;)
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Offline Bob Golder

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« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2007, 11:51:50 AM »
Bob will remind Eddy to take his camera - if he remembers to that is :!:
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Offline Walter Snowdon

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« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2007, 09:50:18 PM »
Forget it you two old jerryhattricks- I will take a pencil and draw pictures! Regards, walter.
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« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2007, 03:01:45 AM »
You must be really good friends at the D&DMBC :hammer

Regards Hans
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Offline Eddy Matthews

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« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2007, 04:08:30 AM »
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You must be really good friends at the D&DMBC :hammer

Regards Hans


The problem is we know each other too well  :nah
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Offline Bob Golder

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« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2007, 01:44:29 AM »
You CAN go off some people you know :x
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Offline Eddy Matthews

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« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2007, 11:49:32 PM »
Well, despite freezing temperatures the rocket boat competition went ahead.

The first job was to clear a channel of ice which took almost two hours! The ice was more than 1.5" thick, and it needed a 14Lb sledgehammer to break it!

Considering the freezing conditions, the turnout was pretty good, though the usual spectators were a bit thin on the ground - Probably staying indoors in front of the fire!

There was the usual mix of good attempts and total failures, but it's all done in a very lighthearted manner, so everyone enjoyed it. Photos of the event can be seen in the photo gallery at: http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/forum/album_cat.php?cat_id=52 Sadly some are a little blurred as my camera lens kept steaming up with the cold, but it should give a flavour of what happened.
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Offline steamboatmodel

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« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2007, 11:52:15 AM »
Looks like it was fun. Here we would have 2 feet or more of snow to move before we found the ice.
Regards,
Gerald
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Offline Walter Snowdon

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« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2007, 08:14:58 PM »
I bet our Oz friends wish they had that much FREE ice to cool their tinnies in the middle of their hot season! It was as usual a quite hilarious morning with the usual mayhem and the odd boat which thought it was an aircraft!. I am hoping to have a rerun when the ice melts as I have a few rockets left over as some COWARDS never turned up.!!!!!. I may even persuade (shame) Eddy in resurecting PLANK

or SON OF PLANK. Yes, one year Eddy stated that anyone could make a rocket boat as the initial thrust would move anything. So..... Eddy arrived with a piece of rock hard half inch balsa 12 inches long and 4 inches wide with a ski front  (I think he used a chopping axe for the finely shaped bow) and a rocket glued onto the back. THE DAMNED THING WORKED  and he certainly wasnt last!
Now, i wonder if you glued blades to two Catherine Wheels and nailed them onto PLANK would you have the worlds first rocket powered paddler?. the mind boggles!!!   I must start getting out more and mixing with golfers or footballers in the REAL world.   Regards, Walter.
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« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2007, 09:42:09 AM »
Walter
Have you ever seen any photos of the North British paddle steamer "LUCY ASHTON" when she was fitted with jet engines at the end of her career?

Alex Thomson
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Offline AlistairD

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« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2007, 10:58:29 AM »
There is a photo in my book "Steamers of the Clyde: NBR & LNER" published by Tempus Publishing in 2000 and still in print

Alistair Deayton
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Walter
Have you ever seen any photos of the North British paddle steamer "LUCY ASHTON" when she was fitted with jet engines at the end of her career?

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Offline Roderick Smith

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« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2007, 04:55:07 PM »
Alistair's post reminded me that the CPAY thread faltered after only two entries.  There should be enough material for one per week for a few years.

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Offline mjt60a

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« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2007, 07:17:37 AM »
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Walter
Have you ever seen any photos of the North British paddle steamer "LUCY ASHTON" when she was fitted with jet engines at the end of her career?

Alex Thomson


There's one here - http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/lucyasht/lucyasht.htm
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Offline AlistairD

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« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2007, 10:52:48 AM »
Sorry, my scanner, which was part of an all-in-one printer-cum-scanner has given up the ghost, and I have replace it with a simple printer. I have a number of images on my hard drive, and will post some soon

Alistair
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Alistair's post reminded me that the CPAY thread faltered after only two entries. There should be enough material for one per week for a few years.

Regards,
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