On holiday in Suffolk last week we enjoyed watching some yachts.
They were remote controlled models on a yacht pond. I suppose you could call them toy yachts or?
It's years since I've seen model yachting like this.
It looks really relaxing.
There were different sizes of yachts but this was the one we saw sailing.
I think there were yachting pools in most seaside towns. Maybe there still are.
So is that radio controlled jib and sail? or it just doing its own thing? Theres a big yachting pool in New Brighton on the front, last time I went it was full of r/c powerboats. You used to see a lot of boats on Sefton Park Boating lake, in Aigburth, Liverpool, but its fell into disuse lately and the pond is heavily weeded. Bill
ReplyDeleteYep, the chap off camera is controlling the yacht. I bet many yachting ponds are full of weeds now. Aldburgh is a swish place, everything is tip too there.
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Tip top! Doh!
ReplyDeleteMany moons ago, most school holidays we would go and stay at my mum's parents in Ipswich. Daytrips from there to Great Yarmouth always involved going to the yacht pond with our assortment of toy yachts. At one point my brother had a clockwork seaplane that used to get about halfway across before it ran out of sproing.
ReplyDeleteHappy days indeed by the sounds of it Anon. That seaplane sounds great too. It must have been fab to see in action!
DeleteAs befits a captain I have a couple of pond yachts as well as an older radio-controlled sailboat that I occasionally sail. In fact, the first boat I ever owned was a dark blue pond yacht I purchased at a flea market for $.25 when I was a child; this was a case of dramatic foreshadowing as my current sailboat is also dark blue!
ReplyDeleteha ha! That toy boat came full circle Cap! Send us a snap of your yachs and boats, toy or otherwise, when you're on shoreleave sometime!
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