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| fcrammond |
The Boat Pool at TilfordA few shots from the Tilford Pool. Not the same as those I posted elsewhere. Complementary rather.A short procession of Meteors 
Seahawk crossing Eagle 
Richard concentrates on getting the shot. All four Dereham Boats (and Daphinia!) 
Colin's Pre-war Hobbies launch 
Some serious preparation work going on here 
Mamod powered Athene and Colin's Hobbies 
Swallow streaks past Eagle and Seahawk 
And again, note the bow wave. 
Colin Laker waits for the right moment, finger poised on the shutter. 
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| Les |
Great pictures, thanks Fred. 
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| Chris |
I really enjoy watching the boats, but don't know much about them. Maybe we could have something in the reference section showing the various mamod and bowman boats? (would need the boat owners to take some photos and post a description). | ||
| fcrammond |
Mamod boats are pretty simple. There is only the Mamod Meteor. There are lots of boats powered by the various Mamod Marine Engines and probably even more powered by various rebuilt Mamod Stationary engines and there was a marine engine commercially available based on the Mamod Locomotive cylinder and reversing valve but these boats are all individual, scratch built models.
Bowman boats are a different matter. The prewar company (Dereham) made Swallow, Snipe, Seahawk and Eagle. The postwar company (Luton) made a different Swallow, Snipe, Seahawk and Seajay. To complicate matters, prewar, the Hobbies company made a variety of boats to Bowman Jenkins's patent and a number of others to different designs. There is a fair collection of relevant advertisments on the Bowman Circle Website http://www.bowmancircle.co.uk in the archives section Hope this helps Fred |
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| steamboatmodel |
Are most of the boats free running? or do you use RC for rudder?
Regards, Gerald |
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| Les |
All the boats in these pictures are free running. Welcome to the forum. 
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| Chris |
Thanks Fred, it might once I reread it a few times...  
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| Sandman |
Some great shots there Fred.
Great to see Richard again as well. Some great reports coming from members on the day. |
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| mogogear |
A welcome to you Gerald~! |
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| mogogear |
I would so love to run steam boats with other steam boaters 
A great collection of boats and shots - thanks Fred~! |
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| fcrammond |
The two rather beautiful river launches are R/C steered. The little fantail launch (Colin Andrews) has a unique adaptation of a R/C garage door opener that he hides in his pocket. All the others are free running misguided missiles and can cause havoc on a proper boating pool. Daphinia is particularly lethal as she has a steel hull and a fairly basic paint job. Due to overwhelming popular demand I am posting a few more pictures of the pool 
Colin's little "Garage Door Remote" controlled Fantail. 
It works well most of the time 
With her steel hull and rather basic paint job Daphinia likes to have a go at the more refined river launches 
So does Meteor 
Colin (Laker) is still trying to get a shot of all four Bowmen together but isn't that Swallow being titivated on the bench? 
Gotcha! 
Daphinia has a certain aplomb. I think having the exhaust up the funnel helps. 
Seahawk's Revenge. 
Meteor has another go at a river launch, Fantail waits her moment. 
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| MamodFan |
Courtesy of Colin Laker
And they are off as Eagle receives attention 
Swallow needs some rudder trim
There's an imposter 
Swallow avoiding trouble 
The unguided torpedo about to cause trouble here, just look at that bow wave
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| Chris |
Some of those photos might help to explain this one 
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| Les |
Ian kept that quiet on the day.
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| MamodFan |
The poor old girl was taking on a bit of water due to a number of collisions, the more it took on the more it listed over, taking on yet more water. |
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| fcrammond |
That's the trouble with these fast girls. They do tend to take on a bit too much liquor and then there is trouble
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| MamodFan |
Not that you would know Fred
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| Atticman |
really great pics there.
So when straight ruddered was Swallow the fastest
Funnily enough with my Dads trio, usually Snipes the fastest. I had always assumed it would be Seahawk, being a twin, but she just purrs around for a good half hour or more. |
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| fcrammond |
I am still fairly convinced the answer lies in the burner wick settings, everything else being constant. Perhaps next year we ought to have a series of timed trials with various wick settings. As it was Swallow was far faster than anything else. Ah now being Ian's it would almost certainly have Wonder Wicks fitted. Might be a clue there
Fred |
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| kusuchi |
A few more pics from the boating pool at Tilford.
The Bowmans, (and Daphinia). 
Never managed to get the four of them together. 
Fred................. 
......................and his collection. 
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| Kritika |
Thanks for the pictures Fred | ||
| fcrammond |
They are Richards pictures, all very good bar one
Fred |
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| kusuchi |
Which one was that, Fred? 
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