Our RC Boating Site
2 years ago now John Suffered a stroke, prior to his stroke he was an active busy guy, post the stroke the easiest of tasks became a huge challenge, and one of these was coming to terms with the fact he couldn’t do all the things he used to.
In order to challenge him and give him focus his son bought him a Radio Controlled Sail boat.
Thankfully John recovered very well, and regained a lot of his movement, he was able to build and sail the ‘Kyosho Sea Wind’ within just a few short weeks.
John & his Son Gordon found an excellent club at Wicksteed Park in Kettering just a few miles from their home in Northampton, the club is a friendly group of like-minded enthusiasts that welcomed them into their club, soon Sunday mornings became sailing days.
The passion for the hobby took a hold on Gordon as well, and he purchased his first boat to sail with his father, opting for a powered option rather than sail.
The hobby being so addictive grew to include the wider family and soon John & Gordon's wives joined the Sunday sails, and bought along the grandson.
In little more than a year the family hobby has grown to include more than 30 boats between them, a mixture of kits, scratch builds, Power & Sail, this site is dedicated to the builds and boats.
Latest Boats & Builds
Below are a few posts about some of our boats as well as posts about our recent builds
Scratch build….
So what is scratch building, a few people have differing views, a kit build doesn’t qualify, but what if you purchase a Fibreglass moulded hull? does that then constitute scratch … Continued
Winter Project
For my winter project, (rumour has it we will be locked down again soon, so need to prepare the ‘entertainment’), I fancy building a springer tug, but with a Z-Peller … Continued
Rudder Mixers under test
I have successfully used 2 Action-Electronics P94’s both in brushed lifeboat projects, was extremely pleased with ease of setup and performance The P94 is essentially a single unit containing 2 … Continued
Blog – Final – 2024
My final entry to this website, I am retiring from modelling, I have purchased a Narrowboat, and the longer term plan is emigration.. I have thoroughly enjoyed building and sailing … Continued
Blog – April 22
April is a slow month for me, but my father has been busy, so a word from him; Water Jet Powered Boat So being into model boats I started looking … Continued
Blog – March 2022
So March started with a couple of purchases, firstly 2 plastic boats from an auction that I won for £15, the smaller of the two was a Helios and was … Continued
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Boats
Below are some of the Radio Controlled Watercraft we have in our collection. Click the image for more information about each boat.
