Biddinghuizen 2025

[MFR1964]

This event was held at the local skatingclub at Biddinghuizen, every year we meet there, this time also people from Belgium and Germany, enjoy

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

You sandy-haired, old sage, you!... is that you with the small Type-21, twiddling the knobs of an old WFly transmitter???? Damn! That looks like fun times over there on the other side of the world.

[MFR1964]

Yup, that's me, besides the old Wfly i've got me a new one in the box as a spare.
She's cute the type XXI, there was a guy with the type XXI scale 1:48, he could deploy his forward dive-planes, but hey, so can I, he almost fell into the water after seeing that, size doesn't matter for me, getting things done on a smaller scale is the challence.

Manfred.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Yup, that's me, besides the old Wfly i've got me a new one in the box as a spare.
She's cute the type XXI, there was a guy with the type XXI scale 1:48, he could deploy his forward dive-planes, but hey, so can I, he almost fell into the water after seeing that, size doesn't matter for me, getting things done on a smaller scale is the challence.

Manfred.

LOL. Wish I could have seen that guy's face when you popped out those planes! Go get 'em, Manfred!

[MFR1964]

Shown the opening of the torpedo tubes to that guy, he said to me, don't have the room for that, what!!, on that scale you have loads of room.

Manfred.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Shown the opening of the torpedo tubes to that guy, he said to me, don't have the room for that, what!!, on that scale you have loads of room.

Manfred.

Toying with your peers. I like it! Nothing more satisfying than twisting the blade, just a bit.

[Das Boot]

Shown the opening of the torpedo tubes to that guy, he said to me, don't have the room for that, what!!, on that scale you have loads of room.

Manfred.

Manfred, do you have any video of your XXI running? You did a fantastic job putting it together, and I’d love to see it.

[MFR1964]

Manfred, do you have any video of your XXI running? You did a fantastic job putting it together, and I’d love to see it.

Not yet, SWMBO, stayed at home, maybe someone else did, we have to wait and see.
If not, in the future i will take a vid about the XXI, she runs that nice it has to be documented.

Manfred.

[MFR1964]

Toying with your peers. I like it! Nothing more satisfying than twisting the blade, just a bit.

Sometimes you have to tease them, i hope they get motivated to take the jump to do more.

Manfred.

[rwtdiver]

Manfred,

It looked like Submarines dominated the water at your event! This kind of events are really what make the hobby so special.

Thank you for sharing your photos...

Rob
"Firemen can stand the heat."

[MFR1964]

Rob, majority was submarines of all sorts and scales, only a few targets, brought my OSA II, to give the guys some practise.
Talking alot with fellowbuilders, peeking inside their models, there is allways something new to learn, also had a guys who makes vids on Youtube, when he makes it online i'll post a link.

Manfred.

[Albacore 569]

Hi Manfred.

The harbor infrastructure? That is so cool! I always wanted to go to a regatta with docks like that. We can even dock our subs side by side in the water like real subs do!

Judges then can actually score docking skills too.

Are these piers built and transported to site for the regatta? Or permanent? It looks ironically like a plastic miniature Mulberry Harbor. (Ironic = a German Mulberry. .lol)
See posts also on one end of the dock that can allow piers to rise and fall with the ponds water levels.

I wish American regattas could have something like that. The local park services are so ****ing model boat unfriendly. WE have two local ones
San Francisco (Spreckles lake built in 1895 specifically for model boats!) and Walnut creek California. The San Francisco one is ideal, but far away and is a special trip. The Walnut Creek is closer, and I used to run my subs there, but sometime in the past since some park service added metal railing and the geese make the area toxic for model sub paint and radio reception.

Envious!


16' T-Shaped Floating Dock Package

[trout]

A couple of Walruses in the mix. Nice event. Manfred, you bring class to our hobby. Why not plan a trip to the US and join one of our runs? Would enjoy meeting you. If you can’t, then maybe I will have to plan a trip to one of your runs. Would love to learn more Manfredizing of subs.

[MFR1964]

Steven, those docks are permanent there during the summer, i suspect they are removed during the winter, when the water is frozen the pond will be used for ice-skating
Near my home there is a dedicated water especially for modelboats, permanent placed, even with a mechanical lift to get big models into the water.

Tom, maybe in the future, transporting a model by plane could be a issue, unless i take the small one's as hand bagage, not sure if i have to remove the batteries from the models.
You're allways wellcome to pay me a visit, i can show you the cave and some sightseeing of the netherlands, as for the walrus subs, there were also some zwaardvis models, those are the forrunners of the walrus subs, you can seperate them by looking at the sternplanes, walrus has the X planes, zwaardvis has the crucifix planes.
The idea is, when the planes are damaged, you have more possibilities to steer with the walrus configuration.

Manfred.

[Subculture]

Lithium batteries have to be carried as hand luggage on aeroplanes.