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The 31st annual Newport News Craft Festival was held at the massive Newport News City Park last weekend. My model boating club, the Virginia Elite Fleet, was invited to again attend and put on a show for the attendees. That we did. This was the first time that Ellie, me, and Rose were there. Wow! What a venue, as the pictures will show.
Just look at that water! And it's fresh too. And the overhanging platform made r/c submarine operation a joy -- the water out there is not too deep and you can barely make out the submerged model all the way to the bottom.
The real crowd pleaser was the Moebius SEAVIEW -- very stately on the surface and a menacing profile submerged. Ran like clockwork.
The 1/72 SKIPJACK was the problem-child of the day -- bad ESC. The one in there was about five-years old and has since been replaced with the larger of the two MTronics ESC's sold by Caswell. No more problems on that front expected!
The little Trumpeter KILO was rock-solid reliable. I was getting 90 minute run times. And I had a whole bunch of kids and adults operating the KILO, looking down on it from the raised pier.
Sunday afternoon Rose sneaked the KILO away to her table and quickly removed the sail (it's magnetically attached to the hull) and replaced it with a quickly painted shark fin she cut out of a used paper plate.
Plunking it in the water she got it underway, dived, and sped it along in a series of tight S-turns. She delighted in the shrieks of, "SHARK, SHARK .... SHARK!" from the audience. That kid's got a real evil steak. Obviously gets it from her Grandmother.
The two-day event closed late Sunday afternoon, just time enough remained for a group photo as we dutifully rendered the secret club salute for the camera ... apparently Rose did not get the memo about the club salute.
I took video too. I'll send Mike a DVD so he can get some of that up and running for you as well.
David,
Just look at that water! And it's fresh too. And the overhanging platform made r/c submarine operation a joy -- the water out there is not too deep and you can barely make out the submerged model all the way to the bottom.
The real crowd pleaser was the Moebius SEAVIEW -- very stately on the surface and a menacing profile submerged. Ran like clockwork.
The 1/72 SKIPJACK was the problem-child of the day -- bad ESC. The one in there was about five-years old and has since been replaced with the larger of the two MTronics ESC's sold by Caswell. No more problems on that front expected!
The little Trumpeter KILO was rock-solid reliable. I was getting 90 minute run times. And I had a whole bunch of kids and adults operating the KILO, looking down on it from the raised pier.
Sunday afternoon Rose sneaked the KILO away to her table and quickly removed the sail (it's magnetically attached to the hull) and replaced it with a quickly painted shark fin she cut out of a used paper plate.
Plunking it in the water she got it underway, dived, and sped it along in a series of tight S-turns. She delighted in the shrieks of, "SHARK, SHARK .... SHARK!" from the audience. That kid's got a real evil steak. Obviously gets it from her Grandmother.
The two-day event closed late Sunday afternoon, just time enough remained for a group photo as we dutifully rendered the secret club salute for the camera ... apparently Rose did not get the memo about the club salute.
I took video too. I'll send Mike a DVD so he can get some of that up and running for you as well.
David,
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