Boating Lake Motor Boats

Yup remember them. Quality time with my Grandpa in East park in Hull. Started the mad desire to work hard and own a boat.
2 years ago took my kids for a ride in the Bridlington ones for a bit of nostalgia when visiting the family in the UK. Memories :)
 
Pinnacle said:
Ahhhh, the home of the 24hrs dinghy race! I well remember doing a great many laps in a very stiff breeze in more or less total darkness.
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Haha yes! In GP14 and Ents. That was West Lancs SC; I was in the other one, SSC, and sailed a Mirror then Lasers. I think WLSC might have been for posh people :) I also waterskied at the north end beyond the weird curved breakwater thing. The phut phut motor boats were all south of the road bridge of course, in their own zone completely separated from the sailing dinghies. Happy days.
 
Good grief...now I remember a tiny pond in Hotham Park, Bognor Regis where a flotilla of allegedly powered boats were for hire.

I guess they were electric with fairly flat batteries, because prodding the foot-pedal caused no noise and precious little movement...

...but I was avid about boats, from the first visit. :)
 
Bunch of bunch of blimming wimps... :)

Down at Looe in the early 1960s you could hire a 10ft or thereabouts wooden clinker built boat with the ubiquitous Stewart Turner and provided you had the right qualifications ie. the money, you could chug off past the groin and head out to sea as far as your time/bottle allowed.
 
Re: Bunch of bunch of blimming wimps... :)

oldgit said:
Down at Looe in the early 1960s you could hire a 10ft or thereabouts wooden clinker built boat with the ubiquitous Stewart Turner and provided you had the right qualifications ie. the money, you could chug off past the groin and head out to sea as far as your time/bottle allowed.
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Same in Fowey too.

Lathams in Poole built clinker wooden then later grp versions of 10ft or so 'launches that were very popular as tenders for thos with moorings that were a bit exposed. I had a friend whose Westerly Seahawk was on a mooring in the Wych off Brownsea and he kept one at Lilliput SC, it had a decent fold down sprayhood too so there was a good chance of getting out to his boat dry, even if meeting the Truckline Ferry wash on the way on a Friday night.
 
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