YM very mixed up this month

[claymore]

On the one hand it defines in glorious technicolour the "Average" yachtsman - lets just remember - we are around 50 and sail boats of around 30 ft. We spend a few bob on marinas and cranes etc blah de blah.
Turn to the back cover and read about the Raymarine remote control which starts off with words along the lines of....
Remember when you were a kid and you first got a remote controlled something or other...
Well - I'm fiftyish and sail a boat thats 30ft and spend a few bob of marina fees etc but a remote control when I was a kid - get real.
We built spitfires and stukas out of airfix kits and aspired to building Lancasters, Wellingtons and Sunderland flying boats
So which bloody market are we aiming at here - because I don't think its the segment I live in.

 

[machurley22]

So you haven't been on an anger management course this past few days then?

Dave

 

[iangrant]

I always wanted a remote control Spitfire - all I had was a Hurricane with a glowplug that went round on strings - what did they call them?

I was happy though.


Ian

 

[bigmart]

I was more peed off at PBO.

Have any problems with planners & your local mooring area & you will most likely get 3 or4 lines tucked somewhere insignificant in the Mag.

Talk about upsetting the Editors Sailing Club & you get a multi-page spread & a one sided report on how money hungry the planners are.

Rant Over!

Martin /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[machurley22]

[ QUOTE ]
- all I had was a Hurricane with a glowplug that went round on strings - what did they call them?

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"control line" 'planes I think. I could only dream of such wonders though.

Dave

 

[Gunfleet]

The good old days (not)

I'm fiftyish too and the nearest I got to remote control was my Mum yanking on those blue leather kiddie reins to stop me running into the street. Remember them? Once we got a tv we used to warm it up for about fifteen minutes before watching the one channel. Wax fruit (what was that for?), no central heating, no family member owned a car or telephone. If we wanted to speak to someone we went round their house and waited. We had ice inside the windows at night - just as well as we didn't own a fridge. Everything was boiled for a couple of hours before we ate it. Spaghetti bolognese was very foriegn. Remember the stink of people on the bus when it rained? Flannel and worsted. Remote control? I think the guy who wrote the copy was abt 20!

 

[jonjo]

Is this forum thread an audition for a new TV program?

 

[machurley22]

Re: The good old days (not)

But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

You really should be able to reply to two posts simultaneously.

Dave

 

[brianhumber]

Remote Control science fiction for me.
Spent my sub teen years damming up the local stream, getting kicked when trying to milk uncles cow's for some full cream unpasturised milk straight from the udder, helping dad fix 2 stroke engines and building matchbox sail boats to sink in the bath.

 

[boatmike]

Re: The good old days (not)

I am 62 and remember when we didn't have a TV set at all. The first one I ever saw had a 9 inch screen with a big magnifying glass over the top. Wached the Queens coronation on that in black and white. Good old Dimbleby......The first set I ever saw with a remote control had a long wire back to the TV set and when I first got a set with an infra red control my grannie was frightened of it cos she thought it was an instrument of the devil....... Tried explaining to her it was like a "wireless" set but she wouldn't have it cos she could see a wire coming out of the back of that to a plug in the wall..... No good will come of it, you see........

 

[boatmike]

Ah that was the start of the rot then....Machbox sailboats...... Think how much money you would have now if you had stuck to toy soldiers......

 

[StugeronSteve]

Remote control! When I was a lad we couldn't afford a remote control for the telly, not that they'd been invented then, remotes not tellys (although they were black and white and only showed progs like Andy Pandy), but we couldn't have afforded one if they had been invented.

Did build a radio controlled plane in me thirties and proudly took it to the local model flying club, where they told me that to comply with insurance requirements someone would have to do the take off and landing for me. The fecker crashed it on the second go and I've never liked remote controls since then, so I'm not having one on me boat.

 

[RivalRedwing]

[ QUOTE ]
I was more peed off at PBO.

Have any problems with planners & your local mooring area & you will most likely get 3 or4 lines tucked somewhere insignificant in the Mag.

Talk about upsetting the Editors Sailing Club & you get a multi-page spread & a one sided report on how money hungry the planners are.

Rant Over!

Martin /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

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Yeah, her rant struck me as being a little parochial and self serving, a bit like electing to live by the side of the M25 and then complaining about the traffic noise. Still, nothing like the misrepresentation of Tom Cunliffe's views on Rivals that was published in last months YM (see earlier thread).

 

[halcyon]

Sail !!!, we used to be power boater, each October / November down our little pond in the field with penny bangers.

Do not try what we did.

Brian

 

[doris]

Airfix thingies

I though it was more fun building airfix Heinkles then hanging them from a tree by a bit of string so they could swing around. Then shoot the hun out of the sky with an air rifle. Bloody marvellous!

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Lets keep it boaty, chaps - we are on Scuttlebutt after all!

I am in late 40's, and can remember helping my father to sand down the varnish on a clinker built day boat - it was an Island, IIRC. WHilst it was only about 16ft long, with a centre plate, it was so chuffing heavy it spent the summer on a swinging mooring in Chi Harbour. Re the sanding down, the whole lot would be revarnished every spring, then antifoul applied within a day of the boat going back in the water. Of course, my perception of "help" was a different to that of my (very patient) father!

Semi-conductors had only just been invented, to replace the valves in the telly itself, let alone a remote control!

 

[Sans Bateau]

Steve

Bloke crashed your 'plane? I hope you punched him in the mouth!

On the point of television, one of the first TV's in the village was owned by the vicar, the deal was, go to sunday school and you were allowed around to the vicarage afterwards to watch, yes you can remember it........... Bonaza!!!

But you know, on a more serious note, that what makes our (50ish) generation more adaptable, able to fix things, make things; it was the construction of Model boat kits and model aircraft, if you could get them to fly you were in seventh heaven! Find somewhere to float your model boat, it made the week. Endless days of summer holidays, building making and fixing things, mechanical minds.

Sadly today (remember the good old days, knew I'd get to say that eventually!), sadly today youths growing up live in a different world, out of the box and if the batteries are flat it goes back to the shop!

When the kids of today are in their 50's they will sail yachts and powerboats, controlled by laptops, little user intervention (or enjoyment) probably controlled by strict harbour or 'sea area' navigation restrictions, their boats controlled from shore by the beurocrats.

 

[bigmart]

My wife bought me a Radio Controlled Model Yacht for my Birthday last year.

I've built it & checked all the radio gear & it works fine. The only trouble is that I can't find anywhere to use it. It draws 14 inches & unless I want to go for a deep wade I can't be sure where is safe to sail it.

I suppose thats the trouble with getting old (over 50 again) I don't fancy the discomfort of retrieving it.

Martin /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[StugeronSteve]

There was a guy happily sailing his down the Beaulieu at Easter. Controlling it from the comfort of his inflatable, as he followed it's progress down the river. Being under engine, at the time, I had to give way to the thing...bl**dy collision regs.

 

[bigmart]

You mean you weren't constrained by you draught?

Martin /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif