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    Post  nigele(ADMIN)2 Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:27 pm

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    My old Engel Patrick Henry, just surfaced after completing a steering regatta course whilst submerged at Crowborough Model Boat Club's lake in Sussex.
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    Post  nigele(ADMIN)2 Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:29 pm

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    Jim Ward's beautiful Darnell Type V11c U-352
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    Me with my modified Darnell P class, built to represent HMCS Onondaga, on her public debut at Plumpton Show, back in the early eighties.
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    Three above pictures show Bernie Wood's famous exploding coaster, built for demonstrations at the various shows we used to go to.
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    The two pictures above are of me holding Terry Chamberlain's huge T class sub, in his garden in Gosport. If my memory serves me correctly, this boat was/is in the Sub Museum at Gosport.
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    I think this boat is Roger Serpell's T class at the Derby Show, back in the late eighties.
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    I don't know who's boat this is...
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    I believe this was Gareth Smith's Darnell U-47
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    Roger Serpell's Darnell T Class...I think.
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    The man himself...the late Bernie Wood and his Darnell Type V11, at Orpington Lake (I think?)
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    Top two pictures are my old Darnell Type V11c in the swimming pool at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, at a charity show we did, 1986 I think.
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    Top picture is of my U-117.

    Bottom pictures shows from left to right...Bernie Wood's Darnell Biber(top)Darnell Type V11(below)centre my Engel Patrick Henry, right(top)Bernie's Darnell Type V11 and Vic Felton's Darnell Type XX1(below)
    In the left foreground is Dave Steven's Russian Charlie class, built from a length of plastic drainpipe and the ends from a Coke bottle.
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    David Jaques' ASTUTE whilst still under construction, complete with ship's cat observing.


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