Hi all
I used to sail at Black Park in the 80's before there was a club. Are there still those strange mini 'Bermuda Triangles' scattered around the water ? Every so often there would be small (2-3 ft across) areas where all control of the model would be lost. They weren't constant and the theory was that it was some sort of interference from the local hospital gear.
I spent one afternoon mucking up a film scene shoot from the studio where a load of Cossacks on horses chased some raggy bloke to the lake and he jumps into a dinghy. I surmised that the period they were trying to show didn't include a radio controlled Marbelhead yacht, so every time the flood lights came on I would sail the yacht in close. Off would go the lights until I sailed it out of shot and so on. Finally some bloke with one of those monocular thingies round his neck came panting round the lake looking for the owner so I decided I had better let them get on !! I know - little things please little minds etc - but there was nobody else around to have a race with ! 
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best regards
MikeK
Hey Mike K you must remember members like jon sandall then, he had a huge Sct Knud tug, and a little fisihing boat called eileen ?- and also arthur townsend, ( he used to be called the commodore, every sunday he arrived with a different boat... he had one hell of a fleet )
then there was the charachters like bob gaines and his 9ft long kingswer castle, , and then there was don newly with his swan wearing a bow tie and top hat...... AAAHHH those were the days we would arrive on a sunday morning and sail for a while, then we used to sail across to the cafe, and drink copious amounts of coffee and eat the great hot pasties......that little cafe was great... a real hub of the club on those cold mornings in winter- and especially on the boxing day morning sail !
steve the cafe owner always popped something into your coffee on boxing day to keep you warm, he knew everyone by name too.....
sadly the dell cafe has now gone replaced by some huge faceless place serving chips and greasy junk food...... but black park in the 80's brings back many great memories, plus you could park for free too...........
those were the days.........
