Had a nice run with the Schnellboot Wiesel at the June 21,2026 meet of the Suncoast Scale Model Boat Club. First time back in the water after 15+ years in my display case. I was hoping for a little more speed but the boat ran well and looked good cutting the water. But then, don't all of the Schnellboot look good? Only issue was me letting it drift into some weeds while setting up my camera on the tripod. Most of the video was recorded at about 30 meters away but the decent zoom on the camera brought the boat in close. I hope you enjoy the video.

The club put on a display on at the Port Dover Museum. We had 5 tables & one brave soul ran his model in the river.

At the last SSMBC (Seminole, Florida, U.S.A.) Jim brought his RC scale model of the "Blue Devil" (WWII Fletcher Class destroyer) to the SSMBC meet. Having taken a video of it I decided to have some fun and edit it and add some sound effects to represent it looking for a German U-Boat. About 2-1/2 minutes long).
Sound layers added: Water, engine, sonar, alarm, and voice.
Lew

We had pretty good weather for this meet of the Suncoast Scale Model Boat Club. The temperature was 84F instead of the usual 90-92F for this time of the year. No rain, clear skies and a light breeze. The photos show the variety of boats (leaning a little heavy on the tugs) present at the meet.
Lew
SSMBC Event Coordinator

Here are some more pictures from KMBC Open Day

On Sunday Knightcote Model Boat Club had its annual openday, here are some pictures.

Very pleased with how this model runs.

Run Century mahogany R/C model at Spencer's last week had a few hic ups needed to change the brushed motor now runs fine.

First run of My Midwest Sequin Tug Boat plus a dumas tug with a barge. The pool superviser got some Fake white swans to keep the geese away which was a failure.

Put together a wee video of Snowberry's first time on the water, recorded by my husband using my Pocket3 Gimbal camera...

Anyone Recognise This Boat Kit ? Picked it up at a B&B sale last Sunday - put it in the bath today to float test it but it sank in 6 minutes - trying to look for the kit to see if it worth spending time on but cant find anything

sorry accidentally posted twice - can a Mod please delete the second one - many apologies

Found out how to do it myself many thanks and apologies again

Here are some more pictures
The strange looking green "boat" is the camera boat.