Model Boats

As an ex Merchant Navy Radio Officer, I always had a fascination for Model boats / Model ships call them what you will.  From the amazing museum pieces in the National Maritime museum or many other museums around the country and even the world....down to the little scratch built models sailing most sundays on local ponds all over the country.

30 years ago I owned a model sailing boat called a 'Marblehead'  I used to race it under strict rules of the MYA.  About 12 months ago I visited a show in Liverpool and my interest was regenerated

Totall out of the blue a good friend gave me the Tamar class lifeboat shown above, a very large and expensive model albeit unfinished.

The I acquired the little fishing boat.  It is called a 'Fifie'.  The model is based on a Scottish class of boat presumably from the Fifeshire region.  Only a small model but beautifully formed.  So on fine Sunday mornings I take it down to the pond in Bury and enjoy a relaxing hour or so sailing away to foreign climes,  and chatting to other like minded souls and admiring their boats.

Harmless passtime but I enjoy it.