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The Seahorse Model Boat Club
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20/09/2024
The Seahorse Model Boat Club is one of the more active groups for enthusiasts of the maritime past time.
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I don't think there's a lot of individual boat clubs, this is probably one of the main
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ones but there is another, this one's based in Craighaven, there is another one at Piggy
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Park in Bangor and they meet most Sundays actually so it's very nice there and it's
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a smaller lake and you can retrieve your boats if they start to sink so Piggy Park's a great
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place for testing out boats that you've built and to find out whether they leak or not because
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I can tell you there's a few boats in this lake that are down at the bottom unfortunately.
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It's just something different, I like something different and one of the fellas he's retiring he
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says I have a bit of foam four foot square and six inches deep would you want it and I says oh
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yes so that's what it is, I've changed it in and I like it.
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I used to enjoy ordinary power boating but now that I'm in my 70s it's a bit much that now,
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water skiing and all that so I thought I'd just like to try and get into into the model boating
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and put my hand to building a boat or two and see how it works and I came across this club
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and do you know the main thing is the camaraderie, it's just amazing, there's probably
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about I don't know there might be maybe 20 or 30 members in this club and there's always sort of
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nine or ten people turn up each meeting and we just have a lot of fun and we help each other
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out with the technology of the boats as well so me as a learner I came along I had no idea
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what it was about, what motors to buy, how to connect up the batteries, how dangerous the
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batteries can be if you don't make sure you get the right ones and there's so many technical
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things in building boats and some of these guys have been engineers and they've had a lifetime
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of building boats and it's just brilliant being able to and everyone's so generous with giving
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their expertise but being so nice about it as well so it's great, it's a lot of fun.
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