Cliff Newell’s Mascotte
The Bristol Pilot Cutter “Mascotte”; in action at Setley Pond
The Bristol Pilot Cutter “Mascotte”; in action at Setley Pond
This is a conversion of an NQD ‘Spurt’ ready-to-run boat. The ‘toy’ 40Mhz radio gear has been replaced by ‘proper’ 27Mhz...
This boat represents a triumph of development over design – a Maplin toy R/C speedboat has been adapted to use a...
A turn of the century, colonial river gun-boat – for “showing the flag” to the natives and the control of smuggling...
Indescribable!
A modified Thunder Tiger fishing boat. The jib of the crane is made from a coat-hanger and its boiler is a...
“PS Panjandrum”. The boat is adapted from a child’s beach/bath toy with an MFA motor/gearbox driving the paddle wheels, which themselves...
Not long after Alan Bond joined the SRCMBC he spotted a pondside bargain – a small cabin cruiser, complete except for...
An on-board camera view of Alan Bond’s pusher tug trying, not very successfully, to follow Tony Crollie’s 1898 vintage torpedo boat....
A short trip aboard Alan Bond’s Pusher Tug showing the activity at Setley Pond on a fine autumn morning. Pusher Tug...