[use PC/tablet view] [Home Page] Scale News (←last 4 posts→) Membership is now dueLorna SoffeJuly 3, 2020 Membership is now due: Sole membership £10.00 Joint membership £15.00 Family membership £20.00 Membership can either be paid by cheque or direct to the bank account, please contact Lorna Soffe (membership@srcmbc.org.uk) for details.... Pond Operating AreasSite AdminJune 15, 2020Gentle Reminder: now lockdown is starting to be relaxed, and club sailing is restarting, on scale section days members are required to adibe by the operating areas as marked the map…... Setley Pond OPEN for use with new FE rulesDavid McNair-TaylorJune 12, 2020I am pleased to say that we have heard back from Forestry England. We had a couple of queries with their reply so we phoned them as we didn’t want to wait another week for a response to an email. The reason for the phone call was to resolve a couple of the problems we had, one of them was racing, which we explained was no different in the actual activity than just going up and sailing. As we still stand 2 m apart and social distancing doesn’t change at all. Please find below a couple of paragraphs from their reply:- Apologies, yes your members can return up to six at a time but to comply with the government’s guidance, they will need to arrive as individuals and no organised group activities/races can commence just yet. I would also make you aware (although I expect you already are) that the forest ponds have been inundated with members of the general public in recent weeks and therefore, on a sunny day, your members will need to be mindful of this. One thing that has come to light in the last couple of days is an ecological query regarding the condition of the ponds in the New Forest which is being followed up this week by our Ecologist and Natural England. At this point, I have no further news or even an indication that this will have an impact on the recreational use of the ponds, but I just wanted to provide you with this information early on. I will of course update you as I know more.” NOTE: Please read the website section for more information on Possible health problems from pond water. So yes we can go back to the pond under Government guide lines and groups of 6. Their main concern was interaction with the general public where they have had problems with them and their staff!! They asked if we could work with them and try not to have any disputes with the general public. With regards to the Ecological condition of the pond I think we have just got to sit tight and see what comes of it. But we can not see that anything we do to the pond is any greater that one horse/cow relieving itself in the pond and all the dogs that swim in it. Hopefully we will see approval to lift the 6 person limit from the Government soon. Regards, David Important – Please Read these Guidelines for Club Activities at the Pond... 8th June: Permit still not reactivatedDavid McNair-TaylorJune 9, 2020Unfortunately we are still awaiting a reply from Forestry England to our request to have our permit to resume normal Club Activity at Setley Pond, we have contacted them again today and hopefully will receive a reply this week. Please be patient. We are sure that we will be meeting again very soon, all be it with new safety procedures for members to follow. These have been drafted for both sections of the club and submitted to with our permit activation request. Unfortunately the lack of respect shown by visitors from the general public over the past few weeks have caused numerous problems in the National Park, which I believe is possibly delaying permission in letting us resume our activity at Setley; a major area for ground nesting birds and other vulnerable natural resources. I will post another update when I have more news. David . Extract from Latest update from the National Park Authority for your interest: Respect and care for the New Forest New Forest organisations are working together to keep people and the Forest safe with a simple New Forest code. This beautiful area needs protecting, and we’d like to thank the vast majority of people who are respecting the National Park. Sadly, over the past few days we and our partners have had to deal with numerous incidents involving BBQs, fires, people feeding and petting ponies, and inconsiderate parking. Wildlife has been compromised by litter left in the Forest, and people have been putting lives at risk by swimming in rivers and ponds where it’s unsafe to do so. Call for ban on disposable BBQ’s We’re calling on retailers across the Forest to remove disposable barbecues from sale and for a continued ban on fires and barbecues in the open countryside of the National Park. The move follows large numbers of disposable barbecues being used while the New Forest is at extreme risk of fire. Multiple fires have had to be put out in recent weeks and numerous areas of scorched earth have been left across the protected habitats when a fire warning is still in place. A haven for dragonflies Southern Hawker…Beautiful Damoiselle….Broad-bodied chaser. These are just some of the wonderful dragonflies and damselflies we’re lucky to have here in the New Forest. With clean streams, more wet bogs than anywhere else in north-west Europe and many ponds, the New Forest is a particularly important place for these delicate creatures. Save our foals The New Forest pony is a valued rare breed, and every one matters. At this time of year, when there are foals born on the Forest, there’s also a spike in accidents. Skittish foals have even less road sense than older ponies and are very unpredictable. They often run in circles near their mothers, making them more likely to be involved in an accident. Please help livestock by slowing down, especially at dusk which is the peak time for crashes, and spread the word on social media using the hashtag #SaveOurFoals... Club News (←last 4 posts→) Secure Web Site Access (https)Site AdminJuly 3, 2020The Solent Radio Controlled Model Yacht Club web site for both the Sailing and Scale sections can now be accessed securely. The main advantage is to stop your browser warning that the site is “not secure”. It also improves our standing with “Google” and other search engines. For the Scale Section: using an address of the form: https://www.srcmbc.org.uk, https://srcmbc.org.uk, or simply srcmbc.org.uk should allow you secure access to the web site. Note however that if you enter via an “internet shortcut”, “favorite”, or “bookmark” which has been set to an old address starting “http” instead of “https” then you will probably continue to use an insecure connection, at least until the first time you have accessed the site through one of the “https” addresses shown above. For the Sailing Section (Yacht Racing): unfortunately https://www.srcmyc.org.uk will give you an error saying that a secure connection cannot be made. However, using simply www.srcmyc.org.uk , or srcmyc.org.uk will give you a secure connection to the club web site (which is labelled “srcmbc.org.uk” because the club web site was owned by the Scale Section when it was first set up). (post graphic: Fabio Lanari / CC BY-SA)... Setley Pond OPEN for use with new FE rulesDavid McNair-TaylorJune 12, 2020I am pleased to say that we have heard back from Forestry England. We had a couple of queries with their reply so we phoned them as we didn’t want to wait another week for a response to an email. The reason for the phone call was to resolve a couple of the problems we had, one of them was racing, which we explained was no different in the actual activity than just going up and sailing. As we still stand 2 m apart and social distancing doesn’t change at all. Please find below a couple of paragraphs from their reply:- Apologies, yes your members can return up to six at a time but to comply with the government’s guidance, they will need to arrive as individuals and no organised group activities/races can commence just yet. I would also make you aware (although I expect you already are) that the forest ponds have been inundated with members of the general public in recent weeks and therefore, on a sunny day, your members will need to be mindful of this. One thing that has come to light in the last couple of days is an ecological query regarding the condition of the ponds in the New Forest which is being followed up this week by our Ecologist and Natural England. At this point, I have no further news or even an indication that this will have an impact on the recreational use of the ponds, but I just wanted to provide you with this information early on. I will of course update you as I know more.” NOTE: Please read the website section for more information on Possible health problems from pond water. So yes we can go back to the pond under Government guide lines and groups of 6. Their main concern was interaction with the general public where they have had problems with them and their staff!! They asked if we could work with them and try not to have any disputes with the general public. With regards to the Ecological condition of the pond I think we have just got to sit tight and see what comes of it. But we can not see that anything we do to the pond is any greater that one horse/cow relieving itself in the pond and all the dogs that swim in it. Hopefully we will see approval to lift the 6 person limit from the Government soon. Regards, David Important – Please Read these Guidelines for Club Activities at the Pond... 8th June: Permit still not reactivatedDavid McNair-TaylorJune 9, 2020Unfortunately we are still awaiting a reply from Forestry England to our request to have our permit to resume normal Club Activity at Setley Pond, we have contacted them again today and hopefully will receive a reply this week. Please be patient. We are sure that we will be meeting again very soon, all be it with new safety procedures for members to follow. These have been drafted for both sections of the club and submitted to with our permit activation request. Unfortunately the lack of respect shown by visitors from the general public over the past few weeks have caused numerous problems in the National Park, which I believe is possibly delaying permission in letting us resume our activity at Setley; a major area for ground nesting birds and other vulnerable natural resources. I will post another update when I have more news. David . Extract from Latest update from the National Park Authority for your interest: Respect and care for the New Forest New Forest organisations are working together to keep people and the Forest safe with a simple New Forest code. This beautiful area needs protecting, and we’d like to thank the vast majority of people who are respecting the National Park. Sadly, over the past few days we and our partners have had to deal with numerous incidents involving BBQs, fires, people feeding and petting ponies, and inconsiderate parking. Wildlife has been compromised by litter left in the Forest, and people have been putting lives at risk by swimming in rivers and ponds where it’s unsafe to do so. Call for ban on disposable BBQ’s We’re calling on retailers across the Forest to remove disposable barbecues from sale and for a continued ban on fires and barbecues in the open countryside of the National Park. The move follows large numbers of disposable barbecues being used while the New Forest is at extreme risk of fire. Multiple fires have had to be put out in recent weeks and numerous areas of scorched earth have been left across the protected habitats when a fire warning is still in place. A haven for dragonflies Southern Hawker…Beautiful Damoiselle….Broad-bodied chaser. These are just some of the wonderful dragonflies and damselflies we’re lucky to have here in the New Forest. With clean streams, more wet bogs than anywhere else in north-west Europe and many ponds, the New Forest is a particularly important place for these delicate creatures. Save our foals The New Forest pony is a valued rare breed, and every one matters. At this time of year, when there are foals born on the Forest, there’s also a spike in accidents. Skittish foals have even less road sense than older ponies and are very unpredictable. They often run in circles near their mothers, making them more likely to be involved in an accident. Please help livestock by slowing down, especially at dusk which is the peak time for crashes, and spread the word on social media using the hashtag #SaveOurFoals... IMPORTANT – DO NOT SAIL AT SETLEY THIS WEEK !David McNair-TaylorJune 2, 2020TO ALL MEMBERS IMPORTANT NOTICE: DO NOT SAIL AT SETLEY POND THIS WEEK . As you will be aware that following the release of lockdown we have been in contact with Forestry England (FC) to arrange the reactivation of the club’s permit to use Setley Pond. Permission to resume was not granted but we had a reply two weeks ago requiring us to prepare and submit detailed operating procedures for both the Sailing and Scale Sections of the Club , Nigel Burt ( Sailing Secretary and Permit Holder ) and myself worked on them and sent them in for consideration together with another request for reactivation of the permit last week. Yesterday we received the following reply from The Recreation and Permits Manager at Forestry England :- “We have received new guidance this morning advising us that under current government guidance, the restart of permission activity is projected to start on Monday 8th June, and will only be for solo activity or where an individual is meeting with only one other person from outside of their household. In light of this information this morning, it is important that you remain within our current guidelines and we therefore ask you politely to refrain from using the pond this week. I appreciate this maybe frustrating, but it is essential for us as the land manager to ensure we are able to keep the public, our staff and volunteers safe.” We are seeking clarification as this seems to override the latest Government allowances of six people being allowed to meet and we will follow up again on Monday 8th but until then PLEASE DO NOT SAIL AT SETLEY POND THIS WEEK DOING SO COULD CAUSE A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH RENEWAL OF OUR PERMIT FOR THE CLUBS FUTURE USE OF SETLEY FOR CLUB ACTIVITIES. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE COMPLY WITH FORESTRY ENGLAND’s INSTRUCTIONS. I CANNOT EMPHASISE ENOUGH HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS! The club permit is possibly at risk !!! Thank you in advance for your understanding, we know how frustrating this is and we are doing our upmost to get the permit authorized as soon as we can, at which point we will issue to all members the new operating requirements and compliance to be followed for the club use of the lake. Best regards David and Nigel.... Photos & Movies (←last 4 posts→) North East FifieSite Admin “Mac” McAusland’s ModelsSite Admin HMS EskimoSite Admin “Mi ‘andsome” Falmouth working boatJohn Andrews Scale Adverts (←last 4 posts→) Herring Drifter – now SOLD“Danny Boy”: A 1/24th scale model by Mountfleet Models of a typical herring drifter of the early 20th Century. Length 43 inches and beam 9 inches. The model is fitted with a quiet 540 motor, 15A/24v ‘Electronize’ ESC, oil type smoke unit, a loud speaker/sound box (untested and no sound generator) and a 12v – 7AHr battery. Lots of detail with plenty of scope and room for further personalisation. Price: NOW SOLD Contact: Paul Nixon 07486361043 / 01202073028 with any questions or queries.... Retired Modeller: Boats for sale-updateWe have been contacted by a lady called Jackie whose father, Ray, who has moved to Southampton. Due to poor health he is looking to sell his models. The models are shown in the photos below where we have added our own choice of titles to identify them. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge. [Note: Models now sold have been removed from the list, as far as we know the following are still available (Dec 2019)] Please contact Ray by phone on 023 8081 4700 .... Free Offer: “The Beast”Having had various unsatisfactory offers for his model of the John Fitch paddle boat, “The Beast”, Mike Sheppard is now offering the model to Club members “free to a good home”! It will need collecting from near Haverfordwest in South Wales*. The model is just under 5 foot in length and weighs about 50lbs. It is fully functional with motor, radio transmitter, a stand and two wheel trolley. To avoid breakages, it needs two people place it in water. In operation the model provides a unique and entertaining sight… watch the video which was filmed at Setley Pond! *(if a SRCMBC member is interested in owning the model but unable to collect it, I may be able to arrange for its collection – Peter Taylor info@srcmbc.org.uk ) The model is based on the first paddle steamboat designed by John Fitch in 1786 in the USA. Twelve vertical oars were connected to a steam engine in such a way that they dipped in the water for a stroke and were then lifted out and carried forwards for the next stroke. A photo of this model is displayed in the John Fitch Steamboat Museum in Warminster, Pennsylvania, USA. John Fitch later developed a cargo carrying paddle steamboat with stern mounted paddles. Price: …see above Please contact Mike on 01437 760021 if you would like more information... Atlantia of LowestoftMotor Fishing Vessel; Length 42″, Beam 10″; has lights; 40MHz receiver. Contact: Bob Eaton, email: bobeaton@srcmbc.org.uk, phone: 01590 641039 or 079 7447 2828 Price: £350...
