A Weedy Sort of Sub

periscope · 12-04-2006

Had a couple of hours in the club pond today - I thought the sub was getting a bit sluggish - anyway at least it sufaced again. - Just look at the amount of weed on the stern.

Ian

**Bunkerbarge** · 12-04-2006

Wow!!, you are lucky it came up again. If that gets so bad that the sub looses its positive bouyancy and the props get fouled up you could loose it.

Don't loose sight of your flag!

Nigel.D · 12-04-2006

Wow how come it was so bad that it wasnt noticed ??? are you the only sub driver ? not a nice way to loose a model if it came to it !! glad all was ok in the end !

periscope · 13-04-2006

Hi Richard and Nigel - Yep I was a bit lucky there - trouble was there was no weed on the surface - it was all underwater (still growing) and as I'm the only submarine driver in the club I'm the one who finds it first. We do treat the pond twice yearly but we top up our pond from the dockside canal so we easily introduce more weed as the weeks go on. - trouble is I'm cutting the weed on the bottom and it's then floating to the top - (this means it's affecting surface members so I might be asked to leave the club.

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unless I can pursuade them all to get a sub.....

Ian

duncan · 13-04-2006

The owner of Beale Park came up with a good way of cutting weed. He used a long length of weighted barbed wire stretched from bank to bank and cut the bottom growing weeds by walking the lake edge from one end to the other using a sawing motion as they went. Razor wire might be better. Still got to collect the stuff when/if it floats to the surface. The "clump-weed" coming down the canal at Ellesmere Port is a nightmare. It stopped my 5hp Mercury once. Stalks about an inch thick. Forth & Clyde Canal was bad too last year.

**rjwood_uk** · 13-04-2006

i wonder, in these larger scale model boating ponds what they would find on the bottom if the dredged them!!!

periscope · 13-04-2006

Now there's a thought - I just wonder what is at the bottom of some of these ponds. if you look in the submarine section of RCUniverse forum you'll see that SJN in Copenhagan has answered one of my posts a couple of days ago and put pictures on of his smashed up Seawolf - he seems to have hit a rock underwater which smashed the nose cone and tore off the rudder which was left hanging on with the control rod. If you do want to see the post it's at the following.. www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_3817348/tm.htm I think I'd like to do a static diver next so I can submerge slowly and move about carefully under water without the sudden dash under that I have to do with the Dynamic diver - but it's good fun anyway..

Ian