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Frank J Andruss Sr

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Garth

I doubt it. That was many years ago, and I still can't think of the name of that Club. They had made a nice sign too that was on the property, welcoming those who came to the River's edge and the Club. I have been racking my brain to try and remember, but to no avail........


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Nice Frank and Garth, those big swimming pools sure get small quick eh? I have one in a box somewhere... a Lindberg PT not a pool.

My first R/C boat was a Dumas Atlas Van Lines hydro with a .45 engine, when I finally managed to get it started (leather shoelace wrapped around the flywheel) for the first time, I tossed it in the water minus the antenna... it sure ran good until it hit the bank way across the lake.

I used to be big into R/C racing, the funniest thing I saw was a hydro race where an outrigger buried itself into the side of a catamaran hull. The cat actually finished the heat with the hydro stuck into it. Of course it wasn't funny to the owners of the rigger or cat but us spectators sure got a kick out of it. I didn't think it was so funny when my Dumas Scarab with a Rossi .90 in it hit a turtle at full speed though, about 50mph, WHAM, and then onto the bank. The hull was mostly OK but the strut, prop, and rudder were pretzels.

I remember U-control! I remember flying the Cox jobs, and a buddy's balsa/silkspan .40 job he "borrowed" from his father. He let me be the first to fly it and I was totally unprepared for this speed demon. After about 10 laps just trying to avoid the ground I wandered dizzily far enough to hit the grocery bag of starting supplies, it veered straight at me, I hit the ground, the plane flew over me, reached the end of the circle and then straight into the ground. Instant re-kit only with more pieces. We got into bigtime trouble for that one.



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Frank J Andruss Sr

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Funny stuff Jeff:

I bet we all have stories like those. Do you guys remember when you put together those RC Battleships, and Destroyers. They have guns that fire BB's and these guys go out and fight one another. I guess the hulls and the ships are made so you can repair them quickly. I saw that being done once in Westield Mass one afternoon (roughly 10 years ago). It was awesome, I mean these guys actually had American forces and Jap Forces fighting each other. Ships got into position and fired those BB's with a full broadside. These guys were good. I remember, one guy came a bit too close to shore, and a teed off Mud Hen swooped down and started to attack the Ship. He must have came too close to her nest. She was not at all amuzed. All on shore got a kick out of that.

Like my previous post about the Model Club, I thnk these guys disbanded as well. I used to get a Flyer now and then from their group to join and catch the action, but no more. The only thing I know that is running hot and heavy, are the Plane guys, who have an awesome built up field, not far from where I live (10 miles). These plane guys are really something, and I have seen some pretty large scale planes on the field. Everything from P-51 Fighters, to the awesome B-17. Some of them are really good at flying these planes too........


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Heh, I remember reading about those. My first thought was "Careful, you could put an eye out with those!". Here's some info/rules for battles:
http://www.repairfaq.org/filipg/RC/F_Ship_Kombat.html

Was the mudhen the feature attraction at the post-battle BBQ?

I helped start our boat club, was one of the first at the lake with my Dumas Scarab with a low power sport .60 motor. People would stop to watch and gradually others came with boats until we had enough to form the Palm Beach R/C Boaters. It was great when we were able to buy a rescue boat and small outboard to go get dead boats. Before that it was try to snag them with a fishing pole or go swimming, not a good idea in Florida although we rarely saw gators in our lake. Eventually we got quite large and sponsored IMPBA sanctioned races.

When a bunch of us decided to start hitting the race circuit I stuck the Rossi .90 in my Dumas. My buddies joked it was a "Dumass" and not a racing boat with its deep-vee design. Most had boats with an almost flat bottom that ran like a bat out of heck on calm water. But get eight 15-20 pound boats in a heat and even on a windless day the water soon chopped up until the "real race boats" either started flipping or had to cut throttle. My "Dumass" just got faster and could carve the course at full throttle. It also added considerable to the chop. I took first almost every race which sure ticked off the "real race boat" owners.

A tip for any R/C race boaters reading this, instead of correcting prop torque with the rudder, bend the strut slightly until the boat runs straight with zero rudder angle. It doesn't take much. Not only will you go faster, it will also turn better and even make decent left turns. Another big speed boost was after I got rid of high/low spots in the bottom and sharpened the strakes, chines, and stern edges to dump the water off the hull cleanly.

Here's a shot of a competitor getting too close to my "Dumass":





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Jeff

Doesn't look like you were caught. Thanks for the desription items on the Ships. That was what they had alright, and it was pretty neat to watch. When I was watching them, I said, "Brother if I had a few PT Boats here, I would sink these ships real fast". I guess even way back then, my heart was with the PT BOATS, still is, always will be.


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I think my P-51 was a Cox but I can't remember. The P-40 was a 'gift' from the son of a friend of my mother's who father was a P-51 pilot in WW2 who flew in the same squadron with Chuck Yeager and Bud Anderson, ... he even had 4 1/2 kills and had his own P-51-B "American Girl" ...

The P-40 was missing its canopy and the U-Control strings and handle ...

Wonder whatever happened to that thing .............


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Great stories guys-

My first experience with a model PT was the old Lindberg 1/64th scale PT-109 ( Don't quote me on the exact scale) but I know for a fact that it wasn't the 1/32 scale R/C job.

Living then in Central New Jersey, there was a absolutely beautiful park in Edison called Roosevelt Park. It was a fresh water site and the kids loved it and there were always migrating ducks by the lake.

The Lindberg kit was pretty nice as I remember it but it was just a runabout version and was not R/C. I guess that it could have been with mini servos and the like. This kit had a small electric motor that ran off of 4 AA batteries and powered all three shafts via a rubber band set up. The OAL of the model was about 14inches.

I remember that I did a bang up job on the model and I took my kids and the wife to the lake for a launching. I remember my wife saying_"Put a string on the model so you can get it back!!!" A string- uhh No!

So Cap'n Frank puts said model of the 109 in the lake hoping to make it to the other side of the lake to retrive the boat model after her jaunt across the lake. Suddenly the wind kicked up and to my horror the little PT-109 started to drift closer to the center island smack dab in the center of the lake. The look on my wife's face said it all as the model came ashore on the island. The kids were crying and the wife is now P.O.ed at me to beat the band.

The following Monday I called the Parks Department to see if I could get the model back. I remember talking to one guy who was very excited about the model and he said he'd get back to me. He never did! I bet he still has the model!

Frank Ryczek, Jr.
Modeler/Friend RON-10 PT-169 " ZEBRA SNAFU "

HIGH TIDES ALWAYS!

YOUR FRIEND THROUGH SCALE SHIP MODELING AND PT BOAT HISTORY!

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FRANK

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Great stories guys-

My first experience with a model PT was the old Lindberg 1/64th scale PT-109 ( Don't quote me on the exact scale) but I know for a fact that it wasn't the 1/32 scale R/C job.

Living then in Central New Jersey, there was a absolutely beautiful park in Edison called Roosevelt Park. It was a fresh water site and the kids loved it and there were always migrating ducks by the lake.

The Lindberg kit was pretty nice as I remember it but it was just a runabout version and was not R/C. I guess that it could have been with mini servos and the like. This kit had a small electric motor that ran off of 4 AA batteries and powered all three shafts via a rubber band set up. The OAL of the model was about 14inches.

I remember that I did a bang up job on the model and I took my kids and the wife to the lake for a launching. I remember my wife saying_"Put a string on the model so you can get it back!!!" A string- uhh No!

So Cap'n Frank puts said model of the 109 in the lake hoping to make it to the other side of the lake to retrive the boat model after her jaunt across the lake. Suddenly the wind kicked up and to my horror the little PT-109 started to drift closer to the center island smack dab in the center of the lake. The look on my wife's face said it all as the model came ashore on the island. The kids were crying and the wife is now P.O.ed at me to beat the band.

The following Monday I called the Parks Department to see if I could get the model back. I remember talking to one guy who was very excited about the model and he said he'd get back to me. He never did! I bet he still has the model!

Frank Ryczek, Jr.
Modeler/Friend RON-10 PT-169 " ZEBRA SNAFU "

HIGH TIDES ALWAYS!

YOUR FRIEND THROUGH SCALE SHIP MODELING AND PT BOAT HISTORY!

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Jeff D

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Bummer Frank, I'd guess he kept it too based on him never calling back.

As a kid I used to buy any kit with a motor that I could afford with my meager paper route profits.


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  FRANK

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Hey Jeff-

Yeah man, I know exactly what you mean. When I was a kid in high school, I'd do odd jobs in the neighborhood for extra jingle money only to cash it all in at the local hobby shop on balsa and tissue model airplane jobs, free-flight and control line. I think I built every single balsa kit that Scientific Models produced.

I was also a sucker for those little electric motors as well. Heck I got a big pickle jar loaded with those little motors including a bunch of Lindberg 1/32 PT-109 kit motors. They are great motors but do not work well with those chinchy cheapo plastic gear train in the Lindberg kit. I knew a guy who had built his 1/32 scale PT-109 to the letter and had the gear train actually melt anf fuse together!

I'm into radio control now and my 1/32nd scale PT-169 runs like a champ! No more strings for me-NO SIR!!

Frank Ryczek, Jr.
Modeler/Friend RON-10 PT-169 " ZEBRA SNAFU "

HIGH TIDES ALWAYS!

YOUR FRIEND THROUGH SCALE SHIP MODELING AND PT BOAT HISTORY!

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