After a wet start today I set off to the club to find the car park empty and locked. - nobody else was out to play today.

I took a potential new club member with me who will be starting his first classic model powerboat build (or restoration) as soon as he has had an eye operation sometime in the next few weeks.

My restored LesRo Rapier performed well as always, and the Kopy Kommander also performed very well after having its LiPo batteries returned to the engine bay where the balance seems to work best giving it the most stable ride.

Unusually the water surface was covered in a green slime - something I had never seen on the pristine Southport club lake before - the fresh water is usually dyed blue to keep it weed-free, but I am guessing that the overnight storms caused this green covering to be blown over the water surface ?

After an hour or so of running each boat, the hulls had pronounced yellow/green waterlines - easily wiped off (I always carry a kitchen towel roll to dry off the boats after running them) and we packed the dirty kitchen towels in the car, left the site nice and tidy, locked-up, and drove back to base where we discussed my friends choice of a Sea Commander for his first classic model power boat !