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Scrap Yard Challange and Viennese Evening 2009
In the afternoon - The Scrap Yard Challenge!
In the evening - The Viennese night with as many boats on the lake with their lights lit up!!
The Challange!!
Make a vessel out of scrap or redundant items and motorise it. No Radio! A rudder could be fitted but without a keel.
Send it across the lake to a specific target on the opposite shore.
Whatever item was chosen it must still retain its original shape and be recognisable for what it was originally. The item could be no longer than 1 metre, and it must have a name. The winner would be the vessel which got closest to the target.
During the afternoon, Rugeley club member Tony Gibbons, had his hair and beard shaved off for
Children in Need.
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The Contestants with their "Scrap Yard vessels"!
The various vessels where on view before the start, and a little trimming of the assorted vessels was required for straight running as it was a calm, windless day. |
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After several false starts by some craft, the Rugeley club chairman’s polystyrene packaging started off across the lake heading for the target but it veered off left and landed about 25 feet from the target. |
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A row of motorised flowerpots was next which again started off on the correct heading but also veered off to the left and ended up about 2 feet to the right of the chairman’s ‘boat’. |
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The Winner! The vessel that finished closest to the target was a waste paper bin sized dustbin, which after throwing overboard the action man crew and other objects, it arrived on the opposite side of the lake about a yard off to the right of the target. ;. |
 | Because the dustbin was more in keeping with an object retrieved from a ‘scrap yard’, the builder of the dustbin, John Clarke, a Burton club member, received the prize of a meal for two in the Rugeley social club. |
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