Tony is a Geek

So...I've had a radio controlled boat / ship, well, it's 4ft long, so it's still a boat, but it's mighty large, since covid-19 lockdown time - I bought the boat around April/May2021-ish (I think).... my plan was when the lockdown lifted to visit the Warminster boating lake and use the radio controlled boat on a Sunday morning for a bit of fun and for something different. The boat I bought was a replica of one I starting building way back in the mid-1980s, the boat knocked around for a while, I fitted the prop-shaft and rudder and fitted a period correct water cooled fuel engine - the one's that were used in RC planes.  I never got the engine working properly.  Anyway, I did keep the boat with me until the end of the 1990s when I sold it to my sisters husband (at the time) who was more skilled at this sort of things.  He rebuilt the engine and got it working/running.  However, he didn't do anything in relation to the radio control gear.  He did paint the boat how...

Okay, so whilst I've been championing the "Do Something else...." mantra (and then promptly did some work over the weekend, but it was by choice, not pressured), I managed to hookup the equipment that I had for my old radio controlled boat. Now, I confess, I did not build this boat.  I did have a boat that I built when I was about 14-ish, it was a 4ft massive beast that I built with my grandad, he managed to get hold of an old glow-plug engine that baffled me and before we had the chance to fit it, I returned home and the boat never got finished.  Then when I was about 21-ish, I sold the boat to my sisters husband (at the time), who was an RC car enthusiast, he rebuilt the engine and got it working, but never fitted it into the boat - I then bought the boat back and was going to get the radio gear and finish it off......then it sat in a cupboard for many many years until I eventually decided it should go to someone who will finish it off, yep, I put it on eBay and it w...