03 Dec 96 17:37, Brent Gair was yackin' to All and said:
 BG> One more item of housekeeping for the week: drydock work on the
 BG> DALLAS. IT's always nice to have an excuse to work on that boat.
 BG> In this case, I have to refresh the charge on a number of
 BG> batteries used for the sub's operation. So I get to haul her out
 BG> of the basement and crack open the hull. Interestingly, even
 BG> though I'm a member of THE SUBCOMMITTEE (an 850 member group of
 BG> sub modelers worldwide), I have never run across ANYONE else
 BG> operating this boat. Hmmm...in fact, mine was the first to see
 BG> operation when it was launched even before the manufacturer's
 BG> prototype sailed. Guess they never sold too many of them.
Always good to hear from you Brent, I have been building and building and 
building..... my shop.  I still have a tug on the go and the swamp has now 
been flattened and seeded, (soon to become an airport).  My hands are all dry 
and cracked from hammering in the damp cold weather. It has been above 
freezing most weekends and I even got a few evenings in to nail some more.
I may not have the best models in town but I'll have the biggest shop :-)
allabes
Ian Macaulay
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