Sacramento Model Shipwrights

Short video from yesterday’s sail day of 1:72 USS Colhoun. A college buddy’s dad was on board the prototype at Okinawa in April 1945 when it was sunk by 4 kamikazes. None of those today except low flying geese.

Another great fall sail day yesterday. Unfortunately lighting isn’t the best but you can still get an idea of the boats on the water including 2 Fletchers from Greyhound fame. Joe also tested our ladder launching ramp for the big boys using a 1/96 scale Yorktown carrier hull for the test. Still some work to do with that!

Great weather and good turnout for another sail day today!

Another good day on the pond today although back to smokey skies. Oregon and Olympia both made it out.

Video of Alan’s PT boat today

Good day at the pond with cooler and smoke-free skies! Never thought we would be happy to report that!!

Sub run today at our Laguna sub base. We had some mechanical problems but Alan’s Nautilus performed great!

Good day on the pond although one mishap as a boat flipped and it took a couple tugs to get it back. Lost the superstructure but it will sail again. There’s a lot of boat parts on the bottom of that pond!

David’s Sturgeon with shadowing natural

Alan’s Nautilus

Sub run today at our Laguna sub base. Was supposed to be maiden voyage for David’s Seahund but some mechanical issues will delay that to next time. But not a total lost as he was able to do a ballast check. Allan’s Nautilus ran good!

Good sail day today with maiden voyage of Alan’s scratch built WWII British Vosper patrol boat!

2 great days of sailing. Yesterday at our home port at Elk Grove Park and today at our Laguna sub base with several subs on the prowl and a Flower class corvette visiting from San Jose.

Good conditions today at the Laguna sub base. Video is of David’s Sturgeon on patrol looking for naturals (aka fish).

Good day on the pond with lots of spectators and perhaps we recruited a new skipper. In deference to the times many skippers showed up with masks. After we sortied for lunch the geese reclaimed the pond until next Friday!