We moved up to Coal Creek for this first time this year and found that it had been dredged into a pleasantly large venue, though unfortunately a few feet deeper than we would prefer. Recent rains had muddied the waters somewhat which would make locating and recovering sunken ships more difficult than usual.Read More →
Our next two battles will be October 2nd and 16th. Both will be at Coal Creek in Bellevue, and both will begin with the first sortie at 11am.Read More →
Well, the labor day battle was.. interesting.. Our pond was really more of a mud hole as they were prepping to dredge and had diverted the waterflow upstream and broken out the dam that builds up the pond itself. As such it turned into a bit of a knife fight in shallow water and tight quarters. We had the Warspite, Richelieu, North Carolina, Scharnhorst, Inconcievable and Derfflinger on the water, Blue team was warspite, i-boat and Richelieu, red team was North Carolina, Derfflinger and Scharnhorst. We also had a photographer from the News Tribune out. His gallery is here, the associated article is here. TheRead More →
Our next battle will be Sept 18th at Coal Creek. Captains: We intend to begin the first battle at 11am, if you are not ready to be on the water by 11am and 4 ships are, you will not participate in the first sortie. If you need time to set up and prep ships, come early. I recommend arriving at 10:30 or earlier to give yourself enough time. There will be a 20 minute break between each sortie to repair ram damage and make mechanical and electrical fixes to your ships as needed. After the first battle consisting of two sorties is complete (roughly noon)Read More →
The News Tribune ran a nice little article on us and sent a photographer to gather some pictures at our Labor Day battle.Read More →
We will have a battle on Monday Sept 5th – Labor Day – at Swan Creek in Tacoma. Plan to arrive for set-up at 10am with an intent to be battling by 11. As always, spectators and guests are welcome so long as they will wear safety glasses. Guests and spectators who are not coming with captains are encouraged to arrive at 11 or later.Read More →
On Saturday August 20th Hovey will be hosting a workshop day at his place. Please RSVP ahead for directions and if you want steak. On Sunday the 21st we will have a battle at Swan Creek in Tacoma. Directions are available on the Ponds page. Captains please plan to arrive at 10am. As always, guests and spectators are welcome. We highly suggest if you are intending to invite folk who will not be traveling with you, or if you are a person interested in coming to see the battle, that you show up at 11-11:30 as it can take some time for us to getRead More →
We don’t normally do 2 days of events in a row, so this was a very busy weekend for us, but I think we all had a great time. Stephen and Keri from StrikeModels joined us for the weekend and the weather was kind enough to not be lousy. Saturday (July 30th) we had a FunFloat over at hthe Bellevue Downtown Park. We drew a good number of spectators watching the warships sail and talked with a good assortment of folk. We even had one gentleman who drove out from Idaho just to check it out – sadly he wasn’t able to stay around forRead More →
On the 17th we had our mid-July battle at Swan Creek. The weather was a cool 60s with a mostly constant drizzle of rain throughout the day. The following ships and captains were in attendance, along with a few guests. DKM Graf Spee – Joe DKM Scharnhorst – Pete Liberty Ship – Run by guest captains HMS Invincible – Hovey, captained on sortie #2 by Shylo SMS Westfalen – Phil SMS Derfflinger – Nick Maru – guest-captained by Hovey’s vet whose name I forgot DKM Bismarck – AlexRead More →
At the end of July we will be having 2 events. On July 30th, at about 1pm we will be gathering at the Bellevue Downtown Park Pond for an afternoon of FunRun, BS and general fun (but only limited mayhem as we can’t shoot there). The current thought is to go get food as a group afterwards. Everyone is invited, feel free to bring your spouse, significant other or any person you would like. This is an excellent pre-battle chance to perform seatrials and find problems that need correcting. On July 31st we will be having a battle at Swan Creek in Tacoma. Planned startRead More →