My 8 year old nephew spent yesterday afternoon with grins and smiles from ear to ear.
" Officially" named, Drago, and launched yesterday afternoon, she has been certified as both sea-worthy and UNSINKABLE despite the innumerable tries by Henry to her and she if she would sink and prove my statement wrong prove my statement wrong when I said I built her so she could not sink unless someone poked a big hole in her hull.
And more to his surprise, she insisted on floating upright no matter how Henry turned her upside down, held her under water and then let her go.
We were even lucky enough for a nice bit of wind to come up and let her sail under her power so to speak.
Guess who forgot to take a camera with him, but NO problems as plans already afoot for a fully on family day at the venue in the next few weeks or so, so I will ensure that I take my camera with me this time.
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It's a great feeling when you can make a child happy. Drago is a wonderful name for the ship. Will you be painting the name on her?
Betty
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May 2, 2022
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Henry rang me late yesterday evening before he went to bed to ask me if he could take Drago with him to Sea Scouts, YEP we have a Sea Scout group here in a town/city where the NEAREST stretch of sea/ocean is over 300 miles away,, to show her off.
My reply was, She is yours mate, you make the choices, show her off to anyone you like.
Matt, Henry's dad is getting that job as far as I know.
@Betty Only problem is will be what kind of idea and of what he comes up with next.
Little does he or his Mum and Dad know but I have been working in secret to make him a model of the Star Trek ship the Enterprise completely, as with the Drago, hand made and roughly about the same dimensions as well.
@Triphid Any Star Trek fan would be thrilled. That is one lucky young man.
My son's father bought him a model of the Titanic for his 13th. birthday. My son was super happy to get it and his only regret, is his father never took the time to build it with him. He would have liked to have those memories. My son will be 47 this year and he still mentions it from time to time.
Maybe when you think Henry is ready the two of you could make something together. Those would be precious memories for him in the years to come.
@Betty I made one about 12 years ago for a young boy with a doing things hard single mum, it was made from pieces salvaged from old plastic garden lights, and MDF all cut to suit and then glued and painted.
the little bloke was actually thrilled to tears and darned near squeezed my head off my neck when I gave it to him, he still keeps on his cupboard beside his bed every night.
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