Who's the guilty party? - SunVets Convention

[mkeatingss]

I see that someone is giving R/C, model, sub demos at the Sub Vets National Convention in Saratoga Springs, NY. in Sept. I furured it had to be one of our people. But who?
That's going to blow people's doors off. Many of our Sub Vets didn't know R/C subs were possible. Never mind working torpedos, periscopes, etc.
So, who dat? Speak up, don't hide your light under a bushel.
If it's not one of ours, I'll try to draft him/her when I get there.
Mike Keating

[tmsmalley]

It very well might be

It very well might be Al Singleman from NY. He showed up when a few of us from SubRon6 (John Schagane, Steve Jensen and I) did a pool demo for the national US Navy SubVets convention in Duluth, Minnesota in 2002.

I set up a tabletop display with photos and SC brochures and we gave away some copies of the SCR that Jim Butt contributed to interested parties. We then used the microphone to tell the conventioneers how RC subs work.

Mr. Singleman is a boomer vet (don't remember his boat) and he was running his model in the pool when we arrived. I suspect he is the guy (he is in the SC membership roster).

I did a write up on our demo for the SCR and have a bunch of photos posted on my website (that was before we could get photos posted here! )

See the shots from that demo at http://www.rc-submarines.com

Then click on "SubRegattas" in the site map at the top of the screen and scroll down to "SubRon6 demo for 2002 Navy Sub Vets convention, Duluth, Minnesota".

As Mike observed, this is a "target rich environment" for potential SC members - we had nearly 200 conventioneers come to watch, over the 2 hours of our show. I attended the banquet that evening to hear the speaker (a retired Navy submarine admiral) and people were still coming up to me saying how much they enjoyed seeing the RC subs. I would highly recommend SC members doing this whenever SubVets Conventions are held. Perhaps the New York SC members could contact Al and see if he would like a few more boats in the water?

HERE IS A SAMPLE -


I hacked together a SubCommittee tabletop display just for this event. Courtesy my job, I was able to borrow a nice set of display panels and I enlarged a few photos and captions explaining how RC subs work. I ran my H.L. Hunley but unfortunately no Civil War sub vets were able to attend!


John and Steve get their boats ready to run while fielding questions from the Vets.





John gets ready to launch his LA. John observed after our demo how engergizing it was to put on a show to these men who love submarines just as much as (probably more than) we do and they understand how they work. They really enjoy seeing an emergency surface maneuver.

We could have stayed and talked to they guys even longer but the hotel needed the pool back. Its the best group any of us have ever done a sub run for.



A WWII SubVet explains what grampa did in the war to his young grandson (hopefully not in this particular type of sub.)


We invited the local TV stations and all three showed up. It was good PR for the US Navy Sub Vets convention and the SubCommittee.


Al Singleman - SC member and US Navy Sub Vet from New York, shipped his boomer to the convention.


Steve Jensen prepares his type VII.


These guys are crazy about submarines!




Edited By TMSmalley on 1080486112

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