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Welcome to the Burnaby Association of Marine Modellers or BAMM

A Word from the President

On behalf of the members of the Burnaby Association of Marine Modellers, it is my pleasure to welcome you to our website and the world of Marine Models.

Our home is the beautiful pond in Central Park located in Burnaby B.C. surrounded by beautiful trees and walkways. Burnaby allows us exclusive use of the pond Sundays and Wednesday mornings.  Club members come from all over not only to run our boats, but most importantly to meet as friends and promote our hobby.

Whether you have purchased a ready to run boat or are a scratch built modeller our club welcomes you.  You will find that members are more than willing to share their knowledge and help everyone build the model of their dreams.

See you at the pond!

 

Rick E.
President

 

At the Pond slideshow:

At The Pond Photo Gallery

August 18, 2024

Photos by Ulrich G.

(Click the photo above for a slide show.)

Announcements and Current Events:

We meet every Sunday morning at our pond in Burnaby's Central Park between 8:00 am and about 12:00 pm, weather permitting.


At the Pond

​Our 65th BAMM Regatta was great fun.  Though the weather did not cooperate in the morning, things got better eventually.  We had a good turnout with folks from as far away as the British Isles and Washington State and lots of public onlookers.  Burnaby Mayor Hurley and Councilors Lee and Tetrault attended, with the Mayor graciously agreeing to hand out some of the trophies.  Once the rain subsided we could get on to the steering and tanker towing course events and get the sail boat and tug boat races underway.  Our president Rick deserves many thanks for working very hard to set this all in motion.  Many thanks for a great lunch which was prepared by Gord and his wife.  Thanks also go out to all the folks who came early to help set up and stayed late to put away the tables and canopies, etc.  There is a slideshow to the left with some photos of the event.  A few of photos are of particular interest.  Kobus's self propelled crane barge which is completely scratch built including the crane's grapple. You can also see Roger's scratch built runabout "Wee Wee Duggie" which is a replica of the real boat called "Wee Duggie" that you can see sitting on its trailer behind which has been in Roger's family for many years.  This was also the inaugural run of our latest acquisition, the seven foot five inch tanker, "ESSO Stuttgart".

Ulrich

SHELL WELDER

We have added a very nice model of the Shell Welder to the BAMM fleet.  With surprisingly little TLC she has become fun to run and fun to tow.

In 1976 the 10 foot 8 inch long (that is 3/4 in. per foot or 1/16th scale) highly detailed RC tanker "Shell Welder", formerly “AARDVARK”, was completed by BAMM members Bram and Alex Deruiter.  Bram is shown in the slideshow here (first picture) posing with the model at her official re-launch on May 6, 2018.  For many years the tanker sailed the BAMM pond before being sold and moved to Bowen Island.  She was also featured in the RC pond at Expo 86.  Recently, Dave Tarvin of Burnaby Hobbies acquired it and it was subsequently sold to Bram Deruiter returning it to one of the original builders.  Our president Rick Evans saw an opportunity to bring the vessel back to the BAMM pond and we have recently purchased it from Bram. It was in very good condition and only needed a gentle refurbishment and running gear update.  Here is a link to some information on the original 170 foot long Shell Welder the model was based on.

Lorne towing the Shell Welder with his tug Gillfoam.

A time lapse of the Shell Welder being hauled out of the pond.

IMPERIAL TOFINO

BAMM is proud of its latest addition to its fleet, the 8’ long, 1/24th scale, Imperial Tofino built by Ted Heard (see newspaper photo below) and donated by the Heard family so that all may enjoy watching her sail the waters of Central Park Pond.

The Imperial Tofino is shown here along with another BAMM tanker, the 11 foot long Shell Welder built by Bram and Alex Deruiter and launched in 1977.

"Imperial Tofino" was built in 1973.  In 1973-1993 she was owned by Imperial Oil Ltd., Toronto ON.  In 1993-2009 she was owned by Coastal Shipping Ltd., Goose Bay NL.  In 1979 she was lengthened and she was rebuilt at North Vancouver BC.  Her Mid Body Section was built at Burrard-Yarrows Corp. North Vancouver BC in 1979.  She had a capacity of 200,000 gallons of fuel. She replaced the Imperial Nanaimo (ex-Beeceelite).  She had a cruising speed of 11.2 knots.  Sold in 1993 as "Sibyl W.".

 

The above paragraph is from "Auke Visser's Other Esso related Tankers Site" where you can also find some great photos of the real ship.

 

There is another good article to be found at the Shipfax site by Mac Mackay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ted Heard 1989.jpg

 

 
We're so proud of our youngest member Reggie Merrill and his tug “Seawitch III"

Built by His grandfather Gord Merrill, Reggie is proving to be a very capable skipper.  As you can see below at the unveiling, Lorne S. has built Reggie a very nice barge to tow around.  Reggie was very pleased to say the least.

Rick E. - President and photographer

 

ICE DANCE
March, 5, 2023
When a nice big ice floe is sitting the middle of the BAMM pond the right thing to do is to get that thing spinning around.  We had some fun doing just that and ended up just pushing the now smaller piece in one direction causing it to eventually breakup.    
 
Video of the Ice Dance time-lapse can be found here.
MOVING THE ICE FLOE
The weather was bright and sunny on Sunday, March 10th, 2019.  There was just one big ice flow left on the pond in the shadow of some trees so Lorne M. and I decided to push it out into the sun to melt. It was attached by some thinner ice so I was able to break through and get it going. Many thanks to Mel for breaking the flow free from shore with his trusty sledge hammer and of course my lovely cameraman Rick.
Video of the move is here.
Ice Dance at the BAMM pond.jpg

Hello Everyone!

If you have come here for information and have questions and/or want to be put on the e-mail list for updates and info just head over to the "Contact" page and send us an e-mail message to that effect.

Any thoughts, corrections, complaints, or constructive criticism will certainly be greatly appreciated.  Just go to the "Contact" page and drop me a note.  I am also looking for content.  Photos, videos or articles will be appreciated. 

 

Thanks - Ulrich

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