President, Chuck Hill called to order our meeting May 15, 2019, at 7:30 PM.

Roll Call of Officers: Chuck and Maurice were present: 8 Members and guests (spouses.)

Treasurer’s Report:

Chuck stated we have $1,195.08  currently in our Treasury as of this evening with 4 cents earned in interest to date.

Old Business:

April Minutes were not available as Secretary, Maurice was absent last month.

New Business:

Chuck invited the CME Membership to attend a summer party at his house that he and his wife will be hosting July 13th. More details will follow. Thank you Chuck for yours and your wife’s hospitality!

Memorial Day Weekend: The Castle Air Museum swap meet and large scale model air show will be held the weekend of May 25th. Open cockpit days will be held on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. CAFB is located in Atwater which is about a two hour drive from Concord. George will be bringing his trailer and providing coffee and donuts for us on site. Thank you George!

Due to the expected rain that is expected this weekend it was proposed by Chuck that our upcoming picnic that was planned for this coming weekend be postponed. It was decided to hold our event on a later date when the weather will presumably be more cooperative. A motion was made, seconded, and carried to have our picnic on June 15th instead.

This event will be held at our usual place (Hillcrest Park), situated off Olivera Road. You can fly control line and RC at low altitudes due to the close proximity to the airport. If you wish to park inside the parking lot, the code is 55777 to open the gate

Maurice announced to everyone present he and Jerry would like to host a second club boating event at Newall Park lake off Basset Lane, due to the success of our last one. A motion was made to hold our second Regatta event on September 14th. The motion was voted upon and carried with one member opposed (due to the fact he cannot make it.)   Again, they will have several R/C sailboats available for members to enjoy sailing on the lake. Also they will also have some new boats to display and sail as well (including the steam and tug boats.) Bring your lunch, and a folding chair, and plan to spend the afternoon. They will start setting up around 11:00 AM as before and the boats will run as long as there is interest and/or until everyone’s boat batteries run low! Now is the time to start building guys, so you too can display and sail your boats on the lake with them!

New Model and Model Building Supply Sources:

J.M. Hobbies is on Laurel Street in San Carlos specializing in nautical supplies, as well as airplanes, railroad, and other hard to find items.

Cornwall Hobbies website is situated in Cornwall, England. They have several hard to find and unique models and model supplies. It is surprisingly simple and relatively inexpensive to order items form them despite the long distance, so it is certainly worth checking out their website.

Delta Hobbies is located at 1400 West 10th Street in Antioch (L Street off of Highway 4), open at 11:00 AM daily except Mondays. They offer a wide variety of model airplane, car, drone, and other  kits, batteries, spare parts, glues, fuel, props, etc. What makes them especially unique is they specialize in model cars and have a race track on the premises.

RC Country is in Sacramento. You can “Google” the address.

Aero Micro Hobby Shop is located at 2090 Duane Ave in Santa Clara.

Ages of Sail in San Lorenzo has both a retail store outlet and a website where you can order models and model  building supplies. They have very large inventory on hand of high end ship models to choose from. The staff is not very knowledgeable, but it’s no problem for an experienced modeler to find what you need if you explore what they have in the store. It’s worth a trip just to see the large variety of ship models at all skill levels they have in stock.

Misc. Discussion and Membership input:

Chuck announced that we will not be losing our present meeting location sometime between May and July as originally thought. It appears that the church will not be setting up their school on the premises as they originally had planned. Instead they may eventually sell the property due to financial concerns. However the good news (for us) is there are no immediate plans to sell the building. So, for now we still have our meeting place until further notice.

Parade of Planes and Boats:

Dennis displayed two vintage plastic model kits he is in the process of constructing. One model is the historic PT 109 and the other model kit he brought was a classic Cris Craft motor yacht from the 1960’s. He stated he was inspired to dust off these old model kits because of our first CME Model Boat Regatta held a few months ago at the lake. We look forward to seeing the finished products!

Maurice brought his model docks to display, and explained how he revamped and updated them. He thanked and expressed his appreciation to those that gave him plenty of closed cell Styrofoam to utilize in remodeling his docks.

After George conducted our raffle, Chuck adjourned our May CME Club meeting at 8:37 PM.

President, Chuck opened our meeting March 12, 2019: Called to Order: 7:30 PM.

Roll Call of Officers: All officers present: 8 Members, 1 guest (spouse.)

Chuck stated we have approximately $1,154.99 currently in our Treasury, plus member dues collected as of tonight.

Secretary Maurice read the February Minutes, and they were approved as submitted.

Chuck is still working on our AMA Charter. The charter year begins 4/01/19, so it makes sense to submit our Chapter paperwork with the 4/1 effective date. It was noted that DVRC was not on the charter list to date.

Motion: A motion was made and seconded to approve the Chapter spends $80.00 to insure the Hillcrest flying site. The liability coverage will provide up to $2.5 million with no deductible. Basically this coverage will protect the city of Concord which is the owner of the property. Club officers are covered for their liability actions, under the blanket policy as well, through our AMA charter membership. Other advantages were discussed, such as increased public visibility on-line. This could potentially create more interest in joining our local CME organization.

The motion was then voted upon and passed unanimously. Subsequently, the Membership approved Chuck to move forward on this, and submit our AMA Charter application with the $80.00 check attached from our CME Treasury (with an April 1st effective date.)

FAA now requires proper labeling of model aircraft registration numbers on remote controlled (RC) aircraft.) This includes drones as well. It does not include control line planes. It was further suggested that members Google “FAA” regarding specific rules governing model aircraft, as they may be strictly be enforced in the future. The rule is; no flying above 400 feet above ground level, and not within 5 miles from an active airport without express permission from qualified airport personnel.

George reminded us on the following dates for swap meets and other related activities:

April 27, 2019: Swap meet; “RC Country” model shop in Folsom. For details please contact them directly

April 28, 2019: Swap meet: “Jake’s Hobby Shop” in Rhonert Park. Modelers from the Redwood Empire Model Club will probably be displaying their models there as well.

Maurice and Jerry reminded everyone present they will be hosting our first “club sanctioned” boating event at Newall Park Lake off Basset Lane March 16th. Jerry passed out maps with directions to the lake They will have several R/C sailboats available for members to enjoy sailing on the lake. These will include two V-32 sailboats. 1 44″ sailboat, 1 “Footie” 12″ sailboat, 1 Ketch and “Atlantis”, a 55″ schooner. It is a very rare specimen and well worth seeing gliding around the lake. There are only two known “Atlantis” functioning boats in the United States. Also they will bring other boats as well (3 steam and a “rescue” tug boats.) Weather permitting, they will fire up the live steam boats first, then we will all sail their boats as the wind comes up in the afternoon.

Please bring your lunch or snacks if you like, non alcoholic beverages/water, a folding chair, and plan to spend a relaxing and fun afternoon. They will start setting up around 11:00 AM. Come join them and try your hand as model skippers! It will be a lot of fun!

If you have not already none so, please remit $20.00 for CME 2019 dues to Chuck Hill, 1382 Deerfield Court, Concord, Ca. 94521 at your earliest convenience.

Maurice brought a copy of Fine Scale Modeler Magazine. It is loaded with building tips for all kinds of models. It is published monthly except for June and August.) It’s a great resource!

Dick Hanson displayed his (now fully functional) Atlantic RC tug.) He will bring it to our boating event at Basset Lake on Saturday.

George conducted our raffle. John won a beautifully crafted Banshee with a 44″ wing span.

Chuck adjourned our meeting at 8:30 PM.