A letter from Sebastian Vorbuchner, president of the Burghausen
model boat club.
Hello, John.
Thank you for putting up the nice photos of
our model boat show and Burghausen on your website. Let me
tell you something about our club.
In the spring of 1992 a small group of model
ship and boat builders met together at the Worhsee lake in
Burghausen.
At that meeting we decided to organize
Burghausen’s first real model boat show and meeting at
the Worhsee in October of the same year. We were 14 model
builders and we had about 100 spectators. After that first
show we decided to put on the boat show in the first weeks of
October every year. Word progressively spread among those
interested in model building that there was an agreeable and
enjoyable meeting at the Worhsee in Burghausen where people
were invited to run their boats and exchange ideas about their
hobby, and the number of boat builders and spectators began to
increase noticeably from year to year.
Participation has now grown to 120 model
builders and over a thousand spectators at our last
show.
Some of the builders come from quite far
away, with one participant coming from as far away as
Burgenland (Austria), a trip of over 400 Km. So we can now be
considered an international model boat show. Thank you for
your interest in our club and we hope to see you again next
year.
With the friendliest greetings,
Sebastian
Vorbuchner
The Worhsee (lake) can be seen on the previous
page and among my photos of “Burghausen in
Autumn”.
This was my second visit to
Burghausen’s annual model boat show and as you can see
there are some remarkable model boats and ships - from sail
boats and sailing ships through navel vessels, high powered
speed boats and antique ships. The boats are radio controlled
and, since it is no longer allowed to use the small internal
combustion engines in Germany on their lakes, the boats are
powered by electric motors, sophisticated steam engines or
pure sail. At this year’s show there were only a couple
of sinkings and a lot of clear sailing. Ahoy there
landlubbers, happy sailing. John
