RTF Photo Competition - March 16 to 29 - Wrecked Boats - Winners Announced

The popular vote has determined that the next subject for you to photograph for the Reason To Fly Challenge is

As always there are rules. A few people read them. A few follow them. They are below for your reading pleasure so please, feel free to RTF Rules …

RULES

The requirement is to submit a still image created using a drone to illustrate the subject of the competition. This round will run from 00:01 Sunday 16th of March until 23:00 Saturday, March 29th; the subject is Wrecked Boats

The image must be captured during the time that the competition is open. It is a Reason To Fly competition so please show that the image is created by a flying camera!

Editing is confined to colour and exposure adjustments and crop only. There must be no removal or pasting of an object.

Please post only one image, the image you wish to be judged, in this thread.

Images must be posted with the following information as a minimum:

In Capitals as the first line of your post:

THIS IS MY ENTRY

If this is not done at the time of posting the picture will be ignored. Should it be necessary to change your picture then delete the previous picture and add “This is my entry” - as above - as the first line of your new post. If in any doubt contact the Challenges Committee
(@Challenges_Committee)

Further Information is required

  • Location
  • Time and date
  • Aircraft/camera used
  • Feel free to add any further information that you think will be of interest

Voting

The members of GADC will judge images. They may vote for any number of pictures through an anonymous poll open for two days after the closing date for competition entries.

Voting in the poll is open to all GADC members, whether they have entered the competition or not.

You may vote for one, all, some or none of the entries.

The judges may request the original media in case of a dispute.

Schedule

The competition subject will be announced every second Saturday around 22:30. The subject will be chosen by a poll of GADC members selecting from three that have been picked at random from the subject list. You may make additions to the list at any time.

The competition will run from Sunday 00.01 to Saturday 23.00 fourteen days later. Voting by poll will be open for a further two days until Monday 22:00

The winner, second and third-placed competitors will be announced shortly after the vote is closed

Have Fun! Be Safe!

All flights are the sole responsibility of the individual conducting them. Each competitor must abide by the drone code and adhere to the limitations and restrictions imposed upon them by aviation law, the aircraft being used and the qualifications they hold. Don’t try to whistle with a mouthful of raspberry blancmange. If a flight is undertaken in a restricted zone proof of permission having been granted is required.

E&OE

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There was me hoping for water towers, everything ready for an early sunrise now I’ll have to find a ship wreck on top of a water tower :rofl:

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Wrecked boats… in land-locked Derbyshire… this one is going to be tough.

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Just for you, Richard:

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Similar dilemma in west yorkshire, I’ve only just been to the coast too :man_facepalming: maybe I can find a wrecked canal barge…

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Oooh canal barge… good call

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Dead easy for any East coast members, we’ve got 2 off the coast and one in the Humber at moment :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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How much of a mess can you make of a gravy boat? :wink:

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The one in the Humber has gone now - GavinHR posted a good video on YT of it being refloated last night :+1:

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Stena Immaculate within vlos?:smiling_face_with_sunglasses::person_with_white_cane:t2:

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This is my entry

St Bees
15 March 17.30.
Air 3S

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:shushing_face: :wink:

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THIS IS MY ENTRY

All that is currently visible of the barque Abana , wrecked in a storm off Little Bispham near Blackpool, 22nd of December 1894

17:40 16/03/25, DJI Air 2

A pic taken just after she was wrecked

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How far out is that? Didn’t know about it.

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Just a couple of hundred metres from the sea wall, opposite the traffic lights at Shore Rd. Visible at low tide

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Cheers for that, I’ll have to have a look next time I’m up that way. Is that near where the riverbance beached.

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Yes, just a bit south of there

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THIS IS MY ENTRY

The wreck of the SS Kaffir, just north of Ayr Harbour
16/03/2025 @ 18:17
DJI Mini 4 Pro

The SS Kaffir, a Clyde puffer, ran aground on September 22nd, 1974. The only member of crew on board at the time was the ship’s engineer, who was rescued, arrested, convicted and imprisoned for piracy :pirate_flag:

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Dammmn one of the hardest subjects it’s only just been 24 hours & there being posted :scream:

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Figured I’d best get this one done early lest somebody moan about all the entries coming in a flood in the last few hours … :wink:

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