| Meeting Report February 2008 |
| February’s meeting has traditionally been devoted to the annual slide competition for the Colin Viney Trophy. Six slides judged to be the best would go forward into the Douglas Ridley Chesterton Slide Competition. This competition has been running for many years and takes in WSS Branches in the South and East of England but it has been decided due to lack of entrants that the competition hosted last year by the Mid- Essex branch at Ingatestone would be the last. This is mainly due to the move towards digital photography. The entrants to this years Mid - Essex competition were; Ray Smith, Tony Hogwood, David Berg, Roy Kittle and Roy Leach. The majority of these entrants will be moving over to digital this coming year so it has been decided that this will be the last slide competition to be held at Ingatestone, however we hope to continue with some form of photographic competition as demonstrated by our intent to buy a digital projector*. The subjects varied from tugs to container ships to cruise ships and ferries, and as always the high standards of photography made scoring difficult. Our thanks to Robin Butcher and David Brown for the mental arithmetic during a slightly longer than normal interval break which gave us a result on the night. Following the break the 30 ship’s details and histories kept us occupied for the rest of the evening. * At the time of writing this report, the branch has purchased a digital projector. |
| Position 1 2 3 4 5 |
| Entrant Roy Kittle David Berg Ray Smith Tony Hogwood Roy Leach |
| Set No 3 5 2 1 4 |
| Competition Results |
| Best Slide in competition, with 47 points Roy Kittle with the Reefer ALICANTE CARRIER 2nd best Slide in competition, with 46 points David Berg with the Contaner ship LEXA MAERSK |
| Points Max 330 257 252 237 220 217 |
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| The Colin Viney Trophy, won this year by Roy Kittle (left), pictured with David Berg, who was runner up. |