WESTON Park Whit Fair was warm and very windy... perfect.

Perfect, that is, for members of the Sheffield Model Ship Society who gathered at the ornamental pond to stage a regatta.

At the controls of her micro magic yacht was Val Herring, aged 69, from Swallownest - who sounded like an old sea dog when she talked about the weather.

“Wind is good for sailing, we like wind,” she grinned.

Fellow club member Alan Whitworth, 77, from Anston nodded in agreement.

“I used to fly model planes,” he said. “But then I found that there were more suitable days for sailing than for flying.

“We can sail in any conditions just about, wind is no problem to us.”

Dave Moxon, from Loxley was at the fair proudly showing off his Range Safety Boat, built from a kit but adapted by himself to become a police boat.

“It’s fast,” he said. “But there are faster ones on the water.”