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YOU CALL THEM BIG FISH I throw that size back….. My flat head fish hooks are bigger than any of those tiddlers ….the ones down here require a marlin rod to land em Sorry cobber but those wee tiddlers wouldn’t even make bait for my hooks but keep trying one day you might get lucky
WE WHO ARE NOT WOUNDED will be at the canal sailing “what ever ” on Saturday and as usual will be having a party at the end of the canal with cream cakes sausages hamburgers booooze an the occasional perve as the chickie babes run past and we have a special guest moooose will honour us with his presence its always a pleasure to watch him and Ron try to catch the chicki babes AS THEY GO INTO TOP SPEED PAST OUR LOT
HOW DID I fix the duck hunters nose after lifting the rubber nose protector the fracture was a clear brake so i shaped a piece of light thin ply with two string lines as two gives a better even pull water proof adhesive silicone was applied to the outer wood plug then inserted an pulled evenly to seal the gap then super glue with mix of baking powder to bond and fill,,,, sand down and finish with body filla to get the shape back over all not much material was used so I don’t think there will be a weight problem if I’m wrong I will rename her Pb hunter ……………..Pb symbol for lead so there ya go not only a fix it lesson but a lesson on the elements of the periodic table sorted by symbol hoo rah
BRILLIANT……. I ALSO HAVE built a stand using local material its fast to build portable and does not use nuts and bolts if I get enough requests for it I will go into production……this is an environmental sustainable product No 3D printer for this product just good ol bamboo locally made Comes with green string at no extra cost
hallo again dickie cobber well my friend if chaos is boats crashing and mates going crook at each other then for the past year or so we have had a dream time with common sense rules …. chaos .. we do have rules.. ones that we decided upon…. ones we wish to govern us… an the reason we have opened this rule issue up is to perfect the existing ones not to add complicated wish wash our members are ….bless em… are fun sailors some of em or most don’t even bother to read the site info just the next day out info from it that’s great that’s their thing no worries we sail at the pond with the intent of beating the best we have on the day that’s our fun….. are we slack…. sure are… are we non functional no way do we enjoy our one day in the week you bet your sweet bibbie we do and without complicated rules .. chaos …. as we have proved with ever expanding new members coming in we are definitely not in a chaos state ay join us or leave us no worries I think i’ve run my bit cant be bothered to write any more on the subject but that’s just me …… kermit la frog
DICKY cobber, your right of couse Risdon brook dam and others sail by the rule book to the letter and my friend that is not what we want at the pond non competitive sailors at the pond like most of us o’l farts do not go to Risdon or the other places because of that reason because were happy at the pond once a week doing our thing with a set of rules that that are sensible and easy to understand that’s why right now were getting it down …we just do not want to compete with others that live an need rules to run their life /fun think of it as a stranger comes to a our pond to play finds how we sail he can stay or go his choice members of our little group I believe have been looking for Shangra-La as another venue for the 65 and 95 to race against ourselves and other like minded o’l farts we have found it at the pond lets not turn it into Risdon brook or other rule in-festered die hard places … we have a few members that do sail at those other places they know the rules an they still sail there when ever but you know what cobber when they come back we hear of the back biting the nastiness of some of the members the cheating is that fun sailing might be to them win… at any cost .our philosophy have fun ..once a week now you might be thinking well what about the competition coming at the pond I guess those of us that are going to compete will in fact try to grasp the complexities of the rules and will compete under them but those die hard rules will be deleted from our memories after the meet I assure you
UNCLE Gs List of rules are the bees knees in my option not many and well explained…. an a dummy like me can get it With the exception of hitting a buoy as said before (distance eye sight etc ) if that one is out replace it with “for gods sake avoid a collision at all costs” The one about barging is an interesting one think of this mass of boats tracking for the first buoy all with good wind arriving at the mark near or at the same time one boat is Slow to turn he takes out x amount of boats the others still bunched strive for the next buoy still bunched there is always going to be barging as much as you don’t want it to be so I think barging in this instance is unavoidable even if a separation on that run is there….. at the buoy every one is going to try to go close to the mark to turn because that’s were you want to be this usually occurs at the first and second marker so the answer lies there ….. my thought for this…. move these turn buoys further out or only one turn buoy allowing the fleet to spread out thoughts any one One last one when its decided …….our membership card is big enough for the rules to be printed on so “why not “
Those of us with no sailing experience other than RC sailing would be wetting there nickers with that last lot of gobbley gloob it might make sense to real sailors that compete in big races and those that want rules in RC yachting to run their life.because they need it . but for those of us non big boat sailors oh my god what is this real big boat sailors need to remember we the RC players don’t want to sail like that we want to play with the widdle ones and have fun and that does not include ridiculous leeward behind your transom at right angles and trying to remember why were on the water …. most of us with dwindling eye sight memory loss wobbly legs sore hips lung problems and still married have enough problems getting to the pond my advice keep it simple… keep it very simple those that are so keen to enter the word of rules might like to join other clubs that cater for them but for me narh…… lets have fun….. these are my thoughts only…others can say what they wish an please do so so in conclusion green beats pink
