Thread: Cool stuff

It does sound like a "must read", so will have to do so soon.Thanks for this. We Aussies do like to laugh at ourselves. When we see our lives through the eyes of visitors, our first reaction is usually one of shock before we see the funny side. Exageration is an Aussie "tool" so beware of them and our native drop bears.

Don't listen to this if you don't like swearing (its the older Billy before he smoothed out). But Billy Connolly on Australian wildlife ... sharks, funnel web spiders, stingers.

Billy Connolly - Comic Relief 1986 | dvd external

MIK

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OK guys, which of you smart ####s reversed the daggerboard?

[QUOTE=Boatmik;1518682]Don't listen to this if you don't like swearing (its the older Billy before he smoothed out). But Billy Connolly on Australian wildlife ... sharks, funnel web spiders, stingers.

Billy Connolly - Comic Relief 1986 | dvd external

MIK[/QUOT

I watched it - funny guy. I love his manic delivery style.

His early stuff is funny because it is just about incomprehensible!!!!

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MIK

My license plate holder needs updating. I was thinking about a new one saying:

"My other wife is a Goat"

Which of course is a wee bit better than "a Goat is my other wife" . . . Gives "Silence of the Lambs" a whole new meaning doesn't it . . .

Silence of the Kids?

Originally Posted by Boatmik

I just found this ... I know the exact boat (from a distance). Currey was way ahead of his time. I think the boat dates from about 1922. It used to have brakes on the rudder. Pull a highfield lever and two big flaps drop down into the water. Found a PIC!!!



Now wouldn't that startle someone screaming down the face of a wave behind you!!!

MIK

Yes MIK, it would, and the crazy part is that the Racing Rules of Sailing appear to be in in favour of the boat you are following closely if it forces you into committing a foul by quickly slowing down so that you hit its transom!

Have a look here:
Proper Course: Two Amazing Facts About The Racing Rules Of Sailing That You Could Have Learned From Reading Sailing Blogs Last Week

G'day Wam Beer
When you've finished with Bill Bryson, you might want to try & locate "They're
a Wierd Mob" by Nino Culotta (one of John O'Grady's pen names). It's about
an Italian immigrant's first encounters with Sydney in the 1950's. Our slang has
somewhat Americanised since then, but our accents are still almost as
incomprehensible to people for whom English is a second language.
cheers
AJ

Amongst the boxes of bits which came with my TS16 was a sheaf of old PBO
& Seacraft Magazines. Been working my way through them, marvelling at the
lack of URLs, and new technologies, including *colour* CRT radars, compact
Decca receivers, and SatNav receivers (predecessor to modern GPS).

One article in particular caught my eye. In view of earlier discussions about
skiffs & people, it seems appropriate to put it up here.
Sorry about the size - it lost picture resolution at lower scan DPI.
A very young Iain Murray & 12' skiff Sunset Motels.

Originally Posted by woodeneye

Yes MIK, it would, and the crazy part is that the Racing Rules of Sailing appear to be in in favour of the boat you are following closely if it forces you into committing a foul by quickly slowing down so that you hit its transom!

Have a look here:
Proper Course: Two Amazing Facts About The Racing Rules Of Sailing That You Could Have Learned From Reading Sailing Blogs Last Week

I read it, interesting. There is always payback though. One of my fondest memories is my Dad handing me the wheel for the start of an overnight race. We were level at the line in our CC 35 with a Morgan 36 slightly above us. My Dad told me to bring up the Morgan (the Morgan owner was an aggressive Texan who liked to fly the protest flag). I brought him up nicely, just few feet apart. The Texan was not happy as all 10 years old of smirking me, forced him to lose speed, and eventually pinched out on top of him. Got lucky.

Can you protest a kid playing at bumper boats in expensive yachts?

Nice Article!

I wanted to be Australia's version of Bruce Farr too. But looking at what the Farr studio produces these days ... I am glad I am not.

Murray has ended up with lots of fingers in lots of pies and not just boat design.

I've only brushed shoulders with him a couple of times.

One was helping him and Alex (his wife) carry a 420 across the low water mud flats at Clontarf beach. I earned my place in heaven for carrying a 420 300 metres! He drove off in a Porsche with the numberplates IM

The second time I was driving the tender at the Cruising Yacht Club in Rushcutter's bay which means the ugly job of controlling the limited parking. The standard thing is a lot of abuse from the Nouveau Riche and bizarre demands.

Murray drove in in an immaculate VW Beetle. All original, it didn't sound like the engine had been played with at all. He was really pleasant when he was told he couldn't park or double park. He left his phone number incase he needed to move the car for some reason - which was pretty unlikely.

A man who has kept good.

His 12s ... from memory ... were reported much nicer to sail than the others - the others were nice upwind but tricky down. With the Murray boats, because of that second chine they could be heeled well over and still steer OK. Not that you want to heel over much in a 12 foot boat with 220sq ft in main and jib and a 500sq ft spinnaker.

But it gives you another moment or two to do something before you do a barrel roll.

Almost wish there was some place to put old articles like this. Or they will be lost to the greater public. If you wanted to scan the most interesting articles to PDF I would be really happy to give you a webpage and space to put them up.

Funny ... I have been thinking of Seacraft magazine recently. It grew out of a home boatbuilding magazine "Build a Boat" in the late '50s and early '60s.

Michael

Just noticed the follow-on article refers to a possible successor to the tornado by the same designer.
The pics on the next page look to be a flea-bite off a Nacra. Will scan that article in later & probably
post in the 'lympic thread.
There were very few other articles caught my eye, although the PBO Skipper Sketchbook pages
have some quite profound education for would-be skippers. Have already binned most of the magazines.