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    Well, I am using a friend's wireless connection ... just out the window. For some reason I can get the web, but not email.

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    Howdy

    Broken internet connection at the moment ... will resolve later today.

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    Howdy,

    Despite some nice sailing etc at Mooloolaba my internet connection is completely shot. I am trying to work out a way of fixing it. I'll probably end up hitting the local internet cafes.

    Best wishes
    Michael

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    Not resolved, but I am just using up some of my quota for roaming at the local Starbucks.

    Not slumming to badly - nice view of Mooloolabah beach.

    MIK

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    I am back in Adelaide for those who had not noticed.

    I am changing my work schedule as I have realised I am far too easily seduced by this forum - a good thing as it means it is good fun for me too.

    But from now I am going to update the forum and answer emails at the end of the day rather than the beginning.

    This way it makes sure I do design work every day in the mornings and leave the more fun bit for the evenings. The design is fun but the payoff tends to be later when I release the plans and can start discussing and promoting them.

    So design is fun
    Talking and posting on the net and email is more fun.

    Catch you later in the day.
    Best wishes
    Michael

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    Howdy,

    Sorry about my lack of appearance recently. Things have been pretty tough over the last few months both inside and outside the boat design thing.

    I hope it is all simplifying now. The most recent was a virus infection on my website, but I think I have fixed that now - it was only on the Michael Storer Wooden Boat Plans|Wooden and Plywood Boat Plans for Amateur Boatbuilders – Excellent Performance, Simple Construction, DETAILED Step by Step Instructions Australia, USA, UK, Hungary, S. Africa section and I had to disinfect it and work out how to make it harder in future.

    Anyway ... hope I am back a bit more often now.

    Best wishes
    Michael

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    Merry Christmas to all the visitors that make this forum such a great place. Hope you get some boating in the next few days or that you have some nice time planning great things to do when summer comes to the north.
    Best wishes,
    MIK

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    Default Never ending Dory (NeD)

    BoatMik

    On January 2nd I pull the tarps from the NeD and see if after three years it is still there.

    Aim is to have it with a wet bum at Goolwa wooden boat fest late Feb, emblazoned with your given name for it (never ending dory) if that's OK with you.

    Seems sort of appropriate to launch near to where the keel was laid all those years ago.

    will you be there to watch?

    If you are still peripatetic I can put you up at Goolwa on the weekend.

    Nemo

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    Hi Nemo,

    I will be at the Goolwa show on the Duckflat stand and also milling around!

    Best wishes
    Michael

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    Have been in Canberra for a few days with very poor internet connection.

    On my way back to Sydney so along the highway I can communicate again.

    Only the most marginal of boating activities - went for a sail with a friend on Lake Burley Griffin in very light winds. Did see one of the 18ft Norwalk Island Sharpies with the ketch rig I drew up being motored - but they were going into a lull area in a very patchy day - so couldn't follow because we would have been becalmed.

    The boat was a plastic Topper. It dealt Ok with two smallish adults on board if we kept weight central.

    The rest of the time it was galleries and museums - I used to live there when I started to be a boat designer full time (the first time) so was very nice to catch up with culture.

    MIK

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boatmik View Post
    The rest of the time it was galleries and museums - I used to live there when I started to be a boat designer full time (the first time) so was very nice to catch up with culture.

    MIK
    Does that mean future designs may incorporate some artistic flair?

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    Howdy All,

    New article up on my website

    Rules of thumb for boat and yacht design – are they legitimate?#|#Michael Storer Wooden Boat Plans

    I think most of the regulars would know about it because they also subscribe to my website (button at top of the right column of my website page - you should get one email a week if something new has been published.)

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    Default Does the GIS ride on a bubble of air?

    I love Rules of Thumb, so will check it out.

    Does the GIS ride on a bubble of air?

    It occurred to me last Saturday that, on occasions, the Goat rides on bubbles of trapped air. We had pretty flat water on the lake and as we moved along the gurgling noise under the hull was pretty loud. It’s quite amusing as it could be heard by other nearby boats. When the conditions are just right, such as in a light breeze and small ripples on the surface, the air is trapped between the runners and creates a musical gurgling sound as these bubbles make their way aft and exit at the transom.

    Yet another performance trick that reduces wetted surface area!

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    Haha, probably not.

    More likely to add to the sum total of human amusement.

    Which is not a bad thing.

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