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8th February 2008, 01:09 AM #16
MIK,
On BOAT DESIGNS/PLANS range of forum is my topic about general questions of your Beth kamikaze canoe yawl - still.
I like your forum and your boats as well
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8th February 2008, 01:46 AM #17On BOAT DESIGNS/PLANS range of forum is my topic about general questions of your Beth kamikaze canoe yawl - still.
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11th February 2008, 04:29 AM #18
Hi Michael, I thought I'd join your forum . . .
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11th February 2008, 03:06 PM #19
Howdy PAR,
I saw your post on another thread and welcomed you there.
Very welcome here too.
MIK
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11th April 2008, 03:09 PM #20
I will be away for a couple of days, so if there is a certain slowness in answering questions this weekend ... don't be frustrated ... think of my sailing one of the PDRacers over at the Stansbury and Port Vincent Classic Boat Festival.
I'll be catching up on Monday
You guys are getting pretty good at supplying needed information anyhow!!!!
Michael
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11th April 2008, 04:45 PM #21
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11th April 2008, 05:52 PM #22
Richard ... don't forget that you used my digital camera to take a little bit of footage of the pink PDR sailing three times as fast as Redback.
The footage is very clear and I will have it up on the web next week.
Very kind of you to record it too!
Cheers
MIKLast edited by Boatmik; 20th July 2008 at 10:58 AM.
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17th September 2008, 10:32 PM #23
I think most here will have seen all of these ... but just as a bit of a historic record ...
The Storerboat launchings have been great this year. A lot of it is because of hard work from my agents
Chuck and Sandra in the USA
Ted and David in OZ
Philip in the UK
but boats being launched everywhere
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Gyula in Romania
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Eureka Hungary
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PDRacers - as construction photos are required for registration ...
Sorry ... they have all been blocked by their server ... but they are just all OZ ducks or OZ version ducks.
you can paste the references into your browser and they load that way but they won't accept a link from clicking on this page.
Just get rid of the equals sign before pasting into your browser.
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17th December 2008, 08:06 AM #24
Storer is on his annual transition between cities.
Once he plugs in the laptop at the other end the shift is completed and things continue like normal ... but he will be a bit scarce on the ground.
And it makes this week a little chaotic in terms of keeping up with posting etc.
Best wishes to all
MIK
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22nd December 2008, 06:57 AM #25
Well ... I have arrived in Forster/Tuncurry but still have very limited internet access. I will try to get to an internet cafe in the next day or so.
Thankyou everyone for keeping things going!!!
If people have specific and urgent problems over the Xmas period give me a yell by email. But posting here will also be helpful as lots of people have had lots of experience.
BEST WISHES!!!!
Michael
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Being somewhat new to the group here, I'd love to know about this migration, Michael. I'll look the place up on Google!
OK- just looked on Google maps, wow it looks like a wonderful place...National Parks, and lots of water. Is it just me or does Wallis Lake look like a great stomping ground for a Goat?
Clint
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22nd December 2008, 06:59 PM #27
Forster/Tuncurry - NSW biggest retirement village....
Lake Wallis is a great stomping ground for almost any boat.
Shallow draft better - opens up a -lot- more lake & back-waters.
Lots of sandy shallows. And some rocky ones...
Same applies to the Myall Lakes to the south.
AJ
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23rd December 2008, 06:54 AM #28
And lots of Oyster leases.
We have been coming here for Christmas since my Aunt and Uncle moved here after buying a Motel.
Originally it made its money from oysters, prawns and general ocean seafood - a sleepy little town with about the best fish and chip shops you could imagine. Fishing co-ops and a small bunch of local shops. It was a tourist town basically with cement board (fibro to us) Motels with wooden floorboards and three windows.
In the main hotel street there used to be a bunch of holiday flats called Eros 1, Eros 2 and Eros 3 near the cinema where I once saw a McHales Navy double thinking I was about to see Spielburg's first film "Duel".
We alway made sure that our family hired one of the old clinker Putt Putt dinghies for a day when we we were young and headed up the lake for an explore and picnic. So I have first hand experience of why the people who truly love them called the enginge "Stupid Turners". I spend a lot of time hanging over the side pushing the water around with my hands and other body parts. I wasn't a sailor then. but maybe part of the fascination was from here. They also hired out very heavy fibreglass canoes.
One of the boat hire places had boats called Grumpy, Sleepy, Doc etc .. all about 16ft and an 18footer called Snow White.
It certainly was a holiday town - very sleepy the rest of the time. Lakes on one side - better for fishing and small boats because the area is not really huge - a PDRacer would be more fun than a Goat ... you could see everything in one day on the Goat (ok .. maybe two - the Myall lakes would be lots of fun. Lots of shallow and quite strong tidal currents. And don't get lost among the oyster leases!
It went into a state of hypertourism with the local developer types wanting to create a Miami by the sea. The change in housing style was indicative.
Now like AJ says ... the economy subsists on a mix of superannuation and pension cheques. Lots of urban development around the lakes, a K-mart and big supermarkets to the North of the town and an average population age of ... maybe about mine. The boat hire businesses are a little bit marginal now so it is even hard to hire a tinnie. The canoes are now in plastic and still crap to paddle!
Still a nice place to visit. Interesting thing is all the people who live here are sun shy and spooked by skin cancer ... or live here anyhow ... or too old ... so the old OZ beach culture has disappeared. Very few of the locals now hang around on the beach putting hats and sunscreen on their kids and handing out sandwiches and walking to the shops for an icecream like we did.
However hang around on the beach a little and the people there are doing much the same thing as our extended family did ... you hear Chinese, Arabic, South American accented Portuguese and Spanish, Thai, Hindi. They walk their toddlers in the shallows and I am sure tell their kids "you can't go swimming until an hour after you have eaten or you will get cramps and die" just like my mum told everyone (and still does).
I find this amazing ... how do people who have moved from all over the world know how families should use beaches - is there a course they have to do??? It is really a case of the country shaping the people.
Amazing and wonderful.
Best wishes
MIK
Hey .. saw this one afloat opposite my Aunt's apartment. I'll let you all guess and see who works it out! I saw it being built about ... 15 years ago .. strip plank. the paint scheme for the leeboard is quite clever I think.
More pics here (too many)
http://picasaweb.google.com/boatmik/ForsterTuncurry#
http://picasaweb.google.com/boatmik/...alkToTheSouth#
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24th December 2008, 07:48 AM #29
Christmas Eve ... Merry Christmas to everyone!
MIK
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24th December 2008, 07:57 AM #30SENIOR MEMBER
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Not Christmas Eve here yet...what are you on the other side of the world or what!?
Cheers! Merry Christmas to all in Oz!
Clint
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