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    The Vics are doing it tough, some worse than others.
    The rest of us are ok.
    So far.

    Thanks for caring.
    AJ

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    There is a little bit more about fires on the forum in two other threads

    Response to a drive to collect money from forum members (it has been tried before .. it is better to use the regular channels .. some are using this thread to inform about fundraisers etc. Also Coles supermarkets take over the counter donations and more)
    https://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...ight=bushfires

    And a more discussion-ey type of thread
    https://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...ight=bushfires

    Best wishes to all
    MIK

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    Well ... the time has come to leave Taiwan.

    Sad to leave, five weeks seemed a bit rushed in many ways.

    I am going to be out of comms from now until Wednesday 4th March when I get up to Duck Flat.

    And over the weekend and monday following I will be at the Goolwa Wooden Boat show - I think that is the 7/8/9

    MIK

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    BAck in OZ,

    Even better back in Adelaide!

    Goolwa Wooden Boat Festival was over the weekend I have some images on flickr.com care of Robin Hilliard ... just some tastes while I get everything organised over the next day or so.











    ... had the pink PDR sailing around against the lug rigged sexy black PDR.

    Report in the lug vs sprit rig comparison thread

    Best wishes .. and so glad to be back.

    Now looking for a place to rent for 2 to three months.

    MIK

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    Michael

    I spent the long weekend relaxing in Tas after a nervous and busy four weeks in the fire area. All the ply i had to build a rough punt for the youngest (32 y/onow, oh my gawd) was used to close in and ember proof the carport while i got to ride around a lot on a BRT ( Big Red Truck).

    Thank goodness no near things at home or on the truck ( blacking out is hard, heavy, boring, dangerous [falling trees] and dirty but it worked), but number one son had the flames 300 metres away from his back door which is quite close enough anyway.

    Bad news travels fast, eh? I hear you got puddled by a little black duck with a lug sail (grin)

    Back to Tas. In my travels, i saw trailered up alongside the Living Boat Trust shed in Franklin the most beautiful and dangerously quick looking boat i have ever seen. Some intensive research indicates it was once a Bolger folding schooner in Goolwa but is now unfoldable. It looks about 40' long bowsprit to rudder. A cute system of levers is installed so that the tiller travel is reduced.

    Am I right in thinking this is a suicide machine, that I am at least 30 years too old to be even thinking about buying it, and that the raider you are drawing is not dissimilar in raison d'etre. The boat in Tas is fully restored and bristol fashion and for sale. Any ideas of what it would bring?

    What do you have in plan for a smaller, one-up schooner version ( lug sailed (grin) that i could dream about building and sailing and embarrassing lasers with?

    regards
    Nemo

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    Howdy Nemo,

    For a good long rundown on the vices and virtues of the schooner have a look at
    Tim Fatchen's Light Schooner page.

    It is a shorter brother.

    MIK

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    MIK Have you seen this discussion yet

    http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96294

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    As someone who grew up in Adelaide and spent a lot of time down the Port, this is very upsetting. I knew that the State government was trashing the working port and turning it into yet another glass-and-granite yuppy warren, but didn't know that it had gone quite that far. Big business doesn't give a hoot about ordinary folks. My thoughts go out to Mr Hackett and his former employees. And it seems to be very hard to get the mainstream media to sit up and take an interest. I can understand more now, possibly, why MIK appears to be shipping anchor to certain extent.

    It's all cetainly revealing our values as a society.

    The same thing is happening over here in Sydney, although the concept of (at least land-based) marine heritage seems to be slighly more alive. Elsewhere in this joint, however, if it isn't a develoment site, it's rapidly turned into one, and the Devil take the hindmost. Very frustrating.

    How to fight against Big Money?

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    This deserves a thread all of its own.

    MIK ?

    Silly thing is that closing these slipways eliminates the very infrastructure the marina
    occupants require to maintain their expensive toys. There are now virtually no
    facilities around metro Adelaide where the non yacht club marina occupants can slip
    their boats for a bottom clean. Likewise the commercial boats. I understand there
    are just one or two marina style hoists left. Anything larger than those limited capacity
    hoists must pay a premium to use RAYS slip or go around to the Spencer Gulf ports.

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    Quote Originally Posted by b.o.a.t. View Post
    This deserves a thread all of its own.
    I second that :).

    Alex.

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    I have moved Shedhand's build of the Handy Punt to here.

    He is in Tassie and is finding sources for the materials.

    https://www.woodworkforums.com/f169/handy-punt-shedhand-tassie-builds-plans-won-raffle-100881

    He won the plan as part of the regular raffle for all sorts of good things that members of the woodwork forums can win.

    MIK

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    Howdy,

    I am having some internet connection issues at the moment so my response might be a little slow.

    I am just changing wireless broadband ISPs having just about gone into strangling mode with DODO which runs on the Optus mobile network. Their performance was so poor that one of the major computer magazines refused to review them earlier in the year in a round up of that segment of the market.

    Now tossing up between Telstra and Three.

    HOpe to resolve in a few days.

    MIK

    MIK

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boatmik View Post
    Howdy,

    I am having some internet connection issues at the moment so my response might be a little slow.

    I am just changing wireless broadband ISPs having just about gone into strangling mode with DODO which runs on the Optus mobile network. Their performance was so poor that one of the major computer magazines refused to review them earlier in the year in a round up of that segment of the market.

    Now tossing up between Telstra and Three.

    HOpe to resolve in a few days.

    MIK

    MIK
    We've been having a bad run with Optus' broadband for the last few months - they have at least been giving us the odd free month, but it really doesn't make up for the loss of speed and connections. We'd go to Exetel and ADSL2+ if we could (run by techies for techies) but for some weird reason they don't do the Hornsby area...

    I've heard bad things about iinet, but no personal experience, and wouldn't touch Telstraaaa with a 40 ' barge pole - but I'd better stop there before I get permanently booted ;). When I compare my first memories of the internet about 20 years ago at Adel. Uni., and that of today - well, I have to be polite: 20 years ago it screamed along (although that was using goold ol' text/terminal interfaces before the days of the web, javascript, bots, spam, YouTube &c.). There was a chance to get it right in Oz and it looks as though it might have been squandered...

    Cheers,
    Alex.

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