Thread: Ubeaut's Wooden Boat Squadron - SA division

Got it working. Save the attachment as a txt file. Change the extension to .kml. Double click and like AJ says, up it comes. You do need to have Google Earth installed though, not Google maps.

And here's a screen shot.

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It only shows part of the return track - we actually went right down to the road bridge which is around that fat bend at the bottom of the screen (where the lake narrows).

Richard

Originally Posted by m2c1Iw

I tried cussing that didn't work either.

That's the trouble with these flat screens.
You used to be able to give the side of a CRT a good hard slap & the computer
would do whatever you wanted. Well, maybe not, but at least you could feel
better about its intransigence.
Do that to a flat screen & you only hurt your hand, & the computer laughs at
you. The mongrel things are winning. We're doomed I tell you... doomed...
sorry... where was I... oh that's right...

Interesting how a map makes events clear.
Wind was NW. more or less.
I kept thinking of the first half of the island as running N-S, but it doesn't.
Explains why there was sod-all wind near the west bank houses.
And getting under the foot bridge was directly into the wind.
As per the theory.

Next time, I'll take the oars & leave the anchor in the car.
AJ

Interesting to see that area again. I was even able to pick out the house that I used to live in in Semaphore. Slightly changed in plan view at the back, but still recognisable ;). Oops, sorry, nostalgia switch off again!

The track was quite wiggly, no doubt due to Daddles' rudder-sculling ;).

AJ - nothing like being by the sea to clear the chest up: I used to be taken down to the beach by my parents when I had bad asthma, and it usually cleared it up :). Well, it seemed too...

Just giving the thread a nudge
Got out today for what I now realise is the first time in a year.
Glorious autumn weather looks like it might continue another week or so.
Too good to waste digging holes in the back yard.

Sailed around Delphin Island. (see google screenshot from Daddles 3 posts ago)
Winds light & variable from NNW around to SSW.
With lots of swirly turbulence where you can feel the wind but can't present a
sail to it in a way that converts it into forward motion.

Had to drop the mast to get under the two road bridges at the Sth end of the
Island. This offered a chance to try out the modified oars (shaved nearly 1/2kg
off the blade end of each of a pair of cheapo pine oars) and some Gaco oar
locks I got from Flat Duck last week. BIG Improvement ! Both on the oars & on
the clumsy galv things I had.

Realistically, it would have been quicker to row the whole way. Probably less
effort too - being in a too-small boat in light, flukey air is pretty hard going.
But it was nice to get out for a bit after all the work in the yard.
Pic attached to make all those who had to work today jealous.
AJ

Originally Posted by b.o.a.t.

Pic attached to make all those who had to work today jealous.
AJ

Well it worked on me!

Good to see you're out and about again - fully recovered I hope.

I only have a few things to do to finish off my transom yak (varnishing and proper seat) and was just plotting tonight how to set up my Laker as a sailing trimaran with folding outriggers. If I can work out the details this could become the winter project.

If anyone else is keen on another day at Dotterel Drive I'm interested.

Neck has -finally- stopped leaking.
Mostly.
Still a bit tender.

A get-together would be good indeed
However, I'm working the next 3 weekends so my schedule probably conflicts with everyone elses'.
i.e. next Tuesday is good for me, but probably only me....