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    Sticky: outside storage

    Hi Nemo here.

    I have a dory which i store outside. A cheap and nasty but very effective cover was knocked up in ten minutes (some including Mik may recognize cheap nasty and nemo in same text,...
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    Ok

    Mik

    OK a full GIS it is to be in October at Mt Barker and I'll put a permanent first reef in until i can handle it. (and practice recovery after recovery when the water gets warmer here in Vic....
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    Is that a 12' GIS I see hull down on your horizon

    Mik
    Bearing in mind the constant threeway confrontation in my head between "act your age" (68), "a man should know his limitations" (Eastwood) and the overpowering need for speed and edge dwelling,...
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    Dory delight yet never ending

    Great to catch up with you and David at Goolwa. Drove past Ted's old place, the scene of the Frat house feast and follies and noted it has an aboriginal flag flying!

    I towed the Welsford designed...
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    Duck Flat Nemo

    Rob

    I sure am the Nemo from the Hindmarsh Island Boat building course. What a great time, not the least the camaradarie at the Murray-mouth house, the Andrew Garrett sparkling red and, for an old...
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    Hooked up and ian

    Folks

    thanks for the info and thoughts

    Certainly am thinking in plywood sheet sizes but simple has evaded me (grin)

    ian i suspect the jolliboat plans shown would be a little 'bargie' for...
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    trailerable liveaboard

    Thanks Guys

    great information.

    I am really at very early stages of musing and thinking. (and drinking and sketching) Just beat (fingers crossed) cancer so priorities are all now different.

    I...
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    i got the power

    hi hooked up

    can i tow it

    some few years ago I purposely bought a lightly used Navara twin cab diesel ute but bought a couple of years older and spent the $ difference on an LPG gas injector.
    ...
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    PAR and other old salts

    Thanks guys

    The sound you hear is me running screaming into the night.

    'Tis as i feared, far too involved for a mug like me to be doing calcs

    But, if i build a boat that is motor powered, ie...
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    scaling down

    Ahoy folks.

    I have in mind a retirement project of a trailerable live-aboard but would like to wet-test a ride-on scale model for seakeeping.

    All boat design seems to be a compromise between...
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    Sticky: 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...
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    Sticky: Michael I spent the long weekend relaxing in...

    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...
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    Slow? dory to Monbulk

    Gdaye folks.

    New here

    Just like to point out that the posters here for for slow boat building records are under serious threat from me, Capt'n Nemo

    I have a Welsford dory that is part...
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