Todays Boating

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

I have an infallible way of preventing bike theft – I don't own one.

I refuse to eat anything which otherwise serves only as bedding for animals.

DM

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Looking at the cover of the jan issue of our favourite mag I see someone has made a Novgorod (did I spell that right???) Something I wondered about ages ago. Would be fun to have the entire top rotating like a massive turret, so you could look like you are going sideways, or reversing without going backwards!!

DM. I didn't think you would have a bike.

​Ashley

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Gosh, I see a TBD on the front cover of Feb`s issue. Very nice.

​Built mine and wrote about it on this very thread years ago not that anyone will remember! . They all look similar, funnels mostly give the difference. I made mine a "generic" TBD with several funnels but what the heck.

​I also built it to be quicker than the TB of a similar vintage circa 1890`s ish wot I built years ago. The issue was keeping the boat flat at speed, and this was achieved by having virtually no cut-up at the rear. Stability was assured by a steel keel stuck under the boat and large fixed stabiliser fins in the centre. They are (or were, perhaps) horribly thin for the length, and I didn't wish to make it too fat hence the keel which is a strip of 1/4 inch thick steel, an inch wide by a foot or so long, as I happened to have this handy (as you do).

​Mine is very fast but only uses a speed 480, s35 two blade prop all on a 7.2V Nimh stick. You can see the turtle back bow in action as the thing is very wet forrard due to the low freeboard, and tends to cut through waves rather than go over them !!

​Both this craft and the TB steer almost as well backwards as they do forwards…perhaps I over did the rudders??

Ashley

Edited By ashley needham on 05/01/2017 16:16:09

[David Marks 2Participant @davidmarks2]

Further to Mr Milbourn's post which mentioned "bedding for animals" British Standards (BSI) apparently used to use a certain wheat based breakfast product W********x for testing the flushability of a certain piece of domestic equipment found in the bathroom. In my opinion, the best use for that product.

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Two of our grandchildren were billeted with us during the past week. This included the dreaded Olivia-Rose Rowe, whose eating habits are unpredictable/unfathomable even to her parents. Olivia-Rose is 4 and well on her way to being The Diva of the 21st century. We were told, however, that irrespective of anything else she would eat W*******x for breakfast….

Does anyone have a need for an unopened pack of 24 of the blessed things? Could Ashley perhaps make use of them as a new, cheap model-boat building material? Perhaps Bobabell might try them as a new grain-filler medium?

Olivia-Rose has now been returned to her parents… bless.

Dave M

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

DM. The use of w######x has so far eluded me in the quest for new boat materials, however you can butter it and put jam on, but it is I admit a bit crumbly.

​A kind soul gave me an interesting little book a few months back "Boat Modelling" by V. Smeed. circa 1968.
​Gosh how times move on. Advice was given on suspending your receiver to protect it from vibration and knocks. I/C propulsion covers 7 pages, steam 3 and electric 2 pages and even a paragraph on rubber bands. There is a nice appendix of all the makes of electric motors available at his time, incl specs..current draw, casing type and so on. Dry or wet batteries were the only sort available but none of the motors listed drew very much in the way of current

​Of course I had to snigger at the inevitable "buttock line" phrase, who doesn't??

Have a stinky cold today and its nasty and wet/damp/cold out so no boating.

​The quest for a new project continues.

​Ashley

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

It is well known that Weetabix crumbs when mixed with milk and left to dry on the side of the bowl constitute an adhesive of incredible tenacity and would eat hardboard for breakfast Ashley.

Actually I quite like the stuff but not every day….

Colin

[harry smith 1Participant @harrysmith1]

Hi Ashley

So the Queen passed it onto to you!!

Hope you get better so !!!

Eat those Weetabix mate.

A bit warm today 31 Degrees in Tasmania.

You need a holiday down under it's nice and warm.

I will supply a model boat so you can have a bit of fun.

Poor Colin, he requires holiday?

Regards

Harry

 

Edited By harry smith 1 on 08/01/2017 11:32:43

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Harry geezer. Yes could do with a bit of sun down here. Would love to visit and thrash some of your unfeasibly fast boats in the warm azure blue seas. One day perhaps.

Don't mind Weetabix at all. Good stodge for breakfast.

​Colin is well known for exotic off-shore holidays via a short cruise.

Ashley

[harry smith 1Participant @harrysmith1]

Hi Ashley

You are welcome old chap.

May find one for Colin too.

I have my Weetabix with butter and Marmite, but , only on fast model boat days.

Wooden Boat Festival in February, but, the scale is big ( 1to1).

I was entering some model boats , but, the glass house building they were having the models in is too dam hot in summer.

Harry

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Indeed, I am often to be found frequenting the fleshpots of Littlehampton or cruising in style to the Isle of Wight (in steerage).

Colin

[Dodgy Geezer 1Participant @dodgygeezer1]

Posted by Dave Milbourn on 07/01/2017 23:25:15:

Two of our grandchildren were billeted with us during the past week. This included the dreaded Olivia-Rose Rowe, whose eating habits are unpredictable/unfathomable even to her parents. Olivia-Rose is 4 and well on her way to being The Diva of the 21st century. We were told, however, that irrespective of anything else she would eat W*******x for breakfast….

Does anyone have a need for an unopened pack of 24 of the blessed things? Could Ashley perhaps make use of them as a new, cheap model-boat building material? Perhaps Bobabell might try them as a new grain-filler medium?

Olivia-Rose has now been returned to her parents… bless.

Dave M

Dave, you have obviously bought the wrong present for a young child!

Once a child can talk, I buy it a radio control. Before it can talk, it is hard to explain the controls, so I have to get them something like this:

**LINK**

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Ah, I must get one of those and try a 5s in it… Ashley

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

DG

She would sink it in a moment, swallow the controller and then blame her brother and either sulk or scream the place down for the rest of the day. The only present I might buy for Olivia-Rose would be a strong anesthetic, which is why Liz does the shopping for prezzies.

You know the saying about absence making the heart grow fonder? In O-R's case the longer her absences are then the fonder I am of them. The rest of the little darlings are angels in comparison.

DM

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Dave

I see that you are in the running for Grandad of the year.

The trophy will sit very nicely alongside your awards for grump of the year 2005-2006-2007-2009.

Paul

What happened in 2008?

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

What happened in 2008?

Gordon Brown beat me into 2nd place.

DM

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

What was it that your old Latin master used to say about the mentally challenged? and yet you keep on trying……thats the good old British spirit of flying in the face of adversity.

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

It was my English master. The Latin master only spoke in iambic pentameter.

[Kev.WParticipant @kev-w]

Mea mihi Ayup

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

No, Kipper – I couldn't find the Latin for "duck" either (unless you use Anatidae, which is the name for a much wider waterfowl species).
DM

[Kev.WParticipant @kev-w]

The only Latin at my old school was on the school badge, never heard anyone say what it meant, but then my old school was just your common garden sink estate establishment.

Most of the inhabitants struggled to master English & add up their dinner money.

Edited By Kipper on 09/01/2017 10:15:14

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Sic transit gloria mundi

Translation: Gloria was sick on the bus on Monday.

I think we are getting a bit off topic here.

Colin

[Dodgy Geezer 1Participant @dodgygeezer1]

Posted by Dave Milbourn on 09/01/2017 08:22:35:

No, Kipper – I couldn't find the Latin for "duck" either (unless you use Anatidae, which is the name for a much wider waterfowl species).
DM

"Anas" is the word which escapes you, DM – only temporarily, I am sure!

I still chat to my kids' old Latin master, who went off to Malawi to write a Chichewa dictionary, and I see that there is a short youtube video of him teaching at the local seminary which may remind a few of us of our schooldays: **LINK**

[Dodgy Geezer 1Participant @dodgygeezer1]

Posted by Colin Bishop, Website Editor on 09/01/2017 12:23:41:

Sic transit gloria mundi

Translation: Gloria was sick on the bus on Monday.

I think we are getting a bit off topic here.

Colin

Caesar adsum iam forte

Brutus aderat

Caesar sic in omnibus

Brutus in is at.

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Enough!

Colin

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