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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
CCOTY display setting up
News from Terence Tracey yesterday by phone was that the Jolon Imp was judged to be given the award for 5th place.
Thinking positively this still got the Imp onto the center stage and in the Go Imp 50 year, what a wonderful acheivement! Well done toall those involved and a special pat on the back for Geoff and Terence who drove through the Hell Road to Coventry.
This was at the NEC in Birmingham yesterday (friday 15th november 2013)
The event will be the last car display of the year and for all involved one of the most exciting, this time there is a prize, to be named Classic Car of the Year!
I suspect that only one of the five cars on display managed to drive through nineteen countries across three continents, do 14,000 kilometres and in 29 days to be considered to be worthy of making the stand for the last five to be chosen?
Thinking positively this still got the Imp onto the center stage and in the Go Imp 50 year, what a wonderful acheivement! Well done toall those involved and a special pat on the back for Geoff and Terence who drove through the Hell Road to Coventry.
This was at the NEC in Birmingham yesterday (friday 15th november 2013)
The event will be the last car display of the year and for all involved one of the most exciting, this time there is a prize, to be named Classic Car of the Year!
The Imp is a winner either way, it made the Go Imp 50 event with just six hours left on the clock, this is just a bonus!
TT wrote on his blog yesterday:
While the Imp Club Chairman Graham Anderson and James Spencer were traversing England with my JoLon Imp on a trailer taking it to form part of the Classic Car Of The Year stand where on Saturday it will be handed its FINAL JUDGEMENT
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The award will be announced at 10.30am on Saturday, so for those in South Africa 12.30pm our time. The results be be posted very soon after and on this blog.
The JoLon Imp is now for sale by the way.
Roy
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Stiffening up a small Garmin GPS
I have thrown, metaphorically speaking, a zillion of these small Garmin 4x and 5x chart plotters into boats. They are compact, full featured, and a good choice for smaller boats. In most cases they are good to go as installed, but on occasion it would be nice if the mount was a wee bit stiffer. Don't despair, there is an easy way to make the mount a little stiffer, for under a dollar or less, even if you're paying full retail.
The answer is simple, just place a fender washer under the knurled twisty knobby thingy that holds down the mount. The larger the washer, the stiffer the mount becomes. For picky owners, I take the fender washer and give it a couple of coats of fast drying (time is money) black spray paint.
There is another gadget in the Garmin collection that can also be put to good use in my in-situ world. This is the wire cover you get with a Garmin transducer. This little gadget can be gracefully modified to make an attractive wire pass through for both the standard small Garmin's, but also for their "S" series that has the second transducer wire.
I used a countersink to open the wire pass through hole to the same diameter of the inside opening resulting in a cover that will accommodate both the Garmin wires. In the picture below, there was already a hole for a similar Garmin unit the previous owner had removed prior to selling the boat. A SS clam shell would have looked out of place, and the transducer cover worked well. It was also at hand.
Just a few personal thoughts about removing electronics from your boat prior to selling it. Sometimes this is a good idea, and sometimes it isn't. If I was shopping for a boat, I would be reluctant to buy one that had a dash full of empty cutouts and old unfilled screw holes. This invites potential buyers to look into those holes, and see how dirty messy, and corroded, the insides of the consoles often are. In the case of this boat, everything had been removed, including the transducer (may a thousand fleas infest his underwear). The holes were over filled with black goo of some sort that was difficult to remove, making re-installation a P in the A. I often suggest that if you're going to remove the electronics, leave the transducer in place. I can usually cut off the old plug, and attach a new one to make it work with other systems, and not properly filling the old holes below the water line can result in potential damage to the vessel including sinking it. In most cases I think owners that do this sort equipment removal are often being "Penny wise, and pound foolish." If you're buying a boat that someone has removed all of equipment from, look twice, and very carefully. If the owner was that cheap, he may well have cut other corners in the boat also.
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
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Friday, March 3, 2017
Stephens Brothers Growing Up
Here is the home the Stephens brothers, Olin and Rod, grew up in at 146th Street and Walton Avenue in the Bronx, and before moving to Scarsdale. It appears it was within walking distance to the Stephens Coal facility on the Harlem River and next door to Consolidated Shipbuilding.
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Pin Up Girl Paddle
Came across this painted paddle with a 1940's era pin-up girl (rather scantily clad for times I suppose) posted at the Cherry Gallery's website
Pin-up Girl Paddle
The gallery also has a page documenting a birchbark canoe model. It's not to scale but has an interesting lashing technique - the continuous lashing around a round gunwale giving it the illusion of a stronger bind. This is the style of lashing often seen on Mi'kmaq canoes. This method requires many holes piercing the bark in close proximity and apparently weakens the bark. Ferdy Goode mentioned to me that it is kind of the equivalent of perforated notepad paper that's easy to tear off.
Canoe model with continuous lashing
Close up
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