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Monday, May 22, 2017

Experimenting with Bob the navigator


I'm feeling not so smart. By that I mean not as smart as a 16 year old kid. I know a lot, but it has become apparent that being intuitive in today's world takes some real effort. I barely survived the changes in Facebook, I do have a Twitter account, but have never tweeted. But today I am a winner, even though I only get a small red ribbon.

After mucking around I have finally gotten a video to work right. I kept reading about embedding videos, and with my tedious Blogger software, it just won't work. There is a little insert video button on my toolbar. But because my Internet connection is slow, it always opened with just a button that said upload video. Had I been a little more patient additional lines would have appeared say from You Tube? My You Tube? My Cam? Phone?...... As I said I should have asked a kid first. So here is belatedly the first appearance  of a properly installed video on MIR.


This little piece is a rainy day experiment. I have been looking for old public domain archival materiels related to boating, with the idea It could be edited for some other more insidious purposes. It's harder that it looks. These excerpts are from a Navy navigation training film circa 1943 titled "Night Piloting.". Out of 17 minutes of excruciatingly tedious and pedantic film, I salvaged just about two minutes.

I was intrigued because it dealt with navigation techniques that are now 70 years old, but still applicable today, sort of. It didn't turn out exactly like I thought it might, but this is often the way a lot of my projects end up. I had footage, I arranged it into an order, and then made up the dialog. It ended up being a oddly twisted version of a morality play. So no Oscar, but a lot of education in editing, and locating the material.

Here is the link to the original "Night Piloting"

Want to see just a bit of the public domain material that is available, try here. Three million people a day visit this site.



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Thursday, April 20, 2017

Cruising with friends on board Versus Sailing as a couple



October 28 to November 1 - 2015

Over the last five years, we have sailed in South East Asia and Europe as crew on a number of other people’s boats, cruised the Mediterranean for two seasons on Alcheringa with a boat partner, Marc, and, at other times on our own, and most recently, sailed our new (to us) Whitby 42 ketch Our Dreamtime in Australia, often with friends aboard. So which is better, sailing just as a couple or with others?

Sailing by ourselves has numerous advantages over having other people along. We can be totally selfish through and through. It is great not having to consider anyone else about anything. We decide where we go, what we do and when we do it purely based on what WE want. If we feel like skipping dinner and making do with light nibbles and a bottle of wine at sundown instead so be it. Constraints on our movements are largely limited to what the weather is doing rather than having to worry about what day our guests need to be somewhere to catch their plane, go to work or whatever. On any particular day we rise early or late in the morning as we please. There’s also privacy advantages of course. Clothing becomes optional. When, where and how much noise you might make enjoying being a couple is of no concern.

Including our unexpected four week stay in the Port of Bundaberg Marina fixing our transmission issue, we have spent over three months with just the two of us on board island hopping the 630 Nautical miles up Australia’s Queensland coast to Airlie Beach in the Whitsundays. Despite having spent the past thirty three years together, we have revelled in each other’s company. We spent days and days lazing in the cockpit with the trade winds pushing us along and swells rolling gently under the boat. Together we’ve faced and overcome some trying conditions on occasions and unexpected boat issues. We’ve explored many new places and revisited others. We have strolled naked in total privacy, hand in hand along golden sand beaches of uninhabited tropical islands. We’ve stayed in places as long as we wanted or moved right on if we wished. Toasting the sunset to celebrate the conclusion of another wonderful day alive has become our ritual.  Yep sailing alone is very, very cool.
Having an uninhabited tropical island all to yourselves is about as good as it gets
However, we are both very sociable and really enjoy other people’s conversation and company. We love having people on board to share our enthusiasm for sailing and get a taste of our relatively new cruising lifestyle. Through our previous careers and social networks, we are blessed with a number of good friends from all walks of life. Some of these love a day out on the boat with us around the bay while others are always up for a weekend away sailing. While there are a number who would love to spend some extended time cruising with us, for most, the time pressures of still being part of the Nine to Five grind make it either very difficult or impossible. It’s shattering for someone to lock in a week or two off work a couple of months in advance to go sailing only to have the weather turn to absolute crap when the date finally arrives and us have to tell them the trip is cancelled.

Fortunately for the sociable people we are, there are a few some who have the flexibility to escape such concerns at times and jump aboard when and where the opportunity arises. Two of those people are great friends Anthony and Lynda. They got their few first taste of cruising with us in 2013 when we shared an awesome week sailing on Alcheringa in Sicily during our Mediterranean wanderings.

Before we headed north on our current Great Barrier Reef adventure we had extended an open invitation to them to spend some more time aboard with us if they could get away from their businesses for a while. On October 21, shortly after finally reaching the Whitsunday Islands and anchoring at Shaw Island, Rob sent Anthony a text message which simply said, ‘We’re now in the Whitsunday Islands. Why aren’t you?

On October 28 we moved the boat from our anchorage off Airlie Beach into Abell Point Marina, gave her a big freshwater bath all over, filled our tanks, fridge, freezer, pantry and re-stocked our wine supplies. Late morning on October 22 Anthony and Lynda stepped aboard carrying just a small carrybag each. We threw off the lines half an hour later and headed out into the islands.

Our Dreamtime on a mooring at Stonehaven, Hook Island.
First up was a very relaxed fifteen and half mile square reach across to pick up a mooring at Stonehaven on Hook Island for the night. While Rob and Anthony secured the boat, Karen headed to the galley emerging shortly after with a round of large pina coladas in fresh coconut shells to set the tone of the next four days of fun and frivolity.
Abell Point to Stonehaven - 15.5 Miles - 3 Hours 08 Minutes
Average Speed 4.9 Knots Highest Speed 6.1 Knots
 

The moorings are located quite close to the fringing reef but are very well maintained.
Karen's masterpieces to set the tone of the next few days.

Great way to start the fun

Lynda and Anthony with their 'Welcome to the Whitsundays Pina Coladas on the stern.
We had a great sunset at Stonehaven followed shortly after by a very cool moonrise.

 
Next morning we sailed a circuitous 15.8 mile course in flukey winds south out into the Whitsunday Passage and then into CID Harbour where we anchored of Sawmill Beach. Cue a cooling dip off the boat, more cocktails, great food, laughs and another sunset in paradise.

Stonehaven to Cid Harbour - 15.8 Nautical Miles - 3 Hours 55 Minutes
Average Speed 4.0 Knots - Highest Speed 7.6 Knots
 
 

We planned to make the five kilometre round trip climb to Whitsunday Peak the next day to take in its reported stunning 360 degree views of the islands but overnight rain and a drizzling morning convinced us to relax on board instead. No point slogging up a muddy trail just to put our heads in the clouds and see nothing.

The weather cleared enough later in the day for Anthony and Lynda to go exploring well up into Dugong Inlet in our two man kayak while we trolled a line around the expansive CID Harbour in the dinghy hoping to pick up a nice fish or two. No such luck unfortunately so after a round of Karen’s strawberry daiquiris we had to console ourselves with roast lamb and a few appropriate bottles of bubbles.


We went chasing fish with the dinghy in Cid Harbour

While Anthony and Linda went exploring Dugong Inlet in the kayak
Anthony and Lynda enjoyed their own private island for a while
 
Karen and Anthony -more fun and frivolity in Cid Harbour
Who needs fish anyway
CID Harbour really is a beautiful anchorage
Sunday provided a very modest south easterly breeze for our trip back to Airlie Beach. While charter yachts motored all around us with furled canvas we were determined to sail. Up went our main, mizzen and then asymmetric spinnaker. We may not have set any speed records but we did have a very relaxing sixteen and a half mile run back. The wind angle gave us just enough room to sneak past the point of North Mile Island then we continued on the same tack well out into Pioneer Bay before gybing for home.

Spinnaker time
Lynda chillaxing in the cockpit on the way back to Airlie Beach
Rob trying to get that perfect I-phone shot of the spinnaker flying
Anthony enjoyed his Blueberry and Banana Cake after lunch enough to lick the plate. All class that lad.
Just after we gybed and headed into Airlie Beach
We passed close by the huge ship Voyager of the Seas anchored in the bay giving hundreds of photo snapping tourists a good view of a real cruise boat under spinnaker. We must have looked good because boats ferrying passengers back to the ship from the shore all came close by us with even more lenses pointed our way.
If you prefer to sail alone imagine the pain of being on that sucker with a couple of thousand new friends.
More tourists heading back to the floating city.
Our asymmetric spinnaker run back from Whitsunday Island was a perfect end to some fun filled days.
Cid Harbour to Airlie Beach - 16.4 Nautical Miles - 4 Hours 05 Minutes
Average Speed 4.0 Knots - Highest Speed 7.6 Knots
We dropped all sail as late as possible before anchoring off the Whitsunday Sailing Club again. Post passage beers were followed by final night cocktails, more bubbles, bbq dinner and a late night of laughs and tall tales.
Our anchorages in the Whitsunday Islands so far.
We ferried our by now weary guests into the sailing club at 8.00am next morning to meet their shuttle bus to the airport for the flight back to 9 to 5 world.
For us it was back to the boat for a good sleep and a couple of alcohol free days to give our livers some recovery time.

So which is better, sailing just as a couple or with others? Who knows. We love both. Tell us what you think. If you leave a comment and you have a blog, please leave a link as well. We'd like to click over for a visit and leave you a comment too. 



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Friday, March 3, 2017

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Choosing The Engine Boat You have Usually Dreamed Of

Once you start off out in your pursuit for the ideal boat, you need to really function practically in the bottom up instead than the leading down. As a very first action, put out from the brain for the moment just about all tips of styling, accommodation applications, galley arrangements, and deck styles. Concentrate solely on selecting the hull form and engine package which is going to finest suit your requirements.

It really is truly common that when the majority of people start off the seek for the cruiser of their dreams, the very initial issue they're going to concentrate on is frequently a boat's outside design and style.

Will it truly appear like their thought of a proper cruising boat?

From styling, they progress to researching the interior.

Does the layout offer adequate room for the family members and pals? Does it possess adequate heads? Would be the galley large adequate?

Following that, they commit hour right soon after hour choosing the appropriate colour mixture for the curtains and carpeting within the main saloon.

Just then do they take a cursory glance at the boat's deck layout and anchoring setup and speculate if there is sufficient location inside the engine area to get about towards the backside from the energy plants.

Nevetheless, when the hull form and energy plants of the vessel you sooner or later acquire are correct for the kind of cruising you've got in mind, lots of other aspects can easily be customized or lived with. In the event the hull kind is inappropriate or the vessel is significantly underpowered, no quantity of plastic surgery or digital gadgetry is most likely to make that boat do the work you count on it to finish.

By paying consideration on a boat's hull type and motors, it implies drastically a lot more as compared to merely turning by way of the builder's fancy leaflet or taking a swift stroll about the vessel in its cradle or sling and poking your head in to the engine location. Right after studying additional, you won't be a naval builder or even a marine engineer, however you ought to be within a position to assess the configuration of a specific vessel's beneath physique and its propulsion technique to decide if she could be counted on to carry out the way you would like her to under the much less than ideal circumstances you may surely encounter at sea.

In making your hull sort evaluation, it will be perfect within the event you might possibly acquire station drawings on the hull you may be contemplating, but dragging that variety of information out of most boat builders is complicated. Within the event of a totally new boat, you ought to insist on a near examination from the vessel you are considering of acquiring or 1 similar to it, out of the water. Inside the case of a utilised boat that is currently resting at a pier, try to possess a great have a look at the beneath physique of a sister boat before you get into key deliberations.

The quite first crossroads you may arrive to is deciding whether you could choose a vessel using a planing hull, a semi displacement hull, or perhaps a full displacement hull and which propulsion package is proper to power it.

Some 50 years ago, a complete displacement boat having a pretty low horsepower engine was considered the only right vessel for extended voyaging, and this kind of boat nonetheless has strong advocates amongst several the world's most seasoned yachtsmen. Planing hull advocates scoff that the full displacement boat's snail's pace cruising speed and also the rolling inherent in its rounded bottom must be relegated to some maritime museum. The only appropriate cruising vessel, they argue, is frequently a planing hull motor yacht possessing a pair of husky turbocharged diesels.

Owing primarily to our obsession with speed, in recent years the planing hull enthusiasts have had a good deal the far better on the planing versus displacement argument. planing cruisers now outsell full displacement boats by a vast margin. Many significant boat builders actually say they cannot sell a boat that is not from the planing or semi planing selection and does not cruise at about 15 to 20 knots. As a result, most businesses that after offered full displacement boats have either gone out from the company all together or have hardened up the lines of their boats and transformed them into semi displacement hulls. This beneath physique, they claim, delivers the selection of cruising at economical displacement speeds or zipping along at planing speeds by merely advancing the throttles.

Some guys and ladies say that prospective cruising boat buyers instinctively know which number of hull will suit them ideal. Our experience indicates otherwise.

We have recognized several 1st time purchasers, particularly guys and women moving from sailboat to powerboat voyaging, who bought a sizable planing boat and rapidly found that it pounded an excessive amount of, created an excessive amount of noise beneath way, consumed an excessive quantity of fuel, and had too restricted a range. When they shifted to a displacement hull boat they observed they were happier. Conversely, within the course in the oil embargo from the 1970's when diesel fuel charges went by implies of the roof and there had been important doubts about its lengthy term availability for pleasure marine use, several planing boat owners traded in their fuel thirsty motor yachts for displacement boats. Some made the adjustment effectively. Other men and women identified they had been driven close to insanity by chugging along at 8 to ten knots. As soon as diesel fuel costs came down, they could not wait to have back into a planing boat and feel they had been genuinely moving once again.

The point is that the selection in amongst a planing cruiser versus a semi displacement or complete displacement cruiser must obtain cautious consideration.

Further we would suggest that the procedure of deciding which way you may go ought to not commence using the glitz and glitter of boat shows. It truly should begin with locating the answers to some fundamental questions about you.

How will you use this yacht? Inside the occasion you've the luxury of sufficient time and earnings to strike off for numerous months at a time, take pleasure in lazing along drinking within the patterns of wind and sea, and feel the very greatest part of cruising is glorying within the colours of sunset in a secluded anchorage far from the madding crowd, you possibly could possibly be very happy with a displacement vessel. Around the other hand, if household and company responsibilities will limit your cruising to shorter voyages of some days or weeks at a time and also you prefer to get the boring open water passages behind you rapidly, you most likely ought to go to get a planing vessel.

Specifically where will you do your cruising? In the event the location or route you program to cruise tends to make it possible for frequent refuelling and reprovisioning stops, a planing motor yacht may be sensible. In case you strategy to seek out remote areas exactly exactly where fuel and provisions may possibly effectively be difficult to come by, you most likely want a displacement boat that can carry adequate fuel and provisions to permit you to stay away from fuel docks and supermarkets for weeks or perhaps months at a time.

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Sunday, November 20, 2016

How to make a boat with balsa wood


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Monday, October 10, 2016

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Friday, September 23, 2016

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