Anchoring accidents

Neeves said:
When I try to load big files to YBW the little man who assess quality (and size) raps me on the knuckles and refuses entry, so I knock them back to 200kb (approx). Now it appears I'm being censored, can I complain?

How do you load a 2 Mb file....? - no - I don't need to know the answer (or when I do I'll ask B.O.B.

:)

Jonathan.
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BoB didn't load the files to YBW. He has them on a remote server and posted links to them, to display them here.
 
Think how much slower printing and posting them is, 30s is easy time. As noted above, they are hosted, not stored on the forum.
 
SaltIre said:
You should really reduce them to ~100kb before posting them - in the interest of others.
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How best to do that? The only method I’ve found is to open the file in Paint and use the resize function, it’s quite a cumbersome process. Anything easy out there?
 
Robih said:
How best to do that? The only method I’ve found is to open the file in Paint and use the resize function, it’s quite a cumbersome process. Anything easy out there?
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Download Irfan View. It is free, very good, easy to learn, and they take donations. Crop, rotate, resample, and exposure adjustments are the bread and butter, but there is more. I open all images in Irfan view as my default.

The resize, go to images and resample/resize. Very easy.
 
SaltIre said:
BoB didn't load the files to YBW. He has them on a remote server and posted links to them, to display them here.
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Not sure if I understood that correctly.

If he posted links how come I automatically receive the images. How do you know, identify, that's what he has done - when I receive his images it looks as if he has simply pasted them to his post - and I have no reason to interrogate (life is busy enough already) his, or any other images, to identify how big they or how they got there. And if they are not held by YBW how come they are permanently in his post and on my YBS screen - like now.

I've said it before we are all here to learn, though I was not thinking of image transmission. :)

Jonathan
 
TNLB ELSIE MAY ANCHOR LIST

STERN / Deep water emergency: FOLDING GRAPNEL 2.5 kg (5.5 lb)

STANDBY MAIN: DANFORTH: 6 kg (13 lb)

MAIN: BRUCE 7.5 kg (16.5 lb)

STORM: CQR 16 kg (35 lb)

Deep Water or Fishing Use Only:

FISHERMANS TRADITIONAL: 7 kg (16)

POOLE REBAR HOOKER: 2 kg (5 lb)

That list is very similar to the one I used during 5 years of offshore sailing including a circumnavigation in a Van Der Stadt 34. My present motor sailing lifeboat that I'm building is based on a 27ft alloy double ended offshore ships lifeboat hull, that should be half the weight of my previous steel yacht. I only carried 3 anchors in Dicha, a 35 lb CQR, a 15lb Danny and a 10 lb folding grapnel. All of those will be aboard my new lifeboat when it's finished, BUT I do remember a few long conversations with clued up sailors and fishermen about anchoring in deep water, so I've included a brand new traditional Navy pattern Fisherman's stolen from a Force 4 chandlery, AND I'm going to make a 3 prong grapnel out of 10mm rebar with stainless ring. Fairly simple welding job I hope. That type of anchor will be for deep water fishing use only, as it should start to set with 2:1 ratio of Polyprop line. Similar to the performance in angle of dangle to a folding grapnel or fisherman's hooker.
 
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