Anyone done anything intresting recently

[powerskipper]

I have been playing in Fog a bit, most interesting was with no electronic instruments working.[ don't ask}.

Have had some lovely flat seas to play in, you know the kind were you break your own reflection, and for the Solent that's rare, to many boats moving around.

Had a Play with a brand new Fairline Sq 55, nnniiiicceee boat and it was lumpy taking her to her new home, showed owner something interesting, if on a bigish wave you take the power off , she literally flattened the wave.

So come on peeps tell some story's

 

[bigwow]

Just been watching a kestrel eating it’s tea 10 feet away sitting on my fence does that count?

 

[Powersalt]

just spent the last few days drying carpets on my new boat when the fresh water pipe broke and put 100 gallons across the floor, Then trying to sort out a diesle bug provided with the boat at no extra charge.... oh and then panicking in Guernesy when I tested the oil in the engines to find it nearly all gone after 25 hours. Other than that flat calms and great mobo weather. Even did one small passage at 9 knots to save fuel and ended up making teas and just sitting around watching the views etc etc

 

[powerskipper]

Just been watching a kestrel eating it’s tea 10 feet away sitting on my fence does that count?

Yup, but please do not go into too much detail, I have just eated,

 

[powerskipper]

oh

just spent the last few days drying carpets on my new boat when the fresh water pipe broke and put 100 gallons across the floor, Then trying to sort out a diesle bug provided with the boat at no extra charge.... oh and then panicking in Guernesy when I tested the oil in the engines to find it nearly all gone after 25 hours. Other than that flat calms and great mobo weather. Even did one small passage at 9 knots to save fuel and ended up making teas and just sitting around watching the views etc etc

So a normal boaty day, a plan g day, LOL [gourd can it get any worse, and it could}

 

[Kawasaki]

Well, funny you should post that question PS
Was going to post a 'part two' as it were ref a hydrafoil rib thinghy

Mentioned ot a week or so ago

Sarf African
6.5 metres
Twin hulled RIB
With aerofoils, as I can best describe.
One fixed athwarts between the hulls just forward of midships
Two, aft, short blades protruding 'inwards'

Twin 60 hp 4 stroke Mariners on the blunt end
Canted , with the props positioned to take max water from the twin 'tunnel' effect of the two hulls

Gent's first boat!

So
She cruises lovely at 25
Not all that fast with the props fitted
WOT 35 ish with no tide about
But!

Trim out a bit and she gets 'up' on the foils
Turn at 30 , hard over as much as you like
She stays flat as a pancake like a ZAP Cat kinda
Weird feeling
The 'g' force wants to leg you out the vessel!
But--- what a thing belting through a 2 metre short chop, a la Solent etc
Just 'cleaves' through the water with a slight 'splish splosh'.

Likes this better at as much throttle you can give
Whislt pussy footing the lift off the blades didn't work
Only downside
I think if the 'Helm' went really bonkus on a turn She could bite back
But you would have to be really a bit of a nutcase.

Oh, and the other realy intesting thing.
This is absolutely amazing an I,m sure everyone would like to know.
Llandegfan school won the first prize in the Choir section at the Regional Eisteddfod

Now that Tops all subsequent posts I reckon!!!!!

 

[hlb]

Just ambled round Anglesey, collecting fuel on the way. Finished up with so much fuel on the arse end, MF had her nose in the air and using more fuel than we had added. Eventually managed to pump the fuel forwards and got on a more even keel. Got told to F off from the Prince Madog, cos some raggie wanted the space. Then got rammed by a raggie, causing loads of damage. All normal sort of stuff really.

How is it, raggies understand the wind at sea. Or should do. But raggies have no understanding of wind in marina's. It's puzzled me for quite a time. I thort they would be experts .

 

[Kawasaki]

Power Skipper asked the question
'has anybody done anything interesting lately'?

hlb
Ragies rammin yer etc etc
Pah! is that all yer can come up with?

No sinkings?
No alarms going off?
No being stranded somewhere with No Whiskey or Fags?
Like serious probs etc.

OK , yer got F'd off from yer berth agin the Madoc
Nice try but we've all had to do that so no points there

Not good enough H
When MF goes to Sea , We have come to expect a lot more.


Now if you had posted
'We went around the wrong side of the Island in the Swellies an the Bog exploded whilst we were about to run aground cos of Kwacker's directions.

Now That , would be interesting!

 

[hlb]

Well the thing is, when we was new to boating, there was loads of stuff to post. Loads of stuff looked interesting or even harowing. After sinking a few times, most stuff seems fairly normal.

If it helps, MF went through loads of overfalls, around Hollyhead, all at about half tide. We bounced up and down a bit. But no waves on deck, let alone one the fly.

Yep, I know we normally sink, or the toilet blows up. Just want to tell folk about the time it did not happen. Sheesh, even Mucky Farter gets it right some times.

 

[epervier]

Oh, and the other realy intesting thing.
This is absolutely amazing an I,m sure everyone would like to know.
Llandegfan school won the first prize in the Choir section at the Regional Eisteddfod

Gets my vote

But the seth effrikin rib sounds interesting, any photos of it? is it blick?

 

[LittleShip]

Had Little Ship Blessed in Dublin. but you probably already know that!

Tom

 

[Kilter]

Spent three days hard graft finishing off our new kitchen.

Looks great!

My back and shoulder are knackered again!

 

[Major Catastrophe]

I got a free haircut from a trainee hairdresser.

The blood has stopped flowing now. (I'm not kidding. I have the photographs)

 

[MapisM]

Diving with more than a THOUSAND (not a typo) of tunas

Well I don't know how many will rate a dive in a "tonnara" (God knows what the English for that is) as something interesting, but to myself and swmbo it definitely was.
And can only be made in 2 or 3 places in the whole Med - actually, I presume also in the world, but I'm not 100% sure of that. And just for a few weeks in this period of the year, so surely it's at least something peculiar.
Highly recommended for anyone with some diving experience (the whole dive is in blue water, at times with no references around).
Oh, and I'd recommend also to NOT show the u/w camera to some fellow divers during the cruise to the tonnara: he might leave it turned on, thus arriving there with a dead battery, aaaarumph!
For those interested, this youtube clip gives an idea, anyway.

 

[powerskipper]

HLB

Well the thing is, when we was new to boating, there was loads of stuff to post. Loads of stuff looked interesting or even harowing. After sinking a few times, most stuff seems fairly normal.

If it helps, MF went through loads of overfalls, around Hollyhead, all at about half tide. We bounced up and down a bit. But no waves on deck, let alone one the fly.

Yep, I know we normally sink, or the toilet blows up. Just want to tell folk about the time it did not happen. Sheesh, even Mucky Farter gets it right some times.

You can make anything seem interesting.

 

[Kawasaki]

Gets my vote

But the seth effrikin rib sounds interesting, any photos of it? is it blick?

Love it!
Yis tiss seth effrikken but blik it is nut
tri thees link cos mu boy in thee fertuggryphy dept i is inept
www.hysucat.net

Anyway, back ter poroper english like what I write now!
Said vessel is being dropped off with me for a tune up an some mendin like next week
I will get some photies on here.

And yesterday was good too
RIBEYE 7.85 with a 300 yam on the back
Took a Party out of the Strait a bit.
By Llanddwyn Island for those that know it
Glorious 20 mins with a large pod of Dolphins for company

 

[epervier]

Love it!
Yis tiss seth effrikken but blik it is nut

Just looked at the link and yis yourra currect, blick it's nut, it's whyte an grrray.

look forward to your opinion of it and pics.

 

[BartW]

Well I don't know how many will rate a dive in a "tonnara" (God knows what the English for that is) as something interesting, but to myself and swmbo it definitely was.
And can only be made in 2 or 3 places in the whole Med - actually, I presume also in the world, but I'm not 100% sure of that. And just for a few weeks in this period of the year, so surely it's at least something peculiar.
Highly recommended for anyone with some diving experience (the whole dive is in blue water, at times with no references around).
Oh, and I'd recommend also to NOT show the u/w camera to some fellow divers during the cruise to the tonnara: he might leave it turned on, thus arriving there with a dead battery, aaaarumph!
For those interested, this youtube clip gives an idea, anyway.

your avatar already gave a hint that you're in to the diving for some time,
never heard of these tonnara, is it typical around sardegna, or are there other places in the med where you can see this ?
Have seen large groups of tuna's and sharks in Maldives and Palau, but only a few hundreds not thousends
but usually somewhere around a reef, so not really in the bleu unless the scenery was too exiting so that we lost vieuw with the reef....

 

[Seahope]

I didn't see the beach in time

Anyone care to guess where we were last weekend? This is the closest we came to a boat though!

 

[AndieMac]

Well I don't know how many will rate a dive in a "tonnara" (God knows what the English for that is) as something interesting, but to myself and swmbo it definitely was.
And can only be made in 2 or 3 places in the whole Med - actually, I presume also in the world, but I'm not 100% sure of that. And just for a few weeks in this period of the year, so surely it's at least something peculiar.
Highly recommended for anyone with some diving experience (the whole dive is in blue water, at times with no references around).
Oh, and I'd recommend also to NOT show the u/w camera to some fellow divers during the cruise to the tonnara: he might leave it turned on, thus arriving there with a dead battery, aaaarumph!
For those interested, this youtube clip gives an idea, anyway.

You're a man of action MM, you clearly take you're diving seriously.
I have seen a program about a massive tuna? migration that followed a course across the Indian Ocean heading east to west, past Madagasca and up the east coast of Africa.