Photos on forum test?

[William_H]

Thanks to all those who provided help on my copy IMG problem from Photobucket. Ultimately VicS with Cntrl+C seemed to make it work.

The photo.. That is my old boat 21ft traler sailer doing what it usually does on a Sunday afternoon. No it is probably different to most peoples relaxing sailing. Just occasionally I do get out for a relaxing sail but not often it seems. More like the madness of racing on Swan estuary. It is a light weight boat so is almost always overpowered (or so it seems). Hence all crew on the gunwhale just to keep the mast up (and keel down)

That is olewill up the front being water breaker. I share the skippering around with the crew to keep them interested. NB I always sail with bare feet and usually wearing bouyancy vest. That is no2 son without bouyancy vest next to me. My friend David Nelson is skippering and one of my amazon young ladies back to the camera. It is a lot of fun but a bit exhausting after 2.5 hrs of racing.
Sorry to rub it in (or bore you) but it is sumer here which at the moment means 20+ knots each afternoon. We have had now about 10 days in a row of temps over 35 max but that temp drops rapidly when the breeze comes in. thanks for the help olewill

 

[VicS]

Now you've got the hang of things

below the various lines of code that appear when you run the mouse over the thumbnail picture youll see the words "link options" in blue. click on that and youll be able to switch over to showing the links always rather than just on mouse over. Much more convenient IMHO and in others folks HO as well judging by previous comments. You can also opt to diplay the code for clickable thumbnails. useful if you want a large picture to open in a separate window.

Well worth studying some of the other features of P'bucket and also how you can gruop pics in different sub albums and how to make some or all private. At the moment your pics are accessible to all hence I can show this one:

 

[William_H]

Thanks Vic I did explore the "Link Options" and couldn't make much sense of it. There was no option of "Always" as one responder mentioned. It only seemed to have a tickable list of the different linking types. When I unticked those I don't use there was no save option and the selection went back to default next time. Perhaps it is still my version of Firefox or stupid fingers.
Anyway thanks Vic I did at least find a way to do the posting of the code.
I don't have any concerns about privacy for photos on Photobucket. They are only saved for posting.
Incidentally that boat pictured was in the Harbour race of a few years ago. It is one of 12 "Foundation 36" I think Farr designed 36fters that are set up and provided for amtch and team racing. ie a team rents a boat all identical so boat is supplied on a ballot. The boats comes with 2 jibs spinnacker and main no electrics no engine (just a boat hook and a winch handle) and costs around 200 squid per day to rent. Plus a similar damage deposit.
Interesting this fleet has been so popular recently the entire fleet was sold to Malaysia and replaced with new boats all identical.

We are gearing up for an interclub competition which our club are hosting in April using these boats. 6 short races over a weekend. So far in several years our club have not done well so we hope for better results this year. We will start training soon.
Anyway not much intereest to you in UK. So Happy New year to you all.
olewill

 

[rhumlady]

I think you are just out to make us jealous but were not honest. We would prefare our cold damp climate honest. I think I'll just go back to bed for a couple of months...