Winter Jobs Progress

[claymore]

The Bow protector to stop me carving lumps out of the GRP with the anchor is fitted.
The Patent Patio Collapser is complete and requires the tiniest smidge of a gel repair
The wind instrument is fitted but as the mast is down I don't know if the spinner thingy will make the instrument give me that vital information I crave on minute shifts and fluctuations in windstrength and direction that we may harness them and drive our proud beauty ever onwards.
The new dashboard has been anodised and half the instruments are in it and wired up and working.
1 more bout of industrial placement visits to students should see all jobs complete.
That just leaves the antifoul and a clean and polish.

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[jimi]

Just been out on my bike taking the dog for a walk over the plain .. and spring is definitely in the air .. roll on the long hot days of summer! Erm what's the May BAnk holiday weather usually like in Scotland?

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[Aja]

Erm.... Cold.
Sometimes cold and wet.
Sometimes cold and windy.
Sometimes cold, wet and windy.

Then the sun shines, it stops raining, the wind drops to gale force, it gets warmer, you take of the outermost layer.

Then a cloud covers the sun, it starts raining, the wind picks up to hurricane force, you get wet and put on the oilies.

All in the space of two minutes.

No midgies till June though......

Donald

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[claymore]

Well last year I was out with my young friend and an ageing fisherperson and we were boatbound in tobermory dure to the fact that it was really windy and we'd lost our tenner for going ashore with. we beat a hasty retreat the following day and ran before a F11 - albeit not quite in our area but - we did get a few squalls and it did rain a little - not a problem with a patio but of course in a thing like a bulgekeeled sadler probably a real headache - anyway, not my problem and then on the Monday there was glorious sunshine for an hour or two - or is that the glow from my rosy spectacles - anyway last year is chip paper - this year it will be warm and sunny with East or Westerly breezes peaking at F4

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[jimi]

Hey .. that can'nt be right! I've been promised wall to wall sunshine, a westerly F4, languid evenings and nae rain. Has Claysie been speaking with forked tongue again .. would I have been better going to Yorkshire for a long weekend .. even St Vaast?

I do hope the weather is good as I was hoping to offset the charter cost by flogging Claysie a few photos of his fine craft swanking along under spinnaker with blue skies and whitecapped mountains in the background, orca in the foreground. Hope he remembers to clean the patio windows though

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[Aja]

That's about right.

Wall to wall sunshine... for two minutes
If you stand behind the wall on the North pier in Oban its does drop to about F4

As for languid - we do get slow rain up here. Not often though.

Donald

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[claymore]

Listen You
yer on a non-refundable deposit and yer on ra trup. Ef it pours doon ye'll nae doubt hae yer wee bunnet - Ah raither liked Para's descrupshin regarding the sheep!

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[jimi]

Ah well, at least the Sadler's got an Eberspacher. Do all boats in Scotland have working heaters?

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[claymore]

Is there yin G er twa in Bugger aff?

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[Aja]

Heaters?

Nope.

Some boats rely on concentration of the solar power through greenhouse panes.
Some rely on the ancient ritual of burning charcoal.
We put on a 5th layer of clothing.

Donald

Oh! working heaters. Not if they're Ebespacher..... and certainly not ones from a lorry. Oh no. And definitely not if they blow soot around the cabin. A definite no, that'll be....


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[Twister_Ken]

Whit nae...

...windyboxes?

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[jimi]

Re: Whit nae...

He micht hae windae boxes but theres nae sunflowers in 'em for certain, mair licht snowdraps!

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[claymore]

Jings

Here am I seriously tryin tae pit taegither a serious post insteed o a' thet daft nonsense aboot bottoms that winkle wid nae graw on an her we is - Hijacked wi stuff that shuid be oan Gairdners Question time - gie's a break ye pair o scaldies

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[Aja]

Re: Jings

I'll be wet and drying the antifouling this weekend.

Oh Joy. Oh Bliss.

That better?

Donald

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[jimi]

Cuan Sound

I'm trying to do some passage planning! Whit tidal flow do you get through Cuan at neaps(Range c 1.0m) in the couple of hours just after HW Oban

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[Aja]

Oh! working heaters. Not if they're Ebespacher..... and certainly not ones from a lorry. Oh no. And definitely not if they blow soot around the cabin. A definite no, that'll be....




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[Aja]

Re: Cuan Sound

Its either with ye. Or agin ye.
I'm sure of that.

A bilge keel Sadler eh? You'll either go through arse first or wont get through at all.

Donald

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[ParaHandy]

Jimi\'s bulgekeeler ...

thon eedjits at dunstaffnage hae fitted dodgers on it .. he'll soon hae them aff ..

glad to hear aboot the forecast ... the silver darlings are getting themsels ready

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[jimi]

Re: Cuan Sound

Well there's probably a third option (which is probably the best) .. from what I can gather the tide runs south from HW Oban -2 to +4 so if we hit it at mid tide, I presume that would be the max flow? And what rate would that be on a Neap tide?


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[claymore]

Re: Cuan Sound

I think around 5 knots - which will be a 7 on the sphinctergraph

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