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    Night Watch
    We were very lucky as Boys ,as my dad was chief production engineer in a variety of different works and taught us metalwork ,welding and other skills from an early age and let us have time in the workshop at weekends if it wasn't busy, to work on our projects many a
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    was chopped and altered after the film easy rider came out (my youngest brother still customizes motor bikes ) ,we also built a trike with a BSA Bantam engine ,
    4 years ago by marky
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    Fast attack craft
    Not quite the same thing but definitely batteries. My partner, Alice was given an electric
    bicycle
    at the weekend and was told the battery had 'had it'. She worked on it for a few hours, luckily, knowing what she was doing and was able to go for a ride on it yesterday afternoon. Nerys
    5 years ago by Nerys
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    Night Watch
    To, Fleet Admiral RNHQ Munchen, Report on BC patrol 12/09/19 Slipped moorings 0130, headed out into channel, set course to clear Rhoose Point by one mile. Sea moderate. Wind force 3-4 SSW, but making good speed. 0340 Radar reports small vessel on Northerly course from N.Devon area. This eventually becomes certain that she is headed for Saundersfoot. Arriving off Wisemans Bridge closed land and launched seaboat in order to put a surveillance party ashore. This consists of Leading Seaman and two ABs equipped with folding
    bicycle
    s. Their instructions are to follow road from Wiseman's Bridge through tunnel to Saundersfoot Harbour. Leading Seaman is familiar with the area. They are to observe anything happening in harbour and the vessel which is now approaching harbour. We are standing just off shore and awaiting their report. They report vessel entering harbour 0545, fishing boat with local registration. Vessel ties up and shortly starts to unload cargo of fish. Instruct shore party to return to Wisemans Bridge and picked up by sea boat. There appear to be no other vessel movements anywhere else in the area, so returned to base. I think this shows that any smuggling is not carried out every day, but is intermittent and it will need constant surveillance if we are to reach a conclusion. We may have to have a vessel stationed in the Western BC with regular observation at all ports by shore party to note any unusual behaviour both day and night. Will decide nature of tonight's patrol after due consideration. MSW Nerys
    5 years ago by Nerys
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    Work with Balsa wood
    "....The trick is to feel how the plank likes to lay around a flare with the least stress, and go with that angle if poss...." Indeed. Woodworking's a skill, like riding a
    bicycle
    . You get to feel what the grain will let you do, and make use of the way it will move. You can see simple examples on other EeZeBilt plans, where items requiring extensive bending, like the transom of the Beaver tug, are required to be cut across the grain. ................ I remember back to the dawn of time, when there were still beam engines pumping water, the summers were blazing, the winters were white, 64k was as much core memory as anyone could possibly need and when you bought balsa sheets from the model shop the density was uniform throughout. 😍 Nowadays machinery controls are non-intuitive graphics, any weather change is the subject of emergency alerts from the Met Office, you have gigabytes in a smart phone but no ability to control what goes where and when you buy balsa off the net it has bands of differing consistency along each sheet... πŸ€‘
    5 years ago by DodgyGeezer


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