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📝 Motorflote Drawings.
2 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW (
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If anyone wants the drawings, I downloaded the drawings from AeroFred website.
Message me if you want me to send them to you.
Message me if you want me to send them to you.
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📝 Progress
2 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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All the hull parts cut out and a dry run to see if they fit, can't always trust a drawing.
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📝 Another Pusher Tug
3 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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While doing research for my Springer/Pusher tug I discovered these drawings David Metcalf’s Motorflot Pusher Tug and I had all the materials to build it so I put the other pusher I am building aside and started on this one. I am easily distracted 😆
All the hull parts have been cut out one after yesterdays power outage, I will stat the assembly today.
Pictures to follow.
All the hull parts have been cut out one after yesterdays power outage, I will stat the assembly today.
Pictures to follow.
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📝 Guess I will be building a Springer
3 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Lew, thanks for the interesting article and your comments.
I am not too bothered by the Springer specifications as there are no other springers in our club. As usual I have got a bit sidetracked during my research😁 and due to available materials started on another pusher tug while I get the materials for the one in this blog.
I am not too bothered by the Springer specifications as there are no other springers in our club. As usual I have got a bit sidetracked during my research😁 and due to available materials started on another pusher tug while I get the materials for the one in this blog.
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📝 Titan Kit
3 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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RobBob, I posted on this site asking for a copy of the drawing, it is really a construction guide, but with it I could build one. Someone sent me a link to one on EBay and I bought it. I was in luck it was complete and untouched.
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📝 Power outage
4 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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They are upgrading our local substation to accommodate the new houses been built near us. They did the prep work on Monday and will possibly be finished with the clean up by Friday. The workforce looked like they were in South Africa, one guy working and seven supervising.
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📝 No work today
4 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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We have an 8 hour electricity outage due planned upgrade in our area. Got a UPS for my “tech”, will have to get a generator for my workshop if this happens too often 🤣
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📝 Question of the Day?
4 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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In the context of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code, which of the following is the minimum requirement for the composition of a vessel's Safety Management System (SMS) with respect to crew competence?
In the context of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code, which of the following is the minimum requirement for the composition of a vessel's Safety Management System (SMS) with respect to crew competence?
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📝 One to file away
6 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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This is something that I have never seen before
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📝 Tools
7 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Lew you can never have too many tools, the only problems are where to store them all and finding them when you need them 🤣
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📝 Question of the Day?
8 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Alessandro how I know a bit about hull fouling is that I did research on its prevention for yachts that I crewed on. Due to my electronic engineering background, I assisted with the fitting of ultrasonic prevention systems on a few boats.
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📝 Question of the Day?
9 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Todays answer is wrong, the first layer is due to diatom plankton, the second phase is bacterial plankton so the answer should be C as this enables D. AI bases its deductions on facts that are available and in this case it was not given all the facts.
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Microfouling organisms are usually the first fouling agents to attack a submerged surface. Microorganisms are further grouped into two subsets:
Bacteria and diatoms: These are microscopic organisms that colonize a virgin surface and build a biofilm on it. Fouling diatoms are either pen-shaped or cylindrical, hence the names pennate diatoms and centric diatoms.
Algae: They typically attach to the biofilm and exist in three forms: green algae (Chlorophyta), red algae (Rhodophyta), and brown algae (Phaeophyta).
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Microfouling organisms are usually the first fouling agents to attack a submerged surface. Microorganisms are further grouped into two subsets:
Bacteria and diatoms: These are microscopic organisms that colonize a virgin surface and build a biofilm on it. Fouling diatoms are either pen-shaped or cylindrical, hence the names pennate diatoms and centric diatoms.
Algae: They typically attach to the biofilm and exist in three forms: green algae (Chlorophyta), red algae (Rhodophyta), and brown algae (Phaeophyta).
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📝 Words of Wisdom
9 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Found this quote and felt I had to share it
Model Hobbies are essential for survival...
Dinosaurs didn't have Model Hobbies and look how that turned out.
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Model Hobbies are essential for survival...
Dinosaurs didn't have Model Hobbies and look how that turned out.
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📝 Guess I will be building a Springer
11 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Nick, you get a pdf and 2 Lightburn files. The Lightburn files can be pushed straight to the cutter but I will have to manipulate positions to suit the size of my laser cutter
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📝 Guess I will be building a Springer
11 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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I found these files for laser cutting the parts for a springer while browsing the internet. The first really useful templates for laser cutting so I had to buy them.
Had enough of cutting key rings and the like and about time to use my laser cutter for the reason I bought it.
Had enough of cutting key rings and the like and about time to use my laser cutter for the reason I bought it.
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📝 And Now For Something Completely Different
11 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Bob, that’s what I call up-cycling you have extended the life of a box
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📝 Question of the Day?
12 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Luckily I recently read a fascinating article on how animals survive when living on hydrothermal vents.
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📝 Titan Tug
13 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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I have resumed work on my Titan Tug.
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📝 Question of the Day?
14 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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If anyone has taken a Prince 2 exam you will have experienced multiple choice answers that are all correct but I'm the context of the question one is more correct than the others
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📝 Question of the Day?
14 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Luckyduck, Yes you are correct but that is not offered as a choice in this case, B and D are both correct as well but D is the better choice.
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📝 Question of the Day?
14 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Technically B is correct as well but D is the better answer.
This is a revision question as well.
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This is a revision question as well.
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📝 Question of the Day?
14 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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How I remember this, K comes before Y, therefore K)etch mizzen mast before rudder post and Y)awl after rudder post.
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📝 Question of the Day?
15 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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“Yawl” should get this right this time 🤣
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📝 Question of the Day?
16 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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As you have had this one before, you should all get it correct. 😉
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📝 Question of the Day?
17 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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If A was possible, it would be an impressive sight.
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📝 Question of the Day?
18 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Deja vu, or am I mistaken🤔
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📝 Props, cavitation and ventilation.
20 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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This is an interesting article about propellers, worth a watch.
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📝 Question of the Day?
20 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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I did not know yesterdays answer but knew that Hood, Anson and Hawke had famous naval careers, the only one I did not know of was Byng so I picked him🤔
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📝 Question of the Day?
20 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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The 17th question
On a traditional gaff-rigged sailing vessel, which of the following best describes the specific function of the throat halyard in relation to the gaff and sail hoisting process?
A. It tensions the foot of the mainsail along the boom.4%
B. It raises the forward (inner) end of the gaff to set the head of the sail.
C. It controls the angle of the boom to the centreline of the vessel.0%
D. It adjusts the leech tension of the topsail.0%
On a traditional gaff-rigged sailing vessel, which of the following best describes the specific function of the throat halyard in relation to the gaff and sail hoisting process?
A. It tensions the foot of the mainsail along the boom.4%
B. It raises the forward (inner) end of the gaff to set the head of the sail.
C. It controls the angle of the boom to the centreline of the vessel.0%
D. It adjusts the leech tension of the topsail.0%
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📝 Question of the Day?
24 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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As I previously said, “we will keep asking the same questions till everyone gets them right”
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