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📝 Question of the Day?
1 day ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck (
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Capsize and upright are totally contradictory - a capsize means that you have gone over so far sideways that the lower gunwhale is under water. Although there are plenty of times when planing at full power that I have had so much water flying over me when hiking out, that it feels that I am under water!!
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Nobody is forcing anybody to do QoD or even be on this group - if something doesn't fit, then others may just enjoy a bit of fun, and perhaps some learning?
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Never heard of a wildcat windlass system - there only only two wildcats I know - the animal and the helicopter - just shows what you learn from these questions.
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📝 Question of the Day?
7 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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There have been many requests for members to send in suitable questions, but presumably there weren't that many sent in or suitable. Admin cannot be expected to keep dreaming up new questions, so thanfully AI is there to help him, otherwise this part of the site would collapse. Your choice as to whether you want some light hearted fun or not.
BTW - I have never had any emails chasing me to answer the question. Lucky, or have I got a setting to block them, never seen such a setting.
BTW - I have never had any emails chasing me to answer the question. Lucky, or have I got a setting to block them, never seen such a setting.
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📝 Question of the Day?
9 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Surely in basic coastal navigation, when you see a headland sticking out, you steer to avoid it!!!! Many headlands actually stick out into the sea for a very long distance underwater, often with shallows that go on for a deceptively long way.
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📝 Bloody AliExpress
10 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Yodel have the worst delivery record of all the companies in the UK. Interesting that they have now been taken over by InPost. Inpost for sending things are excellent, but have yet to try receiving any orders through them. Don't know who they use for deliveries, but if they do not do something serious about Yodel, they will lose a lot of credibility.
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📝 Question of the Day?
15 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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I didn't even understand the question - looked for common words in the answers, and by a fluke it was right - still doesn't make any sense to me, but then mayhbe the grey cells are aging too fast. As others have said, interesting to see how you get a model boat far enough out to sea and with someone on board to use this method.😁
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📝 BUXTON MODEL BOAT CLUB
18 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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If only we all had access to such a great lake.
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📝 Question of the Day?
23 days ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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No idea of todays answer about surf, but looked for an answer that had surf in it, and luckily it was right. More learning, if you can understand the actual answer.😉
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Hopefully this site is for like minded people, with a core interest in model boats, but other wider interests which possibly feed into model making. It would be interesting to see how many of us do other types of modelling that both feed into and feed out to our other modelling interests. Fo me, my core interest is model boats, but I also model railways in both OO guage and N gauge.
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Not just yacht racing - it is even more important in dinghy racing, when wind shifts have more effect than tides. In offshore yacht racing this tactic has to be considered with other factors such as tides, which often have a greater effect.
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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The toredo worm was the reason that so many wooden hullsed ships had copper plates added below the water line, added to the weight of the ship, but extended its life enormously. A toredo worm infestation could cripple a wooden ship within a year of being in the water.
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📝 when big is too big 😬
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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me thinks 6 foot long, and heavy equals mini mobile crane? Is that the next model?
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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That was a lucky guess today, for once the answer was not in the question - good way to learn
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💬 Re: Latest Acquisition - Sprit Sail Barge
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Bill - what ballast have you got on Veronica?
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📝 Power Saws for Cutting Wood for Models
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Zooma - I use dremel style small drills and this saw for most of my fine work - the drills now come with flexi drives, so you can hold the drill bit end like a pen and get very accurate work. The saw is only one speed though, but not too fast and cuts beautifully - just get a load os spare blades as they are easy to break.
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📝 Power Saws for Cutting Wood for Models
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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For finr work, and to save space in my tiny shed I use a Dremel MS20 Moto-Saw Scroll Saw. All sorts of blades, including metal if required. I used it to make the blocks for my gaff rigged pilot cutter.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Boatshed - like anyone who wins or is at the top - there is only one way to go - might it might take a long time if you are lucky or clever!!😁
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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No idea about today, but as usual the answer is in the question. Antarctica being the clue!!
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Probably like gob stoppers - health and safety hazard😁😁
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Roy, often the obscure helps us all learn - maybe not very useful at our scales, but expands our knowledge and one day you may just need that obscure piece of knowledge?
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📝 My new toy
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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New toy = new workshop!!
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Don't worry Boatshed, I am still paying the penalty of taking a holiday and being away from a computer - not even back over 50%, even with a string of right answers. Luckily, sailing questions play right into my past, so I can get most right. But for other advanced topics, it is pure chance.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Surely you would do a rolling hitch on something solid like a tree truck, and you 'roll' it to ensure it locks from the direction of pull? It helps to have been in the boy scouts in the 'old days' when they used to spend half their time learning and doing knots.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Exactly Ross, the ship is still technically underway, and presumably the engines just need re-engaging as they are still running.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Consider yourself lucky Pat, I go on holiday for a few days without internet and the score plummets. Must be more ruthless and avoid holidays at all costs, exceot where fully connected !!
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📝 Question of the Day?
4 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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AI is not only taking over the questions, it is now analysing our results to make sure everyone gets a crack at the 100%?????? Can you bribe AI?
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📝 Question of the Day?
4 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Sailing single handers, such as International Moth, which goes like a bat out of hell, with 70 square feet of mainsail, and weighing barely 70 pounds, the central mainsheet on a traveller had a cam cleat - absolutely vital for taking some of the strain off your arms. The traveller also had cam cleats - so called because they looked like the clams as used on gears - but equally called jam cleats, as they jammed the sheet/halyard.
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📝 Question of the Day?
4 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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How old does something have to be to be traditional?
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💬 Re: Bluebird k-7
4 months ago by 🇬🇧 luckyduck ( Lieutenant)
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Beautiful as usual Jump. Looks to me like that is a shelf/display job when in her fabulous blue. Don't get sidetracked in Cali to impulse buy the next toy!! - Have a good break.
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