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Horse shoes and hand grenades!
I had an old Youngbloods song messing me up, I need to de-frag the hard drive.
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Horse shoes and hand grenades!
I had an old Youngbloods song messing me up, I need to de-frag the hard drive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OimAEdj7Qa0
MAGICdreamer
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sister ships?
Ah ha! Inspiration abounds! For my next craft....
Ah ha! Inspiration abounds! For my next craft....
You are building winch handles, yes? (For those who were wondering, yes, Mini-MAGIC's winches do turn.)
MAGICdreamer
Member
On second thought, Skip, here is a famous tale which might apply:
https://poets.org/poem/wynken-blynken-and-nod
https://poets.org/poem/wynken-blynken-and-nod
Purr-fect! Did you and Fluffy happen to catch the cat which stormed Coors Field during a recent
Colorado Rockies baseball game against the Dodgers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ6ADOs9cIQ
Poetry, cats in a major league baseball game...we don't discriminate against relevant and irreverent information that may not be of concern like other sailing rags that never fail to print monthly photos of fresh caught dead or dying large fish....
In passing, worthy to note CBC Fleet Surgeon Ann C. recently scored a credible 521 points in an online Scrabble Game at the Extra Hard level. Her virtual solo opponent, the "Droid" is still smoking in defeat. The game is "Classic Word," a free app that can be dangerously addictive, educational, and competitive, simultaneously.
On the medical front, good news is Port Captain Spruit is recovering from a nasty dog bite when an escaped English Bull Dog, "Walter," from across the street, clamped down on his arm and wouldn't release. Howard remains under professional care, on antibiotics, and daily observation and I'm sure will check in when he recovers use of his arm. (Both Walter and Howard had had their vaccinations.)
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Howard Spruit
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BOY! I could have done without that pic!!!!!
Howard Spruit
Member
is a cat better pet than a dog?
Well a dog can be properly trained to idolize protect and serve, a good thing.
I cat will mind its manners and even be entertaining, however it is their nature to keep their prey alive until they get hungry.
So I think we monkeys are Nothing more than fresh food that needs to be tolerated.
For the record I do LIKE cats even though they care not about me.
Well a dog can be properly trained to idolize protect and serve, a good thing.
I cat will mind its manners and even be entertaining, however it is their nature to keep their prey alive until they get hungry.
So I think we monkeys are Nothing more than fresh food that needs to be tolerated.
For the record I do LIKE cats even though they care not about me.
The Santa Cruz surfing and sailing communities lost a long time friend when Jim Foley died yesterday after a year long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Jim was the consummate waterman, an outstanding surfer and board shaper, sailor, boat designer, and builder who was always enthusiastic about sharing his knowledge and experience with any one who was interested.
Jim began his surfing career on rubber surf mats in 1950. By 1953 he and his father, Chuck, were building surfboards out of wood planks. Early on Jim was experimenting with shapes, materials, and construction methods. He was also experimenting with fin designs.
Jim realized the importance of a lightweight surfboard for best wave riding performance and in 1956 started gluing together Styrofoam insulation boards 2 feet wide, 4 inches thick, and 8 feet long. He coated these early boards with watered down Weldwood glue and covered the board with polyester resin. Jim's early boards were cheap and easy to build, so much so that he could experiment with practically any shape to try out, sometimes 3 or 4 boards in a day.
Working as a fireman in San Jose, Jim was able to take his one week a month off and return to his home in Santa Cruz to be near and on the water. In 1956 Jim took a 9’2" foot surfboard that had a broken off tail, added 2 fins, and created (arguably), the first short board, truly a revolution in surfing that allowed never before dreamed of maneuvers on waves.
Here's Jim riding waves off Santa Cruz's Steamer Lane and River Mouth in 1956, not on the short board mentioned above. https://vimeo.com/362664919 Jim’s style was similar to what Dewey Weber was doing down in Malibu. So Jim's moves were not new to the game but were revolutionary in Northern California.
While designing and building surfboards for long time friend Jack O'Neill, Jim Foley also designed the first O'Neill logo. For the logo, Jack gave Jim $900.
With his sixth sense of what shapes worked on waves, Jim naturally caught the windsurfing and sailing bug. Jim's first boat design, in 1964, was the 27 foot trimaran PACIFIC LETTUCE, the fastest boat in Santa Cruz at its time. Then came something truly revolutionary, the narrow and ultra-light 32 footer THIRD REEF made with a core of Clark surfboard foam.. Nothing could beat THIRD REEF downwind. Unconfirmed rumor was Hobie Alter took one look at Jim's THIRD REEF, "borrowed" the idea, and created the Hobie 33. When questioned, both Jim and Hobie independently denied any association in the development of the H-33.
Next Jim built a 34 footer which he sailed to Hawaii and returned to build a Santa Cruz 40 DANA. Jim's slip in Santa Cruz only allowed 34 feet, so, typically creative, Jim cut off the back 6 feet and made the entire stern of DANA quickly removable for compliance with harbor rules.
It was on DANA that Jim and wife Linda completed a circumnavigation, bypassing the Panama Canal, by using a 2,000 mile overland passage.
In 1975 Hobie Alter paid Jim Foley the ultimate compliment when Hobie asked Jim, “how does it feel seeing all these young guys riding your short boards?”
Always creative, ready to help whether ashore or afloat, Jim Foley will be missed. Condolences to Linda, Dana, and Trevor.
Jim was the consummate waterman, an outstanding surfer and board shaper, sailor, boat designer, and builder who was always enthusiastic about sharing his knowledge and experience with any one who was interested.
Jim began his surfing career on rubber surf mats in 1950. By 1953 he and his father, Chuck, were building surfboards out of wood planks. Early on Jim was experimenting with shapes, materials, and construction methods. He was also experimenting with fin designs.
Jim realized the importance of a lightweight surfboard for best wave riding performance and in 1956 started gluing together Styrofoam insulation boards 2 feet wide, 4 inches thick, and 8 feet long. He coated these early boards with watered down Weldwood glue and covered the board with polyester resin. Jim's early boards were cheap and easy to build, so much so that he could experiment with practically any shape to try out, sometimes 3 or 4 boards in a day.
Working as a fireman in San Jose, Jim was able to take his one week a month off and return to his home in Santa Cruz to be near and on the water. In 1956 Jim took a 9’2" foot surfboard that had a broken off tail, added 2 fins, and created (arguably), the first short board, truly a revolution in surfing that allowed never before dreamed of maneuvers on waves.
Here's Jim riding waves off Santa Cruz's Steamer Lane and River Mouth in 1956, not on the short board mentioned above. https://vimeo.com/362664919 Jim’s style was similar to what Dewey Weber was doing down in Malibu. So Jim's moves were not new to the game but were revolutionary in Northern California.
While designing and building surfboards for long time friend Jack O'Neill, Jim Foley also designed the first O'Neill logo. For the logo, Jack gave Jim $900.
With his sixth sense of what shapes worked on waves, Jim naturally caught the windsurfing and sailing bug. Jim's first boat design, in 1964, was the 27 foot trimaran PACIFIC LETTUCE, the fastest boat in Santa Cruz at its time. Then came something truly revolutionary, the narrow and ultra-light 32 footer THIRD REEF made with a core of Clark surfboard foam.. Nothing could beat THIRD REEF downwind. Unconfirmed rumor was Hobie Alter took one look at Jim's THIRD REEF, "borrowed" the idea, and created the Hobie 33. When questioned, both Jim and Hobie independently denied any association in the development of the H-33.
Next Jim built a 34 footer which he sailed to Hawaii and returned to build a Santa Cruz 40 DANA. Jim's slip in Santa Cruz only allowed 34 feet, so, typically creative, Jim cut off the back 6 feet and made the entire stern of DANA quickly removable for compliance with harbor rules.
It was on DANA that Jim and wife Linda completed a circumnavigation, bypassing the Panama Canal, by using a 2,000 mile overland passage.
In 1975 Hobie Alter paid Jim Foley the ultimate compliment when Hobie asked Jim, “how does it feel seeing all these young guys riding your short boards?”
Always creative, ready to help whether ashore or afloat, Jim Foley will be missed. Condolences to Linda, Dana, and Trevor.
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"Red Over Red, The Captain's Dead"
https://gcaptain.com/dutch-containership-with-stuck-rudder-does-circles-in-north-sea-ais/
We've asked this historical question before, so there is no prize.
The beginning of the end of WWII for the Germans began with a stuck rudder on what infamous ship?
https://gcaptain.com/dutch-containership-with-stuck-rudder-does-circles-in-north-sea-ais/
We've asked this historical question before, so there is no prize.
The beginning of the end of WWII for the Germans began with a stuck rudder on what infamous ship?
Howard Spruit
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The boat BIZZMARK was named after the 1890s German General who advocated to dissolve the german congress and abolish democracy.
Not unlike many politicians in today's USA politics!
I am not sure of the spelling, of Bizzmark
Not unlike many politicians in today's USA politics!
I am not sure of the spelling, of Bizzmark
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The boat BIZZMARK was named after the 1890s German General who advocated to dissolve the german congress and abolish democracy. Not unlike many politicians in today's USA politics!
I am not sure of the spelling, of Bizzmark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ufc2hI4FM
With the German battleship BISMARCK steaming in circles due to a torpedoed rudder, the British Navy circled around and pumped over 2,100 shells and torpedoes into the dreaded "battlewagon." 2106 German sailors were lost with the sinking of the BISMARCK, 115 saved.
Meanwhile, in a more current oceanic drama, as yet unresolved, a yacht delivery ship has been abandoned in heavy seas off the coast of Norway. Just windage has the EMSLIFT HENDRIKA doing 10 knots on a broad reach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_V4KwLKZe0
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Rescuing royalty is always a novelty. A fun little story about this photograph of Prince Phillip and Uffa Fox. It was Tuesday of Cowes Week, 1962, and blowing SW, 6, with wind against tide, heavy weather for the Flying Fifteens. Phillip and Fox had already nearly submerged the dark green COWESLIP at least once and bailed her out to resume racing.
In the near vicinity, Keith Beken of Beken of Cowes photography was out in his powerboat with a Yank friend, Richard, from STORMVOGEL's crew, aboard to assist. Shortly after this photo was taken, Phillip bore off on a plane and punched the bow into a green one, filling COWESLIP. There was much cursing and unhappiness aboard, and Fox called over to Beken for assistance and a tow back into Cowes Roads.
Beken and Richard obliged, and with COWESLIP under tow and Uffa and the Prince bailing, got the Flying Fifteen to Fox's waterfront home, "The Commodore's House." There, COWESLIP's personal hoist was lowered and hooked to the lifting sling. As the boat, still partly full, began to come clear of the water, the heavy chain securing the crane pulled its eye out of the wall of the house and the boom of the hoist came down hard on COWESLIP, doing unknown but significant damage. The Prince, known for his seamans' salty language, with Uffa Fox joining in, let the world know their unhappiness about their afternoon's performance with a round of expletives that should not be repeated in this public forum.
The London papers had a hey day with headlines of these royal happenings.
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Yosemite Valley in the spring is all about its magnificent waterfalls. 10,000 visitors a day to the bases of Bridalveil and Yosemite Falls can't be wrong, can they? Not if you like traffic jams, enjoy waiting in line, and standing shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of your new best friends.
We decided on something a little different, paying homage to a waterfall that is seldom visited, partly because the National Park Service discourages it and does not maintain any sort of trail. And partly because the hike is in the boondocks of the Valley, through a forest, and 2.5 miles one-way while mostly 45 degrees up, then back down.
The incentive is to get to the base of this waterfall, at 1,634' high, is to visit what is reputedly the longest single-drop waterfall in North America. as well as the tallest, continuous waterfall in the United States. Which despite spending nearly an hour off track, we managed to do. Awesome it was, in full cry, as mist rained down on our tired bodies.
Here's a view from the road.
And this from the base, looking up, with an ice cone across the way.
While we sat in wonderment, we also caught view of the nearby "Hourglass," a 400 foot exfoliation first climbed in 1962 by a long time sailing friend and our host on their property in Mariposa. Thanks, Joe and Nancy!
We decided on something a little different, paying homage to a waterfall that is seldom visited, partly because the National Park Service discourages it and does not maintain any sort of trail. And partly because the hike is in the boondocks of the Valley, through a forest, and 2.5 miles one-way while mostly 45 degrees up, then back down.
The incentive is to get to the base of this waterfall, at 1,634' high, is to visit what is reputedly the longest single-drop waterfall in North America. as well as the tallest, continuous waterfall in the United States. Which despite spending nearly an hour off track, we managed to do. Awesome it was, in full cry, as mist rained down on our tired bodies.
Here's a view from the road.
And this from the base, looking up, with an ice cone across the way.
While we sat in wonderment, we also caught view of the nearby "Hourglass," a 400 foot exfoliation first climbed in 1962 by a long time sailing friend and our host on their property in Mariposa. Thanks, Joe and Nancy!
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Just when I thought I'd seen everything, longitudinal cracks along the back of aluminum spreaders were pointed out to me on a boat recently delivered overland to the Bay Area from the Great Lakes.
Buzz Ballenger didn't even need to see the spreaders to relay what had happened: Buzz's diagnosis was the spreaders had overwintered outside and rain or snowmelt had entered the spreaders only to freeze. The frozen water had expanded only to blow pressure relief cracks in the spreaders.
Be glad we don't encounter this phenomena in the Bay Area.
Buzz Ballenger didn't even need to see the spreaders to relay what had happened: Buzz's diagnosis was the spreaders had overwintered outside and rain or snowmelt had entered the spreaders only to freeze. The frozen water had expanded only to blow pressure relief cracks in the spreaders.
Be glad we don't encounter this phenomena in the Bay Area.
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Few new custom boats are being built in Santa Cruz these days. However, speed is being served with the arrival of Terry Alsberg's turboed Express-27 NEMO fresh from Moore Bros Boat Yard. The boat hasn't been launched yet, but an 8 foot pivoting sprit and ultra-deep bulb keel hints this potential rocket will probably be competing with the Santa Cruz 50's and 52's for Wed. Night Racing honors. I just wonder if anyone has measured the hoist clearance for picking NEMO off the trailer? And at low tide I guarantee NEMO can't get close to the hoist unless someone has the combination to the dredge for a little weekend mud sucking.
It seems like yesterday we were testing the prototype of the first Express-27 on her maiden sail with Carl Schumacher aboard. That prototype is now E-27 #0, DIANNE, with SK at the tiller.
Across the harbor and a century away, the 70' schooner MAYAN has had a nose job on her iron bark centerboard. (The Brits call it a "centreplate.")
The 10 foot leading edge used to have all the streamlining of a 2x4, and the trailing edge was no better. Under Beau's guidance, Homer, Matt, and Tom have turned the old board into a thing of beauty with hydrodynamic fairing replacing the previous tugboat industrial tool. You would still not label this improved board a "blade" like on NEMO. But you don't need a kelp cutter like on NEMO either.
Here's the improved board being fitted and the 2" diameter pivot pin being driven home. Notice the modern tool lifting the front of MAYAN's 800 pound board: a wooden timber being used as a lever arm with a 170 pound human on the other end.
It seems like yesterday we were testing the prototype of the first Express-27 on her maiden sail with Carl Schumacher aboard. That prototype is now E-27 #0, DIANNE, with SK at the tiller.
Across the harbor and a century away, the 70' schooner MAYAN has had a nose job on her iron bark centerboard. (The Brits call it a "centreplate.")
The 10 foot leading edge used to have all the streamlining of a 2x4, and the trailing edge was no better. Under Beau's guidance, Homer, Matt, and Tom have turned the old board into a thing of beauty with hydrodynamic fairing replacing the previous tugboat industrial tool. You would still not label this improved board a "blade" like on NEMO. But you don't need a kelp cutter like on NEMO either.
Here's the improved board being fitted and the 2" diameter pivot pin being driven home. Notice the modern tool lifting the front of MAYAN's 800 pound board: a wooden timber being used as a lever arm with a 170 pound human on the other end.
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Philpott
Cal 2-27 Dura Mater
Boat yards are so cool. And every day is a new adventure. Kind of like remodeling an old house: You never know how much molding is behind those plaster walls.
Which reminds me that Surprise! is at Berkeley Marine Center and Ruben has a new Passport 40. Gotta go down there on my way to Ashby lumber for some moulding behind which I plan to hide Dura Mater's new fairy lights.
Which reminds me that Surprise! is at Berkeley Marine Center and Ruben has a new Passport 40. Gotta go down there on my way to Ashby lumber for some moulding behind which I plan to hide Dura Mater's new fairy lights.
BobJ
Alerion 38 "Surprise!"
Jason, the best hull diver in the world, has been bugging me to get this looked at. It was caused by the SSS drogue demonstration last year. It appears water has not quite penetrated the rudder.
And as soon as he walked up to the boat, Ryan Nelson (also at BMC) pointed out some cracking in the stanchions. He'll be doing a full rigging inspection. Then we plan to do the rest of the OYRA series with (can you believe it) CREW!
But I'm sorry, fairy lights will not be gracing Surprise!'s cabin.
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And as soon as he walked up to the boat, Ryan Nelson (also at BMC) pointed out some cracking in the stanchions. He'll be doing a full rigging inspection. Then we plan to do the rest of the OYRA series with (can you believe it) CREW!
But I'm sorry, fairy lights will not be gracing Surprise!'s cabin.
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Rudder looks like an easy repair, yes? If the stanchions or bases needing welding, they'll likely rust. Yes? Tell Ruben "Hi."
I've been cleaning the garage and found enough old climbing equipment to have gotten Napoleon, his mule, and crew across the Alps. About time to make a small and simple boom brake from a biner and rappel bar. Anyone want to test? I don't own a boom at present
I've only ever used a boom brake once, on an Islander 36 running down the City Front in 18-20. Except for it's size and weight, I was impressed. The boom gybed smoothly to the count of 10.
I've been cleaning the garage and found enough old climbing equipment to have gotten Napoleon, his mule, and crew across the Alps. About time to make a small and simple boom brake from a biner and rappel bar. Anyone want to test? I don't own a boom at present
I've only ever used a boom brake once, on an Islander 36 running down the City Front in 18-20. Except for it's size and weight, I was impressed. The boom gybed smoothly to the count of 10.
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