April 2008

Fighting The Small Boat Threat

Submitted by cac on Wed, 2008-04-30 22:48

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Today, Mad Mariner™ has another article (see another take on the situation here) discussing some of the threats posed by small boats to national security, along with some of the actions being taken to guard against these threats. read more »

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Crazy Lenny "stress test", and a Mad widget

“I chastised the children for their lack of destructive ambition, handed out sticks and suggested they use the handhelds as drums, instead. They started whacking away.” Lenny Rudow’s Handheld Stress Test, published yesterday on Mad Mariner, has to be one of the funniest electronics articles ever. Plus...

Ship decorations at the Paris Musée de la Marine

The head of Charlemagne, from the ship Réal de France, built in 1694. He makes a noble, striking figure at something like 5 feet tall, and it’s difficult to believe he’s over 300 years old La Réale de France stern, fighting figures, and a naval officer Figureheads. Amphitrite, goddess of the sea, from the French ship [...]

Epoxy order

Submitted by v28build on Tue, 2008-04-29 21:32

supplies

Forgot to mention that I also ordered more epoxy and supporting supplies today... I have a fair amount of the U.S. Composites epoxy left, but have ran out of Cabosil and also wanted to get an epoxy "roller" for smoothing in some of the fiberglass tape, a couple of pumps for measuring it, etc. A friend needed some epoxy for a boat he's repairing, so I ordered for us both and lumped it in one shipment. read more »

The (not so) Great Lakes?

Submitted by cac on Tue, 2008-04-29 20:58

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This is an interesting article by Jeff Alexander of The Muskegon Chronicle detailing dropping water levels in the Great Lakes... not an issue I had heard of before. I hope to cruise at least a little of the Great Lakes someday, making the Great Circle route... guess we'll see how much they have changed by then (hopefully it won't be so long that they are the Great Puddles).

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Triming

Got home at a decent hour (twice in a week! Hope my boss doesn't read this :-)) and got to trim hull bottom some more. And guess what... I finished! Got both sides of the bow done and all. That part went MUCH faster than the first time. I think it was a case of knowing how to do it this time (plus new, sharp blades on the planer). At least they were sharp until I hit a few screws I missed removing before I got there. Anyway, I got all the hull panels trimmed to shape. Took a few minutes and started marking the centerline to fit the external keel. read more »

Good news from the Cutty Sark restoration

The delicate wrought iron stern of the Cutty Sark was successfully raised last week to allow work on the ship’s structure below to proceed The Cutty Sark Conservation people kindly sent me this update a few days ago. As you’ll see, it slightly predates the successful lift of the stern section pictured above. Like most people who have [...]

Homeland Security and Boaters

Submitted by cac on Tue, 2008-04-29 13:25

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Navagear has a post that might be of interest to our US based readers (and potential visitors to the US). The Department of Homeland Security has been meeting with the boating "community" and is formulating plans for more boating oversite and ways for boaters to report potential security issues, etc.

All-in-all I don't know how I feel about it, but Navagear has some good commentary and a beginning discussion over there that you might want to follow (or jump in to).

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N2K instruments, install details

My obsession with NMEA 2000 instruments continues. To better test and photograph them in real light conditions, I installed the array in a single, more serious panel. The weapon of choice was...

The strange story of Goering’s yacht and the fake Hitler diary

Hermann Goering’s yacht Carin II Read all about Hermann Goering’s splendid yacht, the Carin II at Wallyworld. It seems she survived the war virtually unscathed, and was requisitioned as a spoil of war by Field Marshal Montgomery who passed it on to our Royal Family who used it for their holidays for 15 years. From this distance [...]

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