Who’s got a hobby? .......not enough time in the day for all my interests! :)
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12:42 PM 12 May 09
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My boy, Simon bought himself a fishing boat .....a real one as he calls it :)
I’m a tinny man myself and use mine often .....but this is more of a family boat.
Old coast-guard boat from Phillip Island ......5m Savage Pacific wth 90hp 4V Johnson (very few hours on the motor ...surprisingly fresh with oilers still attached) Has marine radios with big sticks .....dunny and all mod cons.
I’m here repairing the bimini cover on my wifes sewing m/c while she’s in perth :)
We haven’t had the boat in the water yet as I’m rewiring to LEDs for all lights on board and the motors at the evinrude/johnson mechanics having a major service.
Launching next w/end in Port Phillip for a get to know your boat day ......hoping for some squallie weather to see how she likes it.
Cost Simon under $8,000 so far ....very cost effective boat for what’s about and the prices they ask.
Biggest concern was whether he had to sell the house if the boat didn’t fit in the car port heheheheee ....funniest thing was that he was serious.
Fits with the screen folded down ...just!
Any of you guys boaties?? ...my only real love is sailing on the water (is something that can’t be described on paper)....and this power boat business is really a means to an end .....‘tis the greatest bore travelling under power on water to the dive spot or supposed fishing ground.
But I think this boat will be comfortable as it can be with its 17deg bow and 500 kg hull ......should ride nicely. (but as I said I ain’t a boatie)
ps…...am planning my personal getaway with this boat already ;) ......a week down on the gippsland lakes in early november may be the go for me.
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Family sufficiently well off to be able to spend $8000 on a boat?
Luxury!!
michael scull - 12 May 2009 12:42 PM Any of you guys boaties?? ...my only real love is sailing on the water (is something that can’t be described on paper)....and this power boat business is really a means to an end .....‘tis the greatest bore travelling under power on water to the dive spot or supposed fishing ground.
But I think this boat will be comfortable as it can be with its 17deg bow and 500 kg hull ......should ride nicely. (but as I said I ain’t a boatie)
ps…...am planning my personal getaway with this boat already ;) ......a week down on the gippsland lakes in early november may be the go for me.
Gippsland lakes area in VIC - is that the same as where Lakes Entrance and the many-mile beaches are? If so, what a gorgeous place to take a boat - I stopped there during a family holiday 10 years ago & if I live long enough would love to re-visit the lakes.. .. ..they were inspiring.
I’m happy to go on boats, yachts, canoes, kayaks, any vessels involving water-crossing transportation. But the humble circles in which I have always moved generally can’t afford $8000 boats!!
From the word “boat”, cross out the “O”, place double “L” after the “A”, and then add an “E” just before the “T”.
That’s my hobby!
TZ.
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My boy is very frugal and at 38 years old this is the first thing he has ever bought himself.
To be honest he earns good money but works very vvery hard for it. His daughter is in a private school at about $600 /mth and he pays $1440/mth off his house ....drives an older sedan that he owns and has very spartan/bachelor habits in his house decor (heheheee)
Tia, give me any bloke who is willing to work and I’ll get him taking home $1500/week by xmas.
Just need to be prepared tp travel and work in any conditions. .......and not be tooo thick!
Infrastructure is where everyone making a start should be looking ......heaps of work!
Just add ...this boat is a 1974 build ....the engine is actually antique heheheeee
But the whole outfit has been much loved and always kept under cover and is really a collectors item.
She will be cared for and kept with the same respect the previous owner kept her in.
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Used to like fishing, but now only into sports - especially soccer.
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I don’t use bait Arthur, it just complicates a pleasant relaxing afternooon.
Fishing’s just a cover story ;)
Ahhhh soccer, the only true football .....the only thing missing from the other games is Jack Little calling the wrestling match they have become. :)
I’m as coordinated as a duck so don’t play the game but love to watch ;) ....encourage my grandson to play the game of soccer but he’s a bit of a gangle foot himself heheheee…..the younger ones coming up may hopefully be better coordinated.
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“Family sufficiently well off to be able to spend $8000 on a boat?
Luxury!! “
I hear you Tia, I’m forever telling the kids that this country is surfing on the edge of a big fat wave on the backs of the rest of the world.
and basically give them a big rave about ‘appreciation’ .........and what are YOU gunna give back in return????
.....they usually start yawning about then. hehehheeeeeeee
(just an aside Tia, but I drive a 70’s model holden ute (which is all payed for now ;) ) and live in a 110 year old house with wood heating .....wouldn’t call it luxury )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2l_ZkSKWZ4&NR=1
This is my silly indulgent hobby .....the vids of two friends of mine playing. Believe it or not the guy on the controls in a defence dept computer analyst and the guy catching is head of Child Protection Unit and is a senior inspector heheheheeeee ......but we all become children when our planes are up.
We also giggle like two year olds when we do this ;)
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Had three days of rain here so it’s allowed me to bring out my KNO3 and sugar rockets for a bit of fun over the coming w/end.
Made myself a handful of sky rockets in the same style as your average familiar ones available in aus. Except mine burn a nice white smoke trail ......use a 19mm poly pipe case with kitty-litter plugs and rocket nozzle .......with metre odd of split cane rod secured to the poly with electrical tape as a balancing tail. KNO3 and sucrose blended as fuel and some nichrome wire and battery as a firing mechanism.
Hope to get an onboard vid but need to do a few runs without the camera to check the parachute deployment is working properly before sending the camera up.
The last one we sent up last year (in the winter) deployed the parachute OK but the chute came out already on fire as the craft had suffered an internal burn were our kitty-litter plug had burnt through prematurely during the first stage. We modified the design and doubled the size of the kittylitter plug.
My cover story is that I’m teaching my grandson chemistry, physics etc. I only send the rockets straight up so we keep the calcs simple .....tons on the net to keep the 13 yrold grandson interested and informed in this. His mother bought him a stopwatch after last years launches so I guess we are going high tech this year rather than the onepotato twopotato method we use last season :)
Cost of each rocket about $2 a launch, expression on the lads face after a launch priceless .............1500 ft is no problem but you must be in suitable airspace ;)
I’ll post a vid when I get one together.
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I just re-read this. You have had three days of rain. Aren’t you in Bendigo? I was there last month, I have never seen it so dry-three days rain in a row must be a record.
I don’t mean to be unkind, but I hope your rocket launches get totally washed out!!!
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I’m with you Jean….this is about celebrating rain ....and maybe punching some holes in some clouds.
I live out west of bendigo in the lizard country .....small ghost town surrounded by farmers.
I’ve just finished some simple 19mm rocket engines (after having to run to the shop for icing sugar .....had the rest, but the kitchen let me down.
Every local farmer will be next door at the cricket club this evening to stand around and chat about the season. This is the break the neighbourhoods/farmers have been after (without speaking too soon…...we have 160 points in the glass) .....everyone nearly everyone dry sowed over the last few weeks and needed a heavy break like this to get the crops germinated evenly.
A few beers and bundys and then we’ll let the bloke with the lowest home rainfall to fire the rocket.
Bit of silly fun to let off some pressure…...these guys need some ‘silly’ sometimes ;)
Me too!
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I’ve just finished some simple 19mm rocket engines
Your threat to start firing rockets has obviously upset some folk who feel intimidated by your planned campaign :
North Korea ‘preparing long-range missile launch’
Article from: Reuters
By Jack Kim in Seoul
June 03, 2009 03:44pm
NORTH Korea is assembling a missile that could hit US soil and may test-launch it as early as this month, a newspaper reported, as a US envoy urged Pyongyang to cease provocations and return to disarmament talks.
The hermit state’s nuclear test last week, putting it closer to having a working atomic weapon, has already prompted the US and South Korean forces to raise their military alert for the divided peninsula.
North Korea, which began ratcheting up regional tensions when it fired a long-ranged rocket over Japan in April, also test-fired a barrage of short-range missiles last week and threatened to attack the South…......
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25581615-5001028,00.html
Expect a knock on the door from ASIO any moment ;)
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You have to wonder if Kim is drying out his touch paper on the heater though? Crumby crn shop doesn’t have any sparklers so I’m improvising.
He and I have a few other things in common also heheheheeee All sorts of racially offensive propaganda here…...but funny!
I may not put my vid up until after Kim gets his rocket away ........don’t wish to steal his thunder and upset the old bloke. He causes enough grief for himself without some yokel showing him up with a sugar rocket :)
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Single launch last night ......but a bit boring as it disappeared into the low cloud/mist/drizzle.
Local lads loved it though and the news of the pending launch caused lots to bring their kids which was good.
The grandson and I have set out to discover how much CO2 is released in each launch and is where we are at the moment. I believe I wouldn’t have gotten my grandson interested in this part of the rocketry without all the enviro awareness at his school. His chem teacher is helping us with our calcs and even come back with a few rocket engine designs using the same fuel.
Sucrose is C12H22O11 (Fuel) and Potassium Nitrate is KNO3 (oxidiser)
so when they get together and leave the rocket
C12H22O11 (11gms) + KNO3 (20gms) —> K2CO3 +CO2 +N2
that’s as far as we have gotten on our own…......and that may be wrong anyway :)
Apparently we are getting back a pile of notes from his teacher which will give us the ability to learn and understand how to calculate the CO2 emitted.
I may have bitten off more than I can chew heheheeeeeee
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A very short Launch Vid
Very short as I dumbly hit the shutter again as the rocket blasted off. I’ll try harder next time ;)
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My hobby is bike riding absolutely love it but my vision impairment put a stop to it 4years ago,12 months ago I bought a tandem, but alas no front rider could I find any where so it sat and gathered dust for a full year .I was at Vision Australia 2 weeks ago when the subject of bikes came up and I let out my tale of woe re front riders and was told “dont worry we will find one for you” .One week later i was talking to a bloke who loves bikes as much asI do and wants to front ride the tandem for me.
Last weekend I met him and we did a fantastic 40klm ride from ringwood to Jells park and back. it was great to be on a good bike again wheels quietly whirring wind in the face—-Absolute heaven .Got 60klms planned for next weekend.Any one else into Bikes.
Cheers Everyone,
Ian Lawther.
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You ain’t exactly built like a wheel man Ian heheheheheee ......ducks disease like me heheheheeeee
I love my bike too but avoid breaking a sweat on the thing ......it’s more about rolling to the neighbours.
Squads of bikes crank through here all the time…...is a favourite tour/run along the river here.
here’s another rocket vid. testing some solid rocket fuel parachute deployment ideas ......this landed about 5 kms down the flight path. Candied Fuel makes for a slow burn
This flight was to test the flash hole size that will deploy a parachute ......end of burn sees the last of the fuel flash through a hole in the top of the rocket and blows the nose cone off and hopefully deploys a parachute…..fired at about a 20 degree angle as I didn’t want to loose it in the stratisphere hehehehehheeeeee ....where ever that is! heheheee
When I get this right I can send a camera straight up ;)
Move over Kim!
also considering attaching a pair of rockets to our powered gliders and having a drag race with rocket assist engines .......this is me and my grandson drag racing after a prop selection disagreement that was based in transposing fractions over an equal sign. I got the ‘my teacher says’ business so I reverted to the prac .....Pop won the prac heheheheeee ....and grandson learn a maths lesson the hard way. DragRacing the same outfits but different props
Some remote ignitable rockets appropriately strapped on this plane would maybe make the vid more interesting.
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:Hey Mike hurry up and get the fuel mix right will ya my front riders talkin up through the snowies and Kosiousko in 12 weeks
time a tailor made rocket either side of the tandem would help.
While you takin orders could you include a parachute, theres some steep deep drops up there.
Cheers Ian Lawther.
P.S.what do you mean not built like a wheel man I am perfectly round like a wheel got 5 kids to prove I am a man and as soon as I I can change the A from fat to an I for Ian I will be the
best looking 61yo who ever rode a bike to the top of Kosi.(or the deadest?
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Speaking of bikes…...I took the front wheel out of my pushbike and gave the 13 year old grandson a lesson in gyroscopics (not that I’m any einstein) Got the lad to hold the hub while I spun the wheel…..experiencing the gyro effect is the only way to get the kids attention I figure hehehheeee
His eyes widened and I knew I had him heheheheeee ......I talked on about how these gyro work in rockets and how they keep them on the vertical ......his eyes widened more hehehehee
Today he was going to badger his teacher about his new found gyro experience .......I’m guessing the guys gunna hate me before I’m finished heheheeeee!
Problem is our rockets can only afford a 30gm payload .......maybe spin up a bobbin to 100,000rpm in the nose cone before launch would do the job…...sounds easy but ain’t heheheeeee
It keeps the grandson thinkin’ anyway!
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Been windy here as well as school hols so I encourage the grandson (13) to stitch up one of our old tents into a kite on nans h/d sewing m/c. I provided the string line and he and the lads over the road have been hard at it. Kite about 4ft tall x 5ft wide.
they had her up yesterday all afternoon but today she became snagged in the top of a tree and now we have the Town Kite hanging all by itself cruising above town at about 200ft.
Kids think it quite funny and are trying to cut her down with other kites ...they haven’t much chance as the big kite is canvas and likely to be up there until the wind drops in a few days.
But it will amuse them for the rest of the week maybe .....hopefully.heheee
here’s a pic taken from the front door. Looks fabulous cruising there, I can see it from the here in the shed and you can hear it flapping a little as it soars back and forth over town.
.....may get a bit annoying if it continues through the night. We don’t have any background noise here and this thing reminds me of the music/rythme kites and spinner you see in asia everywhere….constant rustling noise that I’ve often heard them say in their music. Will get on my nerves shortly however and I’ll take it out with a pump action heheheheeee
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I’m not gunna hang here much more as I see i’ve killed the convo and Luke would be displeased (as he should be) and I never set out to be a thorn. I’ve even tried all these threads to ‘get to know each other’ as this is an alien world to me I must admit.
Some have mentioned different disabilities and I will just say that the reason I have so much time on this keyboard is because I’m driven from my bed everyday with an incontinence problem from violent abuse in my early life..with no proper treatment for years led to me having plastic bits added and still had little control. Makes me unreliable and socially unacceptable sometimes ....limits my range and ability.
In the past having my own business allowed me to work nights alone and the staff ran the place during the day (where there is a will there is a way) while my wife ran the office ...she carried the can when I couldn’t be there…....we made it work and only my manager knew why.
Regressed more in recent years causing a full retirement and a few more ops….while my wife struggled on a few more years while we sold the business.
Strangely my health/control is better than ever but the doc assures me working is a no no and won’t clear me with workcare. (all tied to insurance which craps me off even more)
Church wanted me to ‘go the bag’ so I could return to work but my doctors refused .......’ Nobody here will be disconnecting anybodies bowel that ‘nearly works’ as well as his does ....especially under the circumstances’ was what my butcher/surgeon had to say about that! heheheeee ..me too!!!
Yes you’ve guessed it, I spend my morning on the dunny .......many and varied activities associated heheheehee ....sorry! And is why I have a seperate shed/studio/dunny/shower complex seperate to the house where I spend the nasty part of my day .......lots of venom hits the keyboard at this time of the day unfortunately :rolleyes: .....but once I’m clear of my morns I can get on with my day.
And this is the reason I have so much time.
Kites down during the night .....sons back from (now found out) Horizontal Falls, which was where he was! What a place!!!! he admitted he’ll never have a luxury holiday like that again…..and he caught a barra or two!! Jobs finished…next weeks he’s off to some WA dam to drill some 600mm holes and back to Cairns for the RAAF. He works hard and I’m proud of him ;)
I’m off too ......has been enjoyable if not frustrating heheheeee .....I will browse the threads occasionally but best I bite my tongue. Not that you guys aren’t good people and I think I’ve opened a fews eyes (in lots of ways) .....and mine vise versa to be fair. I enjoy the considered comment and not the dumbarse reply some forums offer but is non existent here.
cheers my friends
mike :)
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How’s this for a hobby: I compose (and solve) chess problems! Chess problems are an art-form, much more than a mere puzzle. There’s only about 6 or so fellow problemists in Australia; a sign of the times (there used to be many more)...
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I wonder whether there are any websites which allow you to muck around and solve such chess problems! Used to have a book like that, don’t know where it is now.
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Yes indeed, Arthur. Go here link and click on “Pastime”. To learn more about chess problems, here link is a good place to start. I myself am a Fellow of the British Chess Problem Society, and you’ll even find some of my work on this website (in the Twomovers section). If you care to learn more, by all means get in touch!
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