Early Risers.

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

So far today we've had sun, rain, sun, rain, currently its sunny, but there are a lot of puddles in the garden. 

 

I had a phone call from James this morning, he won't round today, as a co-worker of Amelia's has tested posi8for covid. He collected Amelia last night, so they now both need to get tested. As I'm due to have some tests at The Christie, I've told to not call round unless he and Amelia test negative. 

 

It's disappointing not to be able to see them both, but ho hum.

 

After that little bombshell, I made muggertea No2 and set off for the workshop, time to relax and tinker I think. 

 

Stay safe, stay sane, enjoy whatever you have planned for the day, back later. 

 

Brian 

[southern42]

11 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

Two bow thrusters and two controllable pitch propellors so she could very nearly turn in her own length if needed.  Not quite as handy as having full azimuth thrusters but not bad provided that there isn't a strong tide running in the same direction as a strong wind when trying to dock.  The big North Sea wind turbine servicing vessels have a lot more superstructure windage than that plus the crane and gangway gear aft and the latest ones can hold their position in all but the strongest wind/tide combinations although they have a more power as well.

 

And we have water - actually coming through pipes instead of running out of them where it shouldn't be running out of them.

 

Here she is turning in the wind in Douglas Harbour August 2000 - not a lot of room!

Yes, she knows how to stir up the water!

We had just returned from a day ashore and had to wait harbourside until the Ferry was safely out of the way before venturing onto our own little vessel being thrown all over the place, pictured.  Glad we were not on board when she came in!

Funnily, enough, we had decided to escape the high water turmoil of Port St Mary for the quieter waters of Douglas...

And you try drawing straight lines on a rockin' and a rollin' boat!  View from our cockpit drawn inside the cabin out of the weather.

 

[tigerburnie]

Afternoon all, I did see some of the morning, but not much, up till well after midnight doing the family tree again, no way I can remember it all, at some point I will see if I can print it off. Weather looks ok, we seem to have dodged the forecast storm, we might try a cycle ride in a bit, failing that some muddling might take place, at some point I need to bite the bullet and try doing some weathering of bits spuriously labelled as "kettles" by some.

[PhilJ W]

Just been looking at the EFE rail thread. I would advise not doing the same if you don't want to lose the will to live. Post after post grumbling about the price of the Hymek which is a re-introduction of the Heljan model. The basic complaint is that it now costs more than it did when introduced 17 years ago. 

[Joseph_Pestell]

39 minutes ago, southern42 said:

 

Here she is turning in the wind in Douglas Harbour August 2000 - not a lot of room!

Yes, she knows how to stir up the water!

We had just returned from a day ashore and had to wait harbourside until the Ferry was safely out of the way before venturing onto our own little vessel being thrown all over the place, pictured.  Glad we were not on board when she came in!

Funnily, enough, we had decided to escape the high water turmoil of Port St Mary for the quieter waters of Douglas...

And you try drawing straight lines on a rockin' and a rollin' boat!  View from our cockpit drawn inside the cabin out of the weather.

 

 

Wonderful invention the bow thrust motor although it must have done a lot of damage to the tug industry. SS Avalon on the Harwich-Hook route was one of the first to be so equipped I believe (1964).

 

I recall a ferry turning in Newhaven Harbour (they often reversed out and turned beyond the harbour) and it must have been within 6 feet of the yachts moored on the west bank of the river.

 

Back in the day, tight turns in the harbour basin were also performed at Dieppe and St Malo but the ferry berths have been relocated since to accommodate bigger ferries.

 

These days, you can even buy a narrowboat with bow thrusts. Seems like cheating to me. Half the fun of canal boating is struggling to manoeuvre a narrowboat in a crosswind. But perhaps necessary now that the canals are so crowded.

[TheSignalEngineer]

21 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Post after post grumbling about the price of the Hymek which is a re-introduction of the Heljan model. The basic complaint is that it now costs more than it did when introduced 17 years ago. 

I don't know how much it cost when introduced but the RPI multiplier for the last 17 years is approximately 1.6 so if it was more than £100 at that time it is relatively cheaper now. 

[simontaylor484]

Greetings 

 

Where to start today 

 

Chris F   ah the little chef Olympic aka the credit card breakfast, a fantastic plate full. Years ago one of the drivers brought in a menu from Shepshed truckstop now that breakfast is gargantuan the veritable heart attack on a plate.

 

Ferry crossings 

Crossed the channel Newhaven to Dieppe and return that wasnt bad.

Done Ardrossan to Brodick and return a couple of times 

  Took Swmbo on a river trip in York her breakfast went over the side so boat trips are out 

 

 

[simontaylor484]

Southern 42 the drawings are fantastic 

 

[Northroader]

Overnight ferry Holyhead - Dun Loaghaire on a windy cold night, me and a pal sitting outside on a bench on the sheltered side. Suddenly the door by us flies open, and this poor girl staggers out of the hot saloon, crosses the deck, and throws up. My mate, in his strong Swindon accent, sympathetically enquires: “Didn’t you want that, missus?”

[newbryford]

9 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

You mean you actually watch the match? I thought the whole idea of American football was to consume large amounts of junk food, drink lots of ice cold, fizzy, coloured, water (excuse me, I mean “beer”)  And be coerced into buying things you don’t really need whilst in the background a number of overpaid, over armoured so-called “athletes” run in to each other at full tilt.

 

 

You forgot include watching the cheerleaders............

[simontaylor484]

Aah the cheerleaders the only bit worth watching 

[iL Dottore]

1 minute ago, simontaylor484 said:

Aah the cheerleaders the only bit worth watching 

Which bit of the cheerleaders?

[simontaylor484]

The artistic choreography of their interprative dance routines of course. What else could I possibly mean

[southern42]

40 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

Southern 42 the drawings are fantastic 

 

 

Nice of you to say so.  They are part of a visual Log of our Millennium Cruise to Scotland though, due to several days held up because of strong winds during the first of two weeks, we only got as far as Bangor Co. Down.   I submitted it to our Club's (North West Venturers) annual Log competition and won!  I enjoyed doing it but have not done anything of that sort since.  I may have been influenced by the final comment made back on our mooring by our youngest who came with us, and contributed to the log with her own drawings: "Can Mum stop drawing now?"  I think I may have gone overboard on it!

 

31 minutes ago, Northroader said:

Overnight ferry Holyhead - Dun Loaghaire on a windy cold night, me and a pal sitting outside on a bench on the sheltered side. Suddenly the door by us flies open, and this poor girl staggers out of the hot saloon, crosses the deck, and throws up. My mate, in his strong Swindon accent, sympathetically enquires: “Didn’t you want that, missus?”

 

Many snowstorms ago, I went over to Dun Laoghaire on the morning Fast Ferry in December with the kids to see a friend and her daughter.  We sat in the refreshment area.  As I was feeling rather queasy, the kids got the drinks in.  I had the coffee and a packet of brown sugar or, rather, as it turned out, pepper.  I did not notice until it was too late and saw little black specks floating on top of my mug.  I passed on the coffee and had to wait until we got off the Cat to feel better and have some coffee in a local cafe.

The evening trip home was worse on the way out of Dun Laoghaire.  Passing the ferry shop on our way to our seats, I noticed many items falling off the shelves.  There were apologies from the Bridge on the conditions until we could change onto a smoother course.  In the meantime, there was a request for a Doctor as someone had fallen and sustained an injury.  On our side, one fellow on his way back from the bar carrying a glass of beer fell against one of the games swivel chairs.  Ouch!.  It all seemed so dangerous an environment at the time.

 

[J. S. Bach]

Hmmm, the last (and one of the few) ferry crossings that I made was from Anderson, KY crossing the Ohio River to Ohio back on 09jun07:

 

 

 

I was in Kentucky, parked there, then walked onboard for a round trip; I do wish that this boat had been in use instead :

 

Edit: The Anderson Ferry has been in operation since 1817. And I forgot to add that this is across the river, note that I am in KY and the train is in OH:

Edited August 22, 2020 by J. S. Bach
To correct a grammar error.

[TheQ]

That looks familiar,  have a look at Reedham ferry, https://www.reedhamferry.co.uk/chain-ferry/#:~:text=There has been a crossing,when the ferry became motorised. Owned by the pub at one end . Surprisingly the pub is called the Reedham Ferry. It's been in use at least the early 1600s, and was hand pulled until 1950..

 

Afternoon awl, 

Three vertical beams were installed at the entrance way to the alleyway ,  with various shaped pieces joining the in order change from the angle of the shed to that of the step going across to the MhRC.

 

The barbeque area was extended from an E to having an extra vertical and horizontal.  This used up some otherwise dead space. I was going to use a wooden lid, but found one of the larger aluminium  shelves at 90degrees plus the one smaller one fill the gap nicely.  That will have to wait till next week, once the new breeze block and brick wall has set. 

 

Some small bits of ply were cut for muddling,  and a small piece of mahogany to hang below the jib club, having the registration marks on it.  

 

 

 

 

 

[BSW01]

52 minutes ago, southern42 said:

I may have been influenced by the final comment made back on our mooring by our youngest who came with us, and contributed to the log with her own drawings: "Can Mum stop drawing now?"  I think I may have gone overboard on it!

 

I bet that made the paper soggy! 

 

By the way congratulations on winning 

[iL Dottore]

1 hour ago, simontaylor484 said:

... What else could I possibly mean

You may think that, I couldn’t possibly comment

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

Despite rumours to the contrary, I am still active around here - albeit not quite so often as I should be.  The excuse is the same one that I have been using now for weeks - that 30747 has got the decorating bug big style, and the latest victim candidate is the smallest office/bedroom, which as with every other room tackled has needed ALL the junk stuff clearing out then sorting out, then putting back.  It's not just a case of papering and painting.  Also, the problems with the new laptop appear to be behind me now, as once the Firefox cookie files, and so on were transferred to this machine, FIrefox started to behave as I wanted it to, and I was able to login here without any refusals, and was also able to access the social media sites which I frequent.

 

So now it's generic greetings, and an expression of hope that all are well, and not suffering too much under the current non lockdown except for where there is a lockdown situation.  I am sure that a lot of water has passed under this particular bridge, but I won't be paddling upstream to try to revisit the missed pages - as there's probably about fifty in total.  If there is anything significant that I should know, perhaps some kindly sould would PM me with an update.  Thanks a lot.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Winds have died down quite a bit but there was a rain shower earlier. Trying to catch up on Facebook, they're going to introduce a new format next month, even more user UNfriendly than the present system by the appearance of it. They ask for input and I've told them what I think of it but thats probably filed away somewhere. I mentioned earlier about the EFE rail thread, I see Andy Y has rapped a few knuckles and it seems a lot more peaceful now.

Edited August 22, 2020 by PhilJ W

[BSW01]

Is it me or did anyone else spot the advert (for Raleigh bicycles) on a hoarding on one of the layouts (can’t remember which) featured in last months BRM. As soon as I saw it thought that the man wearing a bicycle on his nose looked like Billy Connolly. 

 

So here’s a before

 

and after,

 

what do you think?

[AndyB]

Evening all.

Crazy golf was played. The birthday boy won, as he hoped to. I managed to suppress my in-built competitive nature and messed up several holes. 

 

Our drive and the next door neighbour's have been jet washed. I now have aches on my aches!

I think next time I may get a company in to do that job!

 

Dave, I think the quality of my written reports was improved significantly by a Sqn. Ldr. who sat me down one afternoon, ripped   holes in a couple of my reports, and helped me re-write them before they went under the AVM's nose. Quite grateful for that bit of help, albeit painful at the time! 

[simontaylor484]

When I have done jet washing at work with the council we were limited to 20 minutes in a session due to the vibration of the lance. HAVS or Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome was very strictly recorded depending on the task you were doing and your Occupational health assesment

[TheSignalEngineer]

My first train chasing trip for nearly six months was scuppered by the weather today. I was going to visit two photo locations I want to try for the Crewe - York excursion but I didn't even bother going. The planned location for the morning run was looking into the wind with heavy showers and by the time the evening location would have been reached it was almost dark. Think I must be getting soft, I would have stood for hours in all weathers to try for a shot at one time.

It did however let me get finished on the jobs needed before the workmen come to do the kitchen floor on Monday and I still may have time for an hour of muddling instead of editing photos.

Edited August 22, 2020 by TheSignalEngineer

[TheSignalEngineer]

We couldn't even get my mother to go on a trip around the bay on most holidays. In 1961 we managed to get her onto an excursion train which dropped us at Windermere then picked us up from Lakeside, the intermediate leg being a cruise Bowness - Ambleside - Lakeside.

The final nail came in 1964 when Dad, Sister and I decided we were going on a no-passport trip to France when staying in Folkestone. On the chosen morning the sea was a flat calm so we persuaded her to come along. The ship was a bit old and weighed about 3000 tons.

By the evening the French coast was covered in a thick fog and when we got half way across we ran into a full gale and it took half an hour of shuffling around to get into the harbour. She refused to come even as far as the beach with us the next day and to my knowledge the only vessel she ever went on after that was the King Harry Ferry.

Edited August 22, 2020 by TheSignalEngineer