[BrianB]

Yeah, what are you trying to do to us Mick......!!

Ken, I've been to Dunk Island which was amazing.. I love that part of the world.

[Ken Gracey]

I did great keppel island when I was 16 with my girlfriend . Ahhh memories

Damn that how many years ago, um 36... Lol.

[klytia]

Brian, your welcome anytime....

Dave, suffer.......

Ken Stay at home......

"Seal" going past us today, different division but looks the goods

[Ken Gracey]

Lol you mongrel Mick

[Dave Bullard]

[Ken Gracey]

Can we ban him from the forum Dave ? Oops did I post that in the public forum

[klytia]

Here is the start today, the line is just out of screen, we were well on the money today and had a 2nd in our division



This is fastest yacht in the Southern Hemisphere, mighty impressive, it's only in light air today but I've seen it in 25 knots of breeze and it only has one hull in the water zooming along around the same speed as the air that's driving it!

[Ken Gracey]

Mick maybe you should add a small 250hp Johnston motor to it, so you stand half a chance

[Some Random Bloke]

Ken Gracey, on 16 August 2011 - 07:44 PM, said:

Can we ban him from the forum Dave ? Oops did I post that in the public forum

I was thinking the same thing Ken . In lieu of that, maybe a Macworld meet up at Mick's!

[Ken Gracey]

Now you are talking Alex

[klytia]

Being creative when going for a slash!

[klytia]

Xenophos, on 18 August 2011 - 11:17 AM, said:

I was thinking the same thing Ken . In lieu of that, maybe a Macworld meet up at Mick's!

I could arrange a meeting that everyone would enjoy, just give me the green light Dave and it's on!

Team building exercises, make sure the team from AMW fronts up too......

[bitingmidge]

klytia, on 19 August 2011 - 09:53 PM, said:

I could arrange a meeting that everyone would enjoy, just give me the green light Dave and it's on!

Hmmm... can I come too? Golly I miss sailing!

But since the thread is "what have you been up to lately" Ummm... currently we are moored in Saverne, just in front of the Chateau (that's the top right hand corner of France of the geographically challenged).

I'd post a pic, but apparently I'm not allowed to link to my Flickr account, so you'll just have to imagine what it's like!

Edit: obviously I figured it out! Here's one I prepared earlier, Sunset in Lagarde a few k's back up the Canal de la Marne au Rhin.


Postcard From Lagarde 2 by bitingmidge, on Flickr

Cheers,

P

[klytia]

For those who are interested I have a gallery (IRC Racing pictures) at MM, here's the link below, the pictures are captioned.....well most are enjoy....we did

We came 5th overall (IRC Racing) and we also had two second placings in the racing regatta, not bad for a bunch of oldish salts......

Mick



LINK

[Ken Gracey]

Ahh Pete, thats such a nice calming photo.

[klytia]

Ken you will be happy about this, I am off to Hammo tomorrow to do a few races, will take some pictures just so that you can relive some of your past exploits........

[Dave Bullard]

Pete! That's superb, mate!

Do me a favour and have a 'formidable' glass of Kronenbourg for me.

Cheers
Dave

PS: Lucky sod.

[klytia]

Well Hammo was full of excitement, we came second in our division and had one race to go today but it was canned and we had to finish off the series with final scores results, that placed us 2nd overall!

Not too many pictures as it was pretty hard going,

This picture is from 007 a local boat, he manged to pitch pole the spinnaker, this means the boat rounded up (broached) to the point that the pole went into the water with the spinnaker attached, filled it full of water and snapped the pole.

the bend in the pole is from where it comes in contact with the rigging, therefore snapping the shrouds then the mast basically gets blown off the boat! (this fortunately didn't happen)

Huge loads are applied to the rig as you can imagine.

Very dangerous and usually ends up breaking the mast on the boat. 007 was very lucky! They came home intact.....

[klytia]

Actually i think i might have been wrong here, more than likely the pole was on the fore stay and did the same thing, just looks like that happened due to where the bend in the pole was,

can be seen better in this picture....

[klytia]

Righto, been busy installing our new stove (Belling Richmond 900) and rangehood, here are a series of pictures for you all, please don't try this at home kiddies.....

Now JZ I think you've mentioned your a shop fitter outer....please be as critical as you want, let me know where i am going wrong here.....

remember this is not my line of work at all.....

The stove didn't work too well and the original burners had burn the splash back so its time for it to go.....



Might look ok but it was really crap



The new weapon.....Duel oven + grill and five burners.



Lisa, time for you go out for a coffee whist i do some hammering.....



Getting out of control, opp's slipped with the saw....



Fixed up new plinth, new flexible gas line, someone put a bloody big hole in the wall....need to fix that too



Getting the hang of this now.....



Hooked the power up, gas check, it's on cooking / heating some food up for my daughter...still have the rangehood to do but that was a full two days work for this black duck!