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    03-21-2023, 05:20 AM
    I sail a 12ft ply dinghy designed in 1974 and likely built a year or two later. It has been in our club since new. Over the last season or so I have...
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    03-21-2023, 05:06 AM
    ….has been taken on by my sailing club as a rowing dinghy to be fitted with outriggers and my best 8ft oars. She's just a tad skewed so she needs a...
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    03-21-2023, 03:37 AM
    Nah, my out if things get to bad is go surfing…..permanently.
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    03-21-2023, 02:01 AM
    Latest ICC report says that if we do not change our behaviour, and we won't, we and many other species are stuffed. The world is likely to pass a...
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    03-21-2023, 01:47 AM
    I used 'Dis-united States' for a while……….. I meant redundant as 'no longer applies'.
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    03-20-2023, 10:54 PM
    skuthorp replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    Every now and again a subject arises that informs the forum what side it's members are on. And sometimes, but not often, there are surprises.
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    03-20-2023, 04:07 PM
    skuthorp replied to a thread happy oberon day in The Bilge
    Different Oberon oberons aria
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    03-20-2023, 04:01 PM
    skuthorp replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    We are a silly species, on one hand we have Ukraine and a de-fcto European war, climate change and religiosity. And on the other we can do this…….
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    03-20-2023, 03:58 PM
    skuthorp replied to a thread Oz Politics. in The Bilge
    Neither I or Paul are likely to live long enough to see who is right re subs and souverinty, but some commentators are saying we will only have to...
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    03-20-2023, 03:50 PM
    skuthorp replied to a thread New (again) To Forum in The Bilge
    LOL! Welcome back, we need a few sane ones.
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    03-20-2023, 03:49 PM
    My contention that the acronym "USA" is becoming redundant seems to be coming about.
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    03-20-2023, 06:07 AM
    Fixing my centreboard after hitting the only rock in the estuary…………. Vessel moored near the jetty hopes to get out on a high tide this week. He...
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    03-20-2023, 06:04 AM
    skuthorp replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    The ultimate human right is that of your own fate. It's certainly not the business of religious franchises that can offer no proof of their main...
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    03-20-2023, 05:57 AM
    skuthorp replied to a thread Oz Politics. in The Bilge
    Careful you lot, Ian is up to his old tactic of sabotaging a thread he doesn't like and he doesn't like many of us either. If it was his thread he'd...
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    03-20-2023, 05:39 AM
    Looks a bit grey there, but fun I bet. Re the current, we sail in 5-7knots of current every sailing day in our home estuary, but in mostly single...
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    03-19-2023, 07:39 PM
    I'm sure the drug companies and said middlemen will find a gun-for-hire lawyer to argue against it.
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    03-19-2023, 07:36 PM
    Sunday sailing. Good steady 12-18kt SW wind. 26 boats on the water including some fro Albert Park Lake that has been half drained to keep the park...
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    03-19-2023, 07:31 PM
    ……..but no one goes to jail, because precedent………..
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    03-19-2023, 07:30 PM
    The trumpistas will be conflicted. Will some states prohibit it's use within their borders? Call it a drug of dependence?………...
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    03-19-2023, 05:49 PM
    Our RW PM at the time of the Iraq invasion ignored the facts and committed us to the illegal invasion because of ideology. Killed 1o's of thousands...
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    03-19-2023, 03:19 PM
    skuthorp replied to a thread Oz Politics. in The Bilge
    Murdoch is an Americn citizen, and no I am not OK with him. But his influence is waning in Aus.
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    03-19-2023, 06:06 AM
    skuthorp replied to a thread House or apartment? in The Bilge
    Advice her is not to buy an apartment. especially a high rise one that's less the 20 years old. Shoddy design, building practices and workmanship,...
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    03-19-2023, 06:03 AM
    skuthorp replied to a thread Another prohibition in The Bilge
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2012/dec/16/sandy-hook-shooting-victims-pictures and a other casualties of the war still to come……. ...
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    03-19-2023, 05:22 AM
    That's the last thing the 1%, or likely the 10% would want. The stratification is important to their own status, and the prospects of their...
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    03-19-2023, 04:30 AM
    skuthorp replied to a thread Another prohibition in The Bilge
    Australia relying on America for future security may very soon turn to manure whilst it manages it's own internal security.…. But grabbing what tech...
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    03-19-2023, 04:20 AM
    skuthorp replied to a thread Oz Politics. in The Bilge
    And ………….. shhhh! (don't mention a carbon price to the ALP)
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    03-19-2023, 04:13 AM
    skuthorp replied to a thread Oz Politics. in The Bilge
    The submarine debate continues, the press is playing gotcha re the cost od one used sub. The government rightly is talking about the total package, ...
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    03-19-2023, 04:07 AM
    skuthorp replied to a thread House or apartment? in The Bilge
    I'm with Heimalga, but here in Aus. today buying any sort of house has gotten out of most young peoples reach. Much of this is the result of...
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    03-18-2023, 03:25 PM
    Yesterday it was 35c+ and blowing a gale from the north. This morning overcast, 22 and no wind at all. Hopefully a breeze this afternoon for sunday...
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    03-18-2023, 03:17 PM
    skuthorp replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    Vlad visited Crimea it seems, toured a child care centre the same day he was, reputedly, charged with child trafficking crimes over the deportation...
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Old bloke, more a bush carpenter than a woodworker.Living in a house in a bush/beach locatiion
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victoria, australia. (1 address now)
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sailing. model making, xc skiing, fly fishing, boat building (at last!)
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Retired but busy
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forename:
jeff
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cole
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I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't mind at all.

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