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    Re: Houseboat Katamaran ECO62

    The small tubes had too much curvature so I put them in a larger tube with hot water and after that in a stack of Alu-L-profile to cool down in a straight line. After this treatment there remains a...
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    Re: Houseboat Katamaran ECO62

    I'm starting to mount the solar panels on the (externded) cabin roof. To prevent overheating of the panels which would stall the electric yield I will use small plastic tubes to create an air gap...
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    Re: What is your boat like?

    It's after 6 years a building site yet, but with some goodwill you may recognise her as a future boat. (May be only a floating coffee table.)
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    Re: Crying my own wares again:

    Andrew,
    I hope very much, your article will nudge some relevant guy to think new thoughts.
  5. Re: Britain in the eyes of our German friends.

    The food poverty in Germany has been mentioned: nearly 1000 food banks also.
    Anyway - I'm not sure, Germany is much larger.

    Painting it all dark is very true - but this was the topic of the...
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    Re: Ukraine

    Another graph from the IfW to recognize the fact, that the largest part of EU-money helping Ukraine is money from German taxpayers.

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    To be clear, it could be more and should be more, but...
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    Re: Ukraine

    I think, these guys are right and really hope the governments will hear this voices.

    Freedom needs to be better supplied than tyranny. If democracies stand firm, Putin’s war on Ukraine will fail...
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    Re: Ukraine

    The vast majority of Russians never had an real understanding of democracy. They were used to be just underlings. To establish a democracy as we understand it, the people need to have what we call in...
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    Re: Ukraine

    sandtown
    your over and over peddled claims (as in #10931) are credible in the same amount as Trumps claims about an election stolen from him.

    Most of your contributions in this thread are not...
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    Re: Update me on Brexit

    It is well known that most Britons now think Brexit was a failure.

    But these for British politicians harsh results are a bit astonishing:
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    Re: Credit Suisse ...

    This will not the only relevant criterion, may be.
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    Re: Ukraine

    There is no Russian Airspace around.
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    Re: Ukraine

    That's quite clear. What I questioned, was if the "normal operation pressure" would be maintained.
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    Re: Ukraine

    As Russia had stopped the gas flow in NS1 some days before the explosions occurred - would the normal operation pressure maintained in this case?
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    Re: Ukraine

    If so he can stop Hungary's obstruction of EU sanctions against Russia and no longer be the advocate of Russian interests in Europe.
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    Re: BROTM Talks About AI

    I agree on this.
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    Re: BROTM Talks About AI

    To me this is not comparable.
    Every very simple guy knows, that he has to push the button to start the electric tool and release it to stop the device. That is called "control" a tool. Using AI...
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    Re: American trust in the media

    I completely agree on this with you.
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    Re: wind turbine blade delivery

    Not only in china.
    This is a similar transport (but without spectacular mountains) in Brandenburg, Germany. Done by a firm my son (M. Sc., project manager) is working at. ...
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    Re: Ukraine

    Thank you heimlaga,
    a very interesting interview.
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    Re: This will ruin the cartoon thread!

    I didn't like the Gilbert cartoons at all. To me a good cartoon needs firstly a very good sketch/drawing, the best of them don't even need any text. To me the Gilbert ones are very poor in regard to...
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    Re: Blowing my fuses.

    Hi Martin,
    what is the purpose of the switch in your 1st post? According to the symbol it is not an ordinary on/off and changeover switch, which didn't have a default position (connecting bottom...
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    Re: Greetings from isla

    All the best to you and yours, Isla.
  24. Thread: Ukraine

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    Re: Ukraine

    The notion that Ukraine is or was ready to negotiate a peace deal with Russia but the U.S.A. and the West would torpedo this is nonsense and part of the Russian propaganda.

    It may well be that...
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    Re: Ukraine

    A few thoughts about battle tanks and Germany.

    I had a grave feeling of unease before our chancellor decided to deliver Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and with regard to weapons produced in Germany to...
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    Re: Houseboat Katamaran ECO62

    My building proceeds very slowly. The last year I was mostly busy with painting. The areas are quite large, 6 coats, the roof alone is about 11 m² (120 sqft).

    (The pics show not finished paint...
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    Re: Ukraine

    Yesterday was a survey published on the question should Germany deliver Leopard (battle tanks) to Ukraine. A small majority was in fond of this.
    There is a large divide between east and west...
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    Re: Ukraine

    I really don't know why this sentence stands there. It sounds not like Scholz. If you replace "the guarantor" with "a guarantor" it could be correct.



    You are wrong on this, Andrew. I know...
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    Re: Trump is Toast

    Some time it costs.

    “We are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an...
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    Re: Ukraine

    Hmmm ... in my maps Finland is already sharing a long, long border with Russia.
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    Re: Ukraine

    BILD is not a reputable newspaper - let's hope this news are correct.
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    Re: WBF changes coming?

    I got a similar email too and I think now that scot is no longer using his account scot@woodenboat.com and has probably set a automatic answer to any input.
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    Re: Ga. Grand Jury finished its report

    I found this:


    Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/09/trump-special-grand-jury-2020-election-interference-georgia
  34. Thread: Memes and…

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    Re: Memes and…

    Not a tree but surprising (to me) life for shure I found in a tomato 12 years ago.

    When I cut up a small tomato I found some of the seeds had been developing baby tomato plants with green leafs...
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    Re: Interesting Dutch EV

    A German start-up trying to build a solar assisted EV ("Sion") will may be history in 20 days. The founders are stuggling to crowdfunding 104m Euro within 50 days to go ahead, 30 days already passed,...
  36. Some time? - Meet Gesa, Johanna and a large gear shop for boaters in Hamburg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avrMURDpPFA
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    Re: Weird childhood memories...

    While the first line in #1 and #4 is nearly identical the one birlinn is partly remembering will be quite different to the other.

    What birlinn cites reminds me at an similar "nonsense poem" (for...
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    Re: Greetings from isla

    Frohe Weihnachten Isla!
  39. This was really news to me: the UK Conservative Party is now "centre-left"

    Isn't this quite frightening?

    This Lord is not pleased with the politics the PM is delivering now. What for did he pay 3.5 millions?


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  40. Re: Weinachtsmarkt, Schloss Moyland...and happy Christmas from Martin!

    Frohe Weihnacht Martin!

    And happy holiday to all of you.
  41. Thread: Ukraine

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    Re: Ukraine

    I read the interview in German which is my mother tongue. miketaylor is exactly right on this.
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    Re: Ukraine

    Ms. Merkel didn't say what she alledgedly was saying.
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    Re: The difficulty of electric boats ...

    I'm building a boat (6 m cabin motor kat) which is predetermined to be driven by electric power, as far as possible solar powered. I already own 10 kWh LiFePO batteries and solar panels with 1,100...
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    Re: Germany arrests

    My mother told me that there was a saying in the village: "Halt besser den Mund, sonst bringen sie dich nach Moringen." (Better keep your mouth, otherways they will send you to Moringen." Moringen...
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    Re: Germany arrests

    More than just encouraged.

    The Nazi administation (or Nazi party) appointed "Blockwarte", people with firm Nazi-ideology in every neighbourhood to report the behaviour and the reliability (in...
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    Re: Germany arrests

    This coincides with my (indirect) knowledge of this time. "Nachher wollte es keiner gewesen sein."
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    Re: Germany arrests

    Many of them, yes.
    But, the news about the distribution of the "Reichsbürger" (or may be the heads of them, the police raids these days) is, half of them are located either in Bavaria or...
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    Re: Germany arrests

    Regarding the allegedly false constitution.
    This is pure nonsense. The reason for not calling it "constitution" but "Grundgesetz" (Basic Law) was simply to express the believe that it schould be...
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    Re: Germany arrests

    I will try to say some things about this. Problem is my poor English. This matter is a difficult one and it often depends on a linguistic nuance if a statement is in a way understood as it was meant....
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    Re: Germany arrests

    I try to understand, what does it mean?
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