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Garath

Where did you find that photo??? How many years old is it?? 33p for a can of beans!! More like 66p these days!!

Nick

+1 I think you'll need either a darker shade of grey or black.

As an aside, I guess you're looking at what the marketing gurus would call the Grey Market (aka over 50s) who have the sort of...

Thank you all for your helpful replies. I'll try asking over at the wcha forum as suggested by several of you.

Nick

Whilst browsing the net I came across this site http://www.bushcraft.ridgeonnet.com/Articles%20and%20tutorials.htm . As you see he is using loom state canvas to cover his canoes. My question is, how...

That's impossible!

Andrew, peb

A couple of weeks ago I finished reading the following book. It is a new study of the military, policital and socio-economic effects of WWI on Imperial Germany. I can recommend it.
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http://www.bealeparkboatshow.co.uk/

SWMBO and I will most probably be going on the Friday, weather dependent of course.

Nick

Andrew

True, but by then Germany (Prussia) had grown used to flexing it's muscles and was already looking towards further territorial expansion. At Berlin, Bismarck knew he had upset Russia by not...

Andrew, peb,

I think you need to go further back in history to the Congress of Vienna (1815) which redrew the politicial map of Europe after the Napoleonic and French Revolutionary Wars. The...

Basically it's one hellva protest vote at the established parties and I'm glad people actually went out and voted instead of sitting at home. Labour needs to get some ideas and hence policies that...

Julio

You've chosen a nice boat there! Are you going to finish it bright or paint the hull. If you paint the hull, choose any colour but white. You don't want it to be mistaken for something built...

Not only bombs that are still found http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22253147

Nick

AHP

They're annoying but now part of internet life. Next time they arrive, mark them as spam. That will automatically move into the spam folder. Then every so often, open the spam folder, select...

From the Department of the Bleeding Obvious -

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/beer-sparks-drink-desire-chemical-160806173.html

Now having found a reference for the snippet I saw in the paper...

Nick

I suspect that it is what our American friends would call meranti or luan ply. Similarly described plywood is also sold by Meyer http://www.meyertimber.com/default.aspx?pid=511 . In their...

Ian

Unfortunately not. You could get a copy of the article from the PBO archive service http:/ybw.com , click on Buy Articles on LHS. A quick search in construction and design category using dave...

Skaraborgcraft

Just been digging through my files as I knew I had seen this before. I've got a (part) copy of the Wooden Boat Show (when it was in the grounds of the NMM at Greenwich) guide for...

It's pure zen this thread. Many thanks Chris for your time and trouble in posting.

Nick

The BBC is reporting today that despositors could lose 60% as follows http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21982652 That's not a haircut, it's a scalping!!!

SMART A$$ ANSWER 5

It was mealtime during a flight on a British Airways plane:
"Would you like dinner?" the flight attendant asked the man seated in the front row.
"What are my...

This "bail out" will not solve the eurozone crisis, just make it worse.

One, prior to this latest crisis it was widely accepted that depositors had to be protected up to a reasonably high level...

Mike

A lot of your questions about canvas skins can be answered here http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~acsrrrm/kayak/ especially the pdf download of chapter 6 of Percy Blandford's book. Other useful...

Courtesy of intheboatshed.net and http://roeboats.com/

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(Personally, I would have given him 100%)

Q1. In which battle did Napoleon die?
* His last battle
Q2. Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
* At the bottom of the page
Q3....

Hi Martin

Your first port of call is the Mirror Dinghy Association website http://www.ukmirrorsailing.com/ , they have a section on repairs and also a dedicated Mirror forum. As to using epoxy,...

Meli

You've got to remember that there are two types of fairy tales. The first sort usually begin "Once upon a time ......" and the second " When I am / we are elected ......".

Nick

They're now selling quarter pandas!

True, but the page three's are completely different!

Surely it was the Unknown Warrior in 1920. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Warrior

"Have you ever seen a twenty pound note all crumpled up?" asked the wife.

"No," I said. She gave me a sexy little smile, reached into her cleavage & pulled out a crumpled twenty pound note.

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A couple of lads just hoofing around in Tesco http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4751197/boys-kicked-out-of-tesco-dressed-as-pantomime-horse-video.html

Try this recent Swedish one! http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=ytff1-yff16&va=swedish+train+crash

http://www.express.co.uk/cartoon/view/2013-01-18

And here's Matt's cartoons from the Telegraph

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02453/170113-MATT-web_2453829a.gif
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Whilst on the subject of the Mississippi, Tugster's waterblog http://tugster.wordpress.com/ gave this reference to this...

Here's what Wikipedia says about it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiddy_Island_Disaster

Nick

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20154358

Just wondering how true / alarmist this article is? Is American society really getting that polarised? I read some of the Presidential election threads...

Dylan

Just what you need for canals, but no where else I would suspect!

Nick

Gavin Atkin has a piece on his website / blog about him with links. http://intheboatshed.net/2012/10/25/percy-blandford-is-100-today/

Nick

Apparently, now fixed. See here https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2012/10/10/security-vulnerability-in-firefox-16/

Nick

Thanks Dylan

Nick

Dylan

How did the punt work out using 4mm ply? Is there sufficient torsional rigidity in the hull for the sail rig? If all the frames and half frames shown in Flo-Mo's drawings are used I imagine...

Taking a very cynical point of view but I wonder if they're just hoping that their problem might disappear one dark and stormy night! Lots of public hand wringing and dismay when it does happen and...

Andy,

That's / will be a seriously detailed model. Any idea of a completion date? BTW, I recall that Portsmouth Dockyard built the original in less than a year and she was commissioned 14 months...

For a good How To tutorial on making strips, try forumite's John Michne website, link here http://www.michneboat.com/Builder%27s%20Corner.htm .

Kind Regards

Nick

There's a blog here detailing a plywood build of the skiff http://skiffbuilding.blogspot.co.uk/

Nick

Paraprosdokians are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous. BTW, Winston Churchill loved them. Enjoy!

1. Where...