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Mickey, If you would not mind driving a little further, (3 hours??) we would be happy to welcome you to Gagetown. Good boating guaranteed (oars and power, we don't sail anymore), with interesting...

Sheathed strip built, no apparent rips to or penetration of the fibreglass. Your comments match my thoughts, for the repair approach. Thanks!

Tony.

We ran aground in mid summer, and now the boat is out of the water for the winter, it's fixit time.

The boat is a 24 foot lobster boat style cabin cruiser, heavily over built (cedar strip and...

Probably waited until the TSB (a Federal unit, the Transportation Safety Board, which investigates certain accidents) would have done its work, before using the resulting report to lay charges.
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I think that's what the judge was implying.

Tony

Duplicate post, Sorry. If I knew how to delete it, I would do so.

Tony

Clarence Barry White convicted earlier in deaths of Justin MacKay and Chris Melanson

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Health care is not completely free in Canada. In hospital care is covered, (including drugs etc.) as is primary care by your local doctor. Drug, dental and optical coverage costs me an extra $4000 or...

I think I have worked out why my Cosine does not hobby horse. It has a very strong sheer, with the rub rail being only some nine (plus) inches above the watetline, amidships. That, in turn, means...

Bobcat - what was the beam? I row a Cosine Wherry with a sliding seat, and have no issues. There has got to be something about the specific hull design not to get hobby horsing at 14 foot length.
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I need educating here. Does the hybrid use its own IC engine (exclusively) to charge the batteries, or does one get them charged (partially) from the grid when at home?

Tony

The cost to me here in Canada for full prescription drug and (most) dental coverage is around $3,500 annually for a married couple. It is tax time so I happened to be looking at my unsubsidised group...

Interesting, in that I happen to have been dealing with a suspect rabid squirrel just today. It died slowly lying on the snow, twitching. Took over three hours. The lab tests now underway will...

Diesel engine.

Tony

My strip planked displacenent speed pocket trawler (traditional lobster Boat style) was built 15 years ago to Dave Gerr's sugģested specifications. In my case, that led to 3/4 inch thick Eastern...

The saga continues. They are closing "A transmitter" (apparently only one in my area, Southern New Brunswick), and stopping the forecasts coming from it. Somehow, the individual mariner is supposed...

Yes, I learnt about the Cape Breton situation this morning, The announcement I heard yesterday at the end of a VHF forecast stated baldly that "this service' will be discontinued within six months....

Nothing to do with Trump, just idiot Liberals in Ottawa., with their heads in the clouds as always.

Tony.

Environment Canada is cancelling the standard national VHF marine weather radio broadcast in a few months. There does not seem to be an obvious replacement unless the vessel has access to WIFI or...

You might want to consider a polyurethane glue like PL Premium for gluing strips. This class of adhesives have quite good gap filling characteristics, and are as waterproof as Titebond.

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You might want to consider a polyurethanevglue like PL Premium for gluing strips. This class of adhesives have quite good gap filling characteristics, and are as waterproof as Titebond.

Dave...

Surely one could adapt a pair of classic gronicles here? Since our local marina is probably non functional for some months, gronicles are not going to be much use for their usual functions.

Tony.

30 plus gaĺlons of goòd home brew. Last year was a vintage one for crab apple and for plum wine. Both just now becoming nicely drinkable.

A variety of flours for bread making, including one recent...

Northernguy, You might like to tell your wife about the 2020 Foshay International horse show in early September, in case your NS explorations take you through the next door Province (New Brunswick)...

Just for the record, not all countries with a Government (tax paid) scheme have a completely "free" system. Canada provides hospital and other primary care (doctor clinic etc) at no cost, but I still...

Dave, That is a very fair comment, and I should not have generalized from my experience with the Monfort specifications. I really did not know that his fabric was so different from that used in your...

I built Platt Monforts 12 ft boat. Nice lines, rows and tows well. Huge weakness (applies to all skin boats!) Is the fragility of the skin when forced to contact any bottom other than soft mud....

Humidification (steam generation, like a commercial oven in miniature) is achieved by the closed lid of the Dutch oven retaining the moisture in the wet dough being driven off by the initial baking...

For those new to baking, here is a variant of Norman's approach ("no knead") which one might characterise as not-very-much knead bread. I have spelt out all the steps in detail to help real...

There is an old legal tag, which goes "When your case is hopeless, abuse the plaintiff's attorney".

Three points then. Number one - by insulting me (as a liar), you reveal the weakness of your...

You want more, Peerie? OK, here you are. By the way, your claim about "97% of climate scientists" is bull****, as you must know if you have looked at the evidence.

Delingpole: The Five Best...

Let us see how open we all are to an honest discussion of the science.
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Too much left wing group think in this discussion for my (conservative/realist) taste. Here are some contrary thoughts - don't let your heads explode!

Tony.


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I have a (very) elderly dictionary, where the entry for "Sloop" says "See Cutter", and the entry for "Cutter" says "See Sloop".

I guess the compiler/s were not seamen?

Tony.

Provided that she was really a smaller version - TUVA is a really BIG boat by my standards (but I do like its "lobster boat" type hull).

Among the (many) design trade-offs we should consider, are...

Ian, Yes, that's the one. Too much Xmas breakfast. Of course, not an outboard, but influential in that it helped to persuade me that a "small" vessel could also be a comfortable one for a pair of old...

28608 Us from about 2013

Tony.

MMD, that's an interesting way to spend a few Xmas days. To start things off, a reference to a previous generation's ideas may be interesting to some. John Atkin's Martha Green 24 footer was a...

Ian, Yamaha has had most of these for many years. We bought our T50 hp High Thrust in 2005, and have done about 1000 miles each summer since, at slow cruising speed in our 24 foot pocket trawler. ...

Skinny wheels tend to be harder (like the Latanzo ones) and hardness implies more noise, I found. I really like the nearly complete silence of the Yocaher soft wheels. I admit that I don't like the...

Woody- Tried that, and didn't.

Tony.

28334 A Cosine Wherry is an a-symmetrical double ender, evident here in this pic of Toby Hind in her winter quarters suspended in my garage. The bow is much finer than the stern, and the waterlines...

28329 An upside down pic of the carriage. The plastic retaining strip is clear enough.

Tony.

28325 Leaving the dock in Gagetown creek, which joins the Saint John River proper half a mile down stream. I am at the end of the recovery stroke, just about to "catch". I don't feather the oars.
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28324 Here's why we don't do much boating in Winter. Tony.

Here are some pictures (seven or so). I don't seem to be able to post more than one at the same time, so that's what you see. Sorry for the multiple posts.

Toby Hind, my Cosine, has as her...

Pictures? Not my strong point, but I will see what I can do.

Tony.

The boat is lightly built, so perhaps a few pounds less than the 100 pounds estimated as "reasonable" in the book, and I run around 175 pounds. I will weigh more after Xmas, but since the water is...

The big project this summer was to convert my Cosine Wherry to dual function fixed and sliding seat operation, with easy change-over at will. The lessons learnt may be of interest to others.

The...

So you think that CO2 is a pollutant at the trace levels we now have in the atmosphere ? That just reveals your level of intelligence.

Tony.