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Mu catspaw build has been barely moving for close to 10 years now. Life gets in the way sometimes. Good luck, I have enjoyed the project so far and look forward to continuing. Hope you have as much...

You probably already know this Joe but ICE cars combust externally almost exactly 10 times more often than EVs do. Yes, putting the fire out is harder but there's a 10th the number of fires.
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Ramform Atas. Looked pretty familiar to me. Looked in my photos on my phone and I have a few pictures of what must be her sister ship, Ramform Titan. She was in Newfoundland last time I was there in...

I'm reading a book called The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth by Hugh Alderney-Williams. Very well written and gives some pretty cool insight into how the world's...

That's an easy mod after the fact though Gareth. I agree, two drop boards would be nice. I'd go so far as to say, a bottom one, and two top ones. A screen top and a solid top. Maybe even a lean top...

Yes, and no. I have been working at tapering the rings. One started so far, on a mandrel built by yours truly that is giving less than satisfactory results. The ring is an old piece of presumably...

Thanks for the steers guys. Much appreciated. I'm not so much thinking I can improve upon it as not wanting to inadvertently make the handle too short and ruin it's performance. Or the head. Or the...

I've decided I'd like to try my hand at making one. The Youtube Channel The Art of Boatbuilding shows how he built one. I will have no trouble replicating what he did and adapting to the materials I...

Reluctance to change is why legacy auto will be mostly bankrupt by the end of the decade. Some may survive. Most won't.

I was aboard her a couple of summers ago. They're doing some very fine work there. Look forward to seeing her splashed.
She designed and welded the hull up herself. Yes, it's impressive.

More bug like to me.

Listened to a Planet Money podcast just the other day about the US being the largest tax haven on the planet. Everyone thinks of "offshore accounts" in the Caymen Islands or something but apparently,...

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I recently paid $50 (Canadian) for one of those 16" Makita beam saws. Blue one. I have yet to get any use out of it. I know squeezing the trigger twists it's nose down, releasing it pops it back up...

Nobody knows demonstrably bad advice like the Republican party so he must know what he's talking about.

Nielson's draftsmanship is second to none. His work is beautiful. And the boats drawn are beautiful too. I own a few drawings he's responsible for (not his designs, though) and it's stunning to look...

Bruce is spot on. Rebalancing his ballast portfolio is all he's doing. Take some lead out of the bilge, put it lower down outside the hull. I suggested he move all but about 2 tons of it outside if...

She suspects he's guilty and that's why she wrote the Fauci act? So on suspicion, with no due process, that arguably the most important epidemiologist in the world today is guilty of creating a virus...

Tom, canceling your mortgage doesn't help society. Canceling student debt does. That's the point here.

I see compass planes on ebay etc. in the UK and US for about 90-120 GBP and USD but anything here in Canada is in the $300 range. I'd love to get my hands on a decent one in good shape. But not for...

Steve an Alix have discussed at reasonable length the weight Arabella is putting on with Oak planking rather than the specified Cedar. I wonder if they might consider using this in any of their...

Abaft means behind. The mast is abaft the funnel. Often we hear the term "abaft the beam" when discussing contacts at sea in relation to the collision regulations.

"There can be but one choice". Agreed, 9 mil I'd have a spit and flying lessons. Not to mention a property long enough to take off and land on that's by the water so I can sail when I'm not playing...

Pick one, who cares. They're all in line, they just don't know it yet, to varying degrees.

I serve. I have visited your ports. We have normally not been differentiated from your naval personnel. We were treated awesome. I can't speak to your mental health and physical health care post...

Mother nature drops about 51 inches on us every year. We're lucky that way. I just wish she'd pick a weekday once in a while to dump it on us.

Right back into it Bernadette. Awesome. Let's let that other thread drop into history. We'll wait to see her completed when you have the time to get around to her.
Cheers,
Daniel

Sounds like she's having trouble getting around the house to me. :)

The belle of the ball.

Like building an E-Type Rock climber.

HEY!!!! We share a birthday. Happy Birthday. :D

Those RC planes are weightless compared to a combat ready soldier though aren't they Mark? I'd guess the one on in the video you posted weighs 30-40 lbs maybe? If you can get a few of those to lift a...

I'd be so disheartened if I had a day off and it was a beautiful sunny day like in that image and the tide was out.

Ah, the cobra chicken. Yes, be afraid, be very afraid.

I love that helm. Trying to emulate it.

I can only imagine how good that feels.

I have come to believe that the only way to donate efficiently and not have the charity's leadership or the tax man take it is to donate time. If I donate an hour to a soup kitchen for example, they...

She lived, so no, not a new low. But a low none the less.

Had they not........

My brother built one. I managed to break his nearly new daggerboard twice that day. (Don't ask)
Peculiarities of the shellback foils are the shape of the board (yours isn't shaped correctly as you...

How old are you John? Had the Korean war happened yet? ;)

Funny that this thread comes up. My job right now is content creation and curriculum control for some of the training our navy undertakes for our members. I suppose, I can impact the curriculum. I'm...

Interesting take on it John. Glad you noticed and posted that. One more argument that it's not us vs. them, it's Us helping us.

It's pretty clear that by "these people" he meant those who were too stupid, (Sorry, I mean scared) to leave their homes without carrying. Your attempted obfuscation of the issue demonstrates to all...

I took a course in high school called Keyboarding. It was a basic typing course. Invaluable. The number of people who can't type, type with 2 fingers etc. is mindboggling. Today's employment often...

I see no SSE there. Very cool drawing you've got there too. Takes me back to sputifying when I was getting my dolphins. typical layout of a diesel electric boat. Fwd to aft we'd call them Weapon...

Nick, could she be old enough that she doesn't have an SSE? (Submerged Signal Ejector, a mini torpedo tube aimed at the surface to launch flares) If so, she'd have fired that off a few times to get...

Nothing. Unfortunately.

Ha! Yeah, the change from WUPS to IMSRT etc. was only recently. I first sailed on WUPS when I was a junior officer. In fact, my most recent deployment (Jan-Jun 2016) was the first time I had heard of...

For those not in the know "WUPS" is RCN speak for "Work Ups" which is a process where experienced sailors from an organization we call "Sea Training" come on board and put the crew and ship through...