The scale of the thing

Collapse
X
 
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • RFNK
    Port Stephens, Australia
    • Feb 2007
    • 26941

    Re: The scale of the thing

    Originally posted by John B
    Rick's in that place you take coal from or close. It's not in America.
    Our contribution to global heating
    Rick

    Lean and nosey like a ferret

    Comment

    • John B
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2000
      • 31699

      Re: The scale of the thing

      Of course, you don't take coals to Newcastle, I mixed up my dooble entendre.

      Comment

      • Hwyl
        Gareth
        • Jan 2003
        • 22222

        Re: The scale of the thing

        There are a few Newcastles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coals_to_Newcastle

        Comment

        • John B
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2000
          • 31699

          Re: The scale of the thing

          Originally posted by Hwyl
          It's almost as if pioneers said hey there coal here, what shall we call this place?
          I know.....

          Comment

          • RFNK
            Port Stephens, Australia
            • Feb 2007
            • 26941

            Re: The scale of the thing

            That's actually what did happen. The coal seams were very apparent in the cliffs of our Newcastle. You know, there's coal 'ere, we'll hafta call it Newcastle.

            Like 'New South Wales' - good grief!
            Rick

            Lean and nosey like a ferret

            Comment

            • Garret
              Hills of Vermont
              • Apr 2005
              • 48606

              Re: The scale of the thing

              Originally posted by RFNK
              That's actually what did happen. The coal seams were very apparent in the cliffs of our Newcastle. You know, there's coal 'ere, we'll hafta call it Newcastle.

              Like 'New South Wales' - good grief!
              Well, they were south & they hadn't seen those cetaceans before?
              "If it ain't broke, you're not trying." - Red Green

              Comment

              • RFNK
                Port Stephens, Australia
                • Feb 2007
                • 26941

                Re: The scale of the thing

                And, yes, of course, they famously had difficulty with 'h'
                Rick

                Lean and nosey like a ferret

                Comment

                • John B
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2000
                  • 31699

                  Re: The scale of the thing

                  Busy day in new wetland, it didn't rain so a visit to one of the boat kids we've known since he was 5.
                  Just arrived in from Indonesia with a stop at png.
                  Traded a pile of fishing gear for..
                  20211106_102531.jpg
                  It's the real thing. A hollowed out log.

                  Comment

                  • John B
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2000
                    • 31699

                    Re: The scale of the thing

                    Interesting day yesterday, quick trip over to Opua to help my friend put his boat back in the water and get his forestay back on. He had to take it off for the travel lift and it doesn't have a bottlescrew. Boing....
                    Geez, wrong pic..try again.( once a photo has been uploaded you can't get rid of it. It's a Californian quail making a racket outside the house just now)
                    20211206_075649.jpg
                    A balsa core boat, we've cruised about 6 or 8000 miles beside them since 17, a very good cruiser. Went into some tricky places and did some memorable things. I followed them out of Ogea, very shallow and they cut lines in the sand as we left there. Being 6 or so inches shallower we just slipped on out without touching.
                    The other very memorable place and sail with Matia was leaving Oneata in the Southern Lau group at 10 pm. Pitch black and some rain, 20 knots right behind, we did 7 and 8 knots across the lagoon and threaded the reef pass and coral heads by instruments and the shine of the breaking waves. It took a lot of trust and confidence in our equipment and methods going blind like that ,but we had a plan and it worked out perfectly. And it was a thrill.
                    And the reason, it allowed us to make the next destinations tricky entrance in daylight and with sun in the right place.
                    Attached Files
                    Last edited by John B; 12-06-2021, 07:28 PM.

                    Comment

                    • John B
                      Senior Member
                      • Aug 2000
                      • 31699

                      Re: The scale of the thing

                      Went on to another area to see an old friend. He still owns Aorere, an 1892 Logan. Yet another rolling restoration boat, unrestored in the modern sense. All original hull, possibly a new deck and certainly a new cabin , she was a flush decker originally.
                      20211206_114849.jpg
                      She's interesting because she's a Logan senior, someone who built in the old style near plank on edge. His sons, the Logan brothers were also building their first boats in 92 but they were modern with more developed bilges and cut away somewhat in the forefoot.
                      Terry took her to Tonga and back in the 80s, a trip unsuited to the type of vessel, pretty hairy by the sounds of it.
                      Last edited by John B; 12-06-2021, 07:16 PM.

                      Comment

                      • Garret
                        Hills of Vermont
                        • Apr 2005
                        • 48606

                        Re: The scale of the thing

                        Aorere needs more overhang! Looks like a pretty boat.
                        "If it ain't broke, you're not trying." - Red Green

                        Comment

                        • John B
                          Senior Member
                          • Aug 2000
                          • 31699

                          Re: The scale of the thing

                          Originally posted by Garret
                          Aorere needs more overhang! Looks like a pretty boat.
                          She was always one the most elegant of the NZ classics in all the historical photos I felt. Like nearly all of them they've had different deck structures and rigs over the century plus they've been around. She has a cruising gaff rig in her now but still gets along nicely.

                          Comment

                          • John B
                            Senior Member
                            • Aug 2000
                            • 31699

                            Re: The scale of the thing

                            Also in the haulout area was Alma G.
                            20211206_134740.jpg
                            Possibly one of this Country's most famous game fishing launches. 1922 Zane Grey and all that.
                            She was a sedan top originally and has had her bow raised, that would be her original sheerline aft.
                            Hard working boat.

                            Comment

                            • John B
                              Senior Member
                              • Aug 2000
                              • 31699

                              Re: The scale of the thing

                              And one more from that location
                              Pretty interesting I think.

                              20211206_135140.jpg

                              This is a tourist attraction based on an old sugar barge called the tui.
                              But the spars are from the wreck of Endeavour II or the (aka)Monte Cristo lost off Northland in the.... 70s?. I seem to recall a forum member was crew in her earlier life , so he would have climbed over them. Now who was that...was it Ron?

                              Anyway, there's a scale of the thing link to the WBF for you.

                              When originally rigged as the Kelly Tarlton Elingamite treasure museum. I expect that as the years have gone by the rest of the rig has decayed and has been removed.
                              tui_600.jpg
                              Last edited by John B; 12-08-2021, 03:18 PM.

                              Comment

                              • Neil C
                                Senior Member
                                • Mar 2011
                                • 160

                                Re: The scale of the thing

                                Was it Roger Taylor of 'Roc' and 'Ming Ming'

                                Comment

                                Working...