That would account for the interest in junk rigs.
Rick
That would account for the interest in junk rigs.
Rick
Degrees of separation. I didn't and do. Ta!
Rick
I was joshing. I think a bunch of boat owners is about as likely to agree on the perfect stove, as they are the perfect anchor, as they are the perfect dinghy. Theres a lot of subjective personal preference and even whimsy involved.
In my case I wouldn't have gas because I know I'm basically lazy and tend to cut corners. The bilge sniffer might get wet and stop working and I wouldn't replace it, I wouldn't shut off at the tank every time, even with a solenoid, for the same reason I leave the lights on when I leave a room. Vulcan had a 4 burner gas stove and oven, it was wonderful. But it was there because it was there when I bought her. Ive always used Maxies, and that's just what I'm comfortable with. They do get a bit of tarnish on the stainless-but the one I have on Balia, I had on my Tumlaren 30 years ago and its just fine.
Larks
“It’s impossible”, said pride.
“It’s risky”, said experience.
“It’s pointless”, said reason.
“Give it a try”, whispered the heart.
LPBC Beneficiary
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great!"
Another horrible disaster ... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-1...-found/8279576
It's far too common, I knew a bloke who died in a water tank with his Dad and 2 brothers. People just don't seem to realise CO is deadly !![]()
'' You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know. ''
Grateful Dead
Thanks Peter, I never knew chlorate worked as an oxidiser. My method tended to absorb atmospheric moisture once the rockets were filled. Before the age of media fed terrorism I could skateboard down to the ag supply store in town, an my baggy jeans and hoodie, and buy a 10 kilo sack of potassium nitrate, no questions asked, then ride the bus home with it on my lap. They were better days....
When I was a young 18 year old bank Johnnie (my first job when I left school) I had a .22 pistol in my drawer at work. Once a month, to maintain familiarity with it, I’d have to put it in my right pocket and a box of ammo in my left pocket and walk from the Comm' bank at 367 Collins St in Melbourne to the Reserve bank at the other end of Collins st and empty the box of ammo on the pistol range on the top floor of the building. Different days.
Larks
“It’s impossible”, said pride.
“It’s risky”, said experience.
“It’s pointless”, said reason.
“Give it a try”, whispered the heart.
LPBC Beneficiary
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great!"
When I was a bank Johnnie, also my first real job after leaving school, we had larger caliber pistols than that and nobody trained us and nobody maintained the weapons until a holdup scare. Then the police in conjunction with the bank sent a lot of us with our provided weapons to a pistol range with the police firearms training boss. Several pistols were shown to be inoperable, some more confiscated for being potentially lethal. We got good training and spent a fair few rounds into targets, using our usable weapons and police issue weapons. After that I never really had any inkling to want to have one available on the off chance somebody came in and demanded cash.
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Likewise Bruce, in the sense that there was no training, no instruction (and no Google) - just take it down the Reserve bank range and work out how to use it then go back each month and practice. Fortunately I had some common sense and about 13 years of experience with rifles, but I do remember wondering what the heck someone else would have done. I also had my own cleaning gear so took all of the banks pistols home one weekend and cleaned them all, about 8 or 10 of them, and I do recall them being in a woeful state.
Larks
“It’s impossible”, said pride.
“It’s risky”, said experience.
“It’s pointless”, said reason.
“Give it a try”, whispered the heart.
LPBC Beneficiary
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great!"
Pot chlorate was sold as weedkiller, 4/6 a pound , the 90 cents a kg and icing sugar for 1/3 a pound but the preferred rocket fuel was zinc dust and sulphur. Our local library had a book called "Rocketry for Amateurs''.... I can't imagine that book existing in a library today ! The final project was a rocket that looked like the one Hamas fires .... so one copy still exists.
'' You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know. ''
Grateful Dead
'' You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know. ''
Grateful Dead
Yes, the miniscule movement of the hand vs the wide angle spray of shots. I'm prety sure it would have been completely disastrous if any of our tellers had actually tried to shoot someone. Nobody would have been safe. I still have a sore arxe from the instructor about making sure the things were actually pointing at least in a general forwards sense and not into him, me and the other trainees.
A target pistol of course is amazingly accurate ! Barrel length is all.
'' You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know. ''
Grateful Dead
Good grief .......
Rick
Inaccuracy ?? A mate and I built an Owen copy from an old bolt action Mauser .22 when we were 16. The thing sprayed dozens of rounds and we were lucky to get 5 out of 20 on a sheet of tin at 10 m. It was disassembled and the various parts dropped off different jetties when some unsavory types expressed an interest.
The project was purely , "I wonder if we can?"
'' You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know. ''
Grateful Dead
Sounds like it's the same one I have in Pipsqueak.
Rick
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome and charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime" Mark Twain... so... Carpe the living sh!t out of the Diem
I'd rather look back at my life and say "I can't believe I did that" instead of being there saying "I wish I'd done that"
Speaking of rockets, we had Estes rockets with cartridge fuels. Have some still here... somewhere, from when the boys were growing up. Before the rockets, we made our own things that went bang. Saltpeter, sulf.... hmmm, let's leave it there... and a 240v extension lead was all we needed.... plus a jar to contain the mix. Lots of bangs. We also made things that stopped the bangs. One of the guys built his in metalwork at school.... "muffler for the Victa, Sir". Same guy built a single-shot .22 pocket-sized piece.
Different times. One of the guys brought 7 sticks of jelly in one day and we had some fun with that down the bush, after school. As kids did, back then.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome and charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime" Mark Twain... so... Carpe the living sh!t out of the Diem
I'd rather look back at my life and say "I can't believe I did that" instead of being there saying "I wish I'd done that"
At least one of the tall ships in Hobart had a small cannon...I heard it.
there fixed it. Bloody pedantic mob.![]()
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The definition of stupid has got to be the belief that more guns will negate the bloodshed done with guns.
Pachelbel's possibly.
I love the sound of a great canon roaring in the morning ...
Rick
The Spirit of Tasmania has just left the wharf. Apparently this happens a lot.
Rick
Larks
“It’s impossible”, said pride.
“It’s risky”, said experience.
“It’s pointless”, said reason.
“Give it a try”, whispered the heart.
LPBC Beneficiary
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great!"
Enterprise was the vessel with the canon, I think she wanted the James Craig to strike her flag, I don't this was complied with.
the invisible man........
'Twas indeed a most musical festival. As it should be!
That's the one, Greg!
Those of you who missed the festival may be pleased to know that no Morris dancers were there. Those of us who did attend were relieved ..... nay, rapt!
Rick
I'm sad that I was mizzen the whole thing; canons and all.
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Jarndyce and Jarndyce
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Boom Boom
Really? How lucky to have missed them!
Rick
The absence of Admiral Spongeworthy could have contributed the relaxation of standards, such as the minor matter of Morris mancers (wanted to keep the alliteration running)
the invisible man........