Excellent Bruce and Rick. Do you have decent sailing weather up there this time of year Rick? Must be about ready for a bit of that. The repower has been a big job.
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Excellent Bruce and Rick. Do you have decent sailing weather up there this time of year Rick? Must be about ready for a bit of that. The repower has been a big job.
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Excellent, Rick! All done.
Bruce, I bet Romana was pleased to see you.
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Always excellent sailing weather here thanks Phil! Lots to do but no real excuse for not sailing. But I don't report every sail . ..
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Excellent, Rick! All done.
Bruce, I bet Romana was pleased to see you.
Darn right. I spent an hour just cleaning up and getting everything off that should come off, and having a bit of a look at what tender care should come next.
In the meantime while I'm pondering that list I'm going to see if I can get her in the water for a slow sail to Glenelg. I have to test the mast for stiffness at the pointy end and I need to see how easy it is to set and retrieve the anchor. So a picnic lunch off Glenelg beach sounds like a good thing.
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What time are you launching?
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Did you mean lunching?
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Some time tomorrow I think. I slept in.
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Let's hope Phil packed sandwiches then.
Rick
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Too wet here to finish painting cockpit repairs so I'm about to commence rewiring instead. I actually enjoy fiddling with electrics.
Rick
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Or you could go fishing... did you see this??
100kg shark head caught in NSW sparks debate over predator's grim fate
ABC South East NSW By Adriane Reardon
A man holds a shark head on a boat. The shark head has bite chunks taken out of its torso.
The remains of a shark caught by a commercial fisherman on the New South Wales South Coast is generating debate on social media about how the animal met its fate.
Bermagui local Jason 'Trapman' Moyce reeled the head onto his boat last week after it got hooked on a line reserved for smaller sea creatures.
Mr Moyce then shared an image to Facebook of his apprentice Jasper Lay holding the head of the shark with large bite-like chunks taken out of it.
"We see a lot of sharks get eaten but this has to be one of the bigger ones," Mr Moyce said.
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Mr Moyce believed the shark was likely eaten by another shark, such as a great white, or even cannibalised by one of its own kind.
After eight years of commercial fishing on the far South Coast, he said the find had unnerved him.
"I'm in a pretty big boat," Mr Moyce said.
"But the thought of being in the ocean at night doesn't really do me any favours."
But the surprises did not stop there.
A marlin bill is held above the head of a shark, which had been pulled out from the throat of the dead animal.
PHOTO: The shark head was found with a 30cm marlin bill lodged in its throat. (Facebook: Trapman Bermagui)
Mr Moyce found a 30-centimetre marlin bill sticking out of the shark's throat.
He said the skin had healed over the puncture, indicating the bill had been inside the shark for years.
"It just shows the amazing healing powers of sharks," Mr Moyce said.
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Anybody want to buy a small boat or a smaller kayak? I don't like the idea of dying in the jaws of a shark like that one or the one that ate it.
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I saw that pic a few days ago.
We (The Australian Museum) got 5 mako shark pups off the same fisherman - we're trying to preserve their cartilage skeleton.
We can acquire sharks killed as by-catch. The fishermen are not allowed to sell them, they have to chuck them over otherwise.
Possible White Shark bite - or as the shark was caught on a long line, possibly a big Tiger shark did some scavenging. After that probably only a killer whale could do it - which isn't likely around here.
It's all fun and games until Darth Vader comes.
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I'd rather be eaten by a big shark than a little one.
Rick
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There used to be plenty of killer whales around Eden so I'd have thought the coast off Bermagui would have some. Aren't they around anymore?
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I'm not from 'round here so i don't know for sure.
But I've not heard of killer whales in my time.
I'll ask the fish people......
It's all fun and games until Darth Vader comes.
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Righty - some redacting required then......
https://www.wildaboutwhales.com.au/b...ed-near-sydney
It appears Ol' Tom down at Eden left when food got scarce and Orca's hadn't been back for a while - until 2018.
Not sure if those are here to stay or not.
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Ol' Tom is still celebrated in Eden but I reckon he was a right bastard!
Rick
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A lot of the underwater scenes in Jaws were filmed in Investigator Straight. Biggest Great Whites in the world.
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Strait. Spellcheckers have crap vocab.
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Lucky bastard. I took the peel ply off my fillets and was reasonably happy with what lay underneath. A bit like taking a dressing of what was a nasty wound to find that it's pretty much healed up. Went around with a piece of sandpaper taking equal parts off the fillets and the outside edge of my hand, and I reckon it's good enough to run some glass tape over it. Also faired up the hull deck joins a bit, so they are similarly ready for some glass.
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So do I. That's how I typed it. Sorry Mr K.
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So we can escape Adelaide by being rolled down the stairs in the backstairs passage or sneaking past the monster sharks in investigator strait. And easterners think we're being trite when we talk stoically about Bass Strait.
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If your wife straightens up your jacket, are you wearing a straitjacket.....
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Now I wish I hadn't mentioned it. Who's Mr K?
Rick (pedant)
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If it were me, it would be a straighter jacket. Anyway, she doesn't do that. Instead she wipes toothpaste remnants off my face, usually either at the cafe or after we've left.
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Does she spit on the hanky first.
"Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect." Irrfan Khan. RIP
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RFNK Rick Frederick Nickolas Knowall or something. I dunno, whats your surname, does it start with K? Anyway, you were clearly in Teacher mode so Mr K seemed to fit.
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Aaaanyway, I cut and put miles of glass tape around edges and over fillets and very happy with how it all went. Things got a bit exciting when my tray of epoxy started smoking while I was in full sun on the foredeck, but apart from that, no problems. Must buy some yellow roller trays instead of those black buggers.
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Well, after months of sitting around, a polite but firm letter to the Minister for Roads finally resulted in the old Etchells trailer getting her new chassis number. What a cluster. Here in the boondocks we are expected to just wait for months on end until the right RMS man happens to be in the area. We then get one day's notice to present the trailer. If we don't happen to be around at the time, we are expected to wait another few months and then wait until the VIN section gets around to allocating the number itself.
Of course, now I have located a brake controller fault but the vendor is onto it and I should hopefully pick up the old 28'er next week and tow her home for the long renovation.
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Not wooden, but some may know her. A steel hull yacht of around 70 feet long, I think called Patricia Mary, has broken free of her mooring lines at Warnambool and is now lodged on rocks.
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That can't be good, but being steel maybe they can just drag her off and buff out the scratches.
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I think that's sort of the plan.
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Reminds me of a lovely scientific description of government and bureaucracy I saw on farcebook the other day. Sorry too hard to copy and paste on my phone.
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I laid glass on the last deck edges and fillets this morning. Undercoat next. Probably a bit of sanding before I do that. But I love sanding. Not.
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i always wondered what RFNK stood for.
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