Friday pic. hull speed

[John Bertenshaw]

I've been looking through some old imagestation albums/photos for a hull speed pic for the designs thread.
I always liked this un from 2000. So it can be a friday pic again.

thats about 8.5.....she loves a close reach.


and so does the boat.

[Paul Pless]

Bertenshaw, hmmm. and only 5 posts - LOL

Nice picture. Nicer boat.

were you Scotted as John B?

[Bruce Hooke]

Lovely!

[John R - Kitenui]

You would get even more speed than that today. Is the other boat in the shot Penelope?

[John B]

Yeah.. no power here all day!

Its Australian.. famous.. its name will come to me

[Paul Fitzgerald]

It looks like one of the '60's S2H boats..Mercedes? Balandra? Margaret Rintoul?
What's with the name change... you are not going to change from a sloop to a schooner are you?

[John B]

Its not a name change for me different machines logged me in and I forgot. Ungunna flag it anyway I think.
Scotted? Moi? Geez I only troll on april fools day, I called someone a bad name once ( and only once)and no one has ever bothered to flame me so no, not scotted. LOL. Maybe its something I should aspire to.

Now the boat.. burly double ender with complicated name like something of something ( something of huon?) here in 2000
Sydney boat I think. I'm thinking she's a Sydney Hobart vet. ( ahh s2H I get it, not slow this boy)but my books are packed away as we dismantle some rooms in our house...

[John B]

she's not a double ender.. small transom.
Patsy of Island Bay Built of Huon.
50 ft Laurent Giles.

[shamus]

There was a boat rather like that called Caprice of Huon I think

[John B]

See I'm confused now because that really rings bells. Patsy is in the regatta programme though.
My Aussie ocean racers book is packed away somewhere difficult right now.

[Paul Fitzgerald]

Patsy of Island Bay turned up on the CYC race schedule for 2004, so she must be back in Sydney. Havn't heard of her before though.

[formerlyknownasprince]

Nice photo, as usual, John

[Wild Dingo]

Blind I tell yer!

I cant for the life of me see a boat anywhere in this thread!!!

[John B]

Its the thing pointed at one end and a bit blunt at the other Shane. It looks wet up to a point which near enough equals what it weighs.( amazing coincidence!)
Hows things Bud.

[Mike Field]

John Bertenshaw? John Bertenshaw? Gawd, what bad luck. Now I see why you prefer JohnB, JohnB. (Good picture, by the way.)

G'day Shane. How goes it?

[John B]

gah!( falls off stool knocking coffee over, climbs back up)
Mike Field returns from the ether space.

Mike , while I've got you mate .. I need a new boathook and the one I made in the workshop by scarfing 2 broom handles together ( OMG I got in so much trouble for that... Brooms lying there with no handles like pekinese dogs having a sleep) finally broke when I tried to lever one of my children out of their bunk.

So the question I have is what is the best sort of broom handle to buy?

Oh and yes, when you have a 10 letter name you tend to look for ways of not using it. I find.

[Klabi]

Very good picture, but only one!

[Mike Field]

....the one I made in the workshop by scarfing 2 broom handles together.....

Scarfing them? Good god man, any good furniture maker could have told you not to scarf them, you should have skew-nailed them.

Now here's what you need to do, buddy. You know those long garden stakes you can get for holding up runner-beans in the vegie garden? (They're called "bean-poles" for some unknown reason.) Two of those skew-nailed end-to-end do very well. Make up a hook out of two wire coat-hangers (twisted together for strength,) and nail that to one end, and then you'll have a perfectly good boat-hook, good enough even for Waione (as long as you varnish it.)

BUT NOTE -- this is not a levering-kids-out-of-bed hook. For that you need two boathooks gang-nailed together.