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Country Estate
Posted by: ycd0108, 11:01 PM GMT op 24 april 2012 +2
This wagon showed up with the floor all rotted out - likely from the stuff Tloml salvaged from a friend's 'estate". Pulled it apart and put a new flooring (the running gear bolt to the floor). Looked around for some paint and came up with a light purple which can be seen in true color in the shadowed left on the floor.
The "Country Estate" has now a few more years of useful life.
 
 
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Travels with Google
Posted by: ycd0108, 3:06 AM GMT op 24 april 2012 +0
BriarCraft left a comment on one of my photos so I went back looking for related stuff like the picture below that was taken the same day.
Then I got lost in Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koprivshtitsa
especially the history of the town.
In 1876 my paternal ancestors had been a few years in B.C. Great Grandmother was born as they arrived and she would be about 14 years old.
1876 in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria was an uprising (suppressed) of local heroes against the Ottoman Rulers.
The large stone statues may commemorate these heroes or those of later struggles.
 
 
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Cowichan Bay
Posted by: ycd0108, 4:28 AM GMT op 21 april 2012 +1
Ran down south with the new GPS through Sansom. Minor lumps and swirls. Tied up at the Cowichan Bay Maritime Museum and wandered in. Some good displays of small boats and old hardware - Vivian Engines and whatnot.
Talked to the folks at the office - I want to give them my old jet boat.
M.V."R-Billy" is pretty in her lines but needs some attention.
Coming home was slightly rougher but not bad.
Chartplotter is just fine. even warned us off some shallows which we run over normally.
 
 
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Much Karma
Posted by: ycd0108, 3:45 PM GMT op 17 april 2012 +0
This individual still haunts me. We pulled her/him up in a prawn trap and I started slavering for "Pulpo Cocktail".
Butchering a good sized octopus takes about a day.
The next day we pulled up another and poured it back in the chuck.
 
 
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Where the metal hits the rock
Posted by: ycd0108, 10:25 PM GMT op 10 april 2012 +0
I know the image makes me look like a failure as a boater - maybe I can learn to take better photos?
I am going with the theory that I did not damage the drive train but this prop is scrap aluminium now. I'm cleaning up a spare and we intend to relaunch early tomorrow morning (barely got on the trailer at about 10:00 hours and tide falling fast).
Then we need to run the new combination and see if the spare prop is close to performing like the old one did. I doubt it will do any better if I grind in on rocks at cruising speed, though.
I am not sure if the part of the skeg broken off is essential - likely it's main purpose is to protect the prop in a less violent collision.
 
 
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Many Worlds
Posted by: ycd0108, 4:11 PM GMT op 08 april 2012 +0
I just read this:
http://thetyee.ca/Life/2012/04/06/OtherMessiah/
Talk about unintended consequences!
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Between Pacific Tides
Posted by: ycd0108, 9:13 PM GMT op 07 april 2012 +0
Just borrowed a copy of the Ricketts & Calvin book. I'm trying to find something on the Sea Worm below. Wiki has a close match:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaetopterus
which implies this animal is a tube worm but there it was searching about in a tide pool with no tube that I could see.
I was first amazed by the shore of the salt sea at about 13 years old and have poked around there ever since.
The more you look the more you see.
 
 
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Snag
Posted by: ycd0108, 9:18 PM GMT op 06 april 2012 +0
Took this yesterday while searching for the stump the old rotting log cedar came from. We heard there had been a large forest fire here in the 1920s. In those days cedar was left to stand or felled to make a landing for the big fir. Some cedar was used for shingles (sawn) and shakes
(split). The wood is now sought after and the old growth like the rotting log and burnt out snag would fetch big dollars. Except in parks and forest preserves these big trees are long gone. One of the biggest "Second Growth" Fir stands about ten feet from the chair I sit in it's about 30" in diameter at felling height and probably 130' high or more. We measured the biggest tree we fell before I started snipping it up so I could yard 16' chunks. It was 96 feet from the 2' stump to where the feller snipped the top at about 4" diameter. So my height estimate might be conservative. I imagined that if this tree ever came down on my house it is so close that the house would roll it off 'cause it would not have space to accelerate. I'm not sure about that but maybe I'd have time to vacate the computer room.
 
 
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