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A bit of local flavour…

Norm is down our neck of the woods at the moment, wouldn't exactly call this sailing, but he has a sail.. Nice bloke, here he does a piece on another motorboat that lives down here. Norm is an acquired taste, but many of his videos are useful if you sail into ports up and down the Oz east coast.

I thought being a Mormon was all about fucking…..

The good news for vloggers who commission new boats is that even more things don’t work or break down than in old boats, and the systems are so complex they often can’t fix them. Harbours Unknown is a great example, a new Seawind a couple of years ago and they are still fixing things in exotic...

It was a Tasmanian who invented bubbles in beer… the backstory

European exploration and colonisation makes sense if you look at the economic drivers, be they spices, tobacco cotton or wool.. The British frenzy of colonisation was driven by the fact that they were the first country to experience an Industrial Revolution, and wanted access to more resources...

The Pearson 424 I saw had a bin under the seat in the shower, just load it and go sailing, it washed your clothes for you…

Unless your destination is upwind…

Just ask Jeff….

That’s the one, the earlier bugeye was cuter. engineering and electrics on both were very basic, I rebuilt my bugeye engine in my dorm room when I was in university.

Austin Healy Sprite Mark 2, the one after the bug eye… Also known as the MG Midget..

At least it isn’t one of the French subs we cancelled. The govt doesn’t like to admit it, but the real reason they were cancelled is because the engineers couldn’t figure out a way to move the torpedo tubes from the stern to the front…

OK, the whole story on our VP 2003. I am a Yanmar fan, have replaced or rebuilt a few, wouldn’t consider any other engine if I had a choice, but in 2010 I wanted the boat and it came with a VP 2003 and saildrive, both of which I considered negatives and put on the fix it list. It’s raw water...

The manual link is coming up as a phone number, could you resend it?

Botulism?

I have had a few wooden gifts confiscated by US customs when I mailed them from Tasmania to the USA. Clearly they know nothing about the anti microbial properties of Huon Pine …

We will have to ask him,

I have a raw water cooled 2003 with 1600 hrs on it, and a supply of spares from friends who re engined their boats. But if it goes bad I have a spare low hour VP 2030 in the shed, no way I would rebuild the 2003. My issue is it is a saildrive motor, so I am locked into the VP vortex unless I...

The title is ironic, the thread is really about an old codger who sails slowly around the British isles…