The R.N.L.I. comes to the rescue

 Father and son Graham and Matthew were looking forward to a Monday early morning fishing trip targeting Bass.

However the little Honda outboard motor has revealed fuel line problems and spluttered to a halt, briefly revived by means of the choke to admit more fuel. We noticed the lifeboat leave harbour shortly after we left and it headed off to wards Berry Head to bring back another small boat in trouble.

Once that one was retrieved it was our turn to jump aboard the inshore lifeboat behind two 115hp outboards. Having only very recently had the Honda serviced, I am not relishing the prospect of another bill from the marine services shop.

Towards the end of this video you will notice our little wooden craft on tow riding unusually high in the water and tracking behind straight and true.

Another rescue like this one is now much less likely.  A water and debris filter has been fitted which should prevent the carburetter becoming fouled. The fuel tanks have each been emptied and refilled with strained fuel that has had the worst of its contaminants removed.

Fathers Day : 21st June 26

 The longest day and summer solstice is here.  What a great day I had with son Matthew showing me the knots and tangles of Bass fishing .. If the fish won't bite there is always the need for speed to lift the spirits.  Here we are having a blast .......

Best British Bass 

Stools, Benches, Tables and Chairs

My newly published website promotes wood products made at home in my garage. Do please check them out and don't hesitate to contact me if any item you find there is of particular interest.  Sorry I don't sell on-line only at the venues mentioned within the site.   Click Link Here

 Whippet Chair 

Almost finished

 

CAD Runabout Drawings

 

 

 

Showing dimensions at transom and station No 6

 

After several  iterations of my new runabout design here shown is as it appears on my laptop screen.

 

This includes a transom view of the skeletal drawing with dimensions. simply set for an example of the power of CAD .  

 

Fusion360 is the programme used and at ten cross sectional drawings I can take off all the measurements required to form the frames of a boat in full size. In addition I can arrange the frames onto a jig that will keep them all aligned and fimly in place during the build process that would keep me busy for about six months.

 

The design has probably taken me longer to draw and select than the woodworking to follow. All enjoyable and keeping my head busy in the small hours of the day. 

Stern quarter view shown above with transom dimensions

Bow quarter view showing two rear section dimensions below.

 

Dimensions at each section for Frames

I am a humanist

  Read an article in The Guardian Newspaper today and you will perhaps be made aware of just how low this once proud nation has sunk; to a morally bankrupt third world island run by hypocrites.

I shall not attempt to use my own words in describing the horrors of genocide ongoing in GAZA - but I will simply quote the summery of what it says 

 

"You really can only turn the world on its head for so long. In the end this crime is too obscene, too documented, too unapologetic to get away with. One day there will be a reckoning, and those who facilitated the annihilation of Gaza will find themselves being made to account for what they said and did, rather than those who stood against it. "

 

The chief Rabbi    insults the intelligence of the British people who have given Jews refuge over the generations and saved many of their number in many, many ways.  I cannot listen to his words without asking why the UK helps Isreal murder their neighbouring Palestinians and threatens to wipe out millions in such a blatent act of GENOCIDE.

Israel lately blames others for the starvation now being suffered by the Palastinians. IN FACT THEIR ACTIONS ARE MURDER ON A MONUMENTAL SCALE - THEY HAVE SIMPLY FUELLED ANTISEMITISM