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Sonntag, 23. April 2017
Where is Devils Isle
This was a question I was asked by an American cruising sailor once.
I told him that its easy to find and that you cannot miss it.
He replied I can if I dont know where it is?
I told him that its easy to find and that you cannot miss it.
He replied I can if I dont know where it is?
I will post a map later.
The picture came to me from my good friend Notty who went there on a Fortuna 37 with his wife and son,
Dated 1994 click on the images to enlarge them.
Devils Isle is almost not in this picture as its the spec of land to the left, part of the planes wing gear can be seen also.
The large island is Royale with St Joseph at the back, we anchored there for around a week.
Roy
Donnerstag, 20. April 2017
How to make Kye is it a traditional Liverpool drink
This came in today and reminds me when I used to ask my mother for a Connie Onnie buttie, which is bread and butter and a condensed milk filling!
Roy
From: "margaret greer" <margogreer1@msn.com>
Subject: [ENG-LIV] Connie- onnie sandwiches
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:39:59 +0100
Or known in Liverpool as connie-onnie butties. Condensed milk, used during WW2. Fresh milk was scarce unless you owned a cow. Many people spread it on bread to make a sandwich, it tasted very nice and we kids used it as a substitute for sweets. My mother-in-law apparently ate it all the time whilst she was pregnant and my husband weighed 11lbs.
I also remember special margarine which was disgusting and dried eggs. Everything was rationed. My grandchildren don't believe me when I tell them what we DIDN'T have.
MargaretGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
Roy
From: "margaret greer" <margogreer1@msn.com>
Subject: [ENG-LIV] Connie- onnie sandwiches
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:39:59 +0100
Or known in Liverpool as connie-onnie butties. Condensed milk, used during WW2. Fresh milk was scarce unless you owned a cow. Many people spread it on bread to make a sandwich, it tasted very nice and we kids used it as a substitute for sweets. My mother-in-law apparently ate it all the time whilst she was pregnant and my husband weighed 11lbs.
I also remember special margarine which was disgusting and dried eggs. Everything was rationed. My grandchildren don't believe me when I tell them what we DIDN'T have.
MargaretGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
Below is a recipe from Chris, a merchant seaman, it sort of fits in with the connie onnie buttie!
Instead of drinking beer how about brewing up some traditional 'kye' during cold winter days.
2. Place pieces in a saucepan with one mug of hot water.
3. Heat up until the chocolate has melted.
4. Add one tin of condensed milk.
5. Bring to the boil and serve in mugs.
6. Add sugar to taste.
(Durban, South Africa)
Freitag, 14. April 2017
Black Cat is off to Rio again!
Words taken from the Blogspot of Dudley Dix, USA.
I have done it 3 times before and I am soon going to do it again. Sail in the Cape to Rio Race, that is. I have crossed the South Atlantic 4 times, so this will be my 5th crossing.
In 1993 I raced on the Shearwater 39 "Ukelele Lady" (yes, I know that ukulele is spelt incorrectly but the guy who carved the name board was a bad speller) as sailing master and navigator. The boat was owned by my friend Nick Taylor, entertainer and TV personality.
In 1996 I sailed on the Didi 38 "Black Cat", as skipper and co-owner. Between the 1993 and 1996 races I had designed and built the new boat for the race. After Rio, we cruised her to the beautiful Bay of Islands SW of Rio before I raced her back to Cape Town, double-handed with Jay Barnes, in the South Atlantic Challenge.
In 2000 I sailed on "Black Cat" again, as skipper. By then my co-owner, Adrian Pearson, had bought my share and was sole owner. Clive Dick and Adrian sailed her back to Cape Town.
Now "Black Cat" is 18 years old and has many thousands of ocean and coastal miles under her keel. We are about to head out onto the South Atlantic Ocean again, in the 2014 Cape to Rio Race. We have assembled the same crew as in 1996 with the exception of the navigator. My good friend Brian Cole was navigator in 1996 but is now getting on in years, so we have a younger man in his place.
http://dudleydix.blogspot.com/2013/08/cape-to-rio-race-2014.html
Read the full story in the link above.
Roy
I have done it 3 times before and I am soon going to do it again. Sail in the Cape to Rio Race, that is. I have crossed the South Atlantic 4 times, so this will be my 5th crossing.
In 1993 I raced on the Shearwater 39 "Ukelele Lady" (yes, I know that ukulele is spelt incorrectly but the guy who carved the name board was a bad speller) as sailing master and navigator. The boat was owned by my friend Nick Taylor, entertainer and TV personality.
In 1996 I sailed on the Didi 38 "Black Cat", as skipper and co-owner. Between the 1993 and 1996 races I had designed and built the new boat for the race. After Rio, we cruised her to the beautiful Bay of Islands SW of Rio before I raced her back to Cape Town, double-handed with Jay Barnes, in the South Atlantic Challenge.
| Built in my garden in Hout Bay, here we are turning the hull. ( I was one of the guys there helping to turn the boat over that day, Roy) |
Now "Black Cat" is 18 years old and has many thousands of ocean and coastal miles under her keel. We are about to head out onto the South Atlantic Ocean again, in the 2014 Cape to Rio Race. We have assembled the same crew as in 1996 with the exception of the navigator. My good friend Brian Cole was navigator in 1996 but is now getting on in years, so we have a younger man in his place.
http://dudleydix.blogspot.com/2013/08/cape-to-rio-race-2014.html
Read the full story in the link above.
Roy
Samstag, 1. April 2017
Why is Easter in March this year
I asked a few and got the same response, I have no idea was the reply.
Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.
Here's the interesting info. This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above!).
And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here are the facts:
1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).
2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!
My thanks to Yahoo for supply of the answer.
Roy
But is any of what Yahoo has posted, they have already got the date as the 23rd of march for Easter when its the 29th of march!
Thanks to reader Notty for sending me this :
Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.
Here's the interesting info. This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above!).
And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here are the facts:
1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).
2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!
My thanks to Yahoo for supply of the answer.
Roy
But is any of what Yahoo has posted, they have already got the date as the 23rd of march for Easter when its the 29th of march!
Thanks to reader Notty for sending me this :
Hi Roy,
I read it full size on the laptop. Its the line that says, 'The next time Easter will be this early (23-March) will be in 2228.' That to me reads that you are saying that Easter this year will be on March 23 which as you know has past. I don't know how else you can read that?
Argie 15 in Zurich Basil is painting
Yes, also he has added some very nice none slip as well.
Basil
This Argie 15 is in Zurich, Switzerland and is for sale, please contact me for the sellers details.
Roy
Hi Roy
I have just finished painting the inside of the hull. For more comfort I glued in a anti slip mat.
Now I will begin to paint the outside of the boat.
Have a good time and a happy new year,
We supplied the North Sails and Ronstan deck package to this boat which included the round inspection hatches, We can also do similar plastic rectangular hatches.
Exporting world wide is possible.
This Argie 15 is in Zurich, Switzerland and is for sale, please contact me for the sellers details.
Roy
Samstag, 11. März 2017
Port Douglas – at the Reef Marina where sitting in the mud is considered normal
24-26 September 2016
Marinas are not our favourite places. We’d always rather be anchored up somewhere ‘On the hook’ rather than paying at times exorbitant amounts of money for the dubious privilege of having neighbours two metres away. However marinas can be convenient providing opportunities to refuel and take on fresh water easily, get your washing done as well as reprovision without having to a transport everything back and forwards via dinghy. They are also normally a secure place to leave your boat unattended when need be so we consider marinas to fall in the 'sometimes necessary evil' category.
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| It's easy to see why tourists would be attracted to Port Douglas' natural charms. |
After a great stay at Low Isles with Karen’s brother Russell and his wife Tania on board, we needed to drop them back to their car at Port Douglas. As we were also keen to have a look around the town and pick up some fresh fruit and vegies at the Sunday markets, we planned to spend Saturday and Sunday nights in port. There is anchorage space past the marinas in the river but it was quite crowded when we had looked a few day previously so we decided to bite the bullet and booked a berth in the Reef Marina for the two nights.
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| As can be seen in this Google Earth image, the anchorage up river at Port Douglas can get crowded. |
We had made the most of our time on the water with our guests so didn’t arrive at the marina until late afternoon. We came in on a making tide about two hours before the high. We found our allocated berth without a problem, secured the boat then collected our swipe passes from a small wall safe next to the marina office door. The office is only staffed from 08:30 am to 05:00 pm on weekdays and 08:30 to 12:30pm on Saturdays and any arrival outside those hours has to be prearranged and prepaid.
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| The location of our berth in Reef Marina, Port Douglas. |
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| Karen with Our Dreamtime in the marina at Port Douglas |
After seeing off Russell and Tania we made the most of the marina facilities and enjoyed looong, hot showers before a nice BBQ dinner on board and relatively early night after our big day snorkelling the reefs of Low Isles.
We arose Sunday morning keen to explore this tropical tourist mecca. Port Douglas has an interesting history of boom, bust and boom again. The township was established in 1877 after the discovery of gold at Hodgkinson River. The Post Office opened on 1 September 1877 with the town growing quickly. At its peak Port Douglas had a population of 12,000 and boated 27 hotels. With the construction of the Mulligan Highway it serviced inland towns as far away as Herberton.
When the railway from Cairns to Kuranda was completed in 1891, the importance of Port Douglas dwindled along with its population. A cyclone in 1911 demolished all but two buildings in the town and had a significant impact. At its lowest ebb in 1960 the town, Port Douglas was little more than a fishing village with a population of 100.
In the late-1980s notorious investor Christopher Skase financed the construction of the Sheraton Mirage Resort. Skase later fled Australia broke and in disgrace with creditors left chasing hundreds of millions of dollars but the Mirage Resort lived on providing the base for a fast growing tourism boom sustained to this day.
In November 1996 United States President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton chose the town as their only holiday stop on their historic visit to Australia. When dining at a local restaurant they witnessed a couple's wedding certificate. Bill obviously liked the place as he came back as a private citizen for another holiday after his Presidency was over. During that return visit on 11 September 2001, the ex-President was again dining at the Salsa Bar and Grill, a local restaurant, when he was advised of the 11 September attacks. He returned to the United States the following day.
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| Port Douglas' most famous holiday makers. (Image from web) |
Our first stop was the markets in search of fresh fruit and vegetables straight from the farm. Produce sourced this way always lasts much longer on the boat than that found in supermarkets. It has not spent days or weeks in cold storage before being displayed in chilled cabinets.
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| We always prefer to buy produce from farmers markets when possible. Port Douglas had a good range to choose from. |
Although the vast majority of goods on offer at the very large weekly markets was clothing and souvenirs targeted at the tourist hordes, we were very pleased with the range of locally grown, very fresh tropical fruits and other produce available. We were able to fill our carry bags with enough to last for quite a while on our coming journey back south along the coast. It was only a couple of blocks back to the marina so we got it all back to the boat and stowed away before heading off for some more exploration.
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| The Sunday Markets in Port Douglas are very popular with the tourists. |
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| There's no shortage of alternative lifestylers up this way. |
A stroll down the main street revealed a busy retail and café/restaurant precinct with a mix of new concrete and glass structures interspersed amongst more than enough early 20th Century timber buildings for the town to have retained its typically North Queensland character. One thing we don’t need is any more ‘Stuff’ on the boat so we were strictly window shoppers. Karen certainly enjoyed wandering in and out of the various boutiques and souvenir shops though and the knowledge that his wallet was unlikely to be opened made the exercise much less stressful for Rob.
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| Port Douglas' St Mary's by the sea is certainly one of the more picturesque churches we've seen. |
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| The view through the window behind the altar is spectacular. |
We then had a very nice, well priced lunch at ‘The Combined Club’ located with a large deck built out over the water. It was a very pleasant spot to enjoy a few cold drinks and bite to eat while watching the boats come and go.
This may sound ludicrous but we followed lunch by enjoying a very relaxing afternoon back in the marina doing our laundry. You see the marinas amenities, including the washers and driers, are located in the same building as Hemingway's Boutique Brewery that overlooked our finger. Here’s how it worked. Sort the clothes, stick them into the washing machines, throw in a few gold coins (too many gold coins actually) and hit go. Head for the bar for 24 minutes. Back to the laundry to switch everything into the driers, stick in a fistful of gold coins again and then back to the bar for ninety minutes. Back to the laundry. Driers are crap and clothes still damp. More gold coins and back to the bar for another 90 minutes. They even had live music playing. Excellent. An hour and half later and it’s back to the laundry. Damn! The clothes are dry. Fold them up and into the laundry bag and ‘Oh Look. It’s time to go back to the boat and watch the footy semi-final on TV.’ Life is good!
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| Not a bad place to do our laundry. |
We planned on making the short hop back over to Low Isles mid morning for another afternoon of snorkelling before moving on to Batt Reef the following day. There was no rush so we had a little sleep in and a leisurely breakfast before beginning to get the boat ready to leave mid morning. Weren’t we surprised when we looked at the depth gauge and discovered it read 1.1 metres. This presented a problem seeing as we draw 1.5 metres. A quick look over the side revealed we could see very clearly the mud bottom that our keel and rudder were buried almost half a metre into. We’d had been off the boat during low tide the previous day and hadn’t realised just how ridiculously shallow the berths in Reef Marina are. Now we weren’t going anywhere until the tide came in.
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| No good can come of this when we need a minimum of 1.5 metres to float. |
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| At low tide the water on our marina finger was only a metre deep. Circled is a propeller we spotted laying in the mud on the bottom. We expect the presence of crocodiles has dissuaded anyone from jumping in to get it. |
Depending on the marina, you are normally supposed to check out by 11.00am so Rob headed for the office to find out what the story is. Sorry about that said the woman on reception and told him they recently had the marina dredged but not into the berths so once we backed out there would be more depth between the fingers. Yeah right. There wasn’t much chance of backing out when even our prop was sitting in the mud. We guess expecting to have a berth with enough water to float in for $64 a night for our 42 footer was expecting too much.
It was three o’clock before we eased away from our berth with just 10 centimetres (4 inches) of water under the keel until we got out into the dredged area. The nice T-Bone lunch we had at the pub while we were waiting for the tide to come in was at least some compensation for the snorkelling time lost at Low Isles.
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Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2017
Guys Argie 10 kit is painted!
We sent Guy an Argie 10 kit a while back, he has reached the stage where its painted and just requires some varnish.
The deep blue does look nice but remember to cover the dark surface up, it attracts a lot of heat from the sun.
Hi Roy – I've attached one photo of the inside and one of the outside – each one coat of paint away from completion. Still have to do the varnish work but that she not take too long. Loads of mistakes made but I'm not unhappy with the outcome.
It looks fine to me!
Roy
The deep blue does look nice but remember to cover the dark surface up, it attracts a lot of heat from the sun.
Hi Roy – I've attached one photo of the inside and one of the outside – each one coat of paint away from completion. Still have to do the varnish work but that she not take too long. Loads of mistakes made but I'm not unhappy with the outcome.
It looks fine to me!
Roy
Montag, 30. Januar 2017
Houston Weather is so unpredictable
The morning commute Monday was plagued with flash flooding and many motorists needed help of local fire and police officials.
You may ask what does this have to do with Triad Marine.....well just check out that Zodiac! Our local officials use the same boats our military does in times of need. We are proud to have this partnership with local rescue officials. Keeping a city safe is strenuous work so they always need the best tools and equipment.
I would say I am glad we can provide a safe and stable boat for our cities finest to do a job that puts them in harms way. I hope many more lives can be saved but mostly I hope people educate themselves not to get in these positions.
Swift water can occur so quickly and often times people are just trapped. Thank you to the city fire and police rescues who are there for us. Hurricane season is right around the corner, and I hope we never have another Ike but I am proud to know our officials are well equipped and ready for high water situations.
Mittwoch, 11. Januar 2017
Tididi Andrews yacht is so elegant!
Seen here in a pre roof fastening picture, Andrews Hartley 37 yacht looks so nice and its not even finished yet.
Check the fancy light fittings, they look to work really well.
Check the fancy light fittings, they look to work really well.
PS. I have attached the latest picture. That is the first layer of the top in place just to check for proper fit. Still to be glued in place.
CKD Boats cc supplied much of the okoume marine plywood used in the hull skin and decking of this boat.
Roy
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