Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

Plus 1 for 'flotation' on this boat.

-10 or more for stiffness. To be able to go anywhere, the boat needs to stay upright most of the time. Something about ballast....



Just a little too compact....as in way too little. How do you use the head for Pete's sake?




Once upon a time I had a Neuport 16 with a fixed keel (top image is like the one I had) for use on Lake Meade, back when it was full. Small enough to trailer, big enough to sleep in and with a sit-upright 'head'. Great fun

 

Small boat - big dreams.

Here is the 3.70 m (12') micro-cruiser, SAID from Russia. Evgny Gvoznev left from the Caspian Sea, crossed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to reach Argentina. After passing the Magellan Straits safely to reach Chile, he next sailed across the Pacific. Not long ago he arrived at Port Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. Unfortunately, his Russian passport had expired while he was still at sea, and he was stuck in Port Darwin until a new passport could be sent to him. The latest news we've heard is that he has now left Australia and he is on his way to South Africa.

He built this boat 3.6 m long - in his apartment building kitchen, brought her down through the window and circumnavigated single-handed again. He's gone round the world twice and at last check is getting ready for a third trip. Crazy Ivan indeed...

 

Nice Reflexes!

Wooaah! that reaction.


EDIT: I couldnt get the gif to post directly

 

Gone now, sadly, but their music lives on....

 

Should you wonder about where all the trash talk comes from....

 

then there is just plain trash....

 

Why school is so confusing these days...

 

Photo of the so-called Pacific Garbage patch? I see this on Greenie sites all the time - and bogus as hell. This is just offshore from the great Japanese tsunami.

About that 'Texas -sized garbage patch"....
In 1988, Robert Day, David Shaw, and Steven Ignell submitted a report to NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) detailing the results of four years of sample collection and analysis of plastic fragments found floating in the Pacific Ocean. They found concentrations highest in the North Pacific Gyre. The authors cited wind and currents as the primary force driving the higher concentrations to the center of the Gyre. Concentrations of what? Number one, monofilament fishing line fragments; and number two, something called neuston plastic. Neuston plastic refers to particles that have been broken down to a small size and are now floating just at or below the surface of the water. Most plastic floating in the open ocean degrades quite quickly, due primarily to ultraviolet radiation. It becomes brittle and crumbles. When it reaches microscopic size, it competes with phytoplankton as a food source for zooplankton, and enters the food chain. That's not good for anyone. The authors used 203 sample stations, each about 450 square meters in size. 52.2% of these contained plastic fragments.

Got that? Only half of NOAA's football-field sized sample areas, in the center of the densest part of the Pacific "Garbage Patch", contain even detectable levels of microscopic plastic. Unacceptable to be sure; but hardly a solid island.

On the net - seeing isn't believing - unless of course, it fits your agenda.....