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Post by The Hooded Claw on Aug 28, 2024 15:50:54 GMT
Would you say the deck has any damage or not?
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Post by The Hooded Claw on Aug 28, 2024 15:53:57 GMT
I think it might not need moving anyway. Might be the reason it went out of use. Anyway replacement seals and gaskets are fairly easy to get, it seems, but there's more than one type of carb on the aforementioned half-dozen or so variants.
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Post by Jim on Aug 28, 2024 17:48:43 GMT
Summats surfaced from the depths, that the 9.9 is the same as the 15, just different jets or carb. Might be worth checking out, get it up on the plane!
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Aug 28, 2024 18:09:06 GMT
On Aug 16, 2024 at 7:51pm Shit-for-Brains Coventon said:
Warwickshire Police have spent nearly two years investigating convicted thief and child sex offender Tony Dunkley's complaint that I had gained unauthorised access to the Police National Computer and they still apparently haven't finished.
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But "they" - Warwickshire Police - do appear to be making some sort of progress, . . if it's only working on concocting some nonsense excuses that sound like perfectly reasonable grounds for not pursuing any action against someone who has committed multiple fully documented and recorded offences under the Malicious Communications Act 1988, the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, and the Online Safety Act 2023.
On Thursday of last week, 22 Aug 2024, Inspector 2692 Johnson - clearly a rising star within Warwickshire Police - wrote to me complaining that, against Police advice, I had continued to engage and "converse" with Vincent 'Mr Stabby' Coventon on this forum, and because I had - quote - "posted his personal details on a public message board, breaching article 8 of the European Human Rights Act." I had "compromised" the case against him, making it impossible for the Police to proceed with a prosecution.
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Post by on Aug 28, 2024 18:19:33 GMT
I think it might not need moving anyway. Might be the reason it went out of use. Anyway replacement seals and gaskets are fairly easy to get, it seems, but there's more than one type of carb on the aforementioned half-dozen or so variants. The carb is sealed with an o ring. The reason these launches went out of use if because the catamarans replaced them. More comfortable, don't fill with rain water, more commanding position and easier to get rowers out of the water. These launches are basically obsolete although they do still get used by some clubs because they are so cool. The carb brass screw is not why the package itself went out of use. They would have just put another unit on there but the catamarans took over. Same story with the Podium. Obsolete vessel due to the lottery funding. That one was ex GBR British Rowing. Their Boats are all cats now.
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Post by on Aug 28, 2024 18:22:51 GMT
Summats surfaced from the depths, that the 9.9 is the same as the 15, just different jets or carb. Might be worth checking out, get it up on the plane! The ERB launches don't plane. They have a wash certificate (I am lacking one of these). The Taskmaster will do about 10 or 11 knots but it will not plane. The point being that planing Boats make a terrible wash when they are transitioning from displacement mode to planing mode which is very often the speed the rowers are doing. The ERB launches are very cleverly designed to avoid this well known problem. Basically they chop the bow wave in half and make it into bubbles. Seriously clever bit of work there. The aim with these launches was to leave minimal water disturbance so that the activity of rowing a lightweight shell would be as comfortable as possible. You do know about it if you have a heavy Boat as there is a swell effect but it won't negatively impact the rowers. That is the point.
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Post by on Aug 28, 2024 18:30:36 GMT
Would you say the deck has any damage or not? You arrr killing me bro!
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 28, 2024 18:38:41 GMT
Does anyone have any thoughts about buying a boat built from polyethylene? Most modern kayaks are built with it. It's heavier than fibre glass, but much more durable. Can it handle u.v. over the longer term? Reason I ask: I've seen a used fishing boat for sale at a fair price. 'Smartwave' brand, imported from New Zealand. Apparently amongst the tests for it being 'unsinkable' were to drop it from 10 metres with a 100KG weight strapped inside it. Then, cut it in half. One half of it had to remain floating with the weight of 2 average people in it. Apparently the construction is foam sandwiched between 2 layers of 1.5mm polyethylene to a total hull thickness of 10mm. www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/828288109387139/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3A4636747e-8fe2-48cb-94d4-6d990a01fe94
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Post by on Aug 28, 2024 18:44:55 GMT
Does anyone have any thoughts about buying a boat built from polyethylene? Most modern kayaks are built with it. It's heavier than fibre glass, but much more durable. Can it handle u.v. over the longer term? Reason I ask: I've seen a used fishing boat for sale at a fair price. 'Smartwave' brand, imported from New Zealand. Apparently amongst the tests for it being 'unsinkable' were to drop it from 10 metres with a 100KG weight strapped inside it. Then, cut it in half. One half of it had to remain floating with the weight of 2 average people in it. Apparently the construction is foam sandwiched between 2 layers of 1.5mm polyethylene to a total hull thickness of 10mm. www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/828288109387139/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3A4636747e-8fe2-48cb-94d4-6d990a01fe94 Lots of hull friction. Don't do it. GRP or Kevlar.
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Post by dogless on Aug 28, 2024 18:54:49 GMT
What a sunset ... stunning. Rog
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Post by on Aug 28, 2024 19:19:34 GMT
and I was like 'will I ever be able to replace the Podium with the Task Master? It sounds too much like work ! Sunset now gone
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Post by dogless on Aug 28, 2024 19:28:23 GMT
Which outboard is that Admiral ... making waves 👍🏻 Rog
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Post by on Aug 28, 2024 20:06:10 GMT
Which outboard is that Admiral ... making waves 👍🏻 Rog That is the Podium outboard. Honda 10. Makes some waves but leaves the River calm. Wash certificate authorised by the navigation authority. The point with a wash certificate is that it ensures reasonably smooth water for rowing. Other Boats might be moving about but if you are in a small low freeboard rowing shell you don't want short big wave production. This is what the coaching launches are designed for. So yeah. Waves are there but they are not short or high.
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Post by dogless on Aug 28, 2024 20:13:30 GMT
It wasn't intended as a criticism ... just seemed to be rattling along from the photo.
Rog
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Post by on Aug 28, 2024 20:16:28 GMT
It wasn't intended as a criticism ... just seemed to be rattling along from the photo. Rog They go really well. I'm in my reach (it is called Andrews reach for a reason) so always worth getting the message across that I am in charge of the water around here !
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