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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2022 21:09:19 GMT
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Post by JohnV on Aug 2, 2022 6:34:58 GMT
Local lifeboat crew for 15 years until I had to give up due to ill health in 2019. Much respect for RNLI crews
A very welcome sight when you are in need
"Mollie Hunt" going over the bar of the Taw Torridge estuary
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2022 7:14:32 GMT
Some amazing experience recounted, thank you ... I've enjoyed reading them and look forward to reading others should you choose to join in.
But I have to say I did not expect to see a 15 year RNLI crewman amongst our number ... that takes some topping ... respect.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2022 7:44:15 GMT
Did you take the stickers off the kayak in the end?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2022 7:45:56 GMT
I did actually motorise one of my similar kayaks with a RC plane motor. a 6374 motor with a Kv rating of 192 (rpm per volt) an 8mm prop shaft and a RC plane prop on the end. It went really well on 12 volts. Could make enough wash to upset moored boats. However it did need a small bilge pump as I never got around to perfecting the stern tube arrangement.
What it really needed was a proper glassed-in nylon tube.
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Post by Jim on Aug 2, 2022 7:50:26 GMT
Its the only proper boating there is old chap. All this chugging up and down water filled ditches inland, trying to get your boat up a hill is utter madness. I gave up the ditch boating a while ago. Apart from the elf not really being up to it I did find it rather tedious. Have you ever tried sitting back in a comfortable electric canoe on a pleasant river with cold beer close by in a compressor driven coolbox? Not a great deal of trying to go uphill or downhill in fact not a great deal of trying to do anything at all but it is hellishly relaxing. I suppose everyone is different but if this is the only boating I do from now on in fine weather I will be content. Poor weather means stay inside and light the wood stove, while we are still legally allowed to use combustibles on this irritating planet. I'd beg to differ, the planet is Irritated by our profligate mistreatment of it, admittedly much happened before we realised, but we have known for a few decades and many seem to carry on blindly carrying on. Tory PM candidates are just playing to the gallery of 160k blue rinse tories, not a mention or care about addressing climate change. more interested in power than addressing the main long term issue for our future, leapfrogging each other with far right crazy ideas to glean a majority. peterboat , as one of the few who do realise, pass on the message to your fellow tories, it's crucial. There, a good climate rant to set me up for the day. No doubt naughtyfox will be along shortly to deny it. Strange how he also denies covid, there is something lacking intellectualy there obviously.
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Post by Jim on Aug 2, 2022 8:00:29 GMT
Did you take the stickers off the kayak in the end? Yes, and the blue paint. It is now original gel coat orange. I was going to paint it but never got round to it. It does, however go quite well powered only by the wind and an umbrella. 6mph on a day like today. I do get some funny looks though. Mind you, I usually get funny looks without the umbrella too. We need a video of your travels in it, especially tacking your way back home.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2022 8:03:21 GMT
Orange is a good colour for a kayak. One of mine is orange the other one is white although as it has been sunk for a year it is more of a scale type colour now.
That's the one with the hole for the propshaft hence the sunk effect.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2022 8:13:36 GMT
Your mention of kayaks makes me wonder how Clinton Cool is going on with his new sea going one ... not heard from him for a while Rog
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Post by Jim on Aug 2, 2022 8:21:33 GMT
Your mention of kayaks makes me wonder how Clinton Cool is going on with his new sea going one ... not heard from him for a while Rog He spends his time trying to justify Brexit over on the other channel. Can't come up with any real benefits to date.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2022 8:32:26 GMT
Your mention of kayaks makes me wonder how Clinton Cool is going on with his new sea going one ... not heard from him for a while Rog He spends his time trying to justify Brexit over on the other channel. Can't come up with any real benefits to date. I wonder how deeply he bought into bitcoin...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2022 8:36:30 GMT
It would be good to hear how he's faired against the mighty sea bass utilising his new canoe
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2022 8:38:39 GMT
Sea canoe.
Eta ricco "The Welsh Cruiser" does seem to get a lot of "likes" on the other side.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2022 8:48:58 GMT
I got two of them with very nice paddles for £60. Collected from Guildford so not too far away.
Sadly one of the paddles went missing but not that serious as I am a propeller guy.
The other kayak I have is a rather nice Gemini which someone had dumped as it was damaged. Easy repair and a lovely 14ft long open cockpit RobRoy type boat. Basically a GRP version of the PBK. Very clean through the water.
GRP is a bit of a nuisance to get rid of hence the low values.
The floating electric beer drinking platform is a GRP former training shell for Henley type rowers. 18ft long double skinned unsinkable and quite light.
That one was £26 collected from Marlow. Bloody lucky with that one as it is pleasant with a little cut in half trolling motor on a door hinge at the back with two pieces of string to steer it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2022 9:03:05 GMT
Yes I am six foot 2.514 inches tall and the closest I came to drowning was in a tight cockpit kayak with a dodgy spraydeck.
Definitely agree re the large and accommodating entry to these craft. Very satisfactory.
Years ago I was unexpectedly rolled in a kayak by a hidden shopping trolley. Quite nasty.
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